Mar 30, 2023 - Sale 2631

Sale 2631 - Lot 200

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(ENTERTAINMENT--FILM.) Sam Greenlee. Script and investment pitch for the film adaptation of "The Spook Who Sat by the Door." Investment pitch: 12 photocopied pages, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, in printed binder, including proposal, budget, clippings, and blank joint venture agreement, prepared by Bokari Productions in 1970.

Screenplay by Sam Greenlee and Melvin Clay: [2], 119 photocopied pages in binder, with Greenlee's address and telephone number on first page; minor wear. No place, 1970 and 1972
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"The Spook Who Sat by the Door" was the best-known work by Chicago author Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr. (1930-2014). The award-winning novel was released in 1969, and the film adaptation followed in 1973. It tells the story of an undercover Black Nationalist who becomes a CIA officer, and goes on to lead a national revolution.