Treasure Hunt Original Screenplay

Unpaginated but c. 100 pages. Original screenplay from the production of the film, Treasure Hunt (1952), with some manuscript annotations. In green card covers , stapled. Card covers are worn, and chapped at edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Treasure Hunt is a British comedy film, released in 1952, directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Martita Hunt, Jimmy Edwards and Naunton Wayne. On his death, the eccentric family of rakish Sir Roderick Lyall (Jimmy Edwards) gathers at his ancestral Irish mansion, Ballyroden Hall, for the reading of the will. Everyone is shocked to hear that, once debts are paid, the only asset remaining will be the mansion. The family doctor, Mr. Walsh (Miles Malleson), suggests the mansion be turned into a guest house to bring in funds. Half the family supports the idea, but Uncle Hercules (Jimmy Edwards) and Consuelo (Athene Seyler) endeavour to sabotage the scheme. Director Anatole de Grunwald adapted the screenplay from a play of the same name by M J Farrell and John Perry.