Transatlantic Clipper. A Story for the Screen. [U.S., ca. 1940]. Typescript, 77 pp., brad-bound in blue wrappers.

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Wright, William H.; and John Speaks

Transatlantic Clipper. A Story for the Screen.

[U.S., ca. 1940].

Typescript “screen story” (treatment), 77 pp., recto only— prose narrative intended for adaptation, not a formatted dialogue script.

Unproduced Hollywood screenplay set aboard a Pan Am flying boat on the Lisbon run, mixing newsroom melodrama, wartime intrigue, and romance. Characters include cocky junior officer Beckley, Captain Truitt, and Polly Prentice, a sharp-tongued reporter; references to Chiang Kai-shek and American pilots for China root the story in its 1940 moment.

Documented in UNLV’s Unproduced Works collection, but never filmed—no copies traced in WorldCat. Producer John Speaks (of Dancing Pirate and Little Orphan Annie) and William H. Wright (Columbia) are credited.

Wrappers edge-worn, pages toned but clean.

A scarce relic of Pan Am’s “Clipper” era.