N.p. [London]: N.p. [Umbrella Entertainment], 1976

145pp,, various colours, bound in red stiff paper wrappers secured with two split pins, window to front wrapper displaying title page beneath. Original call sheet laid in.

GRAHAM CROWDEN'S WORKING SCRIPT FOR JABBERWOCKY, WITH HIS UNDERLININGS, ANNOTATIONS AND AMENDMENTS, AND WITH ORIGINAL, ANNOTATED CALL SHEET LAID IN. 'A Revisedish Sort of Finalish Draft April 5, 1976.' (Title page.) With updated pages in various colours bound in, some dated (yellow rewrites pp. 68-71 dated 9 July 1976).

Jabberwocky premiered in London on 28 March 1977. Based on Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem and directed by Terry Gilliam, the film stars Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett and John Le Mesurier; two other Monty Python associates of Gilliam, Terry Jones and Neil Innes, also feature. Graham Crowden plays the Leader of the Fanatics.

Edinburgh-born Graham Crowden [1922-2010] was part of the Royal Court's repertory company under George Devine, a leading member of the legendary Old Vic/National Theatre company of the 1960s, and a scene-stealing presence on screen with nearly two hundred credits to his name.

Crowden's part in the script, beginning at p. 108, is underlined in pencil and annotated, and he has boxed in pencil words and phrases he intended to give additional stress. And on p.110, he has annotated the lines of the Fanatics in the crowd with the names 'Ken', 'Christopher' and 'Janinie' respectively: these are Kenneth Colley (who would later play Jesus in The Life of Brian (1979)), Christopher Logue and Janine Divitski. From the call sheet laid in to the script we know the Fanatics' scenes were shot on 5 August 1976, only nine days in to the schedule (and that John Le Mesurier was being driven from the set each day to Brighton, where he was appearing at the Theatre Royal every day in the stage version of Dad's Army).

A well-preserved copy from the heart of the Jabberwocky shoot, and with a rare piece of ephemera laid in.