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DS, three pages, 8.5 x 13, April 9, 1936. A contract between William Faulkner and RKO Studios, Inc., with Faulkner agreeing to “write, compose, prepare and/or revise a treatment and/or adaptation and/or continuity, with a dialogue, of a story presently entitled ‘Gungha Din,’ suitable for reproduction as a motion picture photoplay” for a weekly salary of $1000. Signed at the conclusion in ink by Faulkner. In very good to fine condition, with scattered small areas of paper loss to the detached last page, none of which affect the signature.
Gungha Din was one of RKO's most popular films of 1939. Although it had numerous production problems, and became the most expensive film produced by RKO, costing almost $2 million, the film was a commercial success. Based on the Rudyard Kipling character and starring Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Joan Fontaine, the movie concerns the story of a native water boy in India who at the expense of his own life saves the lives of three English soldiers by warning them of an impending attack by a group of murderous religious fanatics.
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