Yellowbeard Original Screenplay

Unpaginated but c. 150 pages. Original screenplay from the production of the film, Yellowbeard (1983). Type-written screenplay in blue card covers, bound with three pins along spine. The cover are a little worn and rubbed around pins. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Yellowbeard is a 1983 British comedy film directed by Mel Damski and written by Graham Chapman, Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna, and David Sherlock, with an ensemble cast featuring Chapman, Cook, Peter Boyle, Cheech & Chong, Martin Hewitt, Michael Hordern, Eric Idle, Madeline Kahn, James Mason, and John Cleese, and the final cinematic appearances of Marty Feldman, Spike Milligan, and Peter Bull. The pirate Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman) is incarcerated for 20 years for tax evasion. He survives the sentence, but he has not disclosed the whereabouts of his vast treasure. The Royal Navy hatches a plot to increase his sentence by 140 years, knowing that he will escape to set out for his treasure. He does so, recruiting a motley crew of companions.