"We went to work on the script on a Monday morning... As [Hank Wales] paced back and forth feeding me local color, I pounded away on my Royal. By talking it out we piece together the action, plot twists, and dialogue. The first ninety-page draft was finished before breakfast on Saturday morning. After eggs, bacon and hash browns, we found an agent, Charles Feldman, who happened to be in his office on the weekend. He sold our script to Twentieth Century Fox on the following Monday morning for fifty grand."--legendary director Samuel Fuller, on writing Confirm or Deny (1941) in his autobiography A Third Face (Applause, 2002).
(Eighteenth in a series.)
