I Accuse - Screenplay by Gore Vidal

Culver City: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, February 28, 1957. Original 129 page mimeographed shooting script entitled Captain Dreyfus written by Gore Vidal. Bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Very good. Enclosed in a custom morocco leather and cloth clamshell box. Directed by and starring José Ferrer as Captain Alfred Dreyfus, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors, Leo Genn, Emlyn Williams, David Farrar, Donald Wolfit, Herbert Lom, Harry Andrews, Felix Aylmer, George Coulouris, Peter Illing, Michael Hordern. In 1894 Alfred Dreyfus (José Ferrer), a Jewish captain in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason. He is sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. Major Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, an infantry officer of Hungarian descent, helps in the investigation. When he is found to be the real spy, the French Army tries to hide the truth by exonerating the traitor in a mock trial. Émile Zola, the famous French author, writes an open letter to the prime minister of France entitled I Accuse!, which reveals the truth behind the cover up. The letter is published in the newspaper, causing a firestorm around the world, leading to a re-examination of the entire Dreyfus case. Eventually, Esterhazy makes a full confession, and Dreyfus is completely exonerated, being inducted into the French Legion of Honor.