DS, two pages, 8.5 x 13, August 17, 1976. Contract between The Plotto Company and Amblin Production, with the latter agreeing to provide Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins as '"employees-for-hire" for the motion picture Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Signed at the conclusion in ballpoint by Steven Spielberg, and countersigned by both Barwood and Robbins. In very good to fine condition, with light creasing and toning to the top.
Barwood and Robbins were hired to rewrite the script of Spielberg's first theatrical feature film, the crime drama film The Sugarland Express, which, despite bombing at the box office, won the award for Best Screenplay at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. The screenwriting pair's next work with Spielberg was writing (alongside the director) on the script for the science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Barwood's and Robbins' major contribution to the script was to suggest a kidnapped child as the story's plot device. Although the rewrite impressed Spielberg, their contribution was never publicly credited in the film; instead, they received a percentage and had cameos in the film as two World War II pilots.
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