[dir. DEXTER, John] FREEMAN, Gillian
I Want What I Want
[London]: Marayan Productions Ltd: July 23rd 1969
118 mimeographed pp., bound in maroon stiff paper wrappers secured with two split pins to left edge. Title window to front wrapper. Light wear to wrappers, but a very well preserved copy. With unpaginated release script, and 5pp. trailer script, marked as such by hand to first page.
FINAL DRAFT SCREENPLAY, WITH A RELEASE SCRIPT AND TRAILER SCRIPT. ONE OF THE EARLIEST FILMS TO FEATURE A TRANS CHARACTER FRONT AND CENTRE.
A little clumsy but commendably sincere, I Want What I Want (1972) is the story of a young person struggling with their gender identity, and their progression to gender-affirming surgery. Adapted from Geoff Brown’s 1966 novel and directed by theatre director John Dexter, and produced by Raymond Stross, Anne Heywood’s husband. Stross had previously produced two other early titles in the LGBTQ film canon: Sidney J. Furie’s The Leather Boys (1964, from another Gillian Freeman screenplay), and Mark Rydell’s The Fox (1968), in which Heywood also starred.
Accompanied by an original release and trailer script, and although unmarked, from the estate of Anne Heywood.
[dir. DEXTER, John] FREEMAN, Gillian
I Want What I Want
[London]: Marayan Productions Ltd: July 23rd 1969
118 mimeographed pp., bound in maroon stiff paper wrappers secured with two split pins to left edge. Title window to front wrapper. Light wear to wrappers, but a very well preserved copy. With unpaginated release script, and 5pp. trailer script, marked as such by hand to first page.
FINAL DRAFT SCREENPLAY, WITH A RELEASE SCRIPT AND TRAILER SCRIPT. ONE OF THE EARLIEST FILMS TO FEATURE A TRANS CHARACTER FRONT AND CENTRE.
A little clumsy but commendably sincere, I Want What I Want (1972) is the story of a young person struggling with their gender identity, and their progression to gender-affirming surgery. Adapted from Geoff Brown’s 1966 novel and directed by theatre director John Dexter, and produced by Raymond Stross, Anne Heywood’s husband. Stross had previously produced two other early titles in the LGBTQ film canon: Sidney J. Furie’s The Leather Boys (1964, from another Gillian Freeman screenplay), and Mark Rydell’s The Fox (1968), in which Heywood also starred.
Accompanied by an original release and trailer script, and although unmarked, from the estate of Anne Heywood.
