The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day (1991)

The Remains of the Day

Harold Pinter

Film screenplay

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This is an unpublished screenplay, available to read only in the British Library manuscripts archive (see 'sources'). This is not the screenplay for the 1993 film, which takes parts of Pinter's work but was completed by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

The database entry for the film can be accessed here.

Date of Composition: 11 January 1990 - 24 January 1991

Adapted From: The Remains of the Day (1989)

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Characters

Lord Darlington (Age: Unknown, Male)

Father (Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Irma (Age: Not specified, Female)

Thomas Benn (Age: Unknown, Male)

Jack Lewis (Age: Unknown, Male)

James Stevens (Age: Not specified, Male)

Miss Kenton (Age: Not specified, Female)

Mrs Mortimer, the Cook (Age: Not specified, Female)

Reginald Cardinal (Age: Not specified, Male)

German Ambassador (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Dupont D'Ivry (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Sir Geoffrey Wren (Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

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Sources

Harold Pinter Archive at the British Library

British Library Manuscript Collections. Pinter Archive.'The Remains of the Day'; 11 Jan. [1990-24 Jan. 1991], Add MS 88880/2/90-94.

Library archive

An adaptation of the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Pinter had his name removed from the screenplay that was eventually filmed as it had been extensively rewritten by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

William Baker's A Harold Pinter Chronology

William Baker, A Harold Pinter Chronology (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

Academic book

Baker notes the first and last instance of drafting the screenplay in Pinter's diaries, and these are employed for the start and end dates of composition.