[Movie Script]Bachelor Party, The

                               THE BACHELOR PARTY



                               by Paddy Chayefsky

	FADE IN.



	EXTERIOR. STUYVESANT TOWN HOUSING PROJECT -- DAY.

	Under the credits, the CAMERA PANS slowly across the project,

capturing the sober monotony, the endless straight apartment

houses. Seven o'clock in the morning.



						DISSOLVE TO:





	INTERIOR. CHARLIE'S BEDROOM

	The bedroom of a two-and-a-half-room apartment in the housing

project. It is early morning, but the shades are drawn and

the room is dark. CAMERA moves slowly across the room, over

the large double bed on which Charlie and Helen Samson, a

young couple in their late twenties, are sleeping. They are

sleeping more or less on their sides, facing away from each

other. One of Helen's pajama-clad legs projects from under

the light covers. We close in on Charlie's sleeping face.




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