Robert Foshko David Stone (2 results)

Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. A Cambridge professor of astrophysics accidentally gets mixed up in a plot to make it appear that he has defected to Russia. Set and shot on location in England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Revised Estimating Draft script for the 1964 film, copy belonging to Art Director George Provis, with manuscript pencil annotations on 26 pages, and rough pencil set and prop sketches on the versos of five pages. Laid in are six pages of production documents, including two copies of a Set List, a two page Shooting Schedule, and a hand-colored Completed Scene list, as well as an autograph letter signed to Provis, two handwritten pages of contacts, and two pages of rough pencil set sketches. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies (low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927) in the 1930s. After the Second World War, Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures, and is credited on over 120 films. Ian Carmichael stars as a Cambridge astrophysicist who becomes involved in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse after meeting up with an old fiend, a Russian chessmaster played by George Pravda, who is secretly working with a shady businessman, Curt Jurgens, in an attempt to kidnap him and make it look as though he's defected to the Soviet Union. Shot on location in Cambridge, East Sussex, and London, England. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present, dated 1st March, 1962, noted as Estimating Draft Revised Version, with credits for screenwriter David Stone and screen adaptation Robert Foshko. 145 leaves, with last page of text numbered 173. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue, pink, and buff revision pages throughout, dated variously between 1-5-62 and 23.7.62. Pages Very Good plus, with title page with a rough tear on the bottom right, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with two flat metal brads.