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Auction History Result 3m144 PITURI glass slide '30s wacky story of woman kidnapped and 'stimulated' by love drug! Date Sold 5/30/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Glass Slide (measures approximately 3" x 4" [8 x 10 cm]) (Learn More) Uncivilised (also released as "Pituri"), the 1937 Charles Chauvel Australian kidnapping crime thriller ("Beautiful authoress kidnapped, is emotionally stimulated by Pituri, the drug used as a love potion", "GIRLS... A thrilling sensation! Life in the rough! Love in the raw!"; "Strangest of all love drugs!... it's Uncivilized!"; "The devil brewed it - white man pursued it"; "A victim of the dread love potion"; "Pituri makes them uncivilized"; this movie was made in Australia and set in the Outback, and had a female English author in search of a white man who went to live in the Outback and then disappeared; when she finds him, she discovers that the Aborigines treat him like a god, and there is a "native" witch doctor who turns out to be also a white man, a government agent who is posing as a native; there are only two Aborigines in the movie with speaking parts, although the god-like man delivers much of his dialog in the Aborigine language; there is a subplot where the female author is kidnapped and given a drug that "stimulates" her, and when the movie was shown in the U.S., naturally, this sequence was made to be the focus of the advertising, and that sequence, along with a nude swimming scene by the female star, made the movie successful in the U.S.!) starring Margot Rhys, Dennis Hoey, Ashton Jarry, Marcelle Marnay, and Kenneth Brampton. Apparently, there was a real life basis in the subplot that deals with the drug given to the woman! Pituri was a drug that was used by Australian Aborigines when they went on "walkabouts", which was a strong heart stimulant, and when western civilization discovered it, it was used as a medicine for heart patients, and some unethical people began secretly giving it to women as a "love potion" (shades of modern day "roofies"). In fact, when the movie was released in the U.S., it was sometimes given the title of this drug, "Pituri". Finally, the IMDb says this movie was released in the U.S. in 1937, and we found a newspaper ad from that year, but it likely played throughout the U.S. until 1943, because we found newspaper ads showing it playing in 1942 and 1943; but we know that it was likely re-released in 1948 in the U.S., where it was likely presented as a sexploitation movie, based on a 1948 newspaper ad. If anyone knows more about any of this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that the date on this slide corresponds to a Friday in either 1925, 1931, or 1936, and we think it is more likely from one of the latter two. The slide does not have a cardboard holder, but rather there is black tape around all four edges (front and back), typical of older glass slides. We have provided both a high quality scan of the image and also a separate image of how the glass slide looks, but in that digital image, you can really just see the outline of the slide and defects (if any) around the edges. Condition: very good to fine. The slide does not have a cardboard holder, but rather there is black tape around all four edges (front and back), typical of older glass slides. The slide is in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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