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Auction History Result 4s417 DEFIANT ONES pressbook '58 art of escaped cons Tony Curtis & Sidney Poitier chained together! Date Sold 1/25/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 20 pages). Also included is an ad supplement that has 2 pages. (Learn More) The Defiant Ones, the 1958 Stanley Kramer (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) prison escape race relations crime thriller ("One of the great ones!"; "In the stinking swamp they were animals ...in the woman's lonely cabin they were men ...in a powerful motion picture they are."; "He watched them -- and listened for the dogs!"'; "'Call me that name again, white man, and I'll kill you!'"; "A SHOCKER! Two chained fugitives - desperately trying to escape from the law - and each other!"; "Written by Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Tony Curtis (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Sidney Poitier (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Theodore Bikel (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Charles McGraw, Lon Chaney Jr., King Donovan, Kevin Coughlin, and Cara Williams (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film). Note that Tony Curtis, in his autobiography, said that the producers of the movie said that he was "too good looking" to portray the "lowlife bigot" in the movie. So Curtis had the studio department create a false nose for him that would "make him look uglier"! Also, note that there is conflicting information about Robert Mitchum being first offered this role and turning it down. Some have said that it was due to prejudice on his part, but it seems far more likely that it was because he was acquainted with the prison system in the south at this time, and he knew that they would never chain a white man and a black man together, so he felt the movie's key plot twist was ludicrous, which is a shame, because he would have surely been wonderful in this part! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Gustav Rehberger Important Added Info: Note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook, and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: very good, NO CUTS. There is an ad cut from the supplement, but the pressbook itself is in pretty good condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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