OBLONG BOX, THE (Nov 13, 1968) UK film script for Edgar Allan Poe adaptation

  
Edgar Allan Poe (source) THE OBLONG BOX (Nov 13, 1968) UK film script. London: American International Productions, 1968. Vintage original 11 x 8 1/2 (28 x 22 cm) British film script, 111 leaves, with last page of text numbered 101.

Script belonged to art director George Prevos, with his name written on top of first page, with manuscript pencil annotations striking pages throughout. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present, dated 13th November, 1968, noted as "Draft", with credits for screenwriter Laurence Huntingdon. Mimeographic duplication, rectos only, with undated pink, blue and goldenrod revision pages throughout. 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. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, with the title taken from his 1844 short story.

Vincent Price stars as the guilt-ridden aristocrat Julian Markham, who keeps his brother Edward (horribly disfigured from an African voodoo ceremony) chained in a tower. With the help of his unethical attorney and a witch doctor, Edward fakes his death in an effort to escape but is unwittingly buried alive, until he is unearthed by grave robbers working for the evil Dr. Neuhardt, played by Christopher Lee.

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