The Mind Benders

Basil Dearden (director)
James Kennaway (screenwriter)
Mary Ure, Dirk Bogarde (starring)

United Kingdom: Pinewood Studios / American International Pictures [AIP], 1962. Shooting script for the 1963 film. Copy from the StudioCanal archives, with a letter of provenance laid in.

Based on the simultaneously-published novel "The Mindbenders" by screenwriter James Kennaway about a professor brainwashes himself to stop loving his wife in an attempt to clear the name of a colleague, suspected to be a Russian double agent, who killed himself after undergoing similar experiments. Released in the US as a double feature with "Operation Bikini."

Shot on location in England.

Tall blue titled wrappers, noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT, dated March 1962. Title page present, dated 26.3.62, noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT, with credits for screenwriter James Kennaway. 108 leaves, with last page of text numbered 107. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Fine, wrapper Fine, internal prong binding.


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