Naked Evil [The Obi]

London: Gibraltar Productions, 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1966 British horror film, copy belonging to Art Director George Provis, with his name written in ink on the top of the front wrapper, with manuscript pencil annotations and paste-ups of clippings of goldenrod revision pages throughout, here under the working title "The Obi." Laid in is a rough pencil sketch of settings and a set.

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.

Based on the BBC-TV play "The Obi" by Jon Manchip White. At an interracial college in a small British town, small glass bottles filled with graveyard dirt and feathers, obis, sent as Obeah voodoo curses to students and faculty, precede a series of voodoo killings on campus. Re-released in 1973 as the television movie "Exorcism at Midnight," following the success of "The Exorcist," with new color sequences with an American cast, which re-framed the original black and white film as a flashback.

Tall tan untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 28.5.1965, noted as Revised Screenplay, with credits for screenwriter Stanley Goulder and playwright Jon Manchip White. 104 leaves, with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with undated goldenrod revision clippings and pages pasted in throughout. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with a black plastic comb-binding.

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