COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 824
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Grade:
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9.0
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Page Quality:
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CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
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File Copy
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Certification #:
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0220148014
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
The Pride and the Passion 08/57 File Copy Adapted from the 1957 Allied Artists film, which was based on the 1933 novel "The Gun" by C.S. Forester.
"Movie Classic" on cover.
Photo Cover: Miguel (as played by Frank Sinatra); inset photo Anthony (as played by Cary Grant) and Miquel (as played by Frank Sinatra).
Pencils & Inks: André LeBlanc
Table of Contents
1. 0. [no title indexed]
The Pride and the Passion
2. 1. The Pride and the Passion
3. 2. The Pride And The Passion
4. 3. Artillery
5. 4. [no title indexed]
Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum
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Pride and the Passion was well starred for its day. Wikipedia offers some additional interesting facts:
The Pride and the Passion is a 1957 war film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren. Set in the Napoleonic era, it is the story of a British officer (Grant) who has orders to retrieve a huge cannon from Spain and take it to the British forces by ship. But first the leader of the Spanish guerrillas (Sinatra) wants to transport the cannon 1,000 km across Spain to help in the capture of Ávila from the French before he releases the cannon to the British. Most of the movie deals with the hardships of transporting the cannon across rivers and through mountains while evading the occupying French forces and culminates in the final battle for Ávila. A sub-plot is the struggle for the affections of Loren by the two officers.
The screen story and screenplay by Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt was loosely based on the 1933 novel The Gun by C.S. Forester. Earl Felton did an uncredited re-write. George Antheil composed the score. Saul Bass designed the opening title sequence. The film co-starred Theodore Bikel and Jay Novello. The picture was filmed in Technicolor and VistaVision, and released by United Artists.
Shot on location in Spain, rumors persist that Frank Sinatra only took a part in the film to be near his wife Ava Gardner, during a time when the couple was having marital problems and she was to be away from Sinatra whilst shooting part of The Sun Also Rises in various locales around Europe, including Spain. When there was to be no reconciliation, Sinatra hurriedly left the production, asking director Stanley Kramer to condense all of his scenes for as brief as possible shooting schedule for his part. Kramer obliged. Conversely, Cary Grant was happy to get away from his failing marriage to Betsy Drake.
Despite the film's problems, Kramer was nominated by the Directors Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement.
On 14 March 2011, BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play broadcast The Gun Goes to Hollywood by Mike Walker, an imagination of the behind-the-scenes ructions, including Sinatra's leaving the production early and Grant falling in love with co-star Loren, from the viewpoint of script doctor Earl Felton, who was drafted in to save the day. The play was directed by Kate McAll and the cast included Steven Weber as Earl Felton, Greg Itzin as Cary Grant, Kate Steele as Sophia Loren, Jonathan Silverman as Frank Sinatra and Jonathan Getz as Stanley Kramer.
The cannon appears to have been based on the Jaivana Cannon, a real prototype from Jaipur, India, one of the largest cannons ever built.
Box office and critical reception[edit]
Opening to mixed reviews on July 10, 1957, The Pride and The Passion would prove to be successful at the box office, spurred no doubt by the popularity of the leading actors. With box office rentals of $4.7 million from a gross of $8.75 million, this would be one of the 20 highest grossing films of 1957. Variety praised the film's production values, stating "Top credit must go to the production. The panoramic, longrange views of the marching and terribly burdened army, the painful fight to keep the gun mobile through ravine and over waterway - these are major pluses." However Ephraim Katz in The Film Encyclopedia describes it as "overblown empty epic nonsense".[4]
However the high production cost meant the film lost $2.5 million.[1]
The film's musical score was the last important work by George Antheil, once famous as the "bad boy of music" in the 1920s. It is the only one of Antheil's many film scores to have been preserved on a commercial soundtrack recording.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pride_and_the_Passion
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