File under: “strange things you come across while searching through old data CDs”, in this case a series of photos used to promote an online auction of film scripts written by Derek Ford for director Robert Hartford-Davis (hence the embossed ‘R.H.D’ signature on the script binders.) Memory suggests that these had a high opening bid price, since I neither bid on these or sadly bothered to check back on how much they sold for, if at all. Note that the actual script for The Yellow Teddy Bears was still bearing the Yellow Golliwog title, sadly the reason why the script for Corruption has a note taped to it claiming “the driver of this car is a drunken foreigner” is likely lost to time.
Also included in the auction was a letter of feedback from filmmaker Ted Hooker about a Ford script called ‘Girl’ which concerned a kinky marriage,
quelle surprise that Derek Ford would want to write about that particular subject!! Poor Ford, imagine the indignity of having your work critiqued by the man who’d go on to make Crucible of Terror.
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