Loot: Final Draft Screenplay [with] Press Book.

Original screenplay for the 1970 film adaptation of Joe Orton's 1965 stage play Loot, with the extremely scarce press pack used to promote the film's release.

Hal and Dennis, two gay young undertakers, hide the proceeds of a bank robbery in the coffin of Hal's recently deceased mother.

Directed by Silvio Narizzano and starring Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick and Hywel Bennett, the film of Joe Orton's Loot was stripped of the stage version's more outrageous references to religion and gay sex, and neither the opening up of the script nor the overplaying of the cast did the biting black humour of the original any favours.

The film lost money - notwithstanding the efforts of the publicity department, whose press pack (included here) is a comprehensive breezeblock of a document. It contains the usual press pack paraphernalia of cast lists, biographies and interviews, but then goes on to discuss the filming of the film's nude bank robbery sequence, 'Dickie Attenborough's Brilliant Sixties Characterisations', and 'Mr. Bennett's and Miss Remick's Bedroom Romp', before interviewing the actor Jean Marlow, who played the role of Dead Mother ('I'm sure when I'm dead, I'll get the feeling I've been here before'). The press pack is more Ortonesque than the film...

129pp mimeographed screenplay, bound in stiff blue paper wrappers, secured with 2 split pins to left edge, title window to front wrapper; [with] 103pp press pack, photographically illustrated front wrapper, bound with green knotted lace through punch holes to top left corner; a little light edge-wear to both screenplay and press pack, but both very well preserved.