*Fellini's SPIRTS OF THE DEAD (1968) Bardot, Delon, Jane & Peter Fonda, Stamp

Description

This is a
vintage original 11x14 in. US lobby card
from the classic 1960's horror/mystery drama,
SPIRITS OF THE DEAD
, released in 1968 by American International Pictures.
This film was directed by three of the biggest names at the time: Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, and Roger Vadim
. Each adapt an Edgar Allan Poe short story to the screen:
Toby Dammit
features a disheveled, drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him.
Metzengerstein
features a medieval countess who has a love-hate relationship with a black stallion who, it turns out, is really her dead lover; and
William Wilson
tells the story of a sadistic Austrian student with an exact double whom he later kills. The cast includes Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Francoise Prevost, and James Robertson Justice.
As indicated in the center of the bottom border, this is lobby card #5 from the set of 8 cards and features
Brigitte Bardot (
as a brunette) as she calmly sits at a table with other guests nearby. It is unrestored in good+ condition only with creases of varying sizes on the corners; an embossed Canadian censor stamp placed vertically over the image of the second man from the left on his white jacket; and small surface nicks simply from handling over time. There are no pinholes, tears, stains, or other flaws.
The film was originally to have been directed by Orson Welles, Luis Buñuel, and Federico Fellini. In Fellini's segment, Terence Stamp plays an actor arriving in Rome to do a film and, as they leave the airport to go into the city, he suddenly sits up and asks where his Ferrari is; he was promised a Ferrari. This is a humorous reference to a behind the scenes situation on the film,
The Witches
(1967), from the year before, when Clint Eastwood was enticed to play a small role in exchange for a Ferrari.
While filming the "Metzengerstein" segment with his sister Jane Fonda and brother-in-law Roger Vadim in Roscoff, Brittany, Peter Fonda would spend up to 4 hours a day working on the script that would become
Easy Rider
(1969). Terry Southern, who had worked on
Barbarella
(1968) with Vadim, visited the set and would help Fonda with his script, getting a co-writer credit on
Easy Rider
in the process.
Spirits of the Dead
is the only film to feature siblings Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda (they play cousins).
Louis Malle had originally wanted then-model Florinda Bolkan to play the part that eventually went to Brigitte Bardot.