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I remember having a cassette of this years ago when we used to trade such things. There were a bunch of Gerry Fried scores that Gerry let David Fuller transfer from his personal tapes. I have no idea who owns this movie today. Delightful theme!
Lukas
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It's a wonderful movie - I saw it the day it opened here in LA and three or four more times during its run.
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May 18, 2018 - 5:49 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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In an early example of "crowd funding," the $230,000 budget for ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO was supplied by approximately fifty private investors, mostly from New York City, who contributed as little as $500.
Photography was completed over a period of thirty-four days. No U.S. distributor was willing to handle the film, except for an unidentified major company, which declined after the producers refused to add a “cheerful” ending. Others anticipated a lack of interest from Southern exhibitors.
Director Larry Peerce, son of opera singer Jan Peerce, told the 13 July 1964 New York Times that he also offered the picture to the U.S. selection committee for the Cannes Film Festival. The three committee members who agreed to view the picture, Fred Zinneman, George Stevens, Jr., and Allen Rivkin, walked out after thirty minutes. Producer Sam Weston believed the scene in which Barbara Barrie kissed her African American co-star, Bernie Hamilton, was “too much” for them. While Peerce was seeking distribution in Europe, the selection committee in Cannes, France, agreed to screen the film at their upcoming festival, where it received a five-minute standing ovation, and won a best actress award for Barbara Barrie. Weston and Peerce recovered their production expenses after receiving an advance on royalties from overseas distributor British Lion Films.
The film opened 29 July 1964 at the Murray Hill Theatre in New York City. Openings followed at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, CA, and at the Beverly Cañon Theatre in Beverly Hills, CA, on 27 August 1964. Bernie Hamilton appeared at debuts in New York, London, and Paris. Reviews were mixed: While the the 9 September 1964 Los Angeles Times complained about the film’s lack of professionalism, the 8 May 1964 Daily Variety called it “a tactful look” at interracial marriage, and the 27 December 1964 New York Times listed it among the ten best releases of the year.
U.S. distributor Cinema V anticipated gross receipts of $1 million, with exhibitors from Virginia, Louisiana, and North Carolina bidding for the film. Out of the 250 Southern theaters that screened the film, only thirty to forty did not have an exclusively African American clientele. The film was very popular in Japan, where it was considered a compelling melodrama, rather than an exploration of U.S. race relations, of which the Japanese had reportedly little understanding.
The current copyright on the film is held by MAC Entertainment (Rights) Ltd., of which I know nothing. Based on its other holdings, it appears to be a British company.
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Okay.
If you want ONE POTATO TWO POTATO, you'll get ONE POTATO TWO POTATO. It's not that we don't hear you.
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Okay.
If you want ONE POTATO TWO POTATO, you'll get ONE POTATO TWO POTATO. It's not that we don't hear you.
Whoa, really?? Wow! Glad to see some more Fried releases while he's still with us!
Yavar
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Whoa, really?? Wow! Glad to see some more Fried releases while he's still with us!
Gerald is fitter than me. I believe he will survive everybody. Everybody.
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Gerald is fitter than me. I believe he will survive everybody. Everybody.
LIKE! 
Any hope of other Fried scores being released on your label? (Perhaps even one as a pairing for One Potato...or is that score too lengthy?)
Yavar
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Read about the movie when it was first released, was happy finally to catch up with it at the TCM Film Festival two years ago. As noted above, it's since been broadcast on the network. A lovely score, would dearly love to have it on CD. And that pretty much goes for any other Gerald Fried score, including ones I haven't heard yet.
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And that pretty much goes for any other Gerald Fried score, including ones I haven't heard yet.
This! I love Gerry's music as much as Jerry's! (And almost as much as Jerry's!)
Yavar
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Any hope of other Fried scores being released on your label? (Perhaps even one as a pairing for One Potato...or is that score too lengthy?)
There's always hope, Yavar. We are in an early stage but Gerald and I will go through his archive and see what we can get the rights to.
And no, we do not wish to pair ONE POTATO with something else because that score needs to stand for itself. Simple as that
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Fair enough! The Testament effect.
Glad to hear about this new relationship you've started.
Yavar
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