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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ROBERTO (DATES UNKNOWN) EL BARON FANTASMA. Circa 1943. 43x29 1/4 inches, 109 1/4x74 1/4 cm. F. Springer, Argentina. Condition A- / B+: repaired tears, restored losses and discoloration in margins; minor abrasions along unobtrusive vertical and horizontal folds. Le Baron Fantôme is neither a horror film nor a monster movie. It is a slightly supernatural, gothic love story for which Jean Cocteau wrote the dialogue and in which he played a small role. "The loveliest scene, an extravagantly romantic one, shows a dream shared by Anna and Herve, he carrying her across a misty "Wuthering Heights"-style landscape and she in a white gown with a long flowing veil. The ecstasy of the moment is unequaled by anything else here, but it is so extravagantly lovely that its radiance goes a long way" (Janet Maslin, New York Times, December 12, 1977). This is the Argentinean version. Beauty and the Beast p. 67.
