During that decade, Price made a number of television game show appearances that enabled him to display his extraordinary knowledge of art history. Going into 1950s, Vincent Price was mostly known to public as the urbane villain of movie thrillers. Sadly, it is among the least intriguing titles circulating the hazy world of bootlegs. Today, “Collector’s Item” is still around, and I only got to see it for the first time last week. Needless to say, the bootleg market has shifted far away from the 16mm print format. In the book, there was a fleeting reference to Price’s work in a 1958 television pilot called “Collector’s Item.” Parish and Whitney noted that the pilot was not picked up to become a regular series, but that it was available for sale in the 16mm print black market. At the time, Price was my favorite movie star thanks to the countless TV broadcasts of his Edgar Allan Poe flicks. I can distinctly remember the first time I learned that a market for bootleg films and television shows existed: back when I was a kid in the 1970s, my mother bought me a book called “Vincent Price Unmasked” by James Robert Parish and Steven Whitney.
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