![]() ![]() Maybe they sense this isn’t a religious or a ‘church’ drama.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ![]() “Working in Harlem has been wonderful – everyone, including the police, has been very cooperative. “I’ve been trying to get this story filmed for five years,” said Boone. ![]() When Rick Ross, who had spent 15 years making films for Billy Graham’s organization, became involved the project began to take shape, and filming began in Harlem in October 1969. ![]() Boone said “the uniform response was that ‘religion is poison at the box office’. He and an associate, Clint Davidson, took out an option on the book but were unable to raise the finances needed to produce a film. Presentation copy, signed by David Wilkerson on the half-title page and inscribed by American actor Pat Boone, who starred as Wilkerson in the 1970 film adaptation of the book, on the front free endpaper, “God bless James! Pat Boone John 1: 12,13.” After reading a copy of the book he saw at an airport newsstand on the way to Mexico City, Pat Boone was immediately taken with it. $2,250.00 Item Number: 137030įirst edition of the author’s best-selling “modern day sequel to the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament” (Pat Boone). WILKERSON, David with John & Elizabeth Sherrill. The Cross and the Switchblade: A True Story of the Saving Power of Faith. ![]()
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