Watermelon Man
New York: Ace Publishing, 1970.
First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good with no dust jacket. Item #17086
Covers rubbed, edgewear, light cock, text light tone. Solid mass market paperback. ; Appearing one year before Raucher's blockbuster Summer of '42, this is his novelization of Watermelon Man, Raucher's screenplay for the Columbia Pictures film directed by Melvin Van Peebles, and starring Godfrey Cambridge and Estelle Parsons. Per Wikipedia: "Raucher and Van Peebles frequently clashed on set, as Raucher intended the movie to be a satire of white, liberal America, whereas Van Peebles wanted to change Raucher's script to make it a black power movie. Raucher ended up novelizing his own screenplay to ensure that his original vision for the story survived in some form. Writing the book himself also ensured that Van Peebles could not enact a clause in his contract that would have allowed him to write it. On the film's DVD release, Van Peebles says that Raucher wanted the film to end with Gerber waking up to discover that the events of the movie had only been a nightmare and convinced studio executives to allow him to film two alternate endings. Per Van Peebles, he only filmed the current ending of the movie, forgetting to shoot the "it was all a dream" ending "by accident." Raucher's novelization of his own script, however, includes the "workout" ending." An uncommon and interesting movie tie-in novel. ; Movie Tie-In; Vol. 87370; 160 pages.
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