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Current Talk '24 I / Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« on: July 20, 2017, 09:38:10 PM »
And here's how Scenes 135 and 136 appear in the novelization - the actions is pretty much exactly the same as DC's script, except in the novel there's dialogue -
- and unfortunately we'll never know if things might have played in the film with dialogue anything like that or in silence as the script indicates...
The tomb was pitch black. Then there was the grating sound of an iron bolt being drawn and in the next second the giant entrance door came open with a creaking, pro- testing sound to throw a flood of light into the dank place of the dead. Roger led the way with a pained expression on his stern face. He went directly to the vault where Carolyn was buried. Stokes, the sheriff and his deputies followed him. Roger paused before the vault as if reluctant to proceed any further. "Well, Mr. Collins," the sheriff said dryly. "Yes, of course," Roger replied as he roused himself to action. He opened the vault and stepped back beside Professor Stokes. The sheriff beamed a light inside to reveal the coffin. Then he nodded as a signal to his deputies. They grimly entered the vault to remove the coffin and set it on the floor. They stepped back with a hint of awe in their faces. To them this represented a rude intrusion of the dead. There was another moment of tense hesitation. The sheriff said, "Let's not waste time, Mr. Collins." Roger turned to Stokes. "Would you proceed, Eliot?" "Very well," the stout man said with a sigh. He wore a grim expression as he reached down and lifted the lid of Carolyn's coffin. The sheriff came close and shone his flashlight into the coffin. There was a chorus of startled gasps but nothing was said. |
- and unfortunately we'll never know if things might have played in the film with dialogue anything like that or in silence as the script indicates...