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“Hogan’s Heroes,” reported to be one Sarah Johnson’s all-time favorite tv shows.
Mr. Stroka also portrayed a German soldier in an episode of “Combat,” another great 1960s ABC series, along with “Dark Shadows.” I guess those nasty Nazi roles helped to prepare Michael Stroka for his roles on DS, particularly as the cruel, shearling coat-wearing and perfectly-coiffed Leviathan convert, Bruno Hess?
A few notes I can share... scenes 218-220 were indeed shot- ...
It was cut out of even Dan Curtis's director's cut, though, most likely just to tighten things up a bit. The dialogue from this scene between Alex and Quentin was edited down and plays over the shot of Carlotta in the tower in the director's cut, and yes it exists. It was replaced with the solo Selby "find Carlotta" voice over to help make sense of the chopped up ending in the short version.
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And now we begin DC's script's version of Scene 218, which begins with the same opening, but quickly changes:
218 EXT - COLLINWOOD PORTICO - NIGHT 218
as Quentin, Tracy, Alex and Claire stand near the
front door, getting ready to go in. Alex is about
to open the front door, when Quentin stops him.
And that's when today's first quote -Page 101/Scene 218 - Quentin: 'Alex, there's something in there we've got to find.'
- comes up, followed by today's second quote -Page 101/Scene 218 - Alex: 'What are you talking about?'
- coming up.
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...Page 101/Scene 218 - Quentin: 'In a dream I had, Gabriel threw Charles into a small dark room. I remember that when he hit the floor, he fell over something wooden. Before I could see what it was, Gabriel bolted the door.'
- coming up, followed by yesterday's second quote -Page 101/Scene 218 - Alex: 'Do you remember anything else?'
- coming up, followed by today's first quote -Page 101/Scene 218 - Quentin: 'No - only a sound, and I can't even describe it, but I know I've heard it before.'
- coming up, followed by today's second quote -Page 101/Scene 218 - Alex: 'Well, where do we start?'
- coming up.
...Page 101/Scene 218 - Quentin: 'The room had a heavy iron door --'
- coming up,
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And, even though the dialogue was reworked, it's interesting that in the rewrite of Scene 218, the only things that were dropped were the references to Quentin choking. Who knows why - especially given the film makes a point of that with Quentin mumbling in his sleep that he can't breath and Tracy trying to wake him but being unable to? But, considering Quentin doesn't consider himself to be Charles, it does make sense that in the rewrite Quentin no longer refers to things in his dream as happening to him but happening to Charles.
And as for the sound Quentin can't identify, we'll hold off on discussing that until we get to Scene 228.
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And when it comes to this scene - actually, when it comes to the next entire sequence of Scenes 218 though 220, it's apparently a mystery as to whether or not they were ever shot. Darren Gross wrote on his NoDS Restoration Web site that not only wasn't the sequence part of the recovered footage, but even though the scenes were "blocked in the director's notes, it is unknown whether this sequence was actually shot. Not a single still photo from this sequence has yet turned up." And that's the reason for the weird graphics - they cover both bases of either the scenes were never shot or it's simply a fact that I don't have any stills from them...
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... a change from what's said in the summation at the bottom is that since that post was made a still from Scene 220 was indeed identified and it will be showing up once the slideshow gets to that scene...
And just when you thought we've seen all the alternate versions of scenes that appear in Grayson's script, up pops Scene 218. And we're going to deal with her script's version before DC's script's version ...:
218 EXT - COLLINWOOD PORTICO - NIGHT 218
as Quentin, Tracy, Alex and Claire stand near the
front door, getting ready to go in. Alex is about
to open the front door, when Quentin stops him.
QUENTIN
Alex, all the way up here I've
been thinking --
ALEX
About what?
QUENTIN
One of those dreams that I had...
I think it's important...
Alex looks at him.
QUENTIN
Gabriel and two men locked
Charles Collins in a small dark
room. The thing that was so
terrifying about it was that
when I woke up I felt I was
choking to death...I couldn't
breathe.
TRACY
I remember that!
QUENTIN
There was something else about
that room, too. Because when
they threw me in,my head hit
some kind of a wooden object.
Before I could see what it was,
they slammed the door and bolted
it. Then I heard that sound.
ALEX
What sound?
218 CONTD CONTD 218
QUENTIN
That's it, I don't know.
I can't even describe it.
But I do know I've heard it
before.
ALEX
O.K. What do we look for?
QUENTIN
The door was a heavy iron door --
End of scene as it appears in Grayson's script...
Eve was evil, agrees Angelique--that's what Nicholas wanted--he knew Eve was secretly seeing Jeff. No, denies Adam, Nicholas is my friend!--he did everything for me. He gave you a mate that deceived you, spits out Ang-- Nick was the one who brought Danielle Roger to the experiment--not Leona Eltridge, but a treacherous woman who lived in the 18th century--Nicholas brought her back from the grave because she served his nefarious purposes, and never considered Adam his friend--he used you, as he uses everyone. Adam is rocked by this, hurt. He isn't sure, he says, but Ang tells him if he lets Nicholas go on using him, he's little more than a slave. He asks why she's telling him this. She answers that they must work together to escape Nicholas--I need your help--when Nicholas learns that Eve is dead and that Jeff Clark killed her, exactly what Ang wants him to think, it will fit in well with her plans--go back to the house, orders Ang, pretend nothing happened--pretend to be shocked, grief-stricken, when you hear about Eve. In the meantime, I will prepare for Nicholas departure. Adam isn't sure. . .he needs time to think it over. We have little time, warns Ang.[/spoiler]
Moving on to the next scene, which is something of a rarity in this section of the script because it does actually appear in the current version of the film, though not entirely as scripted:
217 INT - TOWER ROOM - NIGHT 217
The room is in darkness and through the window, as if
someone is watching, the four of them can be seen
approaching the house. Then RACK FOCUS to Carlotta
in the EXTREME F.G. as she stands there looking down
at them. As they EXIT THE SHOT below, Carlotta turns
away in thought. TIGHTEN TO CARLOTTA'S EXTREME CLOSE-
UP.
And obviously, when it comes to the scene as scripted, there's no sort of dialogue whatsoever. However, in the film as it currently stands, a Quentin voiceover was added after the marathon editing session, and it plays as follows:
"Alex..."
"...you know there's only one way we're going to end
all of this..."
"...We've got to go back in there and find Carlotta..."
"...because she's the one who's keeping the spirit alive --"
Which would seem to be a reworking of Quentin's "There's only one way to end it. We've got to go back in there and face it down --" from Scene 216. But because the reworking puts finding Carlotta front and center, it obviously flies in the face of the part of Scene 216 in which Tracy asks about Carlotta and Alex says he doesn't think they'll find her.
And speaking of Carlotta, Grayson's script has notes for Scene 217. She writes that Carlotta feels TRAPPED and PANIC - that she and Angelique have fought - that Carlotta is a little wild looking - and that there's desperate fear. She also wrote one other thing, but sadly the words go off the edge of the page, so it's impossible to figure out.