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Tuesday's quote:
Ep #737 (1897) - Laura - 'Look deep in your soul. You will know. You MUST do something, there's very little time.'
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We see a different version of the previous episode's ending, with Dirk and Laura mostly standing, rather than sitting on the bed. He speaks some foreign words to her, but it ends with Laura begging him not to let her die, holding out her arms to him from where she lies on the bed.
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- which appears as part of the Herald featured in the NoDS PressBook. I've always assumed that still is from Scene 229 and not Scenes 221 - 223, but we all know what they say about assuming. And if it is from the latter scenes, obviously I can't really say:It's interesting to me that there are several stills of Quentin and Tracy from this sequence down in the basement, and there's this one of Tracy solo, but I've never come across any of Quentin solo.
But until such time as I discover otherwise, I'm going to continue to assume it comes from Scene 229. Though if I ever come across a numbered print of that still, which is something I've never seen, that could be a good clue as to which scene it may be from...
And then there's this behind the scenes still that Darren Gross shared on his NoDS Restoration Web site, and once again I'm sharing the caption as Darren wrote it -
Cinematographer Richard Shore, A.S.C. takes a light reading for the scene
where Quentin and Alex uncover Charles Collins' skeleton lying atop
Angelique's pine-wood coffin. (Photo courtesy Richard Shore.)
- and a tiny version of a different version appears in The DS Movie Book -
Night: Richard Shore positions skeleton.
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- I'd used a rare print of a not so rare still (though I eliminated Quentin's legs) -
- a still that has been published so many times (in its print form on the right) that I'm not even going to list them, though here are a few captions:TV Dawn to Dusk's CATCHING UP WITH...The Dark Shadows Cast caption reads: "Quentin (David Selby) finds the
skeleton of his former self, Charles Collins."
Original Motion Picture Sountracks booklet's caption reads: "Night Of Dark Shadows:
David Selby as Quentin Collins
in a deleted scene."
The Famous Monsters of Filmland caption reads: "Wouldn't you be scared out of your skin if you came upon your own skeleton from a previous life? Well,
that's the predicament Quentin is in as he discovers the mortal remains of himself when, in a past
existence, he was known as Charles Collins."
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David and Amy try to get the door open, to no avail. What will we do? laments Amy, but David has no answer. They spot an old armoire, and Amy asks what's inside it. Just cobwebs, says David. Amy asks what's in the chest. David never saw it before. Perhaps it's full of toys, suggests Amy. They open it. Only old clothes, says David, unimpressed. Amy pulls out a boy's suit, and a girl's dress--who did the clothes belong to? Some Collins ancestors, says David. Amy wants to put on the clothes and play dress-up, but David thrusts the clothes back in the trunk, insisting, in his macho way, that he doesn't play such games. Amy hears the sound of sweet music. Quentin must be playing it, she says, excited, and someplace nearby![/spoiler]
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CUT TO:
229 INT - SMALL ROOM - NIGHT 229
as Alex and Quentin have just about finished ripping
out the brick wall, the large iron door is revealed.
Quentin grabs the rusted bolt and unlocks it.
INT - ROUND BURIAL ROOM - NIGHT
as the door opens and light streams in, Quentin and
Alex stand in silhouette in the doorway.
THE ROOM - THEIR P.O.V.
The light of their candelabras reveal an aged pine
coffin covered with cobwebs and dust. As they ENTER
THE SHOT and cross to it, they suddenly see the
skeletal remains of Charles Collins. In the B.G.,
the girls appear at the doorway.
And that's when today's quote -Page 106/Scene 229 - Quentin: 'So this is why Laura was laughing at the funeral. They were burying an empty coffin.'
comes up.
End of scene and end of sequence. And the sad thing is, even though Scene 228 was recovered with the 129 minute version of the film, Scene 229 was not. And again, sort of similar to how the rewrite of Scene 218 drops all reference to Quentin having trouble breathing on the night of his dream even though a big thing is made of that in Scene 103, it's odd that Scene 52 makes a point of having Gerard do brickwork so that Quentin will have the sound of it in the back of his memory, yet because all future references seemingly save for Quentin suddenly putting 2 and 2 together (even though we have no idea that he's been trying to place a sound because Scene 218 is not in the film ...) it makes Quentin's eureka moment come from out of nowhere. Not to mention that Scene 229's revelation of the discovery of Angelique's and Charles' remains would certainly seem like a major plot payoff. But apparently not to DC. And as we know only too well, ours is not to fathom DC's thinking. ...
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- I'd used a crop of this rare still -
(Click here for a 700X541 version)
DS Movie Book caption: "Night: Alex (John Karlen) and Quentin
(David Selby) break into Charles' basement
tomb in deleted scene."
- from the lamentedly missing Scene 229 and which so far as I'm aware has only been published in a tiny version in The DS Movie Book...
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