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« on: November 25, 2014, 07:24:19 PM »
I wonder who did the voiceover. My notes indicate it was the letter "pi", or that's what the actor's sloppily written two initials look like to me now. Petofi has the Dream Curse! Opens several doors anyway... The whole thing would be silly, except for the singing, which really sells it. The set isn't much, candles mainly, but put together with Thayer's fear, the chanting, and ... I don't know, but it all works. We get history or a bit of culture with "Men Of the Woods" and the untranslated words that I missed. It just occured to me that it was clever to avoid showing an elaborate gypsy tribunal that they couldn't afford, by having him out in some corridor, and the suspense is there that way.
Barnabas inadvertantly shoots Julia. This trick was used on the Avengers earlier... Steed avoided shooting Mrs. Peel by unpredictably entering the room through the window rather than the door, even without having any inkling of the trap. "New habit... coming in through windows!" he says, as he comes in...