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74 INT. VICKI'S BEDROOM - NIGHT Vicki is unpacking her valise, which lies open on the big four-poster. In the b.g., Carolyn enters carrying extra blankets. CAROLYN It gets pretty cold at night... The fireplace works... and the bathroom's big enough for a battalion. She puts the blankets on the foot of the bed. VICKI Thanks. (then) |
67 thru OMITTED 69 70 CLOSE CROWBAR As Willie strains to pry loose the last set of chains. Suddenly, they snap, slip heavily to the floor... 71 WILLIE Shaking with nervous excitement, he braces himself, and, with enormous effort, begins to push it open. 72 CLOSE - SLAB COVER As one end of it slowly grates open. 73 BACK TO WILLIE His face shining with sweat and greed, he leans over to look in. Suddenly a HAND SHOOTS OUT, grabs him by the throat, pulls him, SCREAMING, down into the sarcophagus. WE NOTICE a LARGE, BLACK STONE RING prominent on the middle finger. |
LOS ANGELES ---- Some news with actual bite, especial- ly for cult-TV junkies. There's a new Barnabas Collins coming to haunt the airwaves, courtesy of NBC's plan to revive DARK SHADOWS as a prime-time series in the fall. Ben Cross - ironic last name, no? - has been signed to play the undead hero in this new version of ABC's 1966-71 Gothic daytime soap. Barnabas, first played by Jonathan Frid, became a tooth- some household word. And Cross (Chariots of Fire) -- who also played a vampire in the USA Network movie Nightlife -- headlines an all new cast. Joining Cross is Jean Sim- mons, inheriting the matriar- chal role of Elizabeth Stoddard once played by Joan Bennett. And the part of Dr. Julia Hoffman, first played by Gray- son Hall, will go to Barbara Steele - which should make horror-movie buffs shiver with delight. Steele was a sensuous superstar of '60s fright flicks, including Roger Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum. NBC will revive Shadows -- like the original, a Dan Curtis (War and Remembrance) production -- in a two-hour movie, with an as-yet-undetermined number of episodes to follow. |
DARK SHADOWS has found its Elizabeth Collins Stoddard in Jean Simmons. SHADOWS was a daytime serial on ABC in the 1960s. Two feature films spun off from the show, which has continued in syndication and videocassettes. The new SHADOWS is being fashioned as a primetime series that could start on NBC this fall. |
Ben Cross (who was so terrific in CHARIOTS OF FIRE) has copped the coveted role of Barnabas Collins in the 2-hour NBC movie DS. Many remember the daytime soap that ran on ABC from 1966-71.... Dan Curtis (W&R) will direct the gothic tale. |
And the two girls start toward the main stairway. TIGHTEN TO THEM as they start up TOWARD CAMERA. |
And as they continue up the stairs, we . . . |