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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: November 17, 2023, 09:02:12 PM »I love the line in the TV Dawn to Dusk article, when they said the cast could be seen "lurking around the studios of M-G-M".
My thing about that article (beyond identifying Diana Millay as Diana Hilay ) is the part of caption #1 that says, "the newly finished portrait of Angelique and Charles Collins." Umm, if they simply went by the size of the still as it appears in the article, maybe that description could be a forgivable mistake, but not if one looks at the full-sized version or especially if one goes by the shot of the man in the actual film because he's clearly Quentin -
- and not Charles. He may be dressed in clothes similar to what Charles may have worn, but the man has no scar on his left cheek, nor does he have sideburns like Charles does. And honestly the fact that it is Quentin and not Charles makes the fact that the body the man is holding looks like Tracy all the more unsettling...
In fact, the script even says -
...
159 INT - TOWER ROOM - DAY - TRACY'S P.O.V. 159
The painting on the easel is covered. The room is a
mess. The cot looks as if it had been slept in.
Tracy ENTERS THE SHOT, leaving the door open. She
crosses to the easel. She lifts off the cover and
is shocked by what she sees. The picture is now
completed. The reality of the situation shocks her.
It is obvious Quentin has been completing Charles'
unfinished portrait. The picture now includes a man
who looks very much like Quentin and who stands in
front of the half-clad Angelique. In his arms he
carries the limp figure of a girl. The girl's face
is Tracy's. It seems she is an offering to Angelique.
...
Though there is one other possibility that could also make the mistake forgivable for TV Dawn To Dusk and that is that I have seen some of the stills with captions for them typed on their backs. I've never come across a copy of still #18 with a caption on its back, and I have no idea if any or all the stills included in the Editor's Portfolio came with captions on their backs or even with a separate sheet of suggested captions. But I have seen instances where suggested captions get some aspect(s) of the plot wrong (which makes one wonder who came up with them?!). So...