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This was the first time I noticed that you could really see outside the front entrance of the Old House ... maybe it was the camera angle or something ... but anyway, you could see the wide front portico and its pillars beyond the front door.
In other words, the view DID correspond with the outside shots we have of the old house. There must be steps going up to the portico in front, just as in the slides!
More recently (i.e., when Trask was exorcising "the witch"), a large hedge seems to have been planted right outside the door, on the portico!
Could it have been in a moveable planter, I wonder? Strange that landscape work should have been done when the family had already moved to the new house!
The secret staircase in the House of the Seven Gables is next to the fireplace. I don't remember how it opened, it has been a few years. We might do it again this spring or early fall. My daughter goes to Salem State and we venture up there very often.
I can relate I always wanted a secret passage way or secret room. The nearest thing we had was the eves. I use to go and play in them, we gained access to them throuh my closet in the house I grow up in. There was a storage area under the backstairs that was fun to hide it also. My parents sold that house a year after I got married. I wonder if the new owners children had as much fun as I did in those special places.
That indicates to me that the vampire didn't necessarily his existence was all that great. There was a side to him that realized that. It has been many years since I read the book so I don't know if that was part of Bram Stoker's original dialogue or not.
I've always liked Ray Milland, even though he appeared in a fair amount of wasted celluloid. Anybody see The Man with the X-Ray Eyes?
Probably my favorite of his films, though, is Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder.
I look back with fondness on Frogs, a real classic in the annals of awful movies. .
Anyhow, it is a very interesting interview; among other things, he discusses the scripts he wrote while he was on the show. I think this interview may be the only print source where that is documented.
) was a great, sweating learning experience, though.
There is a pulley type device (ex. dumb-waiter) used for underground railroad hiding places.
From a construction point of view the masoleum door could work without electronics, however it would not open as smoothly or as easily as shown on the show. There would also be more of a stone scrapping sound and the hindges to hold a door of that size and weight would have to be some extremely heavy duty YO MAMA hindges. Of course this type of hardware was used in Europe on Old castles, (ie on a drawbridge door) but again I have a problem seeing Willie opening this door in 1967 after 170+ years of no use, (and without oil or lubracant) or little David opening the door by himself.
The fact that the Nick character is being helped by a feckless woman medic who's fallen for him bigtime and is trying to cure him is reminiscent of a certain other show we all love...
