Is the version that was shown at the Festival available anywhere?

Here's a story that I can never confirm to even my own satisfaction. My mother's uncle used to drive for Cozy Cab in the 60's. Cozy was the cab company that drove Mrs. Johnson out to Collinwood. You can see the logo and part of the phone number on the cab. In the 90's Sci Fi was showing the series and I pointed out the cab to family. One of my aunts said that had to be Uncle Tony. This started a big argument. I asked if he ever told her he drove out there and appeared in Dark Shadows? She said no but he worked on "something for TV out on Ocean Drive."  That turned into "maybe it was a movie," and more arguing. What I came away with was that it could have been him. More likely it's not. He was driving at that time, but so were other people. This was the 60's and Newport was not the resort it is today, but still there were a lot of cabs on the road. More likely it was not him, but I'll never know for sure.

Here's the Cinefantastique review. As one would expect, being a genre magazine, they take the film more seriously. Thanks for increasing the file size MB!

Quote from: The Doctor and K9 on September 21, 2021, 11:57:32 PM

Are you planning to share the Cinefantastique review? I have it, but don't want to steal your thunder as they say. Please let me know if you want me to post it.

Certainly feel free to post anything you might like, The Doctor and K9.    I do have several more things in line to post, but with the exception of one, I have no set plans how or when to post them. And given some of the gems you've already shared elsewhere on the forum, it's quite possible you may have something I don't have. 

Thanks MB. I tried to post a PDF of the pages, but I'm told that the file is too big. How are you posting your files?

And BTW, lest anyone think that there won't be any more things posted in this topic except for quotes from the slideshow, I can assure there's plenty more to come. It's just that this week I've been busy with other things and haven't had the time to prepare anything more for posting. But definitely look for things next week...

Fantastic! Thank you!

  You know, I also thought about giving the writer that excuse as a possibility. But then I ruled it out because the writer thought Jackson wasn't even on DS, so he/she wouldn't have had her DS character in mind when he/she wrote the blurb...

That's true, I didn't think of that.

Seth Graham-Smith's revision of John August's script for Dark Shadows can be downloaded at the link below. This version of the script is significantly different from the final shooting script.

https://archive.org/details/dark-shadows-2012-script

Given the way that things turned out, any Joan Bennett footage would have probably ended up on the cutting room floor.

You're probably right. Maybe her scenes would have been enough incentive to restore the film.