Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows

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If you want to learn about or refresh your memory concerning the background of today's quote -

Page 36/Scene 85 - Angelique: (deadly calm) 'I'll go with you. But don't any of you touch me.'

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And wrapping up Scene 85, beginning with the script explaining:

- this post, which will also explain differences as well as additions...

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Before we move on the today's Scene 86, I want to go back to how I teased there may be a quiz about Scene 85 that the stills I shared may help with. I'm somewhat ashamed to admit that there are continuity errors in Scene 85 that I never noticed until I watched it this time around. Yet another example of no matter how many times one watches something, there can still be things to notice for the first time. (Though again, I use the excuse that most times I watch something, much of my attention is focused on faces and not other things.) And so much for the remark I made:

Quite obviously whoever they hired to handle continuity for the film was much better than anyone who might have worked on the daytime show!

They were better but, obviously, not perfect because they really screwed up when it came to Scene 85!

So, has anyone else noticed the continuity errors? The screw up is a really big problem when it comes to a subsequent scene...

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If you want to learn about or refresh your memory concerning the background of today's quote -

Page 36/Scene 86 - Quentin: 'Gabriel...Angelique...? That was her funeral I saw. What happened here? What?'

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Here's Scene 86 as scripted:

- this post, which will also explain differences with Scene 86 between the script, the 94 and 97 minute versions of the film, and the 129 minute version...

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Once you learn what the problem is, you're going to feel foolish that you didn't notice what's wrong with Scene 85. I certainly do. And it would be one thing if it was simply something in Scene 85 and had no bearing on anything else, but as I said, it's a really big problem when it comes to a subsequent scene...

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If you want to learn about or refresh your memory concerning the background of today's quote -

Page 37/Scene 87A - Quentin (O.S.): 'It looks like he was going to add some other people.'

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Setting up Scene 87, which DC has broken up into Scenes 87A and 87B in his script:

- this post, which will start to explain differences between DC's script and Grayson's script...

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If you want to learn about or refresh your memory concerning the background of today's quote -

Page 37/Scene 87A - Alex: 'I wonder why he never finished it... yeah, it's amazing, isn't it? So evil here...so prim over there. The double life of Angelique Collins. I wonder what Charles Collins knew that the others didn't.'

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Picking up from yesterday with today's quote -

- this post, which will explain how the scene originally opened...

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Before we get into today's quote, I want to share the photo -

- I used for yesterday's graphic -

As far as I'm aware, the only place it was ever published was as part of a NoDS article in the Dec. '71 issue of 16 Magazine. And in fact, back in the '90s Darren Gross couldn't locate a copy among the NoDS stills available to him. But he may have located a copy since...

In upcoming days I'll be sharing what I used to create other Scene 87 graphics (including one that's brand new to this version of the slideshow) and one that I didn't use...

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If you want to learn about or refresh your memory concerning the background of today's quote -

Page 37/Scene 87A - Claire: 'Here he goes. Another plot for another book --'

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Continuing with Scene 87, we pick up with yesterday's quote, made in response to Alex' musing about Angelique -

- this post, although, it's actually today's quote this time around, and only read up to that point...

And even though today's graphic introduces part of something new, I'm going to hold off sharing the still it comes from for a few days for reasons that will become obvious with time...

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If you want to learn about or refresh your memory concerning the background of today's quote -

Page 37/Scene 87A - Alex: 'I've been doing some research.'

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- and then today's quote -

- this post until it's end...

One thing that's very unfortunate about both the 94 and 97 minute versions of the film is the audience never has any idea that Alex has been doing research and never learns about anything he uncovers because this scene as well as upcoming Scene 111 were cut. At least Scene 111 is included in the 129 minute version, but considering that version isn't available and may never be (), that's little consolation...

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If you want to learn about or refresh your memory concerning the background of today's first quote -

Page 37/Scene 87A - Alex: 'The servant-girl legend is just that. And after seeing this, my vote goes to her. She'd make some ghost.'

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Page 37/Scene 87B - Claire (O.S.): 'Poor Angelique Collins. He's going to start and she'll have no more secrets.'

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Moving on with Scene 87, today's first quote -

- this post...

What a shame Quentin wouldn't have been able to hire that servant girl's ghost to clean...

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If you want to learn about or refresh your memory concerning the background of today's quote -

Page 37/Scene 87B - Tracy: 'Do we have to have a ghost, Alex?'

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Continuing with Scene 87, with Tracy asking in yesterday's quote -

- this post, although, again, it's actually today's quote this time around, and only read up to that point...

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If you want to learn about or refresh your memory concerning the background of today's quote -

Page 37/Scene 87B - Quentin: 'Alex makes up his own legends, anyway. I'm not half as curious about Angelique Collins as I am about Charles. He is quite good, you know.'

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Continuing...

- this post to the end...

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When it comes to yesterday's and today's graphics in the slideshow -

- I made them using this -

- which, as far as I know, has only been published on page 111 of the DS Companion. However, since creating those graphics I've come into possession of the actual still, which shows a bit more than its DS Companion version:

(Click here for a 700X484 version)

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If you want to learn about or refresh your memory concerning the background of today's first quote -

Page 37/Scene 87B - Alex: 'He is good?'

- and/or today's second quote -

Page 37/Scene 87B - Quentin: 'He was good.'

- and/or today's third quote -

Page 37/Scene 87B - Alex: 'He was good.'

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Before we get into the way Scene 87 concludes in DC's script, here's how it concludes in Grayson's script, picking up after Quentin's remark that Charles Collins "is quite good":

- this post to see, as indicated, the differences between Grayson's and DC's scripts...

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And when it comes to today's second graphic in the slideshow -

- I made it this time around using this -

(Click here for a 533X700 version)

- which I probably would have done back in 2009 or 2016 for those slideshows if I had remembered that it had been shared as part of the 2004 Fest Program, but I didn't. Thankfully this time around I did remember it was there...