"The girls work on" Quentin...

I'm just imagining the stampede here if somehow Dan Curtis were to appear and bark, "OK, ladies, I need a coupla girls to WORK ON Quentin Collins.  Anyone up for that?"

Curtis might not even have time to put his cigarillo down before the mob trampled him...

I just love this thread!!

G.

I love it whenever we have a thread here about THE PEN.  The true megastar of DARK SHADOWS.

I do find myself laughing whenever I play one of those shows and the characters earnestly recite dialogue about how rare and valuable it is.  It was probably something they found at Woolworth's for 99 cents.  Like Barnabas's ring.  Quote Frid:  "It was a tacky old thing."

G.

I wish I had a stronger visual memory of seeing the footage of this scene (in black and white, due to some kind of technical situation I didn't understand--if fully restored, it would have been seen in full color) and without any soundtrack, at a DS Festival many years ago.  The main thing I recall was the extraordinarily fluid camerawork and atmospheric use of lighting. 

My impression at the time was that it might well have been the best piece of film Dan Curtis ever produced.

Thanks to Darren for making it available briefly for us.

I'm thinking now of Sandor's words from the 1897 story on the original series:  "What might have been... can never be."

cheers, G.

MB--I've seen several publicity stills from the NoDS shoot that had no relationship to any version of the script of which I am aware.

Darren would be able to speak to this more definitively, but it may be that DC was just exploring options in working on the staging and blocking of some sequence or other.  Or it may be that whoever was the stills photographer just thought it might be "different" to have some of the actors up there posing.

Another possibility is that the shots were done when they were working on material for the various one-sheets that were ultimately produced to promote the movie.

Best,  G.

Happy Birthday Darren!

Best, Steve

I'm probably misremembering, but I recall that the FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND "filmbook" of this movie which had nearly the entire story set out in text and photos (so why bother to go see it, some may have asked) ended with the scene of Tracy screaming in the basement room.

I assume those captures are from the "blu ray."  I have to admit they look awesome.

G.

Just catching up with this thread... that's a very cool capture of Carlotta hiding in the Tower, several entries back now.  I wish they had styled her hair to look really "wild" but for whatever reason she looks as composed as if she had just gotten up from her escritoire to check the day's menu.

Of course it takes A LOT to rile the hair of someone as hardcore as Miss Carlotta Drake...

G.