And now the Varese Sarabande CD issue of the filmscore has been announced for a May street date:

http://www.varesesarabande.com/servlet/the-1170/Dan-Curtis%27-Dracula/Detail

G.

Happy Birthday!

G.

Gawd!  sorry to sound like a broken record, but this is one scene I don't recall at all. 

I did enjoy very much revisiting MB's brilliant ad for the series featuring Mr. Shaw in nearly all of his glory...

Can't wait to see how this scene develops!

Thanks so much again MB!

G.

He did initially annoy me, but over time he grew on me. 

I have to say I'm so glad the great, incomparable Thayer David was cast as Professor Stokes.  For me, Stokes is THE iconic occultist detective.

G.

I wonder if the character of Kelly was invented in part to explain how Willie, not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, was able to figure out the clues about the hidden Collins "legacy."

She's clearly got the brains between the two of them...

G.

Thanks again for these notes, MB. I somehow missed yesterday's quote about Kelly being asked by Stokes to index Collins family correspondence.  So when I saw today's quote, I was thinking that she must be talking about Ben's diary--wrong!

I'm on vacation next week and will most likely miss most if not all of the posts here, but I really am enjoying this presentation very much--in fact, so far I've enjoyed it much more than viewing the actual pilot tape all those years ago!

Hard to believe that 2004 was ten years ago now...

Best,  G.

And they've set it in ... Paris??? It was so much about the New York setting and the ominous world of the Dakota that if Ira Levin were still alive, I wonder if he would sue for false advertising.

As I posted at the time, I attended a repertory screening of Roman Polanski's classic film in Cambridge's Brattle Theatre (originally founded by a group including our own Thayer David!), and I was very tickled to learn that the Witches Coven in the movie acclaimed 1966 as Year One of Satan.  Given that that was also the founding of our favorite show, the coincidence amused me very much.  (Especially given that a few fundamentalist religious groups targeted DS back in the day as "Satan's favorite TV show."  LOL!)

G.