What excuse do these pathetic individuals have this year for running that terrible US release print?  I seem to recall that when the director was in town a couple of years ago it was poor planning and failure to get hold of the restored print.

GREAT movie, which deserves to be more widely known--but not in this sad butchered disgrace!

*grump*

G.

I just spotted two classic Barbara Steele titles--the 1966 An Angel for Satan which I have mentioned in at least a couple of previous posts on these forums, and The Long Hair of Death which I believe dates to '64--listed for a late Feb. 2009 release on Amazon.

The less-than-stellar news about this new release is that these films are coming out from a house called Midnight choir which, according to reliable fan sources, is a new spinoff of Legend, a notorious purveyor of bootlegged goods.

I plan to pick up this disc anyway because it is supposed to include English subtitles for the Angel for Satan title--will update this thread with links for a reliable review at that time.

You can see the box cover (an exciting image for Steele fans) on the Amazon page for the pre-release.

G.

I don't think that either Bette Davis or Susan Heyward was pleased when Bette had to portray Susan's Mother in the 1964 ultra-glossy soaper, Where Love Has Gone.  A film that boasts DeForest Kelley in a great Addison de Wit style role as a vitriolic art critic.

G.

How exciting!  I look forward to watching the slideshow later this evening.

Congratulations for your truly heroic efforts in recovering AND conserving this missing episode.  We owe you a lot!

More later,

Steve

I believe that "coptic cross" was the standard locution for this symbol before the ancient language had been deciphered and we learned that the word written with the image of an ankh is pronounced "ankh."

The Copts were Egyptian Christians and their liturgy and what remains of their spoken language constitute a very late form of the ancient Egyptian language.  It was written, I believe, with a form of the Greek alphabet.

G.

Extra kudos to MB for today's new capture.  Not only is this a superb shot of the Goddess Known as Grayson Hall in character as Julia, and not only is Julia sporting one of my favorite brooches, but I think this shot actually captures some of the more subtle elements at work in the Leviathans storyline before they went for "everything including the kitchen sink."  (More shots of Bruno flogging that wolfie!  More scenes of Megan swooning before Barnabas' gaping fangs!)

The dialogue and the imagery actually make me think of the mood of certain of the plays of Jean Genet, of which Grayson Hall was a famous exponent.  I've noticed other moments on DS reminiscent of Bertolt Brecht and the very expressionist styles of theatre pioneered in the Circle in the Square and other houses where Grayson worked as a young actress in the 1950s.

Fabulous, beautiful work!

G.

Thanks, Joe--I knew this issue had been discussed some years back and it was confirmed by someone in the know that these sounds are ineradicably part of the master tapes.  I think "bleed" or "print-through" is the explanation. 

cheers, G.

I missed the broadcast, but would be curious to see it at some point.  Back in the Summer of '95 I finally sat down and read Wuthering Heights--the novel from what I recall is very different from ANY of the film versions I have come across--and I think would be a difficult story to film because of the harshness and the very different cultural dynamics of the setting in a remote part of ca. 1800 Yorkshire.

One of the oddest redactions (if I may use that word) of this book I have ever come across was a novel based on the popular 1960s series "That Girl!" (the show that made Miss Marlo Thomas a star)--she goes out to stay at a remote estate where reputedly a "living theatre" type production of Wuthering Heights is being mounted--and of course, Ann is supposed to be in line for the role of Cathy--and, perhaps, Cathy's fate?  You can find this oddity available on eBay, I think--I can barely remember much of it apart from dialogue in which "Cathy" informed "Heathcliff" that not only was he uncouth, but he smelled of dung!  Not the sort of thing one sees as a rule on Masterpiece Theatre.

The Brits seem to be going out into la-la land with their adaptations these days--judging from the recent series of Miss Marple films which bear, by and large, not even a nodding acquaintance with the plots and characterizations of the books supposed to be the sources for the screenplays.

And to bring the subject back to Dark Shadows--when there was a rare shot of Stella Young up here for one brief day, I wanted to start a "Who Killed Stella Young?" thread on the discussion board... but thought I might save that for an eventual re-viewing of the PT 1841 episodes, at some point.

cheers, G.