Agnes Moorehead gives an electrifyingly phantasmagoric performance as a Witch haunting a cursed forest in this 1958 production of "Rapunzel":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjo_PswJE6Y&t=5s

Worth checking out.

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MB, I had noticed (since I have been following this thread with great interest) that you were following the sequence of the pilot as we saw it in 2005 rather than this new edit.  I do wonder whether the new edit has been prepared for an official disc release. 

I look forward very much to the April display for the 2004 pilot!

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MB, I just love the new collage of snaps from the pilot!

Matt Czuchry was so sexy and adorable.  I've heard he's very friendly and appreciative of gay fans, too, which means a lot.

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Thanks for this link, Doctor and K9.  I now remember that I had seen this several months ago but did not have time to watch it.  Youtube is really amazing.  I seem to remember that this was something a fan recorded on their phone from a Festival screening.

Again off topic, last night on the Tube I found a 1958 episode of THE SHIRLEY TEMPLE SHOW with Agnes Moorehead playing a Witch in Rapunzel.  It was so cool.

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I was wondering if the time differential might be accounted for by closing credits.  Thanks for posting that, Doctor and K9 (I have been watching some Tom Baker Who stories again so your handle makes me smile).

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That's very optimistic, MB.  I figured it was more like a .01 (or maybe that's .001) percent chance... about the same chance as Hell freezing over.  Though, in this era of climate change, who knows.

G.

I really have only vague memories of that 2005 screening.  I do remember that I found the ending ridiculous.  So it was a surprise when I watched it again and actually thought the ending now worked.  It certainly works a hell of a lot better this way than what I recall from the unfinished edit that was screened over a decade ago.

I would guess that there was going to be a different theme for Josette's music box.  It's amazing just how much they crammed into this.  There were originally going to be more scenes for Angelique. I've wondered if those were actually filmed.

The most significant difference between this and the Burton-Depp film, for this viewer, is that Alec Newman is outstanding as Barnabas.  I thought Depp was a disaster in the role. Obviously, we are all at liberty to agree to disagree.

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Ah OK it's yet another comic book adaptation.  Last year a UK fan sent me an interesting short comic based on Kronos that appeared somewhere or other back in the early or mid 1970s.

I suddenly feel much less excited... though I'm less than optimistic now whenever a "re-boot" of a classic character or story from the "old days" is mooted.

G.