Tumak wrote:
I think it's generally agreed that it is a dummy in the photo and not the actor, and that it never appeared in any cut of the film. The question remains whether it was initially intended for the film and then never used, or if it was cobbled together solely for the publicity still.
hi...yea, it's definately a dummy and there is a`still w/Valerie Gaunt to support this. She appears to be on a silky bed, and the dummy mask of Harker (unpainted plaster) is in front of her.One of the things I noticed since the release of the bluray with the missing footage is that those scenes are supported by either a lobby card or photo (mina bedroom scene, lobby card same angle, disintergration scene, photo, different angle), so I wouldn't be surprised if the Harker coffin shot was actually filmed, ended up in the Japanese reels and was lost in the fire. What I'd like to know is what happened to Valerie Gaunt's name in the opening credits...Have fun all...........