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thebrainfollower		#21	[-]
Aug 4 10 7:49 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	How's work on "John Carradine: Liar" coming along
Jeff Mclachlan		#22	[-]
Aug 10 10 1:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	No mention of Nocturna? He was actually pretty funny in that.
kochillt		#23	[-]
Nov 5 11 12:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	John Carradine always referred to VOODOO MAN as his worst film, until BILLY THE KID VERSUS DRACULA supplanted it. As to him saying he never did a film called VOODOO MAN, well, its working title was announced as TIGER MAN, so I would rate this an intentionally selective memory. After all, if I had a body of work comparable to his, with over 260 feature films and TV movies, I too wouldn't be too happy to discuss the one title that required him to play a halfwit more suited to Frank Moran, who by the way, replaced the 'ailing' George Zucco in the equally demeaning role of the prehistoric discovery in Carradine's RETURN OF THE APE MAN. Only Lugosi was cast in starring roles befitting his horror status at Monogram. MCCLOUD MEETS DRACULA was kind of fun, and I did catch it when it first aired in 1977, including clips of him as Dracula from both HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and HOUSE OF DRACULA.
Helrunar		#24	[-]
Nov 6 11 8:15 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Those are wonderful shots from Carradine's various Draculine incarnations. And he's right, in the stage version he looks exactly as Stoker described the Old Man. Finally! H.
HawkeyePierce		#25	[-]
Nov 6 11 8:26 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wasn't that quote featured in an episode of '100 Years of Horror'? Isn't the guy who made '100 Years of Horror' a member of this forum? He might know more about this! What was his name...Ed Newton?
Ted Newsom		#26	[-]
Nov 6 11 8:50 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think I did include it. Someone gave me a VHS copy of a tape of Carradine, uncut, which I don't think was ever incorporated into anything, but the visual quality was awful. I may've used the audio... even if the old man was telling tall tales. Another stage production shot: I think the cape here is the same as in NOCTURNA, and it does look like the HOUSE OF FRANK/DRAC costume. I wonder if he filched it from Universal? (And is there any interest whatsoever in the collectors' market for "John Carradine's Dracula Cape"? That's kinda the equivalent of offering a signed photograph of Abraham Lincoln's niece.)
Shadow Chaser		#27	[-]
Nov 7 11 12:26 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I wouldn't mind owning a Carradine Drac cape but wouldn't pay 1.5 million.
HawkeyePierce		#28	[-]
Nov 7 11 6:42 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just looked it up, this is the quote used in '100 Years of Horror': "...the first ones I did were for Universal when I started playing Dracula and Bela had been doing it and Bela was getting to old for it and they handed [it] to me and I did it three times for Universal and I did it twice in Mexico city and once in Manilla..." The audio for this interview was combined with footage from the 'House of Frankenstein' trailer ("I think they are after Dracula!"). Carradine's voice sounds quite a bit older compared to his voice in interviews clips used in the programme which I originally thought were the source material. Screenshots from the interview were the quote doesn't originate, the same interview setting also appears in 'Mark of the Vampire's Carroll Borland interview. Looks like 16 mm tranfered to video -- > Ted ?
Ted Newsom		#29	[-]
Nov 7 11 11:54 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Good eye. Those on-screen interviews were shot on 16mm several years before we did our show, by Mark Gilman for his "Lugosi the Forgotten King," and used with Mark's OK. I think all his stuff was shot at Forry Ackerman's house (except maybe the Ralph Bellamy shots), and, yes, Borland and Carradine are sitting in the same chair. However, I'm pretty sure I fudged and used the audio from the other, shot-on-tape Carradine interview for off-screen voice-over. That would account for the difference in his voice or the ambient sound. But I am pretty sure that he specified in that one that he'd done Dracula in Vienna with Curt Jurgens. If it's not in 100 YEARS, then it beats the hell outta me where I heard it. But I heard what I heard when I heard it.
HawkeyePierce		#30	[-]
Nov 9 11 10:44 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ted Newsom wrote: Good eye. Thanks! And they say Film Students don't know anything these days...pfff
Shadow Chaser		#31	[-]
Nov 19 11 3:39 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	What about his appearance on Matinee Theater? Terrible that no one even thought of approaching Lugosi.
Operator 13 Productions		#32	[-]
Apr 20 12 2:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Carradine and Borland interviews in "Lugosi: The Forgotten King" were done at Ackermansion, and it is the same chair. According to Forry the chair was previously owned by Abraham Lincoln. BTW, an updated version of Lugosi: The Forgotten King" will be out on DVD later this year. We have added interviews with Louise Currie (The Ape Man, Voodoo Man), Anne Jeffreys (Zombies on Broadway), Donnie Dunagan (Son of Frankenstein), Janet Ann Gallow (Ghost of Frankenstein), Sara Karloff, Terry Castle, and more! Visit our Web site for details: operator13productions.com

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