[UA] Re: Horror Actors

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Stuart Anderson <stuartanderson at qwest.net> wrote
> 
> Holy crap! I saw that picture! Help me out,
> y'all--it was John
> Carradine, Vincent Prince, Karloff, and someone
> else--Claude
> Rains?--Hell, I don't remember. It was one of the
> arty pictures
> the guys put out. I don't even remember the thrust
> of it. But it
> was just a bunch of creepy smart guys sittin around
> talking.
> Jeez--I haven't thought of that picture in years.

While House of Long Shadows fits the initial
description of a bunch of ex-horror actors hanging out
and playing their old parts, the movies descibed here
sounds like "Ghost Story."

> 
> The hell it isn't.
> I dig the HoR angle. Imagine Early Edition or
> Touched by an
> Angel, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff,
> directed by
> Charles Laughton:
> "As it happens, Professor Satan, I'm just on my way
> out."
> "Something to do with that confounded paper, I'll
> wager."
> "If I'm not at the Tower of London by midnight,
> there will be
> unimaginable death and carnage."
> "If you're . . .*not*. . . at the Tower?"
> "Precisely so."
> "The deuce you say. May I accompany you?"
> "I want your most fervent commitment to refrain from
> interference."
> "Wouldn't dream of it, old boy."
> --Stu

Why did you ever stop playing Castle Falkenstein?

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
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