Christopher Lee on Conrad Veidt
"In 1938 or 39, I can't quite remember precisely, but it was long before I decided to become an actor, and certainly some time before i learned to love golf, I was walking with a friend of my mother's,
a very attractive Viennese lady on the golf course,
at Wentworth in Surrey. I think she'd been to see a film, and
she was going on about it, and saying how much she enjoyed it,
and how marvelous the leading actor was, and that in fact
she had known him. I rather gathered rather well, and I said 'Oh, I have seen the same film.' It was either Spy in Black or Contraband or one of those pictures that was made before the war, and I was saying to her what a wonderful actor I thought the leading player was, and how he was my idol, and I wished one day that i could be like him. Although, it was still not a question of becoming an actor, and we were talking continually between us about the same man, she from obvious experience, and me just out of the idolatry of a film goer.
And to my complete amazement, Conrad Veidt, one of the greatest actors in the history of the cinema, who actually died on the golf course of a heart attack at the ridiculous age of 49 (I think Casablanca was his last film.) Conrad Veidt suddenly appeared in front of us, playing the hole.
He was a very keen golfer. Well, as you can imagine I was to say the least overcome. Now, later that year he starred as the evil vizier Jaffar in the most wonderful fantasy adventure ever made The Thief of Baghdad. I will never forget--"
(This is only a rough transcript of a video interview; I don't guarantee its accuracy.)
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Today 5 years ago. A Charmie celebration ever since 💙💚🥳
Popsugar published the same article several times with different captions, so elated were they. As was the rest of the media.
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Armie Hammer | British GQ 2019 Ph. Eric Ray Davidson
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Happy Birthday, Peter Cushing
A Happy Birthday in Heaven to one of the finest gentlemen of Horror, Peter Cushing!
Today would have been his 111th Birthday.
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the class commentaries in Hammer's Frankenstein movies are never particularly subtle
Victor is a wealthy man who abuses the bodies of the working class and disabled in every possible way, from literally using his position at a poorhouse to steal limbs and organs from the most vulnerable people in his community to preying sexually on his maid and orchestrating her death when he’s done with her.
he degrades every single person he entangles into a collection of useful parts and functions and does away with the rest, sinking to lower and lower means as the series progresses and he refines his science.
his monsters are never truly evil but he taints them through his own violence. the original monster's brain is irreparably damaged when Victor murders the man he’s stealing it from. and the second 'monster' is a disabled man, who flees from Victor's 'care' once he realizes that he’ll be toured and put on display like an animal.
the premise of Must Be Destroyed goes far beyond mad science shlock, as Victor inserts himself insidiously into the lives of a couple who are just trying their best to provide for a sick relative. he blackmails them and takes over their home, has them at his beck and call while they become all the more isolated and powerless to escape.
it’s a very natural progression of the previous films and I vaguely knew the premise but I was still really caught off guard by just how goddamn scary he is in this one
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I slowly realized that the characters in the book mirrored each other and have not recovered since
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