PUZZLE OF THE #DRACULA SCENE AND PHOTOGRAPH WITH THE FEMALE FACE THAT WON'T RING A BELL

A COOL AND LARGE scan of a publicity still, capturing a set up with #Dracula included, in scene he never appeared in.. looking like he too is confused why and how the young gal, ended up in such a large clanger! This untrimmed still, with a lovely base studio light just to the left of #ChristopherLee sadly doesn't shed any much needed light on the 'how did she get up there?' problem. 

 

THIS STILL, IS OF COURSE from a film that didn't feature #PeterCushing, though I wish it had, 'Dracula Has Risen from the Grave' (1968). Cast included Rupert Davies, Barbara Ewing, Barry Andrews and the recently passed, #VeronicaCarlson. I guess the curious still and set up, did the job that the press and publicity office intended for the film, because here we are some 54 years later, still talking about it!

 

ALTHOUGH I know, Risen is one of many Hammer supporters favourite Dracula film,  . . .after 'Dracula 58 of course.... Risen isn't personally one of my favs. It's seems like it was made by 'committee'.. too many dabblings in story, weird 'tea-stain' filter photography and even stranger mapping of what we see on the screen. Fate, gravity and the chance landing of a thrown object, puts pay to Dracula, when he also chance falls from the balcony, onto THE iron crucifix, that we have just seen land... UNDER said balcony.. to then shift for the sake of Freddie's art, in an ending set up title shot, where the cross is actually some quarter of a mile away from the castle balcony, is just silly. Yeah, it's an iconic montage of symbolism.. before the film was actually iconic, at lest they sort of got the geography just about right when Roy Kinnear looked up on flayling Count, in the prologue of 'Taste the Blood of Dracula' It's interesting because I guess they had no intention of including Lee in the filmed scene, because Dracula was at this point was still 'resting' and dead.. even though Lee was there, the day the bell prologue scene was shot ... UNLESS they stuffed her back into the bell for this pic?? I think this really was just a publicity cover, as was their want and habit to put 'the monster in any posed opportunity, with any beauty in the cast for a pic for publicity ..maybe' . 

 

THINK OF THAT  still from 'Curse of the Werewolf', Reed's adult character, Leon in costume with actress Yvonne Romain, who played his mother.. and died in child-birth. It's like the press and distributor office had an anything goes attitude to their titles of movies too... 'Brides of Dracula' er nope, Scars of Dracula?? Maybe, but that's MORE than scars? And the OTT of 'Frankenstein Must be Destroyed'.. that's not stopped, murdered or paused, but Destroyed! 😖😆.. OTT or what? - marcus

 

LOTS MORE ON THE PUZZLE OF THIS PHOTOGRAPH, and that scene that as the prologue of the film, which has puzzled #Hammerfilmfans  at the Facebook PCASuk Fan Page today HERE!

 

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