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Valerie Leon and Andrew Keir in Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)
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Valerie Leon and Andrew Keir in Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)
Random McGoohan observations #15
These observations don’t come to me as often as I would like, and I’m sorry about that. This one occurred to me while watching “Under the Lake”, the S1 Danger Man episode run as #36 but filmed #5.
I watched his eyelashes make love to the camera (or vice versa) and I wondered, wait, when did he learn that? That’s a tv-star technique and he was pretty new to it. (Actually I call it the ™Ricky Nelson Lowered Lashes Dreamy Look.)
I looked again at the Rank movies: glowering-insolent, glowering-vicious, glowering-shy, glowering-cold but no eyelash vamping. None of the tv appearances or filmed plays before Danger Man qualify.
So I started S1 of DM but in filming order, to see if I could spot the moment, or the director, where the technique began. “The Key” - no. “View From the Villa” - again, no, even when he’s being disarming/charming. “Find and Return” - bingo!
The director is Seth Holt, who also directed “The Key.” I noticed that he lit those deep set eyes better which may have prompted the still head but moving eyes we see so much of. McGoohan very quickly learned that for the camera and the right face, less is more - and the camera and eyelashes were set free!
I’m going to keep watching S1 in filming order just for fun.
~Alison Caretaker of the Regenerated Patrick McGoohan Home Page
Bette Davis in The Nanny (1965) dir. Seth Holt
Peter Van Eyck-Carroll Baker "Station Six-Sahara" 1962, de Seth Holt.
On May 17, 1972, Blood From the Mummy's Tomb debuted in the United States.
A female-led psychological horror movie in black and white? What is this, 1940's RKO? Nope, it's the latest from Hammer Film! Director Seth Holt takes on Jimmy Sangster's gothic thriller script for TASTE OF FEAR (1961) and magic is truly made! The film stars Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd and Christopher Lee.
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Blood From The Mummy's Tomb (1971)
🎬 Seth Holt