The White (Zombie) Visitation

Scott Badger lupine at ncia.net
Wed Sep 6 05:34:32 CDT 2006


GR106
"Of course, of course," sez Osbie, with a fluid passage of fingers and wrist 
based on the way Bela Lugosi handed a certain glass of doped wine to some 
fool of a juvenile lead in White Zombie, the first movie Osbie ever saw and 
in a sense the last, ranking on his All-Time List along with Son of 
Frankenstein, Freaks, Down to Rio and perhaps Dumbo,...."

Henry:
Did I miss this by inattention during the GRGR's and also not constantly 
consulting my (now boxed somewhere) Companion to GR during any of my reads 
of GR?  I have just had a precursory look at "White Zombie," having recorded 
it from TCM; the jumpings off the cliff and the title of the movie put me in 
mind of GR's "The White Visitation."  Common knowledge?  Just me?
Slow Learner,
HM 





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