The White (Zombie) Visitation

[rich]

re-watched Ed Wood last night--Martin Landau is great as the washed up
Bela--very funny and sad, too

rich


On 9/6/06, Scott Badger <lupine at ncia.net> wrote:
>
> 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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