Date: 24 Sep 2017 07:51 am (UTC)
sovay: (I Claudius)
From: [personal profile] sovay
I just have a large squick regarding cannibalism

That would do it!

Unless it ever turns out that someone recorded the Sweeney Todd musical comedy that James Maxwell was in once in 1959.

Not that I see from cursory internet, I'm afraid. I assume you already found the Ronald Searle caricature.

Studio Canal have the ABC rights, though, and they seem to be total pains at pulling down YT content, unfortunately, so I doubt they're up there, but you never know.

Thanks for the history! I went looking over the summer—probably after you mentioned David Collings and the offscreen hyenas—and what I could find was the entirety of the 1968 Dracula and a bunch of clips from other adaptations, Casting the Runes and a Frankenstein with Ian Holm included. I might try other parts of the internet that have been less careful with copyrights in the past.

[edit] (If you want to be further annoyed at what you can't see unless somebody digs it up in an archive one day, that is.)

Thanks?

Yeah, I regret the loss of several of those, especially since the ABC episodes are not just the expected weird tales greatest hits. I would love to have seen their version of "The Tractate Middoth" to compare with Mark Gatiss' 2013 adaptation, and "Casting the Runes" for similar reasons, since I would expect it either to have been influenced by or working against Jacques Tourneur's Night of the Demon (1957). At least one of the other James stories was duplicated by the original run of A Ghost Story for Christmas. I would definitely have checked out "The Canterville Ghost" if only because I've never seen a straight version of the story (I am deeply fond of the wildly unfaithful, American 1944 film). And the cast lists on IMDb are great.
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