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Departments 4 Scarlet Letters 8 Frankly Scarlet 16 The News Hound 56 Better Holmes and Watson 83 Our Man on Baker Street 84 Record Rack 99 Comic Corner 102 Book Ends 112 Classifieds 114 Parting Shot COVER PHOTOS: Jack Nicholson as the leering lycanthrope of WOLF (1994), and bright-eyed Martin Stephens in VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960 SCARLETSTREET 3Scarlet Lttens Scarlet Street continues to top itself with each issue, but it will be hard to beat #13, the Anniversary Issue. Twas particularly pleased to read the interview with Terry Kilburn. I remember him in FIEND WITHOUT ‘A FACE as a dedicated actor with ‘whom it was a pleasure to work. Even if he now remembers it as “a te movie", it didn’t show in his attitude or his performance at the time, which is the mark of the true professional, ‘and I do agree with his comment that more people have heard of FIEND than GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS today! May I correct Michael Brunas’ de- scription of me as FIEND’s un- credited coproducer? Actually, I was executive producer and John Croydon was our line producer, titles which were not generally defined on screen in England at the time. Tean’t agree with Bryan Senn about THE HAUNTING. Having recently sereened it alongside a copy of the original English release version of CURSE OF THE DEMON, I have cially his reference to an unseen version of Joseph Conrad's “The Se- cret Sharer” in which he costarred with David Soul. There is a superb black/white film of this Conrad story which was made in the early 1950s by John Brahm and costarred James Mason, Michael Pate (Kincaid’s role?), and Gene Lockhart. Hunting- ton Hartford produced it as part of a feature film containing two famous author stories under the title FACE TO FACE. John Brahm directed it, and RKO released the feature. The second story was Stephen Crane’s "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” with Robert Preston and Marjorie Steele (Mrs. Hartford at the time), di- rected by Bretaigne Windust. FACE TO FACE was released unsuccess- fully as a new concept in big-screen entertainment, “a Duo-Drama featur- ing two famous author stories with two outstanding casts”. A third story, “Hello Out There”, based on William Saroyan’s play, starring Harry Morgan and Marjorie Steele, was also filmed but never used. It was directed by James Whale last film). Not shown theatrically, it is now listed as a separate short in the catalogue of Kit Parker Films and worth any film buff’ attention. Richard Gordon Gordon Films, Ine. New York, NY Loved the article on THE ADVEN- ‘TURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES in #13, and marvelled ai the amount of behind-the-scenes info unearthed regarding the various drafts of the script. An excellent job all around! My only quibble was that Rathbone’s “musical number" at the garden party—one of my favorite scenes ro to say that the latter was far su- perior as a story of the super- natural, although THE UNIN- VITED Still surpasses them both. Its good to hear that Priestley’s WANTED: MORE READERS LIKE... im any Holmes moviel—got skimmed over in the discussion. ‘A lew corrections: Terry Kii- burn’s recollection of Ida Lupino sereen-testing for THE LIGHT THAT FAILED around the time AN INSPECTOR CALLS will be transferred fo the Broadway stage from London. The London pro- duction is magnificent, and 1 hope it will not be “American ized” in the transition. There was an excellent film version with Alastair Sim in the 50s. David Stuart Davies’ article THE Tuner Gants is most interesting, especially as THE LAST VAM- PYRE was just telecast on the PBS series MYSTERY! this week. It is indeed one of the poorest additions to the Granada Sher- lock Holmes series, and Jeremy Brett’s performance is so far over the top that it should be juietly forgotten. A strange Fatitch” occured ia the telecast when Diana Rigg, in introducing Part Two, correctly described the events of Part One and then finished by saying that we would now see the conclusion of THE ELIGIBLE BACHELOR. The adventures of Aron Kin- caid continue to fascinate, espe- 4 SCARLETSTREET Jeffrey Combs of THE ADVENTURES is obvi- ously wrong, since LIGHT (1937) was shot and released long be- fore THE ADVENTURES. was made. Aron Kineaid’s memory failed him, too: Paul Petersen's ‘Azalea Picture was YEAR 2889 (a remake of AIP's DAY THE WORLD ENDED, not HIDEOUS SUN DEMON). Secondly, a gri fell from the catwalks tnd was killed during production of DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE BIKINI MACHINE, not GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINL Finally—back to Holmes—a bit of trivia which may or may not be wellsknown to fans of Rath: bone and Bruce. Between the two-film Fox series and the Uni- versal Holmeses, Warner Bros had set them up to star in a Holmes adventure: THE SPECK LED BAND. 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Con- gratulations on a job well done. —Rex Reed Good columns and superior writing mark Scarlet Street. —Baby Boomer Collectibles Your standards are beautifully high. —Yvette Vickers It's really outstanding! —Robert Bloch Ws truly a terrific magazine! | don't know how you manage to pack so much in one issue. Ifyou can't find something you like in this publication, you might as well give up. —Neal Barrett, Jr. Scarlet Street: The Magazine of Mystery and Horroris an attractive and entertaining magazine . —Ellen Datlow The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror | enjoyed the whole magazine. It is cer- tainly entertaining to look at, and a good solid “read”, too. | wish Scarlet Street a long, mysterious, and horrific future! —Elizabeth Shepherd 6 SCARLET STREETSPERING back issues! Winer Case (Set ce ME eran oa Shek ik ETH 8 ach 1000 Postage 8 SCARLETSTREET 7°M" is for the murders she's committee, SOs for te offepring she's de stroged ONE (Bp gnough of that! Enough, 1 say! I have come here not to bury motherhood, but to praise it Yes, this is Scarlet Street's special Mother's Day Tribute—and, rather than trot out the usual mob of mon- strous mamas, we on the Street have chosen to stress those mommies that were (and are) dearest. ‘Ona personal level, that means I want to pay tribute to my own pa- tient (if often exasperated) parent ‘As I've mentioned in an earlier edi- tion of this column, it was Mom who took me to my very first horror movie. (BRIDES OF DRACULA, ‘we saw one sunny afternoon at the Prospect Theater on Ninth Street in Brooklyn.) It was Mom who drove me time and again to the one magazine store, to my knowledge, that carried Fantastic Monsters of the Films. (Oddly enough, that was again Brooklyn, at the corner of Ninth Street and Fifth Avenue. We had left what was then the home of the Dodg- ers for the suburbs of New Jersey seven years earlier, but returned regularly to visit with relatives.) And it was Mom (and Dad) who stayed up with me the first time I watched a horror movie on television. (It was THE MUMMY’S GHOST and I got through it just fine, only to fall foul the following week fo the crazed of the BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, the sight of which sent me reeling backward in my chair for almost the entire length of the room.) Mom did what approaches the impossible for many parents: She en- couraged me in interests for which she had no interest herself, She still does. So if you Searlet Streeters will allow me to mix my holidays for a moment, let this issue's FRANKLY 8 SCARLET STREET Scantetbe a valentine to my Mom on Mother's Day. I love her with all my hearts, (L keep a collection in glass jars beneath the bed.) And what of moviedom’s moms, maws, and mamas? Well, gang, in this issue you'll find MIL- RED PIERCE, who, in the 1945 film noir classic of the same name, sacrifices all for her ungrateful child, Veda. Was there ever a more devoted mom than Mildred? (Sure, she goes a little overboard, setting up a former business partner to take a murder rap so that the guilty party— Veda—can go free... Then there's Anthea Zellaby, prominent citizen of the VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960), ‘who ‘wants nothing better than the love of ‘Happy Mother's Day! her only child, David. (The problem is, she’s given birth to a blonde- haired, aureate-eyed alien, so it's a wee bit difficult...) Then there's dotty old Auntie Roo, whose kindness to kiddies is more renowned than Michael Jackson's. Is it a surprise that two innocent-looking lambs are the shocking answer to the question WHO SLEW AUNTIE ROO? (1971)? Not to us, it isn’t, And ‘don’t iet’s forget Norma Bates, whose love for her troubled son, Norman, is sadly insufficient to keep him from going PSYCHO (1960) and poisoning and stuffing her. (Okay, okay, so her love for Normie is a tad excessive, a tad de- monstrative, a tad incestuous...) Nevertheless, it’s clear that we adorable little darlings have much to answer for—and that the overwhelm- ing ingratitude of the above bam- binos is not only sharper than a serpent’s tooth, but deadlier by far. You'll find pithy and percep- tive pieces on the films mentioned above in the pages of this ish—but, like Oliver Norvelle Hardy, we at Scarlet Street are not given to resting, fon our Laurels. (No, we're not afraid to take a Stan!) You'll also find fascinating interviews with the talented folk who made these mov- ies: Ann Blyth (vicious Veda in MILDRED PIERCE), Barbara Shelley (Anthea in VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED), Curtis Harrington (di- rector of WHO SLEW AUNTIE ROO?), and that master of poison- ous penmanship, Robert Bloch (au- thor of Psycho). ‘You'll also discover a mom of a different color: SERIAL MOM, for whom director John Waters took time out from his killer schedule to talk with publisher Jessie Lilley, Lwon't give away all the other goodies you'll find packed in these pages, but [do want to thank our friends and “guest crities” Noel Neill and Jack Larson. Noel and Jack had already agreed to review LOIS & CLARK’s unofficial remake of PANIC IN THE SKY, one of the best episodes of THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN, when California was rocked and rolled by a devastating, earthquake. Nevertheless, they came through, and we're extremely grateful. (I guess all those years on the Daily Planet taught them to get their stories in, no matter what!) As I write this, the East Coast is un- dergoing its own chilly trials and tribulations thanks to (how fitting! Mother Nature. [ haven't witnessed such a slushy snow job since the last time I went channel-hopping and made a lamentable stop at THE 700 CLUB. (Pat Robertson, who makes The Joker seem a font of reason by comparison, was blaming both the quake and the freeze on God's anger at pro-choicers and homosexuals.) By the time you read this, spring will have sprung. Birds will be twit- tering, buds wili be budding, and, with any luck, God will have go ten himself a better press agent . Enjoy!CLASSIC HORROR. MUS (iliac, aa aS Aon so!) 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Lorenzo Cameron Ashton, LA Fanboys were hopping mad back vshen that MC MOML fella was cast as the “Dark K-nigit”, but that movie proved to be just a5 geeky as the raphic text (comic Books to you wbrows). So quit chewing your shrouds, ualifert—maybe the same Will be true with INTERVIEW! Will Day East Eddington, ME ‘Okay! Right! Pak? Many thanks for you ine tribute to the late actor Vincent Price (F13) Mr. Price touched my life not only through the rieh legacy of his films but algo through ouf mutual interest tn art, Duting ny conespondetice with him over the last 10 years of Tis life, he was kind enough to sug gest aisecing to visit and particule Enists to see, He was also most gene crous in signing many photographs snd posters fron my collection Hollywood Book & Poster Co, 6349 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028 (Corner Ivar & Hollywood) (213) 465-8764 Hours Monday through Thursday 11-6 Friday & Saturday 11-7 ‘Sunday 128 10 SCARLET STREET [know of no other film star who was more kind to his fans. He was a true gentleman who enriched the lives of all those he came in contact with. I feel privileged to have known him in my own small way. Mike Wozniak Baton Rouge, LA I want to congratulate all of you at Scare Sree You have a fine ina zine—especially compared to Film- fix, which is filled with advertising. 'd like to see photos and features on the following: the special effects involved in both THE FLYING SER- PENT and FIEND WITHOUT A FACE. I'd also like to see a special article about the little-known and much-maligned small film studio of Allied Artists—if not that, then how about a history of the horror and sei fi movies that Allied Artists pro- duced, released, or distributed? ‘Again, many thanks, especially for the Scarlet Street #12 article/inter- view on Zacherley’s lost TV show. Mark Parr Shelbyvile 1, ye you caught Scarlet Street #23, Mone Phad Ben Wittlour 4 FACE, a chat with FIEND star Terry Kilburn, and a special tribute to THE FLYING SERPENT’s George Zuceo. Some time ago, a good friend of mine inflicted your magazine upon me. If have any comy your work, they would be tirades about how the thing should be monthly, or that fewer ads ap- pear. (I cannot afford the time needed to take on a second job in order to purchase the delightful items listed therein.) 1, too, agree that the grim specter of the Dreaded Censor should be ex- orcised from our national soul. However, there is something that must be pointed out. Few films are being produced that power to enthrall and films once did. We have lost more than St. Vincent, we have lost the desire to witness genteel night- mares. or so Hollywood thiaks, . by the gorror-cybersplat tnind-numbers folsted upon us With such chilling regularity. We are blessed with the advent of videotape, and of course the current entry in the marketplace of those gems from long ago. My children love Vincent Price, Karloff, and the rest If possible, I would like to see an extended article, ala WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HELEN?, on THE WICKER MAN (one of my personal favorites), or perhaps the under- ‘TV & film, rock & roll, and ‘wrestling collectibles can be found, 2s well as POSTERS-PHOTOS PRESS KITS LOBBY CARDS SCRIPTS. And Much More BUY-SELL TRADE BRING WANT LISTS