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"What's My Line/ jusi call me Line Chaney jr.. The Man of A Thousand Creases. I want fu 3i««p

for a couple centuries and woke up looking like Rip Van Wrinkle! But I'll tell you one thing: in this maqa*zine nobody sleeps!

FOUR SCARE and 7 fear

Our four fathers brought

Upon this continent a new magaConceived in lunacy and dead-icated

To the proposition that

ALL MONSTERS ARE CREATED!

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—These are the famous Lost Words tiiat

the Missing Lincoln spoke just after The

Incident of the Chopped Down Cherry Tree.

Queried as to why he had put it down. Gorgo

Washington replied: "I cannot tell a lie—it

was because You Axed For It!"

Well, we here at FAMOUS MONSTERS have

long since ceased to be engaged in a mighty

struggle for survival. We are now II issues

old.

Your Editor was tremonstrously flattered

on his 44tli birthday, last Thanksgiving, to

the occasion by Larry Byrd & ..

co-editors of the amateur (but nrt mmnr-!sh) monsterzine Terror and its companion,

Escape. In addition to contributions by Ray

Bradbury and Frtlz Leiber, the magazine

featured an editorial which stated in part:

"The format of this zine is taken from

FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND, a maga-

zine which has become a smashing success

across the nation."

As we look forward to issues No. 12, 13

and onward, we envision nothing but con-

tinuing success with a series of smashing

articles that we are even now negotiating

for, including "The Clown at Midnight" by

Robert Block, "Monsters and Monster Lov-

ers" by Fritz Leiher, "The Beasts of Tarzan"

by Vernell Coriell and "The Thing from An-

other World" (classic fiction) by John W.

Campbell Jr.

We're going strong; grow along with us.

BECAUSE Dr, Acula couldn't make up his

minds (one in each head) this time, in-

stead of the usual 3 prizes tor Best Let-

ters we are giving 4! ROBERT FEINSTEIN of

Brooklyn, JOtIN PARNUM of Philly, Texan

DOUG TRAHAN of Houston and fan HANSNINTZEL (Bklyn rides again!) have each re-

ceived with Forrest J, Ackerman's compli-

ments an autographed copy of the British

BOOK OF WEIRD TALES which he has edited.

BRAVE MAN & TRUE FANSince I own a complete set of FAMOUS MON-STERS, I (eel I know you pretty well by now.

First let me state that FM is my favorite maga-zine, and that I am writing this letter to see if

1 can tielp you to make it even more enjoyable.

(Bob then gives a detailed analysis, citing pages

and numbers wtiere he felt past issues could

have been improved, and these recommendations

have been carefully studied in the editorial of-

fice.} Suggestions tor the future: the life stories

of Theda Bara (she was a vamp. Sob, not a

vampire), John Carradine, Rondo Hatton, Tor

Johnson. Lon Chaney Jr. [request granted in this

issue), Peter Lorre, Claude Rains and other hor-

ror greats. Why not have one biography each

issue? (Not enuf worthy subiects to last for

the many many years we expect to be publish-

ing. Therefore, you will find a biography every

2 or 3 issues. Probably Peter Lorre nent.) Whynot assemble all the photographs ot wereloves

in one special article—stills from THE WOLF-MAN, WEREWOLF OF LONDON, UNDYING MONSTER, the unfortunate werewolf Andres from

RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE, Bela Lugosi as the

werewolf in ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, I WAS A

TEENAGE WEREWOLF and many more. lA prac-

tical idea for future consideration. However,

Lugosi was not a werewolf in ISLAND OF LOSTSOULS—he did not have the lycanthropic ability

of turning back and forth between wolf andman; he was a wolf whose evolution had been

scientifically sped up thru thousands of years

so that he became a manwolf.) How about a spe-

cial article on space creatures? A comparison ot

the Chaney, Laughton and Quinn Hunchbacks of

Notre Dame? An article showing pictures and

comparing Mighty Joe Young. King Kong and Son

of Kong? Why don't you concentrate more or the

pictures from the 20s and 30s? (The older the

movies the more difficult to locate fotos from

them to illustrate them.) By the way, I actuahy

like Zacherley, have met him in person, iistened

to his heart with my own stethescooe!

ROBERT FEINSTEIN

BROOKLYN, N. Y.

DR. iOKERKMR.HYDEYour readers may be interested in this photo-

graph of a monster friend of mine. Mr. fan S.

Kopf. He is a good customer as for obvious

reasons he buys 2 copies of every issue,

OSKAR WAHRMANNJERUSALEM, ISRAEL

"TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN NONE

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^#• Friend Wahrmann, we suspect you are either

pullini; our leis or our heads. Your triend Mr.

Kopf wouldn't be the son of JANUS KOPF would

he? See our JEKYLL-HYDE feature In this issue

for references to other 2-t)ced individuals.

FRIGHT FANNES FIGHT!

Your magazine is fabulous. I have 3 girls who all

fight to see the pictures, I have iust sent for 2

back issues and will soon subscribe. Give us

more of this type of magazine and can the sexy,

girly type. Better our kids—teenagers included

—get interested in good clean monsters!

MRS. LILYANNE LIMA

NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND

• TTiink you. Mrs, Lima! Rest assured that all

our monsters are of Hie cleanest quality imag-

inable IS Count Karlon Toreosi himseH personal-

ly gives them > bat every Satyr Day Nite,

ACKERMAN, 60 HOME!As an "aficionado" (see, I can use the word

properly) of the old-fashioned horror movie, I

am very pleased to see that you are attempting

to turn your magazine into something that the

serious horror fan can eagerly await and enjoy

from the poor collection of high school type

puns that beloved F. J, Ackerman seems to think

his "fuzzy-faced" audience thrives on, I'm no

teenager any more but I believe that Mr. Acker-

man underestimates his teenage audience. The

majority would enjoy some real information

at>out the horror movies, I also believe you

would attract more adult fans such as myself. I

only buy your magazine occasionally for the biog-

raphies ol the stars and the piots of the old

moviesr but the new policy, if implemented,

would force me to subscribe, i believe you are

making a big mistake in "talking down" to your

teenage audience's level as interpreted by Mr,

Ackerman, He is capable of much lietter writing

than he currently produces in your magazine. By

all means give Ackerman a rest or make him

lift his standards and help make your magazine

worthy of the support and enjoyment of the

many true horror fans that have no periodical

to represent them at the present time.

SIDNEY H, BROWNBRONX, N. Y.

• This is the publisher, James Warren, respond-

ing. Let's see If I can set the facts straight

once and for ail Ho one was mure disappointed

than Forest I. Ackerman when I had to break tbe

news to him that not only could I not use his

title of WONDERAMA but that the magazine

would have to be slanted at young teens raHiei

than adults. He almost hacked out of tbe pro-

ject then and there, and without him FAMOUSMONSTERS would never have been horn. The de-

cision was not even mine: it was torced on us

both in order to obtain distribution on the news-

stands. Do you understand that? I could have

produced tbe imaginative movie magazine Forry

Ackerman dreamed of and was canable ot cre-

ating in literate fashion for cinema scholars and

fantasy enthusiasts, taut it wouldn't have done

him or you or me any good stacked up In a

warehouse undistributed! I never anticipated

more than one issue but FM No. 1 was such a

runaway success that I commissioned Forry to

prepare a second number; only now. to bis des-

pair, I Instructed him to lower the level of writ-

ing this decision being based on tbe tan mail re-

ceived I hope I am putting across the point that

he had no choice, and not because 1 am a vil-

lain, or hate adults, but because my principal

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Montterlaml: J. Forester Eettrnm, twin

brother of Editor FiA.

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PANG MAILIf the Tooth were known, We write all the letters Our-

selves. Our Dentist has a lot of Pull in his own office,

but around here We fill all the cavities.

THE CRYSTAL CHERRY TREEChips & Tips from the Cherry Tree of Knowledge. TheChip of Things to Come in the Filmworid of Horrordomas reported by the Father of His Country, Gorgo Woe-Shun-Tomb. (His Country: Kongsylvania.)

GORGO THE GARGANTUANBigger than THE BEHEMOTH! Greater than GOD-ZILLA!! Kolossaller than KING KONG!!!

SON OF MISTER MONSTERThe Creatureful Career of Lon Chaney Jr. No son

could hope to overshadow the Master Shadow of the

Senior Chaney, King of the Shadow Screen, but his

offspring has sprung to prominence with many a telling

characterization of his own. WOLFMAN, MUMMY,DRACULA. FRANKSTEIN, he's played them all—

THE SECRET THAT DR. JEKYLL COULDN'T HIDEThe Whole Infamous Half A Century History of Dr.

Jekyll's Struggle with the Incarnation of Evil.

THE MACABRE PICTURES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

Fear . . . Terror . . . Horror. . . Despair—All Aboundin the Darkly Poetic

Works of Edgar Allan. Viathe Rue Morgue to theHouse of Usher, stopping

to pet a Black Cat along

the way and admire aRaven in the window of abird shop, we are taken ona cinematic tour (via Kar-loff & Lugosi) of the fever

dream domain of E. A.

Poe by the internationally

famous G. Scognamillo,

SCREAMS FROM CLUB MEMBERSA roaring round-up of local FM Club News, Names,Advertisements & Photos of Club Members who havemade the change from Human to Monster.

MONSTER MARKET PLACEMore in store for you at our Monster Store. Open 24

hours a day!

SPACEMEN COMING!Announcement of an excitinf? NEW magazine—by the

Editors of FAMOUS MONSTERS.

THE POE MANS SATURDAY EVENING GHOST

Continued from page 4

motivatiDn for publishing FM Is to make moneyPurists often lose track ol this iMt when mak-ins impractical demands like "drop all the ad-

vertisine". For my money. Forry has done a he-

roic jota with the magaiine. Those who attempted

to imitate him—World Famous Creatures. Mon-

ster Parade, Screen Chilts. Monsters 1. Thinis

and The Frankenstein Journal—all tailed. But

you are now holding in your hands the 11th is-

sue ot a mafaiine that was only expected to

last one issue, and there is every reason to

believe "there'll always be a FAMOUS MON-STERS"—at least as lone as I can (et Forry

Ackerman to eo on writlne it for me . . . and

you. No one who has ever read his Lon Chanevstory. "Letter to An Aniel"; his ott-reprinted

and translated "Mute Question"; or any ol his

many articles and stories In adult periodicals

under his own name and pen names such as

Weaver Wrieht and Spencer Strong;-no one

acquainted with his work outside FM can doubt

that Forrest i. Ackerman can indeed write. Bui

the point I want to hammer home over and over

again is that even it fiohert Bioch or Irving

Glassman or Boris Karioff were to he Editor ol

FAMOUS MONSTERS, they would have to comoly

with my instructions as publisher or else there

would be no magazine But we are strong enough

now to beein to experiment a bit in thi> direc-

tion of more mature material and I can assure

you no one is more pleased than Forry Acker-

man himself. Vou should be gratified with our

new comnanion publication SPACEMEN, which

starts off with its #1 issue (see page 46) on a

higher level than it was possible with FM—J.W

FRANKEN'S TRIM

• TRINA PFTIT (above) is enthralled by issue

of FM (special cover prepared by Albert NueUelll

circulated at birthday party in editor's Horror-

wood iiome where youne actress, artist and (an

tasy tan met Robert Bioch. Fritz Leiber. Ray

Bradbury. Alex Gordon, William Rotsler, Chris

Robinson, and other producer-writer-actor per-

sonalitiBs of Monsterdom.

THE HALL OF THE FAUST OF USHERI am in the 9tli grade and our Englisii class is

studying tiie life and works of Edgar Allen Poe.

(Then the first thing you should know, young

friend, is that Poe's middle name was spelled

Allan—rhymes wilti Sian.) Last week I took the

9th issue of FM to my English teacher because

of the article "The fall of tlie House of Usher",

which was one ol Poe's gfeatest wortis. Do you

know what my teacher did? (If you will send us

the ashes ol your t}urned copy we will send you

a replacement free of charge.) He read the book

cover to cover and cut out the article on Poe

like a mad executioner! (What?!) And tacked it

to our bulletin board, ruining my magazine. Canyou beat that?

PHIL WIYEK

BALTIMORE, MD.

• Once a cutup always a cutup. Reminds meof the time when I was in the 9th tnit and an

iostructor tacked me on the liulletin bsird—

THE BANTAM FANTOM

I would like your opinion on my makeup as The

Phantom of the Opera. I used putty on the nose

and poker chips in my mouth.

JIM STIHGEN

VENTURA, CALIF.

ANOTHER CHANEY

• XInt job, Jim! We don't in general approve of

13-year-alds using poker chips but you put yours

to good usej—Dr. Acuta.

SERIOUS SUGGESTIONSIn recent issues you have been featuring photo-

graphs from foreign movies. I dislike these be-

cause they neither remind me ot past films I

have seen nor give me glimpses of films I might

see in the future The Scream Test should be

replaced by a real test with proper answers.

And leave the jokes and gags for the clods at

MAO Underneath the photos try replacing the

gags with information about the film, particu-

larly the year of release. How can the stars and

producers of horror films be reached' Wiat was

the FLAIiflE BARRIER? GIANT BEHEMOTH? Was

there a movie called "1984" or "1998" or the

like? How many Monster movies have been made

in the USA since '45?

HAROLD DEWHIRST

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

• See next letter for an opposite opinion about

the value of scenes from foreign films. We'll try

a real Scream Test in the near future. Starting

with #12 we'll give more into along with the

stills We're not sure the players in and pro-

ducers ot horror pix want to he contacted by

the poblic. But if Wm. Castle. Alex Gordon. Bili

Allind, Boris Karioff, Bert Gordon. Vincent Price,

Lon Ctianey Jr. or any other monStars or mon-

ster makers wish to reveal their whereabouts

via our pages we'll be very happy to publish

their mailing addresses. BEYOND THE FLAME

BARRIER was an undistinguished film about some

interplanetary substance that fell to earth on

an artificial satellite and looked like It was go-

ing to be a menace to mankind for awhile. II

never «ot out of a cave, and in the end was

etectricalUr eradicated as I recall. GIANT BE-

HEMOTH was another Godzilla-type cha-cha-cha.

In asking lor a summation of how many monster

movies have been made in the last 15 years you

are merely asking for several hundred dollars'

worth of 3 researcher's time; you realize that,

don't you? Fortunately the work has been cover-

ed in Walter W. Lee Jr's 77-pg Science-Fiction

and Fantasy Film Cheuklist of Summer IGSB, a

very few copies of which are stiH available at

S2.50 a piece from i. Forester Eckman at 915South Sherbourne Or., Los Angeles 35, Calif.

FAVORS FOREIGN FILMONSTERSThere is one outstanding service I want to con-

gratulate you on; the inclusion in your pages of

pictures and information about the horror mov-ies being made in Mexico. France, Germany, Italy

and elsewhere. I find it intensely interesting to

compare foreign concepts of monsters with our

home-groan (it's catching!) creatures.

ALICIA ARIA

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

• We leave It to you and Harold Dewhirst to

get together and settle your differences of

opinion—and may the best monster win!

FANG MAIL FOR REAL!

• ANIE LINARD, Vesoui, Haute Saone, FRANCE,prepares to sink her teeth Into a back issue ot

FM.

• JAY SILVERMAN of Anaheim, Cal.; LEE HEFTEROf Neptune, N. J.; and many others will )ind the

answer to their prayers on page S7; Binders tor

FM! Teener KEVIN KOENIGS says that in his cir-

cle of acquaintances in Milwaukee, FM is en-

joyed by a 3-year-old tot clear up to his 7S-year-

old grandma! Elsewhere in this issue we men-tion a forthcoming foto feature, THE BEASTS OF

TARZAN by Vernell Coriell; it now appears RonHaydock will collaborate on this. Special thanx

to DEREK JOHN DYER for sending us the WelshDragon Flag, national flag of his country, Wales.

Back in S weeks!—F>A

DEPT. OF

INCKEDIBLE SHRINKING MANUSCRIPTSWith many fine letters selected for inclu-

sion we are dismayed to find we are rapidly

running out of room. A 3d page originally

planned for correspondence got crowded

out, as did our Campus Creature Feature

about the Monster Masquerade of AEP Fra-

ternity at the Univ. of Calif., LA (nextime).

Briefly, "BLOCH Vi/AS SUPERB!" was the

word from EDMUND R. MESKYS of Bklyn,

N. Y.; M. ]. MILLER of Lakewood, 0.; BRUCEHENSTELL. LA., Cal.; JEFF NEWMAN, Nutley,

N. J.; HANS' NINTZEU Bklyn, N. Y,; KEITH

ROBIN, Charleston, S. C; HARRIET KOL

CHAK, Phila., Pa.; BOB HARPER, Scarsdale,

N. Y.; and TUCKER ASHWORTH of N. Y. C.

The Latest Chop-ter in the

cheery tale, "Ghoulby, Mr.

Chips", wherein Mr. Chips, dis-

guised as a Russian Spy named

Chipoff Tholhlok. learns the Se-

crets of the Fantastic Films now

being grueprinted on the draw-

ingboards of Hollywood, London

and Rome. and. like the Real

George of Washington's time,

tells the truth, the whole truth

and nothing but the truth . . .

and that's no Crystal Bull!

This pig made a man of himself on THE ISLAND OFLOST SOULS, fhe domain of Mad Doctor Moroau whospeeded up the evolution of animals until they becameackermen (something almost human).

In case you're too young to remember the year thebarbers went on strike, we bring you this striking fotoof the results. <Lon Chaney Jr. in THE HOUSE OFTERROR).

Tying in with our JEKYLL-HYDEfeature this issue is the flash from that

CinderFella Jerry Lewis that his next

comedy will be a satire on Robert Louis

Stevenson's horror classic. It's any-

body's guess at this point what the title

will be. Our guess is DR. JERRY &.

MR. HYDE.

sinking sensation

Geo Pal has found ATLANTIS, THELOST CONTINENT, and wiU soon display

his fabled island of marvels to the public.

Pal, himself, described ATLANTIS to mebefore the preview as "science fiction in the

past."

If you liked the sea raider of Capt. Nemoin Disney's 20,000 LEAGUES UNDERTHE SEA, you will thrill to the metal fish

form of Pal's Atlantean submarine.

If you remember WeUs "Island of Dr.

Moreau". or Chas. Laughton's House of

Pain on THE ISLAND OF LOST SOULS.you will chill to see the reverse of evolution

(in color) in ATLANTIS, as men are hyp-notically regressed in the House of Fear un-

til they turn into manimals—hairy crea-

tures with clawed hands who can still sham-ble upright but whose heads have the hornsof bulls, the snouts of pigs, the pointed ears

of other beasts.

If you enjoyed the Victorian construc-

tion of the Time Machine in Pal's last pic-

ture of the same name, you'll be pleased bythe appearance of the green-crystal destruc-

toray machine which shoots a red beam of

vaporization that disintegrates everything

in its path—ships, statues, people, wingedmen . . . anything and anybody except the

villain. Oh, the villain gets wiped out byhis own weapon, alright, but he doesn't goup in a hot pufT of smoke like all else the

death-ray touches, perhaps because his hideis so tuff the ray can only skim away his

skin and blood, leaving him in all his bare

wickedness, mere sin and bones.

Were fiying men mentioned a minuteago? Yes. these aerial policemen with their

Icarian cloaks constitute a genuine flving

squad, like flyers out of FLASH GORDON.Spectacle-wise, ATLANTIS is prodigal.

You'll see QUO VADIS-size crowds, ant-

hordes from THE NAKED JUNGLE,Pompeiian pyrotechnics and the greatest

Hb pM..>. wmtut bte •• k« • piM >• *• flto— «kM> Im b«cMM > Hy 10^ Tony EaituMS la BIAl MMtlManHH (In F«t Mai 4wtar1liv <«««•). «

Mexican Talon Scout singles ouf two actors for scarring roles i

MONSTER FROM THE HOLLOW MOUNTAIN.South of tlie Border beostern, THE

destruction of a city since Ned Mann shookdown New York in DELUGE.A real Island FUng.

going

down

As long as we're in deep water already wemight as well be all at sea and report on thewatery melons that are being prepared for

you to sink your teeth into.

There's JOURNEY TO THE BOTTOMOF THE SEA.

HERCULES IN THE CONQUEST OFATLANTIS.

Curtis Harrington's NIGHT TIDE (for-

merly listed as THE GIRL FROM BE-NEATH THE SEA)

.

CAPTAIN NEMO AND THE FLOAT-ING CITY.Jules Verne's MYSTERIOUS ISLAND.Jerome Bixby's SEA DEMON.ATLANTIS 20,000 BC (American-Inter-

national).

DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM

(Alex Gordon interprets Poe). And Gor-don's THE AMPHIBIANS.

BODY SNATCHER Boris KarlofF mokes off with the bed-ding as he heads for the nearest laundromat to have hisslightly moldy corpse dry-cleaned.

coming up

Shooting for the sky is MOM with its

$150,000 purchase of the priceless talent of

Ra> Bradbury (whose "Life on OtherWorlds" feature millions read in LIFE late

last year) . The incomparable Bradbury hasbeen busy on the Studio lot transforminga number of his most fotogenic Mars plots

into a screenplay of his oft-published col-

lection of short classics known as THEMARTIAN CHRONICLES. Cinerama is

hinted for this Special.

KING KONG himself will return after

an absence of a whole generation to thrill

the world anew in an adventure with Pro-metheus. Original animator maestro Willis

O'Brien will handle the very special SpecialEffects for this one. If it's as good as its

daddy, they'll be televising revivals of it onSpace Stations and the Moon by the time196rs newborns are teenagers!

Scriptwork on RIP VAN WINKLE INTHE 21st CENTURY has been handedJim Harmon, man who must be sci-fi field's

hottest property according to Horace (Gal-

axy) Gold's description of him as "a Ve-suvius of a talent . . . good for a giant flowof flaming literary lava for decades to

really

BIG ONES

Just hear Ed Sullivan in your mind's earas we tell you about:

A. Merritt's 7 FOOTPRINTS TO SA-TAN, picked for English production!A sequel planned to THE TIME MA-

CHINE! (RETURN OF THE TIMETRAVELER)

.

Remake scheduled of THE OLD DARKHOUSE (it originaUy starred Karloff,

Laughton and Massey).Karloff, Rathbone, other Horror Greats

beine sought for cameo roles in THE SCA-RAB, which brings together Frankenstein,Jack the Ripper, Dr. Jekyll, SheriockHolmes and many others in the most mon-strous box-ofifice attraction ever contrivedfor marquee-busting.

THE LOST WORLD finds a foiiowupfeature planned for itself.

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Four Black Sheep do their stuff in THE BLACK SLEEP. That's Lon Chaney Jr. playing Mario Lanxa hitting a

Hi "C": Tor Johnson plays Boldilocks with the lipper on the back of his head in case he wants to get some

brains: and the beard boy is John Carradine. who finds the whole proceedings as funny as a crutch.

the hidden face

of horror

THE MASK OF THE DEMON is adapt-

ed from a short story, "The Vij", by Rus-

sian writer Nicolal Gogol. The picture opens

in the 18th century at the grim trial of

Princess Vajda, accused of witchcraft. Thechief deputy of the jury is the Princess'

own brother and before dying the sorceress

puts a curse on her entire family.

A century later a Dr. Choma and his

young assistant Gorodec on their way to

Moscow pass thru an eerie forest dominated

by a huge old castle. Despite the admoni-

tion of Nikita, the frightened coach driver

who tries desperately to warn the men

against the accursed place, the two enter

the castle. Deep in a dark and crumbling

catacomb the pair discovers the grave of

the sorceress. In a coffin, her face covered

by a mask of bronze, lies the hundred-years-

dead body of the witch.

Dr. Choma is surprised, in removing the

mask, to find preserved the face of a beau-

tiful woman. During the removal of the

brass covering the doctor is sUghtly wound-

ed and some drops of blood fall into the

coffin.

Later, after Choma, his assistant and the

reluctant Nikita have left the cellars of the

dead, there is a horrifying sign of life. Thefresh blood has revivified the "sleeping" sor-

Gorodec meets Katia Vajda in the castle.

She introduces herself as the granddaugh-

ter of the Princess. Gorodec becomes ro-

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"Who's hitfen who?" (From THE CAT-WOMAN).

Notre Dame's chief export seems to be Hunchbacks.Lon Chaney was the original, Anthony Quinn the latest,in between came Charles Lauqhton—and here he is,

as Quasimodo, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME.

mantically interested in Katia, remains be-

hind for the nite when Dr. Choma leaves

for the nearby village.

That nite strange and frightening things

take place at Castle Vajda:

Katia's father dies tragically.

Katia's brother falls from a cliff.

The butler is found hanged in his room.

And even Dr. Choma, when he returns tothe castle, is transformed into a vampire!The next nite, lured by an evil force great-

er than her will, Katia finds herself face toface in the foul catacomb with the resurrect-

ed Vampire Princess.

But there is a happy ending.

The film is of Italian origin, titled LAMASCHERA DEL DEMONIO in theoriginal.

—This has been a report by Gio Scogna-millo, who just married a vamp (not, wetrust, a vampire) and to whom the staf! of

FM extends its heartiest congratulations.

"things"

to come

MARTIAN EYE bv Ted Johnstone . . .

TASTE OF FEAR with Christopher Lee. . . JOURNEY TO THE 7th PLANET,scripted by lb Melchior . . . JOURNEYINTO THE UNKNOWN, directed by lbMelchior for David Hewitt of IndependentArtists.

Hammer's CURSE OF THE WERE-WOLF . . . Castle's HOMICIDAL ... AnIrwin Allen TV series, HOUSE OFGHOSTS . . . Japan's MADAME WHITESNAKE.

Italian: THE MILL OF THE STONEMAIDENS.

Scandinavian: REPTILICUS.German-Jugoslavian: HORRORS OF

SPIDER ISLAND.Jules Verne's 5 WEEKS IN A BAL-

LOON, THE MASTER OF THE WORLD.British: THE MAN IN THE MOON.More American: DONDI GOES TO

THE MOON. THIS TIME TOMORROW.THE JUPITER PROJECT by, of all coin-

cidences, a James Warren but not the pub-lisher of VAMOJJS MONSTERS.THE HANDS OF ORLOC.THE EXPERIMENT OF DR. ZAHN.THE HUNCHBACK OF ROME.THE COUCH of Robert Bloch.HGWeUs' COUNTRY OF THE BLIND.And REVOLT OF THE TRIFFIDS.

END

Pravicw of Things fo come: Oliver Reed as the Cursed One in THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF, A Uni-

versal shocker we'll be seeing this summer.

the man[ill

thousand

faces

left one

to replace

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Chaney Jr. in his b«st-rein«mber«d, most dramatic rol* as th« powerful but ehildliko moron in OF MICEANDMEN <1939). ,7

His Father was a Living Legend: aHunchback, a blind man, a 100-year-oldMandarin, a ventriloquist, an ape-man, amad scientist, an armless freak, a humanvampire. . .

It is hard to follow in your Father's foot-

steps when he may have been a spider or abat; or, worse than that, have had no legs

at all!

Lon Chaney Sr., Master Monster No. 1

died in 1930.

Lon Chaney Jr. made his first screen ap-

pearance 2 years later, in 1932, at the ageof 26.

Born Creiehton Tull Chaney in Okla-homa City. Oklahoma, in 1906, the son of

the King of Characterizations was destinedto become known to the film world as LonChaney Jr.

he died a

thousand times

His Father was in pictures 17 years, ap-

peared in approximately 135 productions.

Today, as he looks back over 28 years in

the motion picture industry, Lon ChaneyJr. can say. "Dieing has been my living,"

for he has been killed time and again, andin fart one of his films was called I DIEDA THOUSAND TIMES!Lon Jr. has been shot, stabbed, strangled,

electrocuted, drowned, burned and general-

ly killed in so many ways, only to return to

menace still another horrified heroine, thatit was inevitable he should be cast in therole of THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN.But before we get too deep into a con-

sideration of the cinematic career of LonChaney Jr., let us turn back the clock to

the time when he was iust a moviegoer—or

even earlier—instead of a movie actor.

ham and

hot water

Rudolph Valeittfno? I

ago.

18

, flM ChMwy Jr. ml 3 dM«rfM

Creighton found out in the first 7 years of

his life that his Father was a "ham", anactor. Junior toured the country withSenior, and as a young boy got the smell of

greasepaint in his nostrils as he watched his

pop perform in stock companies thruout themiddle western states.

When Lon Chaney Sr. entered motionpictures. Jr. entered hi school—HollywoodHigh School. Upon completion of his stud-

ies there he became associated with, of all

things, a Los Angeles water heater business!

Can you imagine the loss to the world if

today Lon Jr. were President of the Creigh-

ton Chaney Champion Hot Water Co. in-

stead of a 28-year-veteran of motion pic-

tures? We can indeed be tankful that hechose to get a different kind of hot water!

frankenstein ... the

mummy . . . dracula

Lon Chaney Sr. had been the world's hot-

test horror property. Properly, when hedied, his son should have taken his place.

But it was to be 2 years before Jr. stepped

before a camera. In the meantime Boris

KarlofE and Bela Lugosi; and. to a lesser

extent, Claude Rains; came to the fore as

exDonents of horror in FRANKENSTEIN.THE INVISIBLE MAN. THE MUMMY,DRACULA, THE BRIDE OF FRANK-ENSTEIN, THE OLD DARK HOUSEand other early Universal hits. I^on ChaneyJr. would one dav act for Universal in vari-

ous versions of DRACULA. FRANKEN-STEIN and THE MUMMY, but his earli-

est emoting was for RKO in action and ad-

venture pictures like BIRD OF PARA-DISE (1932). LUCKY DEVILS (with BiUBoyd: 1933) . SCARLET RIVER and SONOF THE BORDER {1933 westerns with

Tom Keene).

Lon Jr. starred in an RKO serial, THELAST FRONTIER, a brawling bloody

thriller, in the early '30s.

In 1934 he starred in Monogram's first

version of SIXTEEN FATHOMS DEEP14 years later Lloyd Bridges starred in a re-

make of the famous submarine adventure

film, with Lon playing the part of the vil-

lain.

Meanwhile, Chaney the man was dis-

tinguishing himself in the fields of amateurwrestling, swimroing and tennis playing,

while his hobbies at the time were himting

and fishing.

Around this period he also appeared in

THE SHADOW OF SILK LENNOX(gangster fibn) , CAPTAIN HURRI-CANE. THE THREE MUSKETEERS

TkU eharaefcrizatton as THE WOLF-MAN won Clian«yJr. til* New York TV Award as Monster of the Year in

1959.

As Hava, the tongueless Coptoin of the Guards, in

COBRA WOMAN. Technicolor adventure thriller with

Jon Hall, Maria Montei and Sabu.

'i

of Chaney as SON OF DRACULA.

(John Wayne's starring serial for Mascot,an adventure romp of ruff 'n' readv ForeiEmTvegionnaires) and THE SINGING COW-BOY, the latter a Gene Autry musical west-em wherein Lon Jr. played a villainousrancher.

twenty years

of terror

It was roughly 20 years ago that LonChaney Jr. began to appear in horror rolesand build a reputation in the league withPeter Lorre. Basil Rathbone, George Zucco,Lionel Atwill and other regulars of "irregu-lar" characterizations.

In MAN-MADE MONSTER, based onthe story "The Electric Man", he absorbeda dose of energy that made him almost in-

vincible—a terrifying prospect for his en-emies.

In ONE MILLION B.C. (Before Cha-ney) Lon Jr. was a caveman surrounded byprehistoric monsters. In this action epic of

ancient times Lon shared dangers with Vic-tor Mature and took quite a goring at thehuge deadly tusks of an enraged mastodon,giant elephant-like beast of the primitiveworld.

Then Lon Chaney Jr. created a charac-terization for which he was to be long re-

membered. "He is best known in horrorfilms for his role as THE WOLFMAN(1941) and in sequels to this film," SamuelM. Sherman (FM's Film Historian) hassaid, pointing out that: "It is quite inter-esting that Lon Jr. and his Father shouldbe so different in direct character types andyet in monster-type roles evoke the sametvpe of pity. Lon Sr.'s films always had himplaying a monster who was hideous but yetone to be pitied. His son brought across thissame quality when he began playing horrorparts."

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The gory result of Lon's fall from Ivory Terror In ONE MILLION BC.

Mexican Mad Lab has Lon Jr. as House Guest in HOUSEOF TERROR.

This fugitive foto from our companion periodical.WILDEST WESTERN, shows Lon Chaney Jr. as Indian inRepublic's 1956 production of DANIEL BOONE, TRAIL-BLAZER, with Uruce Bennett (one-time Tananl.

the ghouldenyears

1941 found Lon Jr. making a hit in THEWOLFMAN. Because of his success in thelycanthropic makeup, the next year he wasa-isigned the task of filling Boris Karlofl'sboots and

—

1942 .saw Chaney standing 6' 9" tall,

weighing 284 lbs. and menacing Lionel At-will. Sir Cedrir Hardwicke and others asTHE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN. It

was Bela Lugosi. as Igor, who unearthedLon in this one; the following year, Lon re-

turned the compliment when he, as LarryTalbot, dug Bela, as the Frankenstein mon-ster, out of deep freeze.

1943 offered Lon not only in FRANKEN-.STEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN but asTHE SON OF DRACULA (scrinted byCurt Siodmak) and in CALLING DR.DEATH.

1944 was another ghostly year for the sonof Chaney as he essayed the role of thecrumbling 3000-year-old Egyptian. Kharis,in THE MUMMY'S GHOST. Same yearLon Jr. also appeared in DEAD MAN'SEYES and WEIRD WOMAN.

hard yeor to

stay alive: '45

1945 was a twelve month period whereinLon was so busy trying to keep body andsoul together that it seemed like a 13 monthyear to him. Time and again he lo.st his life,

only to come back for more punishment. Hewas THE FROZEN GHOST. In THEMUMMY'S CURSE he (again as Kharis)gets the tana leaf treatment from Dr. IlzorZandaab, and is temporarily restored to life

—long enuf, at least, to be involved with3 other people who lose theirs. In HOUSEOF DRACULA he is once again Larry Tal-bot, lycanthrope who turns into a man-wolfwhen the moon is full. Before the year(1945) is out. Lon is back—this time inTHE HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN.Lon doesn't make his appearance till towardthe end, the beginning of the film chron-icling the nefarious doings of Dr. GustavNiemann (Boris Karloff) who, after hav-ing been imprisoned for 15 years because ofsinister scientific experimentation, escapesin the company of a psychopathic killer, J.Carrol Naish. This strange pair meets upwith Professor Lampini (the late George

W!*..-->/'

('Hi

Lon charms young lady to sloop in THE BLACK SLEEP,

Zucco) , proprietor of a traveling horror

show, who is killed shortly thereafter and

Dr. Niemann takes over. Later, in the ruins

of the Frankenstein laboratory, Karloff dis-

covers the Monster (again Glenn Strange)

and the Wolf Man (Lon Jr.) encased in

ice; defrosts them, but the Wolf Man does

not live long when he gets the urge to sink

his fangs into the neck of lovely Gypsydancer Ilonka and instead gets shot.

many make-

ups left

Will Lon one day catch up vnth the thou-

sand faces of his Father? He's had varied

roles in THE BRIDE AND THE GORIL-LA, STRANGE CONFESSION (THEMISSING HEAD), CYCLOPS, ABBOTT& COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN,BLACK CASTLE, PILLOW OF DEATH,BLACK SLEEP and—his latest appear-

ance—in Mexico's LA MOMIA. Soon to

be released on TV is the No. 13 DEMONSTREET series, shot in Sweden under the

direction of scripter Curt Siodmak, with

segments such as Fever, Girl in Ice, Mirror

and The Fortune Teller. Creighton TuUChaney tackles Tullervision! May he have

good fortune and continue to thrill his fans

with at least another 1(K) faces before he

joins his Father in Horrorama's Valhalla of

Fame. END

A NEW MGM RELEASE

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GORGO 9<h a warm rccaptisn in MGM's currmi thriller.

"Terrible

Lizard"from the

Dawn of

Timeswimsup the

ThamesRiver andattacksLondon!

Vacant apartment tor rent, cheap. Former tenants areNOT jumping for joy—with GORGO 'round the comer.

FLASH! GORGO-S COMING— In the flesh!

their battered boat on the little island of

Nara, off the Irish coast.

Ryan & Slade receive a cool reception onNara. There before them is a man namedMcCartin, an archaeologist from Dublinwho claims to be retrieving scientifically val-

uable relics from the ocean's depths. Mc-Cartin makes it plain that Ryan & Sladeare not welcome.

Only little Sean, a young boy of theisland, is friendly to the involuntary visitors.

Ryan &. Slade have their curiosity arousedby McCartin's hostile attitude and deter-mine to learn the cause of his anxiety.

The answer lies in sunken treasure.

Divers in McCartin's employ are bring-ing up pieces of gold from the ocean floor.

Then, one day, one of the divers discoverssomething more—and dies of fright!

"arrachtach!"

The father of young Sean surfaces in pan-ic, utters one word before he shudders anddies of pure horror.

The word is a weird-sounding one in theGaelic tongue: arrachtach!

It means

—

MONSTER!But—a monster in modem times? A mon-

ster has repeatedly been rumored in theLoch Ness of Scotland, but in the watersoflf the coast of Ireland?

Nevertheless, a man is dead of heart fail-

ure.

Ryan & Slade decide to investigate. Se-

cretly, they dive; almost immediately Sladeis attacked by the tentacle of an octopus.It is huge and fearsome, the octopus, butnot unknown—not quite a monster tofreeze the heart. Ryan, swimming to Slade's

assistance, also is enmeshed by the sea-

beast, but niianages to pierce a vital organwith his powerful harpoon gun, killing theoctopus.

Recuperating under water from their nearbrush with death, Ryan & Slade keep awary eye on a killer whale which swimsrestlessly above them. Suddenly, a hugeshadow darkens the fathoms above them.There is a swirling of water that whirls

Ryan & Slade around like puppets and thewater deepens in darkness to blood red!

the sea godThat nite the owner of the sea shadow

makes its first appearance on the island.

^iiairr'^^^''HiMiiiffii"if

GOIIG>0 is aftar a hand-out—aod it's biqgcr than boot of hs.

'Hie islanders scream its name: Ogra!—the

Monster of Nara. We come to know it byanother name: GORGO.Carson Bingham, in the pocketbook he

has written about the King Bros, produc-

tion, tells graphically of the moments of

horror when Gorgo is first glimpsed. In the

author's own words:

"The sea lifted up under the flickering

procession of funeral boats, and a form that

was neither water nor earth nor humanreared into the air.

"Rooted to the spot, I stared at whatseemed to be a huge, massive shape writh-

ing out of the water.

"I could see the outline of a huge body,

some 20 feet high.

" 'My God!' I cried. 'It's huge! As big as

a house!'

"

And so it is. Waked from an ages long

sleep by the underwater explosion, the gor-

gosaurus has surfaced in a strange newworld, a world where frightened shouting

men shoot at it. But the rifie bullets bounce

from Gorgo's tough hide like ping-pong

balls. Only fire affects Gorgo, and whenRyan & Slade lead the men in throwing

burning brands at the incredible beast, with

an angry flick of its long prehensile tail it

turns back to the sea and disappears be-

neath the waves.

booty and riw

beast

Worth more than all the gold on the

GORGO and wattr don't mlK. And this skin-diver i

ready to broadcast It to all tfao ships at s*a.

If GORGO doesn't have an iron stomach already, hesoon will have!

ocean floor would be Gorgo, captured andalive. Ryan & Slade realize this and set outto ensnare the saurian in a steel net. In aharrowing encounter they are successful

and word of their astoxmding feat makesheadlines and telecasts thruout the entire

civilized world.

The Irish government sends 2 rankingpaleontologists to meet the now famous pairand their prize possession. The paleontolo-gists intend to claim the bve specimen for

the University of Dublin but the partnerewho captured it have a more lucrative dis-

position in mind.

Slade & Ryan sail to London with their

supersaurian and make a very profitable

monetary arrangement with the owner of

Dorkin's Circus.

The lad Sean, an orphan since his father

died of fright upon first glimpsing Gorgo,has been more or less adopted by Slade &Ryan. Sean feels a keen sense of sadness for

the shackled creature and attempted to set

it free before his friends ever got it to Lon-don. He had been stopped in time but his

action had resulted in the death of a watch-man who was mortally mangled a swipe ofthe beast's mighty claw.

At the circus Gorgo almost breaks loose.

He does kill an elephant in a strange battleof prehistoric beast pitted against modembehemoth. It is at this time that Slade for

the first time has misgivings. Slade himselfnow joins Sean in an attempt to set Gorgofree but Ryan thwarts the plan and getsinto a fight with his friend.

grow, gorgo,

grow

Startling word comes from Dublin: Gorgois but a baby! This huge creature, it devel-

ops, is only an infant. If the world's biggest

child is already 65' long, how big may its

parent not have been?Its parent!

If Gorgo is a newborn saurian, then it's

suddenly {and frighteningly) apparent thatit may have had a mother or father nearby.Based on the age and measujsements of

Gorgo Jr., mama or papa monster wouldmeasure about

—

Two hundred feet long!

Almost simultaneous with this discoverycomes word that Nara Island has mysteri-ously disappeared. Shortly thereafter theworld's worst fears are realized.

Nets to you, GORGO! Is th* qraat beast doomad to spend his final days in Disneyland? 29

s

Wh«n eORGO's Mama comas to town. London Bridqa is falNng down!

mrs. gorgol

Gorgo Jr. has a real queen size motherand she's on her way to rescue her baby!A destroyer, dispatched to try to halt the

200' beast, is bismarcked to the bottom ofthe sea. All hands aboard are lost in thechurning wake of the striding terror.

Despite every military effort the mightymonster makes its way up the Thames andacross the teeming city of London, sendingnational monuments crashing like bowlingpins, crushing busses and people like egg-shells.

Big Ben . . . Westminster Abbey ... theHouses of Parliament ... and the ThamesTower Bridge—all are left twisted ruins bythe great Gorgo's rage and rampage.The populace flees in terror, including

Ryan & Slade who have been reunited bytheir common peril. With the partners is

young Sean, in sympathy to the end withthe lonely beast and its all-powerful parent.30

The havoc does not end until the giantmother reaches her oflspring's side. Then,the two Gorgos, contemptuous of the high-est explosives mankind has been able tohurl at them; mother and son Gorgo turntheir armor-plated backs on the strange lit-

tle creatures (humans) who sting them, andmake their way back to the river and thenceto the sea.

ambitious

enterprise

GORGO is the most costly, time-consum-ing production the King Bros, have made todate—and 38 productions have rolled off

their slate.

The picture introduces the new processknown as Automotion, which makes themovements of the "stars" (Gorgos I & II)

extremely lifelike. If you like excitementand suspense with your movie monsters

—

we recommend GORGO. END

fhaf fhey said Couldn'i Be Done/

FAMOUS MONSTERS accepted the challenge of the "im-

possihle"! Daring reporters were dispatched to the Arc-

tic. Some never came hack. We spent 6 months and

many thousands of cents to discover—because millions

of YOU asked tor IT—fotos of the fabulous THING!

But that's not ail! Not by a iong shot-or a medium

shot or a cioseup.

Not content with showing you the Actuai Face & Form

of THE THING, we tiring you—starting next issue—our

first Two Part Serial: the first instalment of the sensa-

tional 14,OG0 word horror classic, Who Goes There?, on

...lich the motion picture THE THING FROM ANOTHERWORLD was based—especially condensed tor our read-

ers.

Enjoyed the movie? Wait'll you read the story! John

W. Campbell Jr., one of the greatest imaginative minds

of our century, wrote it. And, rather then sacrific"^-

portant foto space for it, we will run it in a smaller type

than usual—thus offering you a bonus of approximately

7,000 words extra in EACH of our next 2 numbers! At no

raise in price, words that collectors have paid $3 and

more to read, yours for the usual 35c! Plus pictures of

THE THING itself.

IN OURNEXT ISSUE—

'ON NEWSSTANDSAPRIL 10TH

or the firsf time FAMOUS'ONSTERS tears aside the

ei\ of mystery surrounding

the filmizations of RobertLcuis Stevenson's famous*orv tn reveal it hos a'or/d record having beenfilmed FIFTEEN TIMES'.

i

in IS so full of fog that

brains, set boundarieson. As men of science, we shouldand bold enough to peer beyond

onders it conceals.

John Borrymora (»atad at tabU) will seen bury mer* of his frlMdf In sllmt vortlon of DR. JEKYLL ft

MR. HYDE.

strives for the nobilities of life; this we call

his good self. The other seeks an expression,

of impulses that binds him with some dimanimal relation with the earth; this we maycall the bad. These two carry on an eternal

struggle in the nature of man, yet they are

chained together; and that chain spells re-

pression to the evil, remorse to the good.

"Now, if these two selves could be sep-

arated from each other, how much better

the good in us might be, what heights it

might scale; and the so-called evU, once lib-

erated, would fulfill itself and trouble us nomore. I believe that the day may not befar off when this separation will be possible.

In my experiments I have found that cer-

tain chemicals have the power and the—

"

The scene shifts.

Some nites after his lecture Henry Jekyll

sits brooding in his laboratory. His fiancee

is away on a protracted stay and he is rest-

less. His man-servant has suggested somekind of female entertainment but a gentle-

man in the doctor's position cannot risk it.

Yet, unbidden, unwanted desires keep kind-

ling little fires in Dr. Jekyll's human bodyuntil at last, recaUing his discovery, he de-

cides to put it to the test.

Locking his door against intrusion, he sets

about, step by careful step, mixing drychemicals and liquids to create the solution

which he believes will liberate the evil whichis festering in his system; until, at last, thepotion completely prepared, he stands be-fore a mirror and gulps the contents of thebubbling, steaming glass.

oldon Lewis In on early silent edition

. He never should have drunk that

Gad, who dot—Mrs. Hyde?

In fear and wonder he watches the re-

markable transformation.

Contrary to theory, the evil side is assert-

ing itself!

He groans and chokes and his facial mus-cles struggle to retain his natural appear-

ance as his face and form undergo a darkand terrible change. As Stevenson described

him, and writer John Mason Brown later

summed him up, he had "something wrongabout him, something displeasing, down-right detestable and deformed. He wastroglodytic, ape-like, wicked-looking, mon-key-like, a rat, shocking, abnormal and mis-

begotten," In the words of the author, "hehad Satan's signature upon his face."

terrifying

transformationHow effective was Fredric March's

change from the gentle Dr. Jekyil to thehorrid Mr. Hyde? First rate! It would bedifficult to imagine a better realization of

the role. And it was accomplished in almostdirect view of the audience, with very little

camera cheating. Half a dozen visual

changes were gradually observed as his

hands turned brown and hairy, his fingers

grew nails long and claw-like, his whiteteeth became black and protruding, his eyeswatery and sunken and dark-rimmed, his

hair a bushy mat, his body hunched. In afew fantastic minutes a fine figure of a man,thru camera magic, has become a coarse,

gross, bestial creature, the evil manifesta-tion of his nature which the doctor calls

Mr. Hyde.Oblivious to the rain, this evil caricature

of Dr. Jekyil strides out into the nite andat a cheap dance hall forces his attentions

on a girl named Ivy who is helpless beforehis overpowering personality. She doesn'tdream that this brutish male is the refined

and handsome Dr. Jekyil who earlier thatsame evening had politely tended to herwhen .she had been slightly injured.

in horror's grip

Poor Ivy is haunted more and more byMr. Hyde as time goes by and Jekyll's

fiancee postpones their wedding, drivinghim in desperation to dreadful deeds of

violence with Ivy. At last, almost besideherse'f with fear, Ivy calls on Dr. Jekyiland pleads with him to help her escape fromthe domination of the dreadful Mr. Hyde.

Dr. Jekyil is horrified when he sees him-

m

"A glass of milk each nite btfer* retiring is my secret for good strong teeth." reveals Mr. Hyde tn the

Frederic March version. ^^

"I knew I'm nof Tony Curtis," says Frederic March to Miriam Hopkins in Hie 1932 edilioii. "but thenwho is?"

self thru the eyes of this distraught womanand determines to have nothing further to

do with his formula. In all sincerity hepromises Ivy that she will never see thewicked creature Hyde again but JekyUreckons without the cumulative power of

the drug he has been taking, which nowcauses his transformation even without anadded dose!

Soon after Ivy's visit, Jekyll's monster-self irrepressibly surges forth! As Hyde, heseeks out Ivy and she shrieks "You must bethe Devil in human form!" when he informsher he knows all about her visit to Dr.Jekyll. "Impossible!" she cries; "I wasalone with the doctor in his room—youcouldn't possibly know of our conversation."To which Hyde replies: "I am going to tell

you my secret—a secret so great that thosewho know it cannot share it with me . . .

and live." Afterward he strangles Ivy,

Quickly, now, the story comes to its fa-

miliar climax, with Hyde locked out of thelaboratory and unable to get at the antidotewhich will return him to normalcy. He is

forced to reveal his secret to his best friend,

Lanyon. Then, temporarily returned to him-self, Jekyll goes to his sweetheart, but thechange comes over him and he kills herfather. He realizes now he is done for, and36

races for his laboratory, where the police

finally catch up with him and kill him.In death, the evil features of Hyde dis-

solve, leaving the corpse of the unfortunateDr. Jekyll.

hydie's other

hides

John Barrymore relied less on extrava-

gant makeup and more on exaggerated act-

ing in his interpretation of Mr. Hyde.Spencer Tracy's changes were more psy-

chological than physical, altho his features

were brutalized by the makeup depart-ment. Outstanding in this version was asymbolical delirium sequence with LanaTurner and Ingrid Bergman.DER JANUSKOPF (JANUS-FACED)

was the name of the German adaptation of

1920 directed by F. W. Mumau and featur-

ing Conrad Veidt and Bela Lugosi. Januswas a mythical Roman god believed to have2 heads, and indeed no one could argue thatDr. Jekyll was not indeed "two-faced". It

is not known at this time (perhaps someknowledgeable reader can inform us) whoplayed the role of Jekyll-Hyde in JANUS-FACED, but it seems most probable it was

I was just Cestvllophenlnq," explains herein* In harrewlnq moment from A&C MEET DR. J&H.

Long Caney? No, Mr. Hyd* In th« Abbott & Cott*llospoof of Stevenson's story.

"You could be the new Scarfoce. " says Mr. Hyde, as heoffers to do battle with chap who critieiied his goodlooks.

Conrad Veidt as he was better known thanBela Lugosi at the time.

Ten years ago Louis Hayward portrayedTHE SON OF DR. JEKYLL and in 1957Gloria Talbot was THE DAUGHTER OFDR. JEKYLL. Same year ('57) United Ar-tists released a film called THE VAMPIREwhich, altho not an actual adaptation of

"JekyU & Hyde", was sufficiently in thegenre for Variety's reviewer to observe:"Combo of the 'JekyU & Hyde' and 'Dracu-la' themes make this a good entry for thehorror market. Makeup of John Beal rem-iniscent of the 'Mr. Hyde' character."

Five years ago it was announced that amusical version of J&H in the form of anopera was being prepared for Broadway butthe project apparently died aborning for

nothing further was heard of Dr. JekyU &Mr. Hyde in Harlem.

In France, Jean Marais (of BEAUTYAND THE BEAST fame) is .scheduled tostar in THE TESTAMENT OF DR. COR-DELIER, based on J&H.

jekyll-hyde I96I

The latest version of J&H is known asTHE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL andcomes to us, in Technicolor, from England.Another Hammer Film, it presents Chris-topher Lee: but, peculiarly, he does not playthe dual role as one would expect. Instead,a newcomer to horror—Paul Massie—es-says the double characterization. Our Brit-ish reporter, Alan Dodd, informs us that:

There's a switch in this one: whereas in

the previous versions the transformationfrom Jekyll to Hyde has been one of hand-someness to ugliness, in the new picture it

is quite the reverse—bearded to begin with,

Jekyll becomes a smooth-shaven good-look-ing young man-about-town as Mr. Hyde!But, as Hyde, this gentleman of the Vic-torian era displays something less than Vic-torian maimers.

Quite something less!

Dr. Jekyll, experimenting on himself toseparate man's 2 distinct personalities, suc-ceeds in freeing his evil valence from all re-

strictions of morality, and as a kind of suaveand sinister Dorian Gray goes on a spree ofsin and savagery.

Two people die at Hyde's hands.He drives his own (that is, Dr. Jekyll's)

wife to suicide.

And he adds arson to his previous "ac-complishments".

rChristopher Lee is seen as one of Hyde's

victims, a snake dancer's serpent being the

cause of his shuddersome death. Dawn Ad-

dams plunges to her death and another

young lady is strangled. Altogether, Mr.

Hyde gives a good {?) account of himself.

And so, as we sink into our coffin at sun-

rise, it is with this last lingering shot while

we prepare for our daily bat-nap: will JekyU

& Hyde be back a number of times more in

the next quarter century? We shouldn't be

surprised.

The Many Faces 0/ JekyU k Hyde

Chronology Courtesy Walter W. Lee Jr. and his

SCIENCE-FICTION AND FANTASY FILM CHECKLIST

1908—SeUg silent short. Tracy, Ingrid Bergman & Lana

1910—Danish silent short. Turner.

1912—Silent short with James Cruze. 1951—SON OF DR. JEKYLL, Louis Hay-

1913—Silent short with King Baggot (Im- ward; Columbia.

perial US)

.

1953-ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET1919—Sheldon Lewis in full length silent. DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE—Boris

1920—DER JANUSKOPF (JANUS- Karloff, Universal.

FACED) . German sQent. 1957—DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL1920—John Barrymore version, silent, (or with Gloria Talbott, John Agar; Al-

Famous Players Paramount. lied Artists.

1932—Fredric March Academy Award Win- 1961—THE TWO FACES OF DR.

ning version; talking, directed by JEKYLL with Paul Massie & Chris-

Rouben Mamoulian; Paramount. topher Lee; Technicolor; Hammer.1939—Pixilated Pictures version. 1961-THE TESTAMENT OF DR. COR-1941—MGM version starring Spencer DELIER, Jean Marais, French.

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ilLtllMHE WAS THE MASTER OF THE MACABRE.PROOF? HIS WRIHEN WORDS HAVE BEENFILMED OVER A QUARTER HUNDRED TIMES!

by Giovanni Scognamillo

Edgar Allan Poe was only on this earth

40 years. Bom in 1809, he died in 1849. Butin the 60-odd years of its life the motionpicture screen has brought Poe back to life

approximately 30 times.

Sixty years after his untimely death Poe's

strange and tragic existence was portrayedfor the first time (1909) in a short feature

simply bearing his name. Realized by oneof the greatest, if not the ^eatest, namesin motion picture history—the late DavidWark GrifTith—EDGAR ALLAN POE wasan American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.

Production starring Herbert Jost as Poe.

Five years later, in 1914, a more completeattempt to recreate Poe's mastery of hor-

ror and suspense was undertaken in THEAVENGING CONSCIENCE. This was a

3-in-l adaptation (by Griffith himself) of

Poe's short stories, "The Tell-Tale Heart"

I

CKiK—Tfte Gortlla wffh a Human Brain Is the transtatien of the sign in French over the tntrancaway^ to the sideshow of Dr. Mirakle in the 1932 version of Poe's MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE.

QuoHi the Raven: "What's up, doe?" tela Lugosi in ascan* from THE RAVEN.

Half his fac* and body paralyted by Uiqosi, Karloffarousos combination of pity and horror in IrMO War*.(THE RAVEN)

and "The Pit and the Pendulum", and thepoem, "Annabel Lee". The trio starred

Henry B. Walthall, Dorothy Gish. DonaldCrisp and Blanche Sweet. THE AVENG-ING CONSCIENCE seems to have beenthe first fantastic horror show produced in

America and also an ingenious amalgama-tion of Poe's basic themes: murder and re-

morse ("The Tell-Tale Heart"), mentalanguish ("The Pit and the Pendulum")and haunting affection for his wife Vir-

ginia ("Annabel Lee")

.

At about the same time, in France.Maurice Toumeur directed LE SYSTEMEDU DOCTEUR GOUDRON ET DU PRO-FESSEUR PLUME (THE SYSTEM OFDR. TARR & PROFESSOR FETHER)and in America THE MURDERS IN THERUE MORGUE reached the screen for thefirst time via the direction of Sol A. Rosen-berg. Of the French fibn historians report

that it. was more grotesque than frighten-ing.

Lost and all but forgotten is a 1915 film-

ing of THE RAVEN. Starring Henry B.Walthall, it was an Essanay production di-

rected by Geo. C. Hazelton.

In 1927 & '28 nonprofessional and experi-

mental filmakers tried their luck with Poe.First Geo. Kelin directed THE TELL-TALE HEART (later on, in 1941, it wasJules Dassin's turn with a 2-ree] short fea-

turing Jos. Schildkraut for MOM), follow-

ed by THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OFUSHER, directed by Jas. Sibley Watsonwith art direction by Melville Webber. Bothpictures were highly interesting studies in

recapturing thru purely filmic effects, dis-

torted camera angles, elaborate and artyshots, contrasted editing and impression-istic art direction, the morbid and horrify-

ing climate of Foe. Also in *28, in France,Jean Epstein professionally directed THEFALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, withemphasis more on the architectural prob-lems, in recreating the morbid, disturbingand nightmarish atmosphere of the castle,

than in focusing on the psychic problems of

Roderick Usher.

In 1942 teenage Curtis Harrington, whohas since made his mark in the experimentaland surrealistic film world and is now mov-ing into the realm of professional fantasy

scripter and producer-director—young Har-rington made a version of USHER in whichhe foreshadowed Tony (PSYCHO) Perk-

"1 am not a sideshow charlatan," Dr. Miraklo ttiinks to himself as he ponders his Mperiments wfth the

great ape and records his thoughts in his diary. (MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE)

ins by playing a dual role, masculine & fem-

inine. In 1948 another USHER was madein England and of course the Vincent Price

(star), Richard Matheson (scripter), Burt

Schoenberg (art) technicolor version of

1960 was one of the big horror hits of last

year.

The tale of THE TELL-TALE HEARTwas told again in 1934 as BUCKET OFBLOOD, a British production directed by

Brian Desmond Hurst with Norman Dry-

den; and UFA did it in 1954 as a color "car-

toon" short which attained stature.

Paul (THE GOLEM) Wegener starred

in 1933 in a German trio titled LIVINGDEAD, comprised of Poe's "Black Cat" and

"TaiT & Fether" plus Stevenson's "Suicide

Club".

In America 1932, '34 & '35 were Poe years

with Robt. Florey directing Bela Lugosi in

MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, Ed-

gar Uimer directing Karloff & Lugosi in

THE BLACK CAT, and Karioff & Lugosi

being reunited in THE RAVEN (directed

by Louis Friedlander) . THE RAVEN was

remade in '48 by Westport International,

English Lippert '53 and a special short di-

rected by Lew Jacobs in '54.

The late Maria Montez starred in THEMYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET, directed

for Universal in 1944 by Geo. Wagner.

1948: HISTOIRES EXTRAORDIN-AIRES (UNUSUAL TALES), a French

grandguigno'esque trio combining "Cask of

Amontillado" and another tale by Poe with

"Ecce Homo" by Thos. de Quincey.

v

I A.Karloff l> Lu90>r of •aeh olbtrs' Hirooti again. This tima In THE BLACK CAT (l»34l.

19S4: THE PHANTOM OF THE RUEMORGUE, Warner color and 3D, withSteve Forrest as Dupm. Karl Maiden as theMad Doctor, Patricia Medina as the hero-ine—and the irreplaceable killer ape.

1956: MANFISH, combination of "TheTell-Tale Heart" and "The Gold Bug", withVictor Jory, John Bromfield and Lon Cha-ney Jr.

Two semi-biographical treatments of

Poe's life have been filmed, THE LOVESOF EDGAR ALLAN FOE, an unfortunate-ly rathef boring and unsuccessful film byHarry Lachman, and THE MAN WITH ACLOAK, starring Jos. Gotten and BarbaraStanwyck, directed by Fletcher Markle.Announced for the future: THE MASK

OF THE RED DEATH (Alex & Ruth Gor-don). THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM(Richard Matheson). And an AmericanEdgar Allan Poe Mystery Theater of Tele-vision.

Earnestly recommended for filming; ADESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM(Disney, Pal) and THE FACTS IN THECASE OF M. VALDMAR (Castle, Ameri-can-International).

As long as horror films have a vogue,Edgar Allan Poe will provide steady sourcematerial for first-class fright features. Hisclassics constitute a rich dark literary loamin which mandrakes grow and nuggets ofunnerving nightmare lie waiting to be un-earthed and transferred to the screen. END

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Here *e are again with t closet full of ads

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