Bela Lugosi - Wallpaper 1

Bela Lugosi .

The chills - heck of a movie sequence: seen his wife embalmed, oh, the tear! - cat sneaks by, he screams in terror, breaks glass - et voilà! double face-palm, evil kitty wiggles her tail ... and the look of resentment directed to the mean doctor - Boris Karloff's calm voice interferes:

''Come Vitus. Are we men or are we children? Of what use are all this melodramatic gestures? You say your soul was killed, that you have been dead all these years. And what of me? Did we not both die here at Marmaroşh 15 years ago? Are we any the less victims of war than those whose bodies were torn asunder? Are we not both .. the living dead?'' (The manipulative sucker.)

In the background: Beethoven's 7th, the sad second movement.
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P.S.: Just seen, again, Burton's ''Ed Wood''; Martin Landau plays Lugosi (plus Johnny Depp in skirts;

''those were
the sweet old days
when real men
wore negligee's ...'').


Frames from: The Black Cat (1934).