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Date Posted: 18:55:42 12/04/07 Tue
Author: Tim
Subject: Re: The "Lost" Universal Horror Films...
In reply to: Rick 's message, "The "Lost" Universal Horror Films..." on 16:16:59 12/04/07 Tue

An interesting link with some great poster art.

Werewolves of London (1944) would have teamed Henry Hull's 1935 Werewolf of London with Lon Chaney Jr's 1941 Wolf Man and made for a major Wolf-fest! I bet it would have been a hit, although a title change would have been prudent to avoid confusion with Hull's Werewolf of London.

Disciples of Dracula (1944) would have been an interesting project as well, with the triple threat of Lugosi, Holden and Carradine.

In 1960 Hammer Films released Brides of Dracula, which in its early scripting stage had been titled Disciples of Dracula.

Tim

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[> Re: The "Lost" Universal Horror Films... -- Paul, 10:05:01 01/08/08 Tue [1]

I find it distressing to think that Bela Lugosi was 'black listed' by Universal for complaining about a non-union dog! Talk about infantile! Just knowing that if not for a non-union dog we could have had Lugosi in both "House of Frankenstein" and "House of Dracula" makes me pretty upset! Here's an alternate theory as to why we ended up with Carridine: Universal was upset at Lugosi's complaining and poor performace as Frankenstein's Monster in "Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman" that they did not want him in any of the proposed sequels. Seems the reason the Monster's dialog was cut was because Lugosi said it in his own natural voice, not Ygors which I had always presumed (this info comes from the forward to the shooting script written by Curt Siodmak who was there on the set). Thinking it sounded ridiculas to have Dracula's voice coming out of the Monster, the dialog scenes were cut, dubbed out, etc.


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