THE CHINA MAIL
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1960..
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DEATH OF DRACULA: tomorrow's monsters could be cured
by PATRICIA LEWIS
with the young face, pressing a shining glass of thick, red liquid into my hand. But tomato juice—particularly unlaced-is not my favourite beverage, even if poured by Michael, Son of the Monster-Maker.
"GO on-drink some!" ordered the grey-haired man
You see, the M.-M. himself, Colonel Jimmy Carreras (whose com- pany, Hammer Films, has become a present-day House of Horror), was resting-after his 65th production-with a few zombies under a voodoo moon in the Caribbean.
fright
Could Cheat Death," blood-bathed statue of the grossed about £750,000.
goddess Kall-left-over fron
Wus very
by a spell on the couch!
up
And it was left to Michael, Who Son of ele, to inject me with
"But si one mustn't cheat the new philosophy of
Added to the tight little team 1 saw a rough-cut of Ham- the props of The Stranglers
the the nuilence," took
Mr of producers, director, nyer un-Moodied Marys (or un- aser's Intest: "The Two Faces of Bombay", Maryed Bhadies?) and a lunch at Docter Jekyli." The sinister, "You know,
Hinds. "They must know that make-up man Roy Ashton, art Bernard Robinson, hour shack of fresh-bolled flesh rather heavy music that accom- strange." he said, intercepting something is going to happen. director
Terry, has lighting-cameraman Jack Asher. It seems that audiences are panic the bewhiskered, middle- my startled glance. "Every By the way,
regular Betting more sophisticated by nged doctor's experiments time we used her in the Atm, anyone told Martita Hunt she's and two actors whose the matinee, and Hammer feels changes to a
Hot to have a atake driven work for Hammer's Horrors has gay, light polka the sky went very dark and it through her for the climax in built them worldwide reputa that characters with bolts when he takes on the person- thundered."
and riveted through their necks or ality of the young, handsome
tions Peter Cushing *Brides"?" By tacit agreement we moved
VAMPIRE mummided from head to toe evil-doer Hyde. Quite a switch away from Kall and into
Christopher Lee. however deathless-may 3000 from the original concept of office.
"There! You see? You've become il cue for healthy Hyde as a shambling, hideous "Ah! Here's our director laughter rather than a nervous ape-mant
Terence Fisher," said Mr Hinds, got to have a pay-off," said Mr Mirick,
"You see how much more as a stout figure in bulky Fisher with a satisfied emile.
This matey exchange was in- realistic it is now we've made sweater came through the door. terrupted by a knock un the in the mellow atmosphere of Jekyll a schizophrenie?" said Carreras when the lights went
SWITCH
HILARIOUS
films, being constantly
C
an
surrounded
door.
ot
Chris Lec. between
pictures
present, has moved his habitat from Bray to Buck's Club, Mayfair, 1 met him there game. Stilton, port and cigars, Mr Lee sipped champagne.
So the monster-makers are
"Excuse me, Tony," said a turning to Freud for fright. up. "Stil I reckon the peak has "Don't you find it depressing blond young man in (wouldn't
"People like to be scared by been reached for horror
"Yes, I'm very grateful to you know?) a duffel coat. "But simple things these days, so we're whittling them down with a sinister atmosphere?" I
enn I put my teeth in now and Hammer. After all, their alms explehued my
soft-drinking, to two a year from six. I plan asked them both.
have given me a name and some show you?" hard-selling host, "Huge spiders to do one about the Spanish In- Mr Hinds chuckled so hard
He held out a pair of long, yalue at the box-office. I get and and tin saucers aren't effective quisition
A remake of he had to wipe his glasses,
fan-mall from the United States pointed fangs. any more because: red-life is Phanton of the Opern,' but the "Sinister! 11' hilarious-
"DO
you
mind?" said Mr and people recognise me in Paris getting more fantastic than any rest will be more general sub- more like pantomime,"
he inds.
"Not
lunch, and Rome. Mind you, I think selence-fiction. The most horrify Jets"
sald
Really," he went on as the 'm the only living human who ing thing of all is to see some
"Well, melodrama," corrected
Dracula, played Count young man left, defectedly has strange force taking over of the
Is company
carried Mr Fisher.
Frankenstein's monster and the clutching his exotic eye-teeth. human being in normal every through to their studios In EL ***Course
getting the "Just because lie's playing a mummy." day murroundings.”
einverted country manalon
horror more by build-up and vampire he can't take his mind Still, the remade "Dracula" the Thames at Bray.
Implication Chan actualities off his pearly whites, 'Course ups Mr Lee is a strikingly good- these days. "sald Mr Hinds, that's nothing they usually looking man, I told him so. He
"There's less and less blood bust la waving amputated locked pained.
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atmosphere The cosy family
on
and a series of petrifying ple- Tony Hinds, producer and a tures, including "Revenge of Hammer director, greeted Frankenstein" and "The Man me in the shadow of a frenzled,
"Buwan fxer't in. She went out with a human being.”
we're
"added Mr Fisher,
arms!"
"Look, Daddy, these spoons have the mamo writing sa ours."
over
Without his horride make-
SINCERE
"I utterly disagree with this 'horror," he said moodily. "It's
IF you set aside the
human dramas which darken the stage, South Africa is seen as one of the favoured corners of the world.
Here is innd that is punny ...beautiful...shd' stocked like A treasure house with the natural riches of ho earth.
We do not yet know the full extent of South Africa's mineral resources, but they are | certainly among the most exten-
siyo in the world. What more, they are exceptionally varied-and In many cases casily accessible.
a derogatory term. I much pre- fer to refer to all these subjects as macabre."
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"The Brides of Dracula” Poter Cushing's sevenih horror (sorry, Mr Leo) film for Hammer. He was looking rather prosperous on, it when I found him leaming his ilaes in a blue- checked shirt and red-spotted *neckerchief.
"I've learned one Important thing," he said, lighting a cigarette, "And that is that it's no good doing these movies with tongue in cheek. Every move snust be sincere-other- wise the audience Inughs,"
I asked Mr Cushing-one of television's most acclaimed actors -why he attempted such taxing rolex,
He faced for a few seconds, "As an actor It's one's duty to entertain peuple-and these pictures do that.
"Aleo's very nice to be in on a good thing."
Mr. Cushing suddenly looked madiy sincero.
A simple conclusion: evil unlike so much crime (and I'm Borry about the other Mr. A. #Ondel)--dloed pay. Hurribly
Woll.
-{Lonton Exprèm Serstea).
The first natural wealth one thinks of in connection with South Africa is, of course, gold. Well, it has been and will be of tremendous importance,
But it is not the true key to the South African trassure house. That has been found in a less-exciting deposit In the earth's crust...coal.
The treasure
house doors
are opening
By William Hacking
tor in the economy, because gold remains in demand in the world even during a serious depression,
Exploited
ducer of platinum metals in the world and the deposits are der- cribed as "onormous." The Iron ora Is "practically unlimited" and most depozita ure cosity accessible.
Abundant coal has powered the exploitation of all the viher ingredients in South Africa's But although gold output has
Copper has been smelted in teeming mineral wealth. Cool risen so strikingly in the post South Africa since long before lies in thick, rich senme beneath war yePro, the proportion of the Europeans occupied the the African soil. The atams are South African exports which it country. Fin was also worked conveniently level," and
Con-
has dropped. The extensively represents
back in prehistoric veniently near the surface. They other riches have been explalted times. Asbestos of all the three have permitted exploitation by on an expanding sente. it is n main kinds is available--and vivo advanced mechanical means. sign of the economie, develop- of these types azo almost ment of the country thank
It is the cheapest coal in the gaid exports now fill a smaller world, costing about 10s, a ton fraction of the total. at the pit-head, and less than El a ton delivered in the big eltics,
Goldfields
It is also immensely plentiful, A conservative official estimate of the resources puts them at 75,000 million tons, but there are vast coalfelds still not fully prospected. and the true total may be far greater than this.
It has meant cheap power... and a reliable supply of power In the future.
But to recognise the key role of coal is not to underestimate the significance of the glittering riches that have poured from the South African goldfields. The modern state of the Union i built partly at least on a golden [oundation.
Ever since it was fryi dis-
covered on the Witwatersrand in 1880, gold has shaped South African history.
Its
obroad earnings
have
wholly confined to South Africa. Altogether it makes a picture plenty. Not that Today, for example, there is of natural much emphasis on uranium, maw these are riches simply wailing material of the atomic age. The to be picked up: winning them orc is plentiful perhaps calls for enterprise, effort and 1,100 million tons of it-enough organisation. But these require- to put South Africa among the ments have been readily, met during the Union's recent his- world's largest producers.
tory of rapid industrial ex Besides this new wealth the pansion.
South traditional
African output of diamonds flourish. The country is today the largest supplier of gem diamonds in the world, and a large producer of Industrial diamonds, too.
More water
Ironically, there is
resource
one
which
Diamonds have a long history in South Africa. As far back as natural the 18th century a British soldier South Africa has to work
there bought a diamond from a particularly hard to enjoy native for a ruines (and later sold it in Hatton Garden for the simpló ona of water, 100 guineas-to a jeweller who resold it for 450 guineta).
Indeed, water has been called the most essential raw material The modern story of diamonds which the Union must develop In South Africa starts around for its future growth, in nine- 1807, when a farmer's children tenths of the country'e area the the rainfall is inadequate either for picked up a gem Orange River.
any agriculture at all or for fully productive agriculture. Wafer must be brought in.
benide
Unlimited
Since then a great Indusay
Industry, and industry's wor- Hence kers, need water, too, the big water supply schemes now in progress.
largely financed the importation has grown on the ground firet of raw materials and capital harvested by individu diggers, goods for the expansion od drawn there in the diamond manufacturing industry end ush which followed that sign-
There is no thought of allow- agriculture. Without the gold ficant, chance discovery.
ing this shortage to impede exports the level of consumer
And then there are all the development. It is being over- goods imported would drop, and other materials embedded in the come by large-scale action. with them the standard of living. South African earth.
Artion on such a scale, in fact, They include platinum, iron is typical of the way South mangsmuse. African industry has set about
Gold production reached the highest-avor figure In ore. ⚫ chromite. 1959, exceeding £250 mil
asbestos, antimony and corun- realising the comby's potential. lion in value. It accounted dum. And there are many other wealth in recent yours.
minerals. wo-nickel, tungsten, for about 60--par cant of the world total.
zinc, copper, tin, "lead a long Every day, the doors of the
ist of them,
treasure house are being opened
The gold industry also has n Since the war South Africa wider. special role as a stabilising fac has become the biggest pro-
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