The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute | movie | 1974 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

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In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the hor | dG1feXlSdVhpZWp4WWs

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00:00 distinguished Mr. John Carradine.

00:04 John, lovely to see you again.

00:07 Nice to see you, Vinnie.

00:08 Thank you.

00:09 It's been a long time.

00:10 It has been a long time.

00:11 I think the last time we saw each other was in a film which, well, it was not a horror

00:14 film, it was certainly a horror.

00:16 Yes, it was a long one, that's for sure.

00:18 John, you know, you have been connected with the classics and with horror films, but I

00:23 think one of the fascinating things to go back into is the background of horror in the

00:28 theater.

00:29 Tell us a little bit about it.

00:30 It goes a long way back.

00:31 Yes.

00:32 I did one of those original horror plays on Broadway with Elizabeth Bergner.

00:35 What was that?

00:36 The Duchess of Malfoy.

00:37 Oh, superb.

00:38 John Webster, the contemporary of Shakespeare.

00:39 And the whole Jacobean theater actually was based on horror and revenge.

00:43 And then, of course, there's always a little touch of the grand mignon too, which helps

00:47 a bit.

00:48 Yes, it does.

00:49 A few heads rolling on the floor, never heard a picture of horror.

00:52 I think one of the most fascinating ones was a surrealist film, really, that went way beyond

00:58 its time.

00:59 Twenty years later, you know, I met the man who played in it, Conrad Frite.

01:04 He came up to the door one time to ask his way somewhere, and I nearly fainted.

01:08 It was The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

01:12 [music]

01:15 [music]

01:19 [music]

01:22 [music]

01:28 [music]

01:34 [music]

01:40 [music]

01:45 [music]

01:48 Well, this is the second one you saw.

01:50 The first one you saw was--

01:51 The first one I saw was The Golem.

01:52 Yes, tell us about that a little.

01:54 I don't remember it very much.

01:55 I was only about 14 years old.

01:56 I remember it took place in Prague in the ghetto, and the man was made of clay, and

02:03 that he was born to slay.

02:04 I think that's what got me to go to the theater.

02:07 He was made to help the situation, but then he turned on the people.

02:10 The Golem, a real frightener.

02:13 I think he was the first sort of robot character.

02:16 Yes, he was, and he wore the Star of David on his shoulder.

02:20 You pushed him, didn't you?

02:22 Look at that face.

02:23 Look at that face.

02:24 Oh, boy, what a superman.

02:26 Yes.

02:27 Didn't they push that star on the audience?

02:29 Yes, no.

02:30 He took the star off of him, you see, and then that killed him.

02:33 [laughter]

02:34 My Lord, people have been doing that to me for years.

02:37 Before Forward.

02:38 Before Forward, yes.

02:39 With that headpiece on, he had to turn back.

02:42 Tell us something about John Baramore, who was a great friend of yours.

02:45 I only met him once, and I've always been jealous of you.

02:48 Oh.

02:49 Yeah.

02:50 Well, you know, he had his own sense of the macabre.

02:51 Yes.

02:52 He owned a vulture, which he bought in Chile or Peru, I think it was,

02:56 and he used to sit on a perch in his home up on Tower Road,

02:59 and they would sit together nose to nose.

03:02 [laughter]

03:03 Baramore thought it was love, until it went on a wagon,

03:06 and then the vulture would have nothing to do with it, you see.

03:09 It was his alcoholic breath the vulture relaxed.

03:11 I know.

03:12 He was a magnificent actor.

03:14 His Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was a performance I'll never forget.

03:19 He wore no makeup.

03:20 He wore no makeup at all.

03:21 Only that he gave him a kind of conical head when he didn't wear any makeup.

03:24 It was all done by facial expression.

03:26 Here, look.

03:27 See, there he is now.

03:28 He's taking the drink.

03:29 [grunts]

03:30 I used to rehearse this when I was 12 years old

03:33 with a glass of water and vinegar and some soda by Collins.

03:38 That would fill my pocket and take the potion and go through all the agony.

03:41 I've been reading about Mansfield doing it.

03:43 It's divine.

03:44 Now, let's see what he does here.

03:46 He really, the hands, of course, played an enormous part, didn't they?

03:50 You know, he had short stubby fingers, and he hated them.

03:53 He was always dangling them so they'd look long and artistic.

03:56 That's true, because you'd never know that, would you?

03:58 Not the way he was doing it.

03:59 It looks like he had tremendous volume.

04:00 Look at the face.

04:02 It's all, it's no makeup.

04:03 No.

04:05 The, you know, so many of these pictures have been made and remade.

04:09 The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

04:12 And I think that we all remember, at least I remember, Chaney Sr.

04:17 And Lawton was marvelous, but it didn't have the paint.

04:20 I've never seen anyone do it but Chaney, and I don't think I want to.

04:23 No, look at this fabulous scene where he's pushing that bell.

04:27 You have a feeling of the weight.

04:29 I bet it was heavy.

04:30 I bet it was, too.

04:31 I remember working on that set years ago.

04:34 Mary, is that Mary Philbin or Patsy Ruth Miller?

04:38 That's who it was.

04:39 Was that Patsy Ruth Miller?

04:40 Patsy Ruth Miller.

04:41 She played Esmeralda.

04:43 There was Mary Philbin in Phantom of the Opera.

04:45 In the Phantom of the Opera, you're absolutely right.

04:46 And Rod LaRock.

04:47 And Rod LaRock, yes, yes, indeed.

04:50 Yeah.

04:51 Oh, boy.

04:52 John, you've played in quite a few horror films.

04:55 No, it wasn't Rod LaRock.

04:57 It was Norman Carey.

04:58 It was Norman Carey.

04:59 Norman Carey, yes.

05:00 Yes, it was indeed.

05:01 But, you know, you and I have never played in a horror film together.

05:03 No, and I've never played a monster.

05:05 I never played a monster.

05:07 He offered one and turned it down.

05:09 Yeah.

05:10 I turned down Frankenstein.

05:11 Well, after doing--

05:12 Boris took it.

05:13 You're kidding.

05:14 I turned it down.

05:15 You're kidding.

05:16 No, I'm not.

05:17 Oh, that's--

05:18 They sent me off to the makeup department, and the makeup man started mixing up a bowl of plaster,

05:21 and I, being a sculptor, knew just what he was up to.

05:23 Yeah.

05:24 Make a life mask.

05:25 And I said, wait a moment, what is this?

05:26 What is this?

05:27 Yeah.

05:28 He said, you play a monster.

05:30 I said, oh, do I have any dialogue?

05:32 He said, no.

05:33 I said, I don't have any dialogue.

05:35 No, you're just blunt.

05:37 He said, this is not for me.

05:38 And I walked out.

05:39 Oh, dear.

05:40 Three months later, they got Boris, and he took it.

05:42 It did, dear.

05:43 I never regretted it, and he never ceased to regret it.

05:45 But now, you and I did do something sort of vaguely in common.

05:48 I did the second Invisible Man picture, The Invisible Man Returns.

05:53 And let's see, now, you know, in talking about the other--

05:57 I did a bit in the first one.

05:59 In the first one, you did.

06:00 I played a somersetcher yokel with a frowzy mustache, a muffler, and a bowler hat,

06:04 who goes to a phone booth and calls the police and says, I just saw the Invisible Man.

06:10 The Phantom of the Opera was played by several people, wasn't it?

06:15 It was played by-- let's see, of course, Lon Chaney Sr. to begin with.

06:19 I think that-- there's Mary Philbin, look.

06:21 See?

06:22 Yeah.

06:23 And she's going to take off the mask.

06:24 Oh, I remember this scene.

06:25 He's sitting at the organ.

06:26 Yes.

06:27 Yes.

06:28 And he turns around, and your blood turns cold.

06:31 Oh, don't take it off, Mary.

06:32 Don't.

06:33 Now, that's right.

06:34 [laughter]

06:36 No, don't, don't.

06:38 Oh, she's going to do it.

06:41 There.

06:42 [music]

06:50 John, thank you for honoring the Honor Hall of Fame with your presence.

06:54 Oh, thank you.

06:55 It's always an honor for me to be with you in Phoenix.

06:57 Thank you.

06:58 It's wonderful to see you again.

06:59 And I'll have Zuckman show you to the door.

07:01 Oh, never mind the door.

07:03 I'll just seep through the wall.

07:06 [laughter]

07:08 John?

07:10 John?

07:13 John?

07:14 (audience laughing)

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