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Intrepid correspondent Michael McQuarrie comes up with a winner from my past … I remember leafing through this at the UCLA Research Library’s Theater Arts Reading Room, the moment it arrived … ulp … 52 years ago.

The irreplaceable Internet Archive has issues of Take One, the magazine that published the fine interview with Ivan Reitman about  Cannibal Girls.

This issue from May of 1973 features has an impressive lineup of must-read items: The Horrible Hammer Films of Terence Fisher by Harry Ringel,  Carl Foreman Interviewed by Joe Medjuck,  The Murder of Fred Hampton by Gerald Peary,  The Grotesque West of Sergio Leone by Stuart Kaminsky,  Sergio Leone Interviewed by Noel Simsolo, plus review coverage of the movies  Pulp,  Ludwig,  Ulzana’s Raid and  High Plains Drifter.

Harry Ringel’s Hammer-Fisher piece is a particular good read … analyzing the Gothic horrors from a different perspective. Carl Foreman talks directly to his blacklist experience. The letters and ads are of interest, too.

 

Take One Magazine — an entire issue. 

 

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And Michael McQuarrie scores with a second item from The Internet Archive … an entire feature film from Turkey. It’s a horror comedy from 1974, apparently patterned after Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. Why, oh why, was this not given a major U.S. release?  . . . . You’ll soon understand why it wasn’t.

The whole show appears to be here, and it’s a great opportunity to brush up your Turkish … having no subtitles would make this a sink or swim teaching lesson. But the comedy is so basic, I doubt anyone will get too lost, or really want to know what’s going on.

I know, I know, there’s not enough money in the world to repay Mr. McQuarrie for this public service. Like I said, this show’s from Turkey … do I need to pay a tariff to watch it?

The title translates roughly as ‘My Friend Frankenstein.’

 

Sevimli Frankenştayn 

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson