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Disfigurement | Leech
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Best DVD Collection | 2010
Baroness Maude Sardonicus (Audrey Dalton) talks with Sir Robert Cargrave (Ronald Lewis) about the culture in her adopted home of Gorslava and mentions they get magazines and stories from London. She mentions reading the works of "Mr. Conan Doyle", obviously referring to Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories.Even though this movie is set in 1880, and the first Sherlock Holmes story (A Study in Scarlet) was not published until 1886, Doyle's first published piece, "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley", was printed in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal on September, 6 1879 and his first academic article, "Gelsemium as a Poison" appeared in the British Medical Journal On September 20 1879, so the movie's reference to Doyle as a writer published in journals by 1880 is accurate.
When Sir Robert first arrives at Castle Sardonicus, the castle is in view in the background. The lighted windows make the castle look like a skull.
The use of leeches in medical treatment would eventually become common.
Ray Russell's original story was published as a serial in "Playboy" magazine (of which Russell was the senior fiction editor) and was spread over three consecutive editions of the magazine.
This 1961 film took several years to reach the British Isles, finally getting a very haphazard release in the first part of 1965. The film was heavily cut for the UK, with the censor imposing a number of deletions which were heavily criticized by the few reviewers who wrote about the film.
"[repeated line] Krull: When my master says, "Krull, do this thing," I do the thing, whatever it may be."
"Baron Sardonicus: Good morning, Madam. Maude Sardonicus: Good morning. Baron Sardonicus: May I come in? Maude Sardonicus: Well, I... Baron Sardonicus: Do not worry. I'm not a man who's affectionate in the morning hours."
