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Middle Ages | Sacrifice
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Jane Asher asked Roger Corman if a friend could visit the set and join them for lunch. She explained that her friend was a musician who was about to do his first gig in London that night. At the end of lunch, Corman wished him good luck with his concert. Roger Corman had never heard of Paul McCartney until he read of the concert's success in the next day's newspapers.
Hop-Toad and Esmeralda were drawn from Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Hop-Frog". That story was inspired by an actual incident in 1393, where French King Charles VI and 5 of his lords dressed and chained themselves as "wild men" at a masquerade, and their costumes caught fire from a stray spark. 4 of the lords died, and the incident became known as the Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men).
Over two miles of corridors were built in sections spreading over three sound-stages for Jane Asher to run through while she was held captive.
Roger Corman and Daniel Haller were able to make this film look more opulent than earlier productions by using the sets left from "Becket (1964)." The two movies also share one actor: David Weston, who plays Gino here, played Brother John in "Becket".
Roger Corman had originally wanted this to be his second "Poe" picture following the success of "House of Usher (1960)." He passed it over because he felt that certain plot elements were too close to Ingmar Bergman's recent "The Seventh Seal (1957)."
"Prospero: Somewhere in the human mind, my dear Francesca, lies the key to our existance. My ancestors tried to find it. And to open the door that separates us from our Creator. Francesca: But you need no doors to find God. If you believe... Prospero: Believe? If you believe, my dear Francesca, you are... gullible. Can you look around this world and believe in the goodness of a god who rules it? Famine, Pestilence, War, Disease and Death! They rule this world. Francesca: There is also love and life and hope. Prospero: Very little hope I assure you. No. If a god of love and life ever did exist... he is long since dead. Someone... something, rules in his place."
"Man in red: Why should you be afraid to die? Your soul has been dead for a long long time."
