Happy Halloween 2019 from the Dana Andrews Blog: yet another shot from the classic 1957 British Horror CURSE OF THE DEMON where Andrews, as usual, is on an airplane, and we're thus introduced to his character wearing his character on his face.
Virginia Mayo finds out about Dana Andrews's other woman by being invited by her, resulting in some great wordplay: "Say, who is this Peggy Stevenson?" "She's a girl." "Well I didn't think she was a kangaroo!!!" Here's Dana lunching with Teresa Wright at a pasta dive From THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES.
"And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, CURSE OF THE DEMON
Birthday of Linda Darnell, reoccurring Dana Andrews ingenue along with Jeanne Crain and Gene Tierney: Darnell, though, had the most edge, especially as the lusty FALLEN ANGEL waitress a decade before sitting by Dana's side as his wife in ZERO HOUR, later parodied by Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty in AIRPLANE.
So many CURSE OF THE DEMON paraphernalia to own, including every VHS and even this awesome laserdisc with the rare covers showing a disc grooving out from the artwork: herein Dana Andrews facing the titular creature that, albeit more bear than demon, is a classic monster in a classic British horror flick.
The last posted, linked here , shows the shot that really happens when Dana Andrews pulls out the (is pulling out the) ruins to match those on Stonehenge, a closeup, while here's the most famous image from the movie, a medium/wide shot that's not in either CURSE OF THE DEMON or NIGHT OF THE DEMON.
From CURSE OF THE DEMON at Stonehenge, where, mentioned in the lyrics of a ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW song, Science-Fiction, Dana Andrews's Holden jots down ruin-writing to learn what he's supposed to be afraid of, and isn't... yet.
Evil for simply being a rich, powerful man whose astronautics industry afforded him not only a mansion but a trophy wife in Anne Francis, who his employee rocket-scientist Jeff Hunter falls deeply in love with, enough to end the life of Dana Andrews's character for good in director William Conrad's Neo-Noir thriller, BRAINSTORM...