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which, at that time, was entangled in a legal stand-off with an unscrupulous film lab contracted to produce the release prints. The 400 theaters in question had been promised a
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The lights went out and the music began. After the film had finished, I went out to the street in a trance. That very night I sat down to draw the two terrifying characters locked in their brutal combat. From that day on, Larry Talbot was my hero. I even recall that, on one occasion when my mother
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in 1967. He broached the idea to the director of that film, Enrique
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in 1971. It was released to late-night television (edited) in the U.S. in 1974. The film was shot in Hi-Fi 70mm 3-D, but was only shown that way at a brief engagement in Munich, Germany, and in several select theaters in
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attack to ordinary wolves, and in response, form a hunting party to kill off the animals. While on the hunt, Count
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