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Topic: Curse Of The Crimson Altar - Walton 200ft.
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Kevin Wardle
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 136
From: Durham - England
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted August 01, 2009 06:23 AM
Curse Of The Crimson Altar - Walton 200ft Colour/Sound.
I got this copy with my 'Castle Of Death' Walton print, it was from the same seller and was sealed, too! I think it cost me £9, which was a bargain!
Now, there are two versions of this film on super 8. This one from Walton and one called 'The Crimson Cult' which was from Ken films in the USA. Both are very different and are well worth finding.
For now I will review the Walton version, as I haven't seen the Ken version in ages.
Robert Manning, played by Coronation Street's bad boy, Mark Egan pays a visit to a country house to look for his missing brother. While he's there he has weird dreams, finds stab marks on his body, blood tracks all over the house and Boris Karloff. Karloff tells him that there is a Curse on the house, that of Lavinia Morley (played by horror legend Barbara Steele), who was burned as a witch years ago! Enter Christopher Lee who may or may not be responsible? You will have to see the movie to find out! The full length feature, witch, sorry "which" was directed by Vernon Sewell is very rambling at times, and gives more in the way of suspense rather than out and out horror. Walton released a 2x400ft version of this and a very good trailer, which I still have in my collection & with excellent colour.
The Walton print is much better than the Ken version and has better colour. The Walton print is longer, too. If you have both versions or can get them, you might want to edit them together to make a more complete and longer version. However, before you start, make sure you really want to do this as both films have very different print stocks and sound tracks, etc..
Colour and sound are very good and the film come on a full reel! Walton always gave you a good full reel of film!
Picture A/B Sound A
Ken Films version, note the film is in B/W Sound. You could get the Walton version in Colour/Sound and B/W Silent & B/W Sound!
[ August 01, 2009, 02:19 PM: Message edited by: Kevin Wardle ]
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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God
Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted March 03, 2012 03:15 PM
Hi Brian,the version I have edited in the Walton print is a totally
different edit to the Walton 2x400,including the American title
"The Crimson Cult".I got it from Phil in 1993 and remember him
saying it was better than Walton's print,which I didn't think it was
be it editing,definition or colour.The print is very similar to the
little Ken films 200' reel, but I have checked the leader and
that had been replaced, however the tail does say "part 2, long,
MOVIES INC. whoever they may be but Phil did say it was a U.S.
release and I have no reason to doubt him.That aside,the
version I have is very good and even has the part where during
the outdoor celebrations for the witch Lavinia Morley, poor old
Boris Karloff has a firework land in his lap! somehow I don't think that was supposed to happen but they left it in.I can't
believe that Walton had any thing to do with this 2x400 as
their prints were exemplary, case in point "WITCHFINDER
GENERAL" & "ONE MILLION YEARS BC" which I like to think I
might have had something to do with,because the Distributors
in the UK were tortured by me for years asking for this film to
be put out on 8mm,even 4x200 as the "Sinbad"&"Jason" had
been very popular and I was not too impressed with what was
on offer at the time,the callowness of youth.A similar thing
ensued with"Seventh Voyage of Sinbad" which wasn't going
to be released until after much armtwisting from yours truly
and a 35mm print from a certain well known reviewer and
success was at hand.
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