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"Why, even psychiatrists say that in all these monster pictures there's not only entertainment, but for some people there's therapy. Well, you know, we never get over our childhood fears of the sinister - those terrifying faces we see in our nightmares. Well, through these pictures we can live out our hidden fears. It helps."
"Just remember, an artist must have no fear. Why, a creation is almost a sacred thing - all creations! The Good Lord created saints, and he also created sinners. He created the lamb and the fawn, but He also created the wolf and the jackal. Who can judge which is the most praiseworthy?"
"Those fools, they think a monster is just put together with glue, hair, putty, foam rubber... They don't realize that a monster, even on the screen, is human, and must be infused with a spirit by its creator. Why, if I didn't believe in my creations, they wouldn't believe in themselves. That's why they can throw fear into the hearts of spectators."
"Martin Brace: [Directing a scene] Werewolf, meet Frankenstein. Shake hands and come out snarling."
"Detective Thompson: A Hollywood murder is OK on the screen but not at the studio."
"See the ghastly ghouls... IN FLAMING COLOR!"
"HAIR RAISING! SEE - The Madman's Gruesome Chamber of Horrors!"
"TERRIFYING! SEE - The Savage Attack of the Monster at Midnight!"
"HORRIFYING! SEE - "The Teenage Werewolf" Vs. "The Teenage Frankenstein""
"BLOOD CURDLING! SEE - A Man Turned into a Monster Before Your Very Eyes!"
"It will SCARE the living yell out of you!"
"Robert H. Harris - Pete Dumond"
"Gary Conway - Tony Mantell / the Teenage Frankenstein"
"Gary Clarke - Larry Drake / the Teenage Werewolf"
"Paul Brinegar - Rivero"
"Malcolm Atterbury - Security Guard Richards"
"Dennis Cross - Security Guard Monahan"
"Morris Ankrum - Police Capt. Hancock"
"Walter Reed - Detective Thompson"
"Paul Maxwell - Jeffrey Clayton"
"Eddie Marr - John Nixon"
"Heather Ames - Arlene Dow"
"Robert Shayne - Gary Droz"
"John Phillips - Detective Jones"
"Paulene Myers - Millie"
"John Ashley - himself"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.