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"My little friend Indigo is deaf and dumb, he cannot hear and he cannot speak, but reads the lips. And I will advise you to say nothing to annoy him, for his temper is as short as he is."
"There is an air of inquiry about you that immediately offends my deepest nature! Something suggesting Scotland Yard, the French Sécurité, the Italian Carabinieri, the Turkish Polizi, and other minions of the law!"
"It is my peculiar misfortune to always be in a position to where I may eavesdrop."
"Has no one arranged to silence you yet, Mr. Lee? What a pity."
"Autopsy Surgeon: She was a very beautiful girl. One hates to perform an autopsy on a beautiful girl."
"Terry Lee: Pardon me, Professor, but didn't I just see you outside baying at the moon?"
"Dr. Joseph Van Ee: So it is you, Leonide. I was warned you might appear, like one of you own illusions out of nowhere."
"Bill Raymond: There were screams inside! You gotta admit that it's in the longitude of my profession to make with an investigatory reaction there to- What am I saying?"
"A thrilling mystery of a supernatural killer!"
"Bela Lugosi — Prof. Leonide"
"George Zucco — Dr. Joseph Van Ee"
"Nat Pendleton — Bill Raymond"
"Molly Lamont — Laura Van Ee / Laurette La Valle"
"Joyce Compton — Jane Cornell"
"Gladys Blake — Lilybeth"
"Roland Varno — Ward Van Ee"
"Douglas Fowley — Terry Lee"
"Stanley Andrews — Pathologist"
"Angelo Rossitto — Indigo"
"Lee Bennett — Rene"
"Stanley Price — Autopsy Surgeon"
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.