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"[quoting from Poe's poem] Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door. Only this and nothing more.""
"Vincent Price - Dr. Erasmus Craven"
"Peter Lorre - Dr. Adolphus Bedlo"
"Boris Karloff - Dr. Scarabus"
"Hazel Court - Lenore Craven"
"Olive Sturgess - Estelle Craven"
"Jack Nicholson - Rexford Bedlo"
"Connie Wallace - Maid"
"William Baskin - Grimes"
"Aaron Saxon - Gort"
"There was no battle of egos, just a little discussion about technique. Peter loved to improvise, but Boris did not. Boris pointed out he was a classically trained actor who learned his lines from the script and came prepared to deliver them as written. "It puts me off," he told me of Peter's improvisations."
"I told Peter I loved what he did, but that we needed to stay a bit closer to the script. Vincent was cool with it either way."
"The supreme adventure in terror!"
"THE TERROR BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT!"
"The Macabre Masterpiece of Terror!"
"Wits and wizardry run a-fowl!"
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.