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"What you see, Lieutenant, are the remains of a noble house. Relics. Ghosts of past glory."
"Twenty years ago I was not the man you're looking at now. This land, this estate prospered. My people lived well and were happy. My wife had died some years before and I was lonely. Then, one day in the village, I saw Ilsa, a peasant girl who'd come to live there with her mother. Oh, I could have taken her! Nobles have taken the daughters of peasants since the beginning of time. But, I loved her - and she became the Baroness Von Leppe."
"Take this gun. Escort this gentleman from the castle. If he resists - kill him."
"Hello. I was afraid you drowned. So, you are real. I started to think - who are you?"
"You never said goodbye to me. In fact, you never even said hello."
"With all respect, Baron, for a ghost, she's a very active young woman."
"My father was Count Duvalier. Was, until they spilled his head into a basket one morning in the Place de la Concorde."
"There are certain other mysteries I would like to have explained, Baron, and I mean to have them explained."
"Only when the sea enters the crypt, shall we rest there together, he and I, beneath the sea."
"When the night comes, I get cold. My arms and my shoulders get cold. I don't like the night. I want to be free of it."
"I have damned you as you damned me."
"Don't go to the castle. I have told you the truth. There is no girl. Mark me, there are things beyond your understanding. Leave now, while you can."
"No! No, not the chapel! I may not enter the House of God! I have made my pact with another!"
"So, must you intrude on the dead as well as the living?"
"Lieutenant, please, don't involve yourself in these dead matters. There is nothing here but an old man and his decaying memories. I beg of you leave him in peace!"
"Boris Karloff — Baron von Leppe/Eric"
"Jack Nicholson — Andre Duvalier"
"Dick Miller — Stefan"
"Sandra Knight — Helene/Ilsa"
"Dorothy Neumann — Katrina the Witch"
"Jonathan Haze — Gustaf"
"Corman had the sketchiest outline of a story. I read it and begged him not to do it. He said "That's alright Boris, I know what I'm going to do. I want you for two days on this." I was in every shot, of course. Sometimes I was just walking through and then I would change my jacket and walk back. He nearly killed me on the last day. He had me in a tank of cold water for about two hours. After he got me in the can he suspended operations and went off and directed two or three operations to get the money, I suppose... [The sets] were so magnificent... As they were being pulled down around our ears, Roger was dashing around with me and a camera, two steps ahead of the wreckers. It was very funny."
"Dracula... Frankenstein... Raptor... And Now... ...The Terror."
"There's No Rest For The Wicked..."
""DRACULA"... "FRANKENSTEIN"... "HOUSE of WAX"... "PIT and the PENDULUM"... and now... The TERROR"
"From the depths of an evil mind a sadistic plan of revenge."
"A diabolical plan of torture ... inconceivable ... unbelievable!"
"Trapped in a Haunted Castle... There is no Escape From The TERROR"
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.