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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 22529, member: 25&quot;]The cactus is the clue.</p><p>It is of the &#039;prickly pear&#039; type used to cultivate the cochineal beetle, and the woman is saying &quot;See the vampire bite marks? If&nbsp; you don&#039;t front me the money to expand my cactus farm, I&#039;ll suck your blood and you&#039;ll wind up like the shiftless, hollow undead husk of my husband standing behind me.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>It is from the quickly suppressed &#039;Desert Movie&#039; moom pitcher starring Errol Flynn, Laurel and Hardy (Stan Laurel played the husband) and Marilyn Monroes&#039;s mother (it was this brief Hollywood contact that later enabled Norma Jean to get her first break in pictures) and Bela Lugosi.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;mash up&#039; style was long before its time, and the try-out audiences did not know whether they were supposed to laugh, cry or throw chairs. They settled for throwing chairs.</p><p><br /></p><p>The studio heads buried it in the deepest vault, they fired the director, a young Alfred Hitchcock who vowed to stick strictly to established genres thereafter and this was considered a bit unfair as the real blame lay with the Producer, W.C. Fields, who was as drunk as a skunk during the whole two week production period and to whom the bizarre casting, chaotic but at least extremely cheap storyline and wildly inappropriate use of the star&#039;s talents was entirely attributable.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have a rare piece of Hollywood memorabilia and it is just a great shame that the movie, whose sad story was so well hidden, is one that few other than myself and a couple of descendants of the original production staff know about this minimising its popular appeal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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