09.27.12
‘Who did you assign to the case?’
Mr. Herbert Lom had the title role in a not very successful remake of “The Phantom of the Opera??? (1962); he was Van Helsing in “Count Dracula??? (1970), one of many movies starring Christopher Lee as the notorious vampire; and he played a bloodthirsty witch hunter in 18th-century Austria in the ultra-gory German-made “Mark of the Devil??? (1970), which developed a cult following for its explicit torture scenes; audiences were handed “stomach distress bags??? at cinemas around the world. — the New York Times
While I remember the vomit bags at the Pine Grove matinee, I don’t recall much about the movie. However, Chief Inspector Dreyfus was unforgettable. Would Peter Sellers have been quite as funny without him in the alternating scenes?