Press Release:
Veteren Hammer actors Madeline Smith and John
Carson have been confirmed to take part in the new documentary HAMMER HORROR: THE WARNER BROS YEARS, to be produced and directed by film historian Marcus
Hearn.
JOHN CARSON
John Carson has a long history with Hammer Horror. He
is one of the co-stars of Taste the Blood of Dracula. He also appeared in
the Plague of the Zombies and Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter.
MADELINE SMITH
Although Madeline Smith's role for this film was
short lived she still had a pinnacle part to play. Appearing in a single scene
where Hargood, Paxton and Secker visit a high-class brothel, Madeline plays
prostitute Dolly. The scene is initially light-hearted, containing a flirtatious
exotic dance with a stripper who wields a live snake. But things take a downward
slope as Lord Courtley barges in to steal one of the girls; that girl being
Madeline, although we do not get to see what fate befalls her.
Speaking in Hammer Films: The Elstree Studio Years
(Kinsey 2007) on the role Madeline says…'I had to ride on the back of Geoffrey
Keen. He's a very serious man, but I got to know him much better later on when I
worked with him on TV. I was dressed in this little white outfit, and it was
meant to be a brothel. Of course, I did not know what a brothel was and what
this woman was doing with a snake'… in the same text actor, John Carson who also
appeared in the scene outlines how Madeline certainly made an impression…
‘Geoffrey Keen who is a touch portly in physique and somewhat short in temper,
was given a sweet girl dressed like a painted doll. There was Geoffrey on all
fours with this girl astride him. He was shouting crossly, "take the weight on
your feet girl!."
Although Madeline enjoys very little screen time she
does manage to portray a sense of wide-eyed innocence in the part, and her
presence stands out among the crowd of beautiful women. She was soon to be
invited back again; this time to take the role she became known all over the
world for, Emma Morton in The Vampire Lovers.
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