ftSllUARY 21, 1969
the decree
Dracula Has Risen
From The Grave'
PAGE THREE
Reviewed by DAVE SIPLE
(A Hammer Film Pro
duction, released
through Warner Bros. -
Seven Arts. starring
Christopher Lee and Ru
pert Davies. Directed by
Freddie Francis.)
The ‘House of Hammer’
has produced a good, hon
est horror film in “Dra
cula Has Risen From The
Grave.” The acting is un
iformly good, the photo
graphy is adequate, and
the directing is apt, if
uninspired. There are
some stricking mo
ments — Dracula appear
ing in the heroine's door
way just as the sun is
setting the background,
Dracula’s “death” —but
they were too few, consid
ering the material Mr.
Francis had to work with.
What could have been an
excellent film (of the hor
ror genre) is merely a
good film.
In 1959 Hammer made
“Horror of Dracula” with
Christopher Lee and Pe
ter Cushing. It was a
masterpiece 1 “Horror”
Editor^s Mail
(Continued from page 2)
articles are correct, I
have been wrong. Students
do not need more free
dom and are not mature
unless they can accept
full responsibility for
their conduct and actions.
One characteristic of this
maturity is to have the
courage to condemn dis
honesty. Students at Wes
leyan have never been
hesitant to condemn dis
honesty as they have seen
it in the administration of
the college. Is it possible
that they are not able to
condemn dishonestry in
their own midst.?
If your articles are
correct, our student body
wants all privileges and
no responsibility. It wants
to have its cake and eat
it too. It chooses to tol
erate and live with
drunks, thieves, and
cheats, rather than to
speak out against them.
If your articles are
correct, the Wesleyan
student body and the Of
fice of the Dean of Stu
dents are on a collision
course. Refusing a speci
fic type of honor system
Is one thing. But refusing
it because it requires one
to condemn dishonesty in
another is to admit alack
of honor in oneself. Have
our students become so
involved in doing their
own thing that they have
lost the ability to make
any distinctions between
right and wrong?
Sincerely,
Sim O. Wilde, Jr.,
Dean of Students
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Above: Christopher
Lee as Dracula.
was one of the greatest
horror films we have ev
er seen. It was because
we remembered the
heights achieved by this
earlier film that we were
somewhat disappointed
with “Dracula Has Risen
From The Grave.” We al
so missed the presence
of Peter Cushing, who
gave an excellent por
trayal of Dr. Van Hel-
sing (Dracula’s nemesis)
in the earlier film. The
character of Van Helsing
is absent in the present
“Dracula,” but we are
given a comparable hero
in the Monsignor of Car-
beth. Rupert Davies is
marvelous as the portly,
knowledgeable Knight of
the Church and nearly
steals the show. The play
wright (John Elder) evi
dently recognized this,for
he has the Monsignor kill-
(Continued on page 4)
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Dick Gregory
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mented youth for keeping
Lyndon Johnson out of the
1968 Presidential race,
“LBJ was probably the
number one tyrant who
had walked the face of this
earth since Julius Cae
sar. And as far as Tricky
Dick is concerned, Nixon
knowns damn well that
he’s not as slick as LBJ.
He knows he is not as
smart as LBJ was, and
he’s got enough sense to
know that if you young
sters ran LBJ back out
you’re damn sure that
you’re bound to be able to
run him out,”
Of the Chicago demon
strations at the Democrat
Convention he asked, “In
Chicago last year, who do
you think was the most
immoral? The hippies and
yippies or the Shriners
when they were there for
their convention? Who do
you think committed the
most adultry and spent
the most money on drink
ing and prostitution? The
hippies and yippies or the
Shriners?”
Recalling the college
days of his generation
and their panty raids:
“Which is the march of
degeneracy — stealing
drawers or taking over
the administration build
ing?”
Of Black progress in A-
merica, Mr. Gregory
said, “The biggest break
through in the history of
America for Black folks
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America is the only coun
try on the face of this
earth that runs around
preaching one thing and
practicing something
else.”
Significantly, before
closing with a plea for
“trust ’ between all of
the groups that make up
America, Mr, Gregory
quoted: “We hold these
truths to be self-evident:
that all men are created
equal; that they are en
dowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable
rights; that among these
are life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness;that
to secure these rights,
governments are institut
ed among men, deriving
their just powers from the
consent of the governed;
that, whenever any form
of government becomes
destructive of these ends,
it is the right of the
people to alter or destroy
it...”
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