CIS prints) is shown. The shot is a blowup and not the often-used publicity shot. I would guess that Hammer shot films not so much for foreign markets, but that the CJK censors would ban certain scenes and the prints would sim­ ply be sent to the US distributors with the cuts. Again, I’m only guessing about that. Secondly, somewhere in a past issue I read someone’s statement that THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU, a color picture, was not released in the CIS in a B&W version. It was released in a B&W version, as I
saw it on two separate occasions at two different theaters at the time. Furthermore, the CIS press- book by Warner Bros, does not indicate in any way that the re­ lease is in color.
Ron Borst Hollywood, CA
BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN PETRILLO
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of Bela Lugosi’s Judaism: Sammy Petrillo, with whom I am person­ ally acquainted, told me that while shooting BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA, he spot­ ted Lugosi in his dressing room reading THE FORWARD, the He­ brew language newspaper. When I questioned Petrillo (who is a sephardic Jew) about the veracity of his memories, he stuck by this story—maintaining that Lugosi was Jewish. I thought perhaps that Petrillo, who was very young at the time, may have confused some other foreign language newspaper with THE FORWARD, and over the years embellished his story to make it more interest­ ing. Such is the origin of myths. Stephen B. Kaplan Freehold, NJ
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