As I expected, I got no guesses sent in from our last photo. I knew it was going to be tough one because up until a few months ago, I never even knew of this movie. So don’t feel bad. The shot was taken from a made-for-TV movie from 1964 called The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre, starring Martin Landau and Diane Baker, and written and directed by Joseph Stefano. It’s a great little creepy ghost story film that thankfully is available on Blu-ray through Kino Lober. So yes, I do recommend everyone try and see this. I did have it in my Best of Viewings from last year.
But let’s get to this week’s photo. Take a look and see if this one is a little easier. It’s from a film most of us should know, but will you be able to recognize it from this shot. Just remember to email me your answers (jon@kitleyskrypt.com). Good Luck!
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Totally didn’t get that, even though I watched the film fairly recently.
Some trivia that might be of interest:
This film has quite a reputation here in Japan (where I live). As I’m sure you know it was originally made as a pilot for a US TV series, which was ultimately cancelled. To try to recoup some of the costs of making it, the producers added some extra footage to the pilot and distributed it as a feature film—mostly outside the US, and particularly here in Japan, where it was screened several times on TV in the late 60s.
This means that many Japanese people of a certain generation have memories of being absolutely terrified by it when they saw it on TV as kids. After its initial TV broadcasts, it became unavailable for decades and attained a kind of legendary status as a “lost” film.
I watched it about a year ago, after a friend of mine told me that it had become even more notorious when, in 2009, it was featured on a very popular TV show here called Knight Scoop, where each week a (fake) detective agency takes requests from the viewers—in this case to track down the elusive “Ghost of Sierra de Cobre.”
What really impressed my friend was that the reason the presenters gave for the film’s release being cancelled in the US was that it was…(wait for it)… “too frightening!!”
And sure enough, the lengthy Japanese Wikipedia page mentions this explanation—that it was reputedly so frightening that people actually became physically unwell during the test screening.
After hearing that, I was happily surprised to find it available on Japan’s Amazon Prime Video, which I guess is a testimony to its enduring legacy here.
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Sorry, I neglected to mention that I was talking about the previous “Mystery Photo”—from The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre, not the current one (which I also have no clue about).
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Sorry for the late reply, but I’m glad to see another fan of this movie. I just caught it for the first time last year and just loved it.
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