Kimbo and Wade will be linked with this idea.
Jon
The Hypnotic Private Eye
Caryl Chessman with Princess Marie Bonaparte (2 July 1882 – 21 September 1962) was a French author and psychoanalyst, closely linked with Sigmund Freud. Her wealth contributed to the popularity of psychoanalysis, and enabled Freud’s escape from Nazi Germany. Marie had two children.
Prince George and Princess Marie had two children, Petros and Evgenia.
- Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (1908–1980); an anthropologist, who forfeited his dynastic rights in Greece upon marriage to a commoner.
The Hypnotic Eye (1960)
Directed by George Blair
Shown: Lobby card
Two years ago I bought a glowing Eyeball at the McKenzie Bridge Community Center garage sale, and employed it in a fantasy tale at our campground with my kindred. A year later, I gave that eyeball away to the man who operated a Time Machine that took us back to the first Acid Test. A real Time Portal is now open. Those who can go with the flow, will get a glimpse of Shangri-La!
“Tomorrow night Cozmic Pizza will be celebrating the 50th. Aniversary of the Acid Tests Kesey conducted. In 1966 Kesey helped put on a show at the Open Theater in Berkeley where was founded, BEAF – Berkeley for the Experimental Arts Foundation. My friend Peter Shapiro played here with The Loading Zone, and weeks later at the Acid Test held at Longshoreman’s Hall.”
http://kval.com/news/local/replica-of-further-bus-makes-appearance-at-kesey-square
Here we go! I got a movie script for sale! This movie will unite the Bohemian World!
The Hypnotic Private Eye
A Movie Idea
by
Jon Presco
Copyrght 2016
SYNOPSIS
A group of Freud’s disciples team up with a group of men’s magazine writers (known as The Lustful Eye), a couple of horror movie makers, the King of the Beatniks (who owns the Hungry 1) and Princess Marie Bonaparte, who claims she is the grandmother of Caryl Chessman. Together they hatch a scheme to alter the conciousness of the world, with the help of the Macumba Love Drug. They want to create a vortex of super creative people in the legendary Shangri-La that Carl’s father, Prince Peter, discovered in his visit to Tibet. This is the scheme that Ken Kesey stumbled upon when he lived in the experimental community on Perry Lane in Menlo Park. There is powerful evidence Ken was put in a hypnotic trance he never got out of. The giant image of Kesey in Springfield holds the key that will unlock your mind! Study that bookcase! Long live the Grateful Dead of Macumba!
The famous detective, William Linhart, is left on the outskirts of this fantastic plot to alter humanity – for the good of all! For now, the right hand must not know what the left hand is doing. Bill was already working for Chessman, he gathering evidence that he is an innocent man. There is a plan to have Caryl be one of the judges of the Beautiful Busty Babes contest being held on Macumba Island. The producers are tying to get permission from the warden to have June Wilkinson come sit next to Caryl on Death Row, and be Judge No.2. It will be the world’s first live-telecast!
What happened to America since 911. We have lost our erotic innocence, our vaudeville ways. We used to want to see God. But not the wrathful God, the vengeful God, who would demand and eye for an eye!
Once upon a time in America, everyone wanted to be hypnotized, or wanted to hypnotize someone. Those days are dead and gone. Why? What are we afraid of? Is this why young people are texting as they walk? Are they afraid of their subconscious? Have they agreed to keep each other from going there? Afraid of what? Of what they might find – or not find?
http://www.hemispherehypnotherapy.com/HowDoesHypnosisWork.en.html
ACTION
While visiting his client, Caryl Chessman, he sees a regal looking dowager waiting to go into the Death Row block before him. The guard has told Chessman’s PI, he would have to wait until the Princess completed her visit. Her plane was late, and she had missed her appointment time. Curious, Bill Linhart came over to her, and asks if he could sit down next to her. Who knows. She might have a good lead.
BILL: Hello! My name is William Linhart. I am Caryl’s Private investigator. May I sit down.
PRINCESS NAPOLEON: Please. You look like a dapper enough gentleman. But, get rid of the cat hairs. They really standout on your dark blue suit. I happen to love and trust cat lovers, so, you are in my good favor.
BILL: Thank you! (takes a seat) I see you are quite the detective. Is there anything else you have deduced by my appearance?
PRINCESS: Why yes. You are a bachelor who lives alone, and your daughter ironed the wrinkles out of your suit this morning, because your cats lay down on it as soon as you flung it on chair by your bed.
BILL: How do you know it was my daughter?
PRINCESS: Your wife would have known to put a damp towel over it, and would not have left a glossy sheen on the material, that is somewhat scorched. I may be a princess, but, I have had to slum it now a then.
BILL: Very good! I will tell my daughter I talked to a real Princess detective – and she mentioned her. Care to guess her age?
PRINCESS: I don’t have to guess. She is nineteen, attending her first term at UC Law School, and still lives at home. Otherwise, she would live with her lover, but, she doesn’t have one at the moment. She thinks no one is good enough for her. She takes after her father. She considers it a privilege to take care of you. She respects you.”
Bill noticed his mouth was open, and closed it slowly hoping she had not noticed he was utterly impressed – and confounded! Is she a mind-reader?
PRINCESS: I grew up in court, and have spent much time around royal people – and wanna-be royal people. I became a great observer, and excellent judge of people. Your daughter has been a rescuer of stray cats most of her life. Your wife was allergic to them, and is why she ran away – and never came back! Your daughter blames herself, and will look after you until you’re dying day. She is a warm and gentle soul. Her mother was a shrew! Good riddance to her!
I am also one Freud’s greatest disciples – and one of the most highly trained psychologist in the world. I have dined with Freud at Rosenborg palace. We, were lovers on Macumba Island where we went after I rescued him from Adolph Hitler and his Killer Skull gang!
BILL: I am tempted to get down on one knee, and bow my head to you. You know me better than I know myself. I did not have the courage to say the truth out loud. Our little secret is now out. My wife was unbearable. She played the cello, badly. Pray tell, why are you here to see Caryl.
PRINCESS: He’s my grandson, and the son of Prince Peter. He’s the only one that knows the way to Shangri-La, but, the pathway is buried in subconscious. He was there, when he was two. Now excuse me. The guard beckons.
Bill rose when she did, and watched her go to the cell door. Just before it opened, she turned and with a smile
PRINCESS: You are mistaken. I am not crazy.
SCENE: CARYL’S CELL.
Bill enters and puts his briefcase down on the little table.
CARYL: Don’t bother asking. She told me you would. She’s a nut Bill. She’s using me like all the others. She’s either writing a book, or, is trying to get back in the limelight like all those other has-been royals. I got five of them lined up to see me. She insists I am Prince Caryl, heir to the throne of Denmark, and I have gazed upon the real royal regalia that was stolen by my alleged father and taken to Tibet where he was going to establish The Eternal Kingdom of Rex Mundi. She says I was there when Prince Peter, my alleged father, died. I wandered off thru the portal to Shangri-La. I wandered in the Himalaya mountains for days, and was found by my parents, who the Princess says are not my real parents. They were Baptist missionaries. And yes, it’s true, they did go to Tibet. They actually met the prince in their hotel.
Whatever! That woman is all bullshit. She looked up my family history, and concocted this amazing crock of bull. Now, let me see what you and David dug up. Is Woodfield still going to make Macumba Love? And what about Eric Nord, the ‘King of the Beatniks’? Did he give you any leads? You said he is tight with Herb Cain who is concluding I am a phony and guilty as all hell. Can we get Herbie baby to change his mind? Talk to Jim Bigalow at Sam’s where Caen writes his column. Jim is kin to Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor. He’s connected.
Nord told me Governor Brown has been sticking his little weenie between June Wilkinson’s big breasts down in the basement of the Hungry I, and jerking himself off! Is this true? I want her here with me to judge that beauty contest.
BILL: Can I ask you a question?
CARYL: Shoot!
BILL: Did she fuck Freud? I know you guys are tight and exchange letters. But, for my records.
CARYL: Yeah she fucked that whacko, a whole bunch of times, when they did that Love Drug on Macumba. Why do you want to know – for sure? Stay out of this, Bill. you’re way over your head if you fuck around with this Macumba deal. Let Woodfield and Nord handle it. They got the guys at Argosy, Stag, and Mermaid magazine working on it. Go talk to David. There’s something really big going down. I can feel it in the air. Caen may have put a hit on me. Here’s her card?”
BILL: Who’s card?” Bill asked, his head wheeling on the idea Herb Caen wanted to off Caryl before her gets offed by Brown – and the State of California Penal Code!
CARYL: Who do you think, dummy? Sometimes you can be a real Punk. I wonder why I hired you. I want you to get the skinny on the Princess. That’s why you’re here today. I wanted you to to meet, have it look that you ran into each other by chance. She’s onto something, and I ain’t talking about Shangri-La. Human beings are no good! Haven’t I proven that? See if she’s for real. She’s a sharp cookie. Watch yourself.
EXIT PRISON
Bill looked over his solider and began to pick the cat hairs off his suit. Caryl had become Information Central to many important people. He was like the Catholic Cardinal working the Confessional. Many people were telling him their deepest darkest secrets figuring he would take them to the grave with him. Those people stopped confessing when they heard Bill’s new book ‘The Kid Was a Killer’ was full of innuendos and gossip written in prison code taught to him by the Bird Man of Alcatraz – and other infamous inmates who never met such a quick learner. He was the master of Human Intrigue. It came to him naturally. No one was talking to Caen, and were talking to Caryl in hope it all came out in his book. Everyone was singing, ratting each other out. This is why the warden seized Caryl’s book. He had a team of experts comb through it. They found nothing. The KGB got wind of this, and they put a young agent on it.
Once it was on the market, a clever guy down at Mermaid magazine started a rumor that Chessman is going to publish Chessman’s Code Book, a means to break the code in his Killer book. But, only if he sold a million copies! The book flew off the shelf. Mere readers had been invested with a real goal, other than finishing a damn book. In two months, a million people crammed their clever minds with The Kid Was a Killer, and waited. And they waited.
Then, Hollywood stepped in. Never in the annals of Hollywood history were tickets to a movie pre-sold. Millions now hoped Caryl would not go to the gas chamber before the code got in the hands of humanity, while others prayed he would – die! The Chessman Code Countdown, was on. Hearst published the Chessman Crossword puzzle. They never sold so many newspapers. Camirillo State Mental Hospital began to fill with folks who swore they broke the code.
“Fuck Caryl. We don’t need no stinken code book!”
One crazy man invented a new chess game – only he could play! It was too complex to teach others. But, this did not stop him from trying. He called it the Chessman’s Chasm. Several nuts lost their mind trying to keep up with the lessons.
Bill was beginning to see Caryl as the new P.T. Barnum. Some folks were saying Caryl was Satan. Two authors suspected he was Baphomet, whomever that is? Where did he get such a clever mind? He can read human beings…………like the back of his hand. Just like……………The Princess.!
“Holy shit!” Bill, uttered aloud. Holy shit!
Getting in his Dodge Wayfarer, Bill made a beeline for the San Francisco public library. He wanted as much information of Prince Peter he could. When he he got there, he spotted the Bogarts huddled in a corner in front of a pile of books…..on hypnotherapy! Lauren was taking puffs on a cigarette she hid under the table. She was being the quintessential Bad Girl. Bill tried to hide the giant crush he had on her, but, he wore it on his sleeve. He was blushing when he approached these has-beens.
After co-starring in The Harder they Fall, Bogie’s career was washed up. He was accused of taking a creative dive. His co-star looked at him like a freak, and it showed on the silver screen. He was hunched over and bedraggled. Peter Falk resurrected this look for the Colombo series.
BILL: “What’s up, Bogie?” he asked and avoided making eye contact wit Lauren, lest his old case of stuttering come back.
BOGIE: Say Bill. Good to see ya. I’m studying for a role in a novel ‘The Hypnotic Private Eye’, Have you heard of it? I’m playing a gumshoe, like you. They want me for the role of this old eccentric who has all these pet white rats running around his house. I hate rats! They are a dirty animals.
LAUREN” Yeah, dirty rats. I hate them, too. Is that a gun in your pocket, Bill, or, are you just happy to see me?
BILL: Humma! Huma-huama! Haumma!”
LAUREN: Thanks for asking Bill, but I’m still in love with Bogie, and, I’m doing some research on Freud. Do you know anything about Freud?
TO BE CONTINUED
Jon Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press Co.
https://crimeways.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/the-kid-was-a-killer-by-caryl-chessman/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Woodfield
http://www.bmonster.com/horror26.html
Woodfield, on the other hand, had some intriguing things to say about the production, mentioning that Bergerac was not his choice for Desmond – Pedro Armendariz was his first pick. Armendariz wasn’t available though so Bergerac got the part and Lawrence Lipton and Eric “Big Daddy” Nord were hired for small bits to lure in the younger Beat audience. His own opinion of the film is not very favorable: “It was cast badly, and it wasn’t a very good movie by any stretch of the imagination [laughs]. I went on to do better things. This was an early, quick effort. I must tell you, I never took it very seriously, it was all just sort of a lark. The funny part about the movie is that a little magazine called Films in Review, a publication of the National Board of Review, listed at the end of each year the Best Films of the Year on the back page. And among the best films that year was The Hypnotic Eye [laughs] — I couldn’t f**kin’ believe it! That and Ben-Hur! I can’t figure that out. I’m not ashamed of The Hypnotic Eye. I’m not proud of it either. But I want to tell you something: Most people never make a movie. And this came out of probably the most wacko [idea for] making a movie in the world.”
http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/10/30/scarred-by-the-hypnotic-eye/
m: “Acid-Burned Beauty Found Unconscious.”
While Mr. Woodfield made a lucrative but relatively unknown career in screenwriting, he became most famous as a photographer. He took many portraits of film stars, such asElizabeth Taylor and Jayne Mansfield, for such magazines as “Life”, “Esquire” and “Playboy”. His most noted work was a series of nude photos of Marilyn Monroe, taken on the set of her umcompleted film, Something’s Got to Give (1962). In addition to writing and photography, Mr. Woodfield was an ardent magician. He acted as magic coordinator on the TV show, Mission: Impossible (1966), and founded the magic magazine, “Magicana”.
Eric Nord (1919–1989), also known as Eric “Big Daddy” Nord, was a Beat Generation-era nightclub owner, poet, actor, and hipster. Newspaper columnist Herb Caen called him the “king of the Beat Generation.” Corpulent, standing 6 feet 7 inches tall, Nord was the face of the Beat generation to San Francisco and Los Angeles newspaper readers in the late 1950s and the founder of thehungry i nightclub.
Nord was born Harry Helmuth Pastor in Krefeld, Germany to Dorothea, an American, and Carl Theodore Pastor, a German. As a child, he often accompanied his father on business trips to the United States. His parents divorced in 1920, and when he was 15, he left Germany in 1938. He studied acting in Los Angeles and took the stage name of Eric Nord. In 1942 or 1943, shortly after his arrival in San Francisco, he met and married Mary Hollister with whom he had three or four children, including Carl Paul Pastor. However, Mary left him within a few years.
In the early 1950s, Nord sometimes worked at the Co-Existence Bagel Shop (the self-described “Gateway to Beatnik Land”), a popular hangout in North Beach. (in Bagel Shop Jazz, the poet Bob Kaufman called its patrons “…shadow people…mulberry-eyed girls in black stockings, smelling vaguely of mint jelly…turtle neck angel guys…”). In 1950, Nord rented a basement in North beach where he and a growing number of young people, aspiring beatniks, hung out. He called the place the “hungry i” nightclub. Enrico Banducci later took over club and it became the cradle of stand-up comedy.
In June 1958, on orders from San Francisco mayor George Christopher to crack down on drug use and delinquency in North Beach, San Francisco police raided Nord’s Party Pad club and arrested him for operating a public dance without a license. Later that summer, on August 8, in an article titled “Schoolgirl Lost in Beatnik Land”, San Francisco Chronicle readers learned that two high school girls in Eric “Big Daddy” Nord’s production of Archy and mehitabel had disappeared after the previous night’s performance. Chronicle readers learned how Nord and another man had taken the girls on a car trip. Nord, driving his Oldsmobileat the end of a beatnik procession, saying his interest in the girls was only fatherly, turned himself in at the Hall of Justice. His much-publicized trial ended in December, when he was fined $300 and given three years’ probation. Said the presiding judge, “You and your friends in Beatnikland emphasize your unusual ways to give an impression that you have talent, ability and stature, when actually a person looking into you finds no talent at all.” Later, the same judge overturned his own verdict.
After his 1958 trial, Nord declared bankruptcy, moved to Venice in Southern California, and, putting his entrepreneurial ability to good use, started The Gas House, a café that soon became popular with Los Angeles beatniks and poets, who read their work alongside Nord. The Gas House was used as the setting for a cult horror filmcalled The Hypnotic Eye (1960) that featured Nord as a bongo-playing beatnik. The role helped to launch Nord’s brief film career.
In the mid-1960s, Nord returned to Northern California, where, in Scotts Valley, he converted a barn into a psychedelic night club that catered to hippies and was the scene of some of Ken Kesey‘s happenings. In the early 1970s, he operated a “cultural center” in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood. In 1972 Nord appeared as the character ‘God’ in a San Francisco underground photo-comic titled ‘SuperJesus’ now rated an underground comix classic. He moved to Los Gatos in 1975 and remained there until his death in 1989.
Macumba (Portuguese pronunciation: [maˈkũᵐbɐ]) is a word meaning both “a musical instrument” and “magic”. It was the name used for all non-Abrahamic religious practices in Brazil during the 19th century. In the 20th century, these practices re-aligned themselves into what are now called Umbanda and Quimbanda. The term “macumba” became common in Brazil and it is used by non-practitioners as a pejorative term meaning “witchcraft”.
Macumba is practiced in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. There appears to be a relationship with the concept of the Boto (the fresh-water porpoise found in the Amazonas River and its tributaries) having shape-shifting abilities and then while in the form of a human male having sexual relations with young women. This belief was noted in several Indigenous American villages along the Amazonas (Solimões) River, Rio Negro, and Rio Japurá.
Macumba is widely practiced throughout the Southern Cone. Many practitioners continue to practice their traditional religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc.) but also practice Macumba.
Some practitioners purport to use Macumba to inflict harm, financial failure, illness, death, etc. on other people for various reasons. Commonly, a Macumba spiritual leader will ask for a picture of the person on whom retribution is sought, with the name of the person written on the back of the picture.
This has to be one of the funniest whacked out pictures ever made! Not intentionally, of course. It’s supposed to be a mystery, but unless you’re below the age of five and are still baffled by “Scooby-Doo,” you’re bound to catch on early. In fact, it takes longer to figure out what’s going on than who’s responsible!
The film starts out with a woman who sets her hair on fire by sticking her head over a burner on her stove. She stands up and screams, and some very fake-looking “flames” dance upon her head.
Cut to a scene of an ambulance. You know, in case you didn’t know that setting your hair on fire is in fact very very bad for you. This gives the film time to announce the title (“THE HYPNOTIC EYE!”) and the cast of characters. “Lawrence Lipkin” as “King of the Beatniks.” Hmm…isn’t 1960 a little late for the beatnik crowd? The ambulance/credits scene reminds one of “The Naked Gun”…remember, though, these guys were trying to be serious!
So our little play gets underway soon enough. A couple of dippy couples — Steve, Marcia, Dodie, and Philip go to see the renowed Desmond the hypnotist, who is at least township-wide famous, if not county-wide. Desmond does lots of silly party-trick hypnotic acts and seems harmless enough. He calls Dodie to the stage, where he brings out THE HYPNOTIC EYE! We don’t see this, though. Instead, we see Dodie fall into a trance, and Desmond whispers in her ear (hmmm), and then some more party tricks. Everyone enjoys the show.
So the wanna-be Scooby gang is heading home, when suddenly Dodie stops and announces that she’s not coming along. As in “Hey, we’re in the alley behind the theater, and there’s really nothing here, but hey guys, I have to go in the opposite direction now. Don’t worry, I’ll catch a cab home! Bye!” Of course, the gang is completely fooled by Dodie’s clever lie. After they leave, we see that what stopped Dodie in her tracks was a picture of — gasp — Desmond!
Later, in her apartment, Dodie tries to wash her face with acid or something. And, in case you didn’t realize it, WASHING YOUR FACE WITH ACID IS VERY VERY BAD FOR YOU. Of course, she ends up in the hospital. Apparently this must be the “women with bizarre and rather traumatic head wounds” hospital, because this is the same place where they sent the woman with the burned hair, as well as a woman who stuck her face into a fan. Hey! Could something weird be happening? Maybe it has something to do with THE HYPNOTIC EYE?
Well, in this city, it’s best not to turn to the police for help. Steve, who’s a detective, is just baffled. Philip, who’s a doctor, is also baffled. Dodie has no memory of washing her face with acid, or going to see Desmond. And, surprisingly, none of the other women remember mangling themselves, and, no, they didn’t go to see Desmond. Even though one of them has a “Desmond” balloon as a momento. See? He’s got to be famous if he has merchandising!
Hmm. They all went to see Desmond, the hypnotist. And they all remember nothing. And he’s a hypnotist. And they REMEMBER NOTHING. Yup, I’d be baffled, too.
Well to be fair, they do sort of suspect Desmond. So of course, in the tradition of not-yet-invented 1970s TV, they decide to go undercover. Well, Marcia does. At Desmond’s next show, she manages to get picked by Desmond and his mean-looking assistant, Justine (the 50-foot woman herself, Allison Hayes! — not 50-feet tall here).
On stage, Desmond lines her up like he did Dodie, and then produces…dum dum dum…THE HYPNOTIC EYE! Poor Marcia blinks, hovers, then falls into a trance! He whispers in her ear! Oh no!
Now this is the point where we finally get to see THE HYPNOTIC EYE, and, well, it’s a strobe light. That’s it, just a hand-held strobe light. The great Desmond’s entire career is based on a cheap toy from Radio Shack. Is this a master magician? Do you think David whats-his-name-that’s-married-to-supermodel walks into the local “Best Buy” at the mall and says “Hey, I’m here to pick up some supplies!”? What other magician’s tricks lie on the shelves of Radio Shack? The cheap, knock-off RC cars? The overseas voltage converters?
So Marcia goes home and tells boyfriend Steve and Dr. Philip what happened. Seems that when she blinked and wavered, she almost fell under THE HYPNOTIC EYE’S power but managed to stay strong, then pretended to fall asleep. So she heard what Desmond whispered to her…something about meeting him in his dressing room at some later time. So, of course, she’s going to go. Isn’t that what the Scooby Gang would do?
Philip says something funny here, which makes no sense at all of course. When Marcia reveals that THE HYPNOTIC EYE is just a strobe light, he declares that it’s the most dangerous thing ever in the history of mankind. Well, not that bad, but he seems overly concerned. The others nod, and probably think to themselves, “Geez, Doc Philip has LOST HIS MIND! Better get a new friend, fast!” Then they ignore him.
So brave and plucky Marcia goes to see Desmond. He’s off-camera, in another room, and Marcia takes the chance to poke around. There’s a box on the desk — she opens it to find THE HYPNOTIC EYE! This time, she can’t resist! Now, for some bizarre reason, Desmond is in the other room saying things like, “You’re getting sleepy,” and other hypnotic phrases that, luckily, help put the whammy on Marcia. But she’s supposed to be under his spell already! Does he just practice these phrases at odd moments? In the dressing room, on the bus, in the library, in the checkout counter…you gotta wonder. He comes out, finally, and finds Marcia asleep at the desk. So he tells her to act if she’s awake, and she pops up, plucky and brave as ever. So they go out for some dinner and dancing.
It’s a good thing Marcia is hypnotized, because Desmond takes her to some by-the-pier dump that no man would take a date if he ever wanted to see her again. Does Desmond take all the girls here?
Hey! Look! It’s Lawrence Lipton, the KING OF THE BEATNIKS! He and his bongo drummer beat out a freaky tune, man, some jive about TV or something, you know? Oh man, he’s a cube, man, a real flat tire, he’s putting us on the train to Squareville! Why is he there? Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe the producers said to themselves, “Hey, we need a way to make this film seem dated before it even comes out!”
Well, after a wild night of dinner, dancing, and mind control, Desmond and his new squeeze return to her apartment. Soon after, Justine shows up! Meaner than ever! Even hypnotized, robo-Marcia is scared! “Stay asleep,” Justine commands, and Marcia does so, even though she was hypnotized by Desmond and not Justine. Maybe Justine is just that scary? Possibly.
In a shocking turn of events we find out that it’s Justine who wants these girls in the “women with bizarre and rather traumatic head wounds” hospital, because she takes Marcia into the bathroom and cranks the shower up until it’s scalding hot and orders her to get in.
Luckily Steve blunders his way into the apartment. Desmond gets the slip, but Justine and Marcia are trapped inside the bathroom.
Hope you’re not getting popcorn now, for here cometh the best line in the movie. Justine turns off the shower and commands Marcia to go greet Steve. To cover for herself, she tells Marcia that she is an old roommate who just stopped in. This seemed plausible to me, except for: (A) It’s late at night, and (B) Marcia is in a bathrobe.
But quick-witted Steve isn’t falling for that. Justine wisely makes a quick exit. When Steve asks who she was, Marcia obediently tells him that it was an old roommate.
“But Marcia, you went to public schools!” he says. Oh, right. What am I thinking? College? For a GIRL? Of course a roommate would be an old boarding school roomate. Girls don’t go to college! At least, when you’re making a movie about beautiful women being turned into the mindless slaves of an ugly guy, they don’t.
Well even Marcia is rattled by Steve’s indestructible logic, and she breaks the spell. So now they have solved the mystery! And it only took Steve the near deaths of two of his friends to solve the case! Get this man a medal! Now all they have to do is round up Desmond and Justine.
Of course, having just escaped from the law and having failed to dispose of their victim or properly erase her memory, our criminal couple decide to…put on a show as usual! Nothing can stop the county-famous Desmond! He’s got balloons to peddle, you know, and Wednesday is always the hot night at the beatnik-bongo-dockside club.
So Steve and crazy Dr. Philip go to catch Desmond. And for reasons never explained, Marcia is still under Desmond’s spell. When Steve looks for her, she’s gone, and we see her waiting attentively in the theater (home of Desmond and THE HYPNOTIC EYE).
During the performance, Desmond tries out his tricks on the audience. I guess this was part of the days of gimmicky cinema (like “The Tingler” and other audience-participation films) because Desmond is looking right into the camera, as if he were talking to you and me. He tells us that we can’t pull our fingers apart and other silly party tricks. “You cannot! YOU CANNOT!” he tells us, although I could. Just fine, thank you.
Then, again for unexplained reasons, Desmond whips out the trusty EYE. “Look! Look into THE HYPNOTIC EYE!” he says, turning that annoying strobe light towards the camera. Yes…I am getting sleepy…no, that’s just eyestrain from the pesky flashing. Apparently a woman in the film audience feels it too, because she screams, and panic breaks out as people flee the minor annoyance that is THE HYPNOTIC EYE!
Things move pretty quickly now. There’s a catwalk-level showdown involving our heroes, Desmond, Justine, and the semi-hypnotized Marcia. We discover still more shocking truths about Justine — she’s not just his assistant, she’s Mrs. Desmond! (And all this time, he’s been cheating on her with semi-awake younger women!) AND, she was horribly disfigured. Now, as we all know from Disney films, having a scar of some sort makes you an evil madman, and this is proven once again by crazy Justine. See, she made Desmond disfigure all of those women so that she could be the most beautiful woman in the world again. Keep in mind that (A) Justine is wearing such excellent makeup that we never know of her disfigurement until the movie’s end; (B) she’s still billed and recognized as “the beautiful assistant;” and (C) there are still millions of women to go, and Desmond only has one show per night.
Mean old Justine gets what’s coming to her, if death was what was coming to her, because, well, that’s what she gets. Our heroes save the day and rescue plucky Marcia, who somehow in all this confusion had gotten herself in a precarious position.
So Desmond, you have the power of THE HYPNOTIC EYE, and your wife is telling you to make pretty women hurt themselves? Hey, here’s a clue — next time, show your wife THE HYPNOTIC EYE, and command her to stop bothering you about pretty women!
And so, with that lesson left unlearned, our play comes to an end.
Scenes to watch for: Woman with hair on “fire”; crazy Dr. Phil talks wildly about the incredible dangers of THE HYPNOTIC EYE; and, of course, all of the scenes involving THE HYPNOTIC EYE!
Best line: The roommate stuff. Has to be seen in context to be fully appreciated!
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https://crimeways.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/the-kid-was-a-killer-by-caryl-chessman/
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While Mr. Woodfield made a lucrative but relatively unknown career in screenwriting, he became most famous as a photographer. He took many portraits of film stars, such asElizabeth Taylor and Jayne Mansfield, for such magazines as “Life”, “Esquire” and “Playboy”. His most noted work was a series of nude photos of Marilyn Monroe, taken on the set of her umcompleted film, Something’s Got to Give (1962). In addition to writing and photography, Mr. Woodfield was an ardent magician. He acted as magic coordinator on the TV show, Mission: Impossible (1966), and founded the magic magazine, “Magicana”.
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The Hypnotic Eye (1960) is a horror film, released by Allied Artists on February 27, 1960, starring Jacques Bergerac,Allison Hayes, Merry Anders, Eric “Big Daddy” Nord, and Ferdinand Demara, billed as “Fred Demara”.[1]
Mysterious hypnotist Desmond (Jacques Bergerac) comes to town to present his act, just as a series of women gruesomely disfigure themselves, apparently while in a trance. A local doctor and a detective try to find the reason.
Cast[edit]
- Jacques Bergerac as Desmond
- Allison Hayes as Justine
- Marcia Henderson as Marcia Blaine
- Merry Anders as Dodie Wilson
- Joe Patridge as Det. Sgt. Dave Kennedy
- Guy Prescott as Dr. Philip Hecht
- Fred Demara as Hospital Doctor
- Jimmy Lydon as Emergency Doctor
- Lawrence Lipton as King of the Beatniks
Production background[edit]
Some scenes — showing Nord playing bongo drums and Lawrence Lipton as “King of the Beatniks” — were supposedly filmed at Nord’s beatnik cafe, The Gas House, in Venice, California.
The film, which claimed to be filmed in the “HypnoMagic” process, has been called a “camp classic” and “misogynist“. Bergerac was the former husband of Ginger Rogers and Hayes had just starred in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
The consultant for the hypnosis used in the film was Gil Boyne. Gil Boyne founded the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners and the Hypnotism Training Institute in Glendale California, both of which still flourish today. Because Gil personally trained Bergerac, the hypnosis demonstrated in the film, in particular the live performance segments is very accurate. Although the film is a work of fiction, the hypnosis is very much the same as used in hypnosis stage shows touring the world today. Gil also performed live shows between screenings of the film at the opening at the Golden Gate Theater in San Francisco and went on a press tour to promote the movie appearing on numerous T.V. news and talk shows performing live hypnosis demonstrations.
The “Hypnomagic” part of the film although somewhat implied was not a filming process like 3D. “Hypnomagic” was advertised on the posters as an “Amazing New Audience Thrill” and although new to film was a much more organic and time tested approach than 3D. “Hypnomagic” featured the Bergerac character performing segments in the film where he looks directly into the camera and as such at the movie theater audience and performs some hypnotic suggestibility tests with them. These hypnotic suggestibility tests are still common in today’s hypnosis stage shows. One suggestibility test presented in the film involved the use of a balloon with an eye printed on it, when the film was in its original run in theaters each theater goer received an eye balloon to use during the demonstration. The “Hypnomagic” suggestibility tests were just as effective with those who participated in the movie theater audience as they are with live audiences attending stage hypnosis shows today.
As a point of post history on the film, there is a scene in the film where a lady while in the trance state thinks her stove is her sink and washes her hair in the stove, receiving horrific burns and disfigurement. In the 60’s the Kodak film company took that scene and using a then cutting edge process made a lenticular photo out of it. When moving the photo up and down the girls head would catch on fire. The photo was a little larger than business card size and used as a give away to buyers, to spotlight the new photo process that the Kodak company was promoting at the time.
The Danish Royal Regalia are kept in the Schatzkammer at Rosenborg Castle. The oldest of these is Christian III‘s sword of state from 1551. They further include King Christian IV‘s diamond; pearl- and gold-embroidered saddles; objects carved from ivory and rock-crystal; lapidary pieces of precious stones, and brooches in the form of fantastic animals.
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Princess Marie Bonaparte (2 July 1882 – 21 September 1962) was a French author and psychoanalyst, closely linked with Sigmund Freud. Her wealth contributed to the popularity of psychoanalysis, and enabled Freud’s escape from Nazi Germany.
Marie Bonaparte was a great-grandniece of Emperor Napoleon I of France. She was a daughter of Prince Roland Bonaparte (19 May 1858 – 14 April 1924) and Marie-Félix Blanc (1859–1882). Her paternal grandfather was Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, son of Lucien Bonaparte, who was one of Napoleon’s rebellious and disinherited younger brothers.[1] For this reason, despite her title Marie was not a member of the dynastic branch of the Bonapartes who claimed the French imperial throne from exile.[1] Her maternal grandfather was François Blanc, the principal real-estate developer of Monte Carlo. It was from this side of her family that Marie inherited her great fortune.
The House of Murat (French: Maison Murat, Italian: Casa Murat), collectivley known as Princes of Murat, is a noble family created by Napoleon I for his brother-in-law Joachim Murat who would serve as King of Naples. On the 5 December 1812 Joachim’s second son Lucien was also created sovereign Prince of Pontecorvo (of an enclave in theKingdom of Naples), in succession to Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte by an Imperial Decree.[1] The Prince of Pontecorvo title is still used to this day for the heir to the Prince Murat.[2]
Charles XIV & III John, also known as Carl John, (Swedish and Norwegian: Karl Johan; 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) was King of Sweden (as Charles XIV John) and King of Norway (as Charles III John) from 1818 until his death and served as de facto regent and head of state from 1810 to 1818. When he became Swedish royalty, he had also been the Sovereign Prince of Pontecorvo in Central-Southern Italy from 1806 until 1810[1] (title established on June 5, 1806 byNapoleon), but then stopped using that title.
He was born Jean Bernadotte[2] and subsequently had acquired the full name of Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte[3][needs IPA] by the time Carl also was added upon his Swedish adoption in 1810. He did not use Bernadotte in Sweden but founded the royal dynasty there by that name.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_II,_Prince_of_Monaco
Several candidates for future husband presented themselves or were considered by Prince Roland for his daughter’s hand, notably a distant cousin of the princely House of Murat, Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and Louis II, Prince of Monaco. Following a Parisian luncheon Prince Roland hosted for King George I of Greece in September 1906 during which the king agreed to the prospect of a marriage between their children, Prince George of Greece and Denmark, second of the king’s five sons, was introduced to Marie on 19 July 1907 at the Bonapartes’ home in Paris.[2] He courted her for twenty-eight days, confiding that from 1883, George had lived not at his father’s Greek court in Athens, but at Bernstorff
Palace near Copenhagenwith Prince Valdemar of Denmark, his father’s youngest brother. The queen had taken the boy to Denmark to enlist him in theDanish royal navy and consigned him to the care of Valdemar, who was an admiral in the Danish fleet. Feeling abandoned by his father on this occasion, George described to his fiancée the profound attachment he developed for his uncle.[3] He admitted that, contrary to what he knew were her hopes, he could not commit to living permanently in France since he was obligated to undertake royal duties in Greece or on its behalf if summoned to do so.[2] Once his proposal of marriage was accepted, the bride’s father was astonished when George waived any contractual clause guaranteeing an allowance or inheritance from Marie; she would retain and manage her own fortune (a trust yielding 800,000 francs per annum, her father leaving 60 million francs on his death in 1924) and only their future children would receive legacies.[2]
Marie Bonaparte carried on a passionate flirtation with Prince Aage, Valdemar’s eldest son. In neither case does it appear that George objected, or felt obliged to give the matter any attention.[8] However, George criticized Marie d’Orléans to his wife, alleging that she drank too much and was having an affair with his uncle’s stablemaster. But Marie Bonaparte found no fault with her husband’s aunt, rather, she admired the forbearance and independence of Valdemar’s wife under circumstances which caused her bewilderment and estrangemet from her own husband.[9]
From 1913 to early 1916, George’s wife carried on an intense flirtation, then an affair until May 1919 with French prime minister Aristide Briand. In 1915 Briand wrote to Marie that, having come to know and like Prince George, he felt guilty about their secret passion. George tried to persuade him that Greece, officially neutral duringWorld War I but suspected of sympathy for the Central Powers, really hoped for an Allied victory: He may have influenced Briand to support the disastrous Allied expedition against the Turks at Salonika.[10] When the prince and princess returned in July 1915 to France following a visit to the ailing King Constantine I in Greece, her affair with Briand had become notorious and George expressed a restrained jealousy. By December 1916 the French fleet was bombing Athens and in Paris Briand was suspected, alternately, of having seduced Marie in a futile attempt to bring Greece over to the Allied side, or of having been seduced by her to oust Constantine and set George upon the Greek throne.[11]
Although he was on friendly terms with his wife’s mentor, Sigmund Freud, in 1925 George asked Marie to give up her work as a psychoanalyst to devote herself to their family life, but she declined.[12] When he learned from the newspapers in 1938 that his only son had married a Russian commoner, George forbade him to return home and refused ever to meet his wife.[13]
Prince George and Princess Marie had two children, Petros and Evgenia.
- Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (1908–1980); an anthropologist, who forfeited his dynastic rights in Greece upon marriage to a commoner.
- Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (1910–1988); married, firstly, Prince Dominic Radziwill (1939), whom she divorced in 1948. Her second husband wasHSH Prince Raymundo della Torre e Tasso, Duke of Castel Duino, whom she married in 1949 and divorced in 1965. She had children from both marriages.
Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Πρίγκιψ Πέτρος της Ελλάδος; 3 December 1908 – 15 October 1980) was a Greek soldier and anthropologist specialising in Tibetan culture and polyandry. Born in Paris and high in the line of succession to the Greek throne, Prince Peter was deemed to have forfeited his succession rights by marrying a twice-divorced Russian commoner, Irina Aleksandrovna Ovtchinnikova. Following his first scientific voyage to Asia, Peter served as an officer of the Greek army during the Second World War. The Prince returned to Asia several more times for his research of Tibetan culture. He strongly protested against the royal family’s treatment of his wife. After King Paul‘s death, he declared himself heir presumptive to the Greek throne, on the pretext that female dynasts had been unlawfully granted succession rights in 1952. Peter eventually separated from his wife and died childless in London.
A member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Prince Peter was the elder child and only son of Prince George of Greece and Denmark and the wealthy author and psychoanalystPrincess George (née Princess Marie Bonaparte). His father was the second son of King George I of Greece and his mother the only daughter of the French botanist Prince Roland Bonaparte.[1]
Peter took more than 3,000 photographs of Tibetans.[6] When he asked them if they had body hair(an important piece of information in anthropology), the relatively hairless Tibetans roared with laughter. They were excited when he showed them his own chest hair, and exclaimed that he must be a monkey. One man did not understand why the Prince bothered to wear a shirt, given that he already had hair.[7]
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Shortly after the King’s marriage to their cousin, Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, the uninvited Prince Peter called a press conference in Athens and openly questioned the legality of the constitutional amendment. Above all, he attacked his cousin Paul’s widow, the tremendously unpopular Queen Frederika, and accused her of having a bad influence on her son.[4][9] King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie’s first child, Princess Alexia, was born in 1965 and designated as the new heir presumptive, but Peter refused to recognise that either.[5][9] Following the rupture between King Constantine and Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou the same year, the Prince openly criticised the King’s conduct and suggested himself as an alternative to Constantine II. However, the abolishment of the monarchy and the proclamation of the Third Hellenic Republic in 1973 did not allow Peter to fulfill his dream of ascending the Greek throne.[4]
After the monarchy was abolished, Prince Peter decided to liquidate his possessions in Greece, most notably his residence in Glyfada. From then on, he and his wife spent their time in London, Paris and Copenhagen. As the years passed by, their relationship deteriorated. They eventually decided to separate, but not officially. Ovtchinnikova moved to Hong Kong, while Peter took up a relationship with a young Englishwoman who lived with him in Copenhagen.[9]
Prince Peter continued to support the Tibetan cause. He was the President of the Nordic Council for Tibetan Assistance and was instrumental in helping Tibetans to Scandinavia in the 1960s.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George_of_Greece_and_Denmark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_X_of_Denmark
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