Karkull, I just remembreed there are a few more Easter Eggs embedded in ‘…And Be A Villain’….
’Yvonne Frances’ gets her name from actress Frances Drake and the character she played in the classic 1935 shocker MAD LOVE, Yvonne Orlac.
’Darryl Manning’ is somewhat suggestive of David Manners, who played the handsome-but-largely-ineffectual ‘hero’ in three famous Universal Horrors, DRACULA, THE MUMMY and THE BLACK CAT.
(Oh, and speaking of THE BLACK CAT, William Hastings’cliffside mansion in ‘The Stress of Her Regard’ is reminiscent of Boris Karloff’s Bauhaus-style ‘castle’ in that film.)
Besides ‘Dwayne Freed‘ / Dwight Frye, there are similar anagramatic or misspelled versions of the names of frequent Universal supporting players Edward Van Sloan and Michael Mark on the stars lining the hallway outside Karlo’s dressing room, but they’re way too small to be legible, even in HD.
Karlo/Ellman’s face showing the imprint of Montoya’s fist is something that occasionally happened to classic pulp hero Richard Henry Benson, The Avenger.
’Yvonne Frances’ gets her name from actress Frances Drake and the character she played in the classic 1935 shocker MAD LOVE, Yvonne Orlac.
’Darryl Manning’ is somewhat suggestive of David Manners, who played the handsome-but-largely-ineffectual ‘hero’ in three famous Universal Horrors, DRACULA, THE MUMMY and THE BLACK CAT.
(Oh, and speaking of THE BLACK CAT, William Hastings’cliffside mansion in ‘The Stress of Her Regard’ is reminiscent of Boris Karloff’s Bauhaus-style ‘castle’ in that film.)
Besides ‘Dwayne Freed‘ / Dwight Frye, there are similar anagramatic or misspelled versions of the names of frequent Universal supporting players Edward Van Sloan and Michael Mark on the stars lining the hallway outside Karlo’s dressing room, but they’re way too small to be legible, even in HD.
Karlo/Ellman’s face showing the imprint of Montoya’s fist is something that occasionally happened to classic pulp hero Richard Henry Benson, The Avenger.