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Stunt man Eddie Powell, director Freddie Francis and actresses Hazel Court, Janette Scott and Janina Faye were among the Guest line-up for the 10th Festival of Fantastic Films this September. Having been held every year in Manchester, UK, throughout the 1990s, and though with attendances of only a few hundred, the Festival has not only become an event of national significance for British fantastic film fans, but regularly sees pros and fans from such places as the US or Japan. Indeed in recent years the event has seen premièred a number of independent movies and this year was no exception with the première of
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After a depressed good magician Erasmus Craven (Vincent Price) reads Poe's poem The Raven and laments for his deceased wife Lenore (Hazel Court), a foul-talking raven flies into his quarters. The raven is devious small-time magician Dr. Bedlo (Peter Lorre), who was transformed by powerful evil magician Dr. Scarabus (Boris Karloff) as a punishment for insulting his powers and asks Erasmus to restore him to his rightful form. This calls for a potion with ingredients such as bat's blood, shavings from a gallow's bird, and dead man's hair. Erasmus gets those ingredients in his deceased father's lab, which he unlocks for the first time in 20 years. Dad was a former Grand Master of the Brotherhood of Magicians, where Scarabus is now Grand Master and Bedlo a member. Erasmus quit two years ago when Lenore died.
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Hazel Court pupils battled through the recent local heat of the consumer quiz held in Eastbourne. They will now head to the Excel Centre in London to take part in the national final on Tuesday 20 June 2006. The final will be hosted by Liz Barclay from the BBC Radio Four ‘You and Yours’ programme.
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Court was born in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England. Her father was a notable cricketer. At the age of fourteen, she studied drama at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Alexander Theatre... in Birmingham. At the age of sixteen she met the director Sir Anthony Asquith in London, which won her a brief part in the 1944 film Champagne Charlie.
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The 30-year old Miss Court got her big break in 1957, when she was tapped to star opposite Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in the first of Hammer Studios' horror films "The Curse of Frankenstein." As reported in the British movie magazine "Picturegoer:"
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Court won a British Critics Award for her role as a crippled girl in Carnival (1946). She ... appeared in Holiday Camp (1947) and Bond Street (1948). Her first role in a fantasy film was in Ghost Ship (1952). She also appeared in the campy Devil Girl from Mars and Doctor Blood's Coffin.
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