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The Secret History Of Hollywood

Shadows: Midnight Is Come

The Secret History Of Hollywood

Adam Roche

Tv & Film, Film History

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2019

⏱️ 372 minutes

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Summary

Following the success of The Body Snatcher, Val Lewton has become one of RKO's most valuable and lauded producers. As well as the many opportunities now being presented to him, Lewton has also embarked upon his first true "A-Picture", a dark tale of madness and cruelty set within the walls of the most notorious asylum in the world. But the shadows upon the screen are not the only ones closing in on Lewton... If you’ve enjoyed this episode, and would like to aid in its creation, then please consider becoming a patron of the shows! You’ll earn hundreds more hours of bonus content, including ALL complete series’ of The Secret History of Hollywood, as well as bonus documentaries, extra listening, movie commentaries, and much more! Simply go to www.patreon.com/attaboysecret and choose the tier you’d like to access or CLICK HERE Show Credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're listening to an airwave media podcast.

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On BBC A Player.

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I am doing life.

0:09.0

A few more years means nothing to me.

0:11.0

I'm pregnant.

0:12.0

Drayegis, I'm pregnant women.

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I've been old me electricity, that's all.

0:17.0

I don't think I should even be in here.

0:19.0

A new series of the Bafter Award winning time.

0:22.0

You tell anyone, and I mean anyone, about me, I will kill you.

0:28.0

Starring Jody Whitaker, Tomorrow Lawrence and Bella Ramsey.

0:32.0

Time. Watch on BBC I player.

0:35.0

For Ruth, who trusted me. It was at the foot of a country garden in England that a circus of fairies had gathered to see the axeman at his work.

0:50.0

The king and queen on high fan the summer Sun away with the help of a plucked

0:54.4

Daisy while watching over them. An Admiral of the Fairy Brigade next to two

0:58.9

fairy farmers who had broken away from tilling the flower beds with their plow to watch the commotion with the rest.

1:06.8

To their right, the fairy horners looked on at the sight of a fairy axeman, his tool held

1:11.7

high, a plump hazelnut at his feet, soon to feel the blade of the axe.

1:16.0

But where best to place the blow?

1:19.0

A demagogue, a rich man, a frowning artist, a baker's boy in two fairy maidens,

1:25.0

watch from between the stems of flowers from ruffles in the dirt, the axeman, as he planned the strike that would send the hazelnut in half. But the blow did not come. The axe remained

1:36.8

raised, poised to fall. The scene was beautiful, arcane and terrifying, and it spilled from the mind of Richard Dad,

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