[Sca-cooks]Was poppyseeds? now "The Shadow"

[Elaine Koogler]

And the art-deco settings, architecture and costumes were marvelous!!

Kiri

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> The very first shot in the mostly-ill-conceived and entirely ill-fated 
> movie "The Shadow" is one of an unnamed person collecting opium from 
> poppies using a gizmo a little like a nutmeg grater. Whether this is 
> accurate or not, I don't know. (For those lucky ones who haven't seen 
> it, this movie is a great deal like the 1989 Batman movie, with an 
> excellent opening five minutes, and downhill fast the rest of the way. 
> But the concept of the hero being a ruthless, murderous, drug-running 
> warlord in Chiang Kai-Shek-era Nepal, is not only cool but also 
> _almost_ faithful to the pulp magazine stories...)
>
> Adamantius
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