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

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Elaine Koogler:
>And the art-deco settings, architecture and costumes were marvelous!!

Yes. I want Moe Schrevnitz' taxi cab... but just 
imagine, say, Daniel Day Lewis in the title 
role...

Adamantius

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>Kiri
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>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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