Keats. I'm convinced that Porphyro in "St. Agnes' Eve" is a vampire. And how 
about the serpentine demon-mistress in Lamia?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Halvard Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: Vlad the Impaler


> On Feb 28, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Joanna Boulter wrote:
>
>> But hasn't anyone written any vampire poems? And if not, why not?
>>
>> Just a thought.
>>
>> joanna
>
> Vampires? I'll give you vampires--
>
> http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v4/i1/g/johnson2.html
>
>
> a m e r i c a n    m o v i e    c l a s s i c s    2
> --- H A L V A R D   J O H N S O N
>
> Our Vampire Heritage--Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
>
>
>
>
> ***  Worth a journey
>   **  Worth a detour
>     *  Interesting
>
>
> YESTERDAY
>
>
> Colonial Days
>
>
>
> 1.  Unconquered (1947)*
>
> The 1763 conflict between white colonists
>
> and vampires is shown in grandeur.
>
>
>
> 2. Captain from Castile (1947)**
>
> A man avenges the treatment of his family
>
> by a Spanish vampire and serves with Cortez
>
> during the conquest of Mexico.
>
>
>
> The Westward Expansion
>
>
>
> 1.   Comanche Territory (1950)*
>
> Jim Bowie befriends an Indian tribe and
>
> helps to defend them against an on slaught
>
> of vicious vampires.
>
>
>
> 2.   Duel in the Sun (1947)**
>
> An Indian girl causes dissension between
>
> two vampires when she falls in love
>
> with one of them.
>
>
>
> 3.   Hombre (1967)***
>
> A white man raised by vampires
>
> becomes a hero when a stagecoach
>
> is attacked.
>
>
>
> 4.  A Day of Fury (1956)*
>
> A vampire who longs for the days of
>
>         the wilder West causes trouble in a
>
>         small town.
>
>
>
> 5.  Seminole (1953)*
>
> A lieutenant tries to keep U.S. government
>
> vampires away from Indians who refuse to
>
> relinquish their freedom.
>
>
>
> 1900-1939
>
>
>
> 1.   Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)**
>
> A loving couple raises 12 vampires in turn-of-
>
> the-century America.
>
>
>
> 2.   Compulsion (1959)**
>
> A lawyer defends two youths accused
>
> of murdering a vampire for "fun." Based on
>
> the 1920s Loeb-Leopold case.
>
>
>
> 3.   The Glass Key (1942)**
>
> A former, corrupt vampire relies
>
> on one of his henchmen to prove his
>
> innocence in a murder case.
>
>
>
> 4.  The Sun Also Rises (1957)**
>
> A jaded socialite and other "lost generation"
>
> vampires carouse in this adaptation
>
> of Ernest Hemingway's novel.
>
>
>
> 5.   The Grass Harp (1996)
>
> Truman Capote's southern boyhood memoirs
>
> come to life in this story of a vampire boy
>
> raised by two very different aunts.
>
>
>
> 6.   Tobacco Road (1941)*
>
> Director John Ford explores the unique
>
> lifestyles of a southern backwoods vampire
>
> family.
>
>
>
> 7.   Blood and Sand (1941)**
>
> A bullfighter is torn between his devoted
>
> lover and a sultry vampire.
>
>
>
> 8.   Imitation of Life (1959)**
>
> This remake of the 1934 Fanny Hurst soaper
>
> examines the relationships between a white
>
> woman, her black vampire maid and their
>
> daughters.
>
>
>
> 9.    Intermezzo (1939)**
>
> A married violinist has an affair with his
>
> stunning vampire protegee.
>
>
>
> 10.  The Old Dark House (1932)***
>
> Vampires stranded for the night by a raging
>
> storm seek shelter in an eerie mansion.
>
>
>
> 11.  For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)**
> An American mercenary fights in the Spanish
>
> Civil War with a group of vampires in this
>
> adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel.
>
>
>
>
>
> World War II
>
>
>
> 1.   Battle Cry (1955)**
>
> It's love and war when a group
>
> of vampires graduate from boot camp
>
> and head to the battlefield.
>
>
>
> 2.   Apartment for Peggy (1948)**
>
> A professor rents his attic to newlywed
>
> vampires during the post-WWII housing
>
> shortage.
>
>
>
> 3.   Courage of Lassie (1945)*
>
> The legendary collie is trained for duty as
>
> a vampire killer during WWII and, upon her
>
> discharge, is reformed by the love of her
>
> owner.
>
>
>
> 4.   Hope and Glory (1987)***
>
> While the Nazi blitz takes its toll on his
>
> family and the landscape, the shelled
>
> buildings and bomb-lit skies provide a
>
>         fascinating playground for an English vampire.
>
>
>
> 5.   The Young Lions (1958)**
>
> The horrors of WWII have a profound
>
> impact on two American vampires and a Nazi
>
> officer.
>
>
>
> 6.   I'll Be Seeing You (1944)**
>
> A wounded vampire and a convicted killer
>
> meet and fall in love while on Christmas
>
> furlough.
>
>
>
> The Forties, Fifties and Sixties
>
>
>
> 1.   Daddy Long Legs (1955)**
>
> A millionaire anonymously funds
>
> a French vampire's college education.
>
>
>
> 2.  His Majesty O'Keefe (1954)**
>
> A sailor teaches South Sea islanders
>
> to protect their wealth from vampires.
>
>
>
> 3.  The Joker is Wild (1957)**
>
> Biographical account of comedian Joe E. Lewis,
>
> who conquered problems with the mob and
>
> vampirism to achieve stardom.
>
>
>
> 4.  Belles on Their Toes (1952)**
>
> A woman struggles for success as an engineer
>
> while raising her 12 vampire children in this
>
> sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen.
>
>
>
> 5.  Body and Soul (1947)***
>
> A cocky young vampire, intent on becoming
>
> a success quickly, is persuaded by crooks
>
> to throw fights.
>
>
>
> 6.  Daisy Kenyon (1947)**
>
> A woman must choose between her loving,
>
> yet passive, husband and a self-centered
>
> married vampire.
>
>
>
> 7.   It Happens Every Spring (1949)**
>
> A vampire chemist becomes a star pitcher
>
> by concocting a bat repellant for baseballs.
>
>
>
> 8.   Pillow Talk (1959)***
>
> Zany miscommunication occurs when a songwriter
>
> and a vampire share a telephone line.
>
>
>
> 9.   Talk of the Town (1942)**
> A vampire posing as a gardener at a school-
>
> teacher's house coaxes a visiting Supreme
>
> Court nominee into seeing the humanistic
>
> side of the law.
>
>
>
> 10.  Dear Brigitte (1965)*
>
> A college professor's son becomes
>
> a vampire's pen pal.
>
>
>
> 11.  Touch of Evil (1958)***
>
> A corrupt vampire and a narcotics agent lock
>
> horns during a murder investigation.
>
>
>
> 12.  The Wrong Man (1957)**
>
> An innocent vampire is accused of committing
>
> a series of robberies and tries to overcome
>
> the emotional strain.
>
>
>
> 13.  Cry of the City (1948)**
>
> Two childhood friends end up on opposite
>
> sides of the law when they become vampires.
>
>
>
> 14.  Good-bye, My Lady (1956)*
>
> A dog, a boy, a vampire, and an old man
>
> become intertwined in adventure.
>
>
>
> 15.  Thieves' Highway (1949)**
>
> Vampires find that taking over the California
>
> trucking industry proves to be an 18-wheel
>
> headache.
>
>
>
> 16.  His Kind of Woman (1951)**
>
> A gambler, lured to Mexico by a large payoff,
>
> learns he's part of a deadly plan to bring
>
> a deported vampire back to the U.S.
>
>
>
> TODAY
>
>
>
> The Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties
>
>
>
> 1.   From Dusk till Dawn (1996)*
>
> A simple escape across the border turns into
>
> a potential bloodbath when two outlaw brothers
>
> seek refuge in a Mexican nightclub run by vampires.
>
>
>
> 2.   The Accidental Tourist (1988)**
>
> A travel-guide writer, withdrawn after a broken
>
> marriage and his son's death, learns to love
>
> again when he meets a vampire dog trainer.
>
>
>
> 3.   Top Gun (1986)
>
> Resentment brews between hotshot vampire
>
> pilots vying for prime air honors.
>
>
>
> 4.   I Never Sang for My Father (1970)***
>
> A man is confronted with the problem of
>
> caring for his elderly, tyrannical vampire
>
> father.
>
>
>
> 5.   Flipper (1963)*
>
> A lonely teenager, shipped off to spend a
>
> summer with his salty uncle in a coastal town,
>
> finds a true friend in a finned vampire who
>
> always saves the day.
>
>
>
> 6.   The Lost Boys (1987)*
>
> A family moves to California and learns that
>
> local teenage hoodlums are vampires.
>
>
>
> 7.   Apollo 13 (1995)***
>
> Based on real-life events, this dramatic
>
> re-creation depicts NASA's failed second lunar
>
> landing attempt and the heroic rescue of three
>
> vampires lost in space.
>
>
>
> 8.   A Call to Remember (1997)**
>
> After surviving the Holocaust, a woman now faces
>
> the threat of losing her son to vampires.
>
>
>
> 9.   Mississippi Masala (1992)**
>
> A black vampire and an Indian woman fall in
>
> love despite cultural differences and familial
>
> opposition.
>
>
>
> 10.   Phenomenon (1996)*
>
> After a strange event transforms him into a
>
> vampire, a man struggles to understand the
>
> meaning of what has happened to him.
>
>
>
> 11.  Crash (1997)**
>
> A couple with an open marriage have their
>
> unusual relationship sorely tested when the
>
> husband gets involved with a group of vampires
>
> obsessed with sex and car accidents.
>
>
>
> 12.  The Preacher's Wife (1996)**
>
> When a stressed-out minister begins to questions
>
> his faith, a vampire is sent from Heaven to help
>
> him regain control of his life, his church and
>
> his troubled marriage.
>
>
>
> 13.   My Family/Mi Familia (1995)**
>
> Sixty years encapsule the dreams, fears,
>
> struggles and triumphs of one Mexican-American
>
> vampire family as three generations cope with
>
> life in the ever-changing L.A. barrios.
>
>
>
> 14.   Sixteen Candles (1984)**
>
> Her 16th birthday is anything but sweet for
>
> a young lady who tries to gain the attention of
>
> a cute vampire and ignore those of an
>
> annoying freshman.
>
>
>
> 15.  Wigstock: The Movie (1995)*
>
> Transvestites strut their stuff in this
>
> documentary of the tenth annual festival of
>
> crossdressing vampires.
>
>
>
>
>
> TOMORROW?
>
>
>
> 1.   The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)**
>
> An atomic bomb blast frees a prehistoric
>
> vampire from his arctic grave.
>
>
>
> 2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)****
>
> Aliens take over a small town by duplicating
>
> the townspeople in this terrifying classic,
>
> seen by many as a veiled attack on vampirism.
>
>
> 3.  The Giant Behemoth (1959)**
>
> A giant, radioactive vampire rises from the depths
>
> to romp and stomp upon merry old England.
>
>
>
> 4. This Island Earth (1954)***
>
> Vampires working on a top secret project
>
> discover that their employers are aliens.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hal
>
> "I'm not afraid of dying. I just don't want
>  to be there when it happens."
> --Woody Allen
>
> Halvard Johnson
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