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We had the old DVD player humming last night, and immensely enjoyed watching Christopher Lee<\/a>, as the older, well-feared, and power-seeking <\/b>master of his craft, “S<\/b>,” imprison <\/b>his colleague and rival <\/b>within his massive, picturesque stone tower<\/b>, beneath the surface of which we saw the diabolically mighty industrial works <\/b>he had hidden away. There Lee (attended by a skulking, twisted servitor<\/b>), after showing off his staff <\/b>and the trap <\/b>that he’d laid, at first tries to get the hero to side with him, then, rebuffed, fights him in a violent duel of skill and power <\/b>— though, of course, our hero, even though disarmed<\/b>, eventually gets away<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Aside from that, of course, it was a pretty crappy movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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