David Soul in a still from The Dark Lantern
In the film, David performs weird actions with a grotesque Lanterna Magica for a mute devil puppet sat alone in antique stalls.At about the same time we bought a copy of one of David's best selling albums from the Seventies 'Playing for an Audience of One' (which includes the excellent 'Silver Lady' with the sublime line "the one shining thing in my life was the sweet love I had with you"). On the back cover is a photo of a young bored or sleeping boy (actually David's son) sitting alone in the stalls of a theatre...
During the shoot Jan had to sit at the bottom of the well and perform the role of 'gravity'.
ReplyDeleteInbetween takes David was kind enough to serenade her with the lilting American folk of Woody Guthrie,singing down the well to her.
Later, he accidentally ripped one of the Devils arms off.