According to several sources the screenplay was not completed until after Lugosi's death on August 16, 1956. As it may also not have been originally part of the working script called, at the time, "Grave Robbers from Outer Space". The character, not played by Bela Lugosi, appeared in Ed Wood's "Night of the Ghouls" and would be played by "B" Cowboy actor Keene Duncan.Īs to that opening scene for "Plan 9 From Outer Space". Acula" was something called "The Phantom Ghoul". Note that it was shot during daylight hours. Acula", but appears in "Plan 9 From Outer Space" as a scene of the now dead old man. The sequence with Bela wearing his cape, below, came from an idea the two men had for a possible Lugosi vehicle called "Dr. As the actor and Wood shot footage with no specific motion picture in mind. It was part of what might even be called "home movies". The above picture is actually of the actor leaving Tor Johnson's house and was filmed by Ed Wood back in 1955. Off screen he is hit by a car and killed.
Bela Lugosi was never in "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and this explains why so many people are confused over the apparent inconsistencies in the scenes with Lugosi that appear not to fit the narrative.ĭescribed in the narration the above scene is allegedly of "The Old Man" leaving his home the day after his wife's funeral. Which it was, BUT technically except for the one sequence, possibly, of the funeral for "The Old Man" wife. Moat of my readers know this film as Horror Icon Bela Lugosi's final motion picture appearance. The first two of which are the actors most associated with this Science Fiction Cult Classic. I will start looking at this group with the three names mentioned on the above poster. The 28 other actors backgrounds are as strange, in some cases, as the movie. in the important role of "The Man holding a Newspaper". "Plan 9 From Outer Space" had a cast of 29 actors including the "Most Excellent" Ed Wood, Jr. Four of his other 132 poster designs and story boards include 1939's "Gone With The Wind", 1958's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", 1965's "Dr. However, it does the job of making "Plan 9 From Outer Space" look interesting to the potential audience. It appears a combination of one of the many low budget science fiction space opera's of the period and a vampire film. The above is an excellent example of 1950's Film Poster Art. This article is a look at the people who appeared in Wood's motion picture. BELA LUGOSI WAS DEAD, really dead, when Edward Davis Wood, Jr. Except for the one filmed scene of the funeral for the wife of "The Old Man".
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