@EW - while "Worcester, Mass" is named as the birthplace of Michael McGrath in your article here isn't real, and can't hurt you.
The people of the very real Worcester, Mass can, will, and will hold a grudge about it.
Try spellcheck.
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Clearly the producers were influenced by this classic & specifically named the protagonist Nicholas after Price's Nicholas & had Jackie Burroughs' character The Spirit call to him in the same eerie manner.
The movie also had a lasting effect on the lesser-known Stephen King.
CLASSIC FILM REVELATIONS I have had in the last 24 hours:
1. Looking at the evening dresses in Silk Stockings (1957) would look at home at an 80s prom. (Everything old is new again, and Helen Rose was a genius)
1/3
THIRD REVELATION
Watching the trailer for The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) w/Vincent Price there's a clip of Barbara Steele eerily calling to him "Nicholas..."
Which of course reminded me immediately of cinematic masterpiece The Care Bears Movie (1985) and the evil magic book...
I taught the History of Kissing again this Pennsic and it was my best attended class.
I truly love sharing the best bits - the naughty bits - of history.