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In2009 I showed Geezer Butler my tattoo, and jokingly asked if he had designed it. Geezer said Whaat? :) When he realised that I meant the Henry thing on my arm, he told me that it was stolen from a festival poster in the 70s.

It appears to me Henry might be a devil or a fallen angel(in Christian description).To some he may be a pagan deity.At first,I thought it may be an image portrait of Satan himself(may G-d curse him).I find it interesting that- Matthew 24:19 (of the Gospel)is used.It is a scripture where Jesus(peace be upon him)is cursing Satan.I like the fact Sabbath talked about religions in their songs.Henry is apparently a villian or something used to humor people with.


I saw Black Sabbath at Hammersmith Odeon on their Technical Ecstasy tour in March 1977. I clearly remember this wonderful design being above the stage, spotlit, when Supertzar was playing as an intro, before the band came on and played Symptom of the Universe.


Was sooooo happy to finally see black sabbath at donnington this year I am only 28 but been a fan since my teenage years. I have the 1996 remaster of sabboth bloody sabboth one of my favourite albums and henry is printed on the disk and framing the barcode on back of cd case. Its a ace logo.


Hi The First tinme I really took in Henry (Strange devil angel with light and blade of pink in his face )

was the 78 tour which i saw in Glasgow when as legend now has it the support band was a little new band called van Halen. I still have the badge and programme from that date the latter signed in silver by Geeze and Tony.


Henry was created by a man named Richard Evans. He was hired to make the book and merchandise designs for the Technical Ecstasy tour. He confirmed this to me personally. Richard had no idea that what he created had become an iconic symbol for the band. Check out his website


These days, Disney is the rare studio still putting short films in front of some of their features. Coincidentally, a famous company they'd eventually own did that several decades earlier. In 1980, George Lucas wanted a short film to screen in front of his highly anticipated sequel to Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back. He got his art director, Roger Christian, to make a short, and the result was Black Angel, a fantasy that was heavily influential in the years that followed. It played in a few hundred UK cinemas but prints of the film were thought to be lost.


A few years back, Christian teased that the film had been found and would get a digital release in the future. That day is today. Black Angel has now been uploaded online and you can watch the full 25 minute short film below, along with an intro from Christian himself.


By 1946, Universal wanted to promote Dan Duryea in a sympathetic role, so they gave him his first starring role, as Marty Blair, in Black Angel. His "leading lady" is played by June Vincent, and the cast includes Peter Lorre and Broderick Crawford. This is certainly a classic example of Duryea film-noir.


This film was obviously well advertised with lots of posters. Granted, the lobby cards may all be the same scene, but they issued them in various colorized schemes and black and white. Click on any of the photos to view or download them at fullsize.


Below is a pair of production stills showing two of the sets all ready for shooting. The scene in the first picture shows the bar where Marty (that's Dan!) plays piano. This is shown in the first few scenes of the film. The second picture is the set of June Vincent's living room prepared for the film finale. It's interesting to note the camera track (bottom center).






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Universal's 1946 film noir, Black Angel, was Dan Duryea's seventeenth credited film. This was also the first time that the studio tried him in a starring sympathetic role. He had played a few supporting roles that gave him the chance to come across as a sympathetic character (as in the Humphrey Bogart film, Sahara), but those roles were not positively received by the fans. The public liked Duryea mean. In fact, the meaner he was on screen the more the public liked him.


Black Angel was the studio's build-up for Duryea in a sympathetic role. He plays Martin "Marty" Blair, a successful composer (and piano player), who has turned to the bottle since separating from his wife, Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling). The opening of the film alone is worth watching if you're a Dan D. fan! This movie is loaded with "hero shots" of Dan, and he got a lot of costume changes (not that that means as much for a guy!).


I'm not going to go into a synopsis of this film, so if you would like to see a blow-by-blow from TCM just CLICK HERE. I am just going to continue with notes about the film --- particularly as it relates to Dan Duryea.


June Vincent plays the wife of the man (only seen at the beginning of the film) who is convicted of murdering Dan's wife in the opening scenes. She does a decent job but lacks much enthusiasm. All together, she's the type that you can't really remember a couple days after seeing the movie. Peter Lorre plays the man-with-a-secret who owns a swanky nightclub. He is great, as always! Broderick Crawford plays the Police Detective.


Dan gets a lot of chances to "play" piano in this one. I don't know if he could actually play, but he is a good "faker" if he didn't. June Vincent (dubbed) sings a song, accompanied by Mr. D. on the piano, called "Time Will Tell". The words aren't great as far as content, but the tune is nice. Dan's character has a best-selling song called "Heartbreak". It makes its appearance throughout the film on a record, in the background and as a piece of sheet music. It's a shame that it wasn't actually released on a sheet --- it would have been nice to play at home on your own piano!


Mr. Duryea falls for June Vincent (who looks somewhat like Constance Dowling) as the two try to discover the murderer of his wife. He reforms from the bottle, cleans himself up and they get a job in Lorre's nightclub. This is a nice change from the sneering and beat-'em-up Duryea character that we're accustomed to in films like The Woman in the Window, Along Came Jones and Ball of Fire. He's rather soft-spoken and gentle in this role.


Because of the poor reception from audiences to the other sympathetic Duryea characters, the studio decided to turn Marty Blair into the character that everyone expected at the very end of the film. In the last ten minutes Dan finds that June Vincent doesn't love him ---she's staying true to her husband. So, Dan returns to his bottle for an all-night binge and suddenly remembers that he actually killed his wife. He returns to June's house and tells the truth in time to save her husband from the gas chamber.


It was a disappointing ending to such a sympathetic role and too predictable since you expect Duryea to play the guilty party. However, it's a fantastic piece of acting from him and supplies a lot of "hero" shots and scenes, so if you like Dan Duryea it's worth viewing once!


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