#castle of otranto

which is how jack ryan & the redhaired musical warrior doctor & her bold daughter & all their various doppelgangers got tangled into the mythos from the start , incl but not limited to richard sharpe & patrick harper & teresa moreno

but that isnt the all if it by long leagues

bc one of the stars of ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE REVOLUTION was rod steiger

who played the corsican emperor of france in that great russian WATERLOO i sometimes rant abt in the twists of this maze

against none but christopher plummer - & theres the trek connection going far back before it ever happened , b4 gates mcfadden played a redhaired doctor whose place was filled by anne archer as the badass lady fighting her doppelganger in a clash of empires in the sequel to RED OCTOBER

i saw the chain but not its first link -not being a westerns fan nor a film scholar nor critic

but i see how a n 18th c british supernatural novel abt italian nobles FITS into a GUERNICA-referencing story of the spanish civil war by a contemporary mexican dramatist now