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"Gary Rhodes and Expenses Kaffenberger have added the final section to Bela Lugosi's career, combining fascinating anonymous details of his film and level activities with post-WWII film history. Superbly explored and written as an engrossing story of your actor's have difficulties against professional decrease. A must-read!" (Robert Cremer, author of Lugosi: THE PERSON Behind the Cape) "Gary Rhodes signifies that elusive Yellow metal Standard in narrative research into the full depth and breadth of Bela Lugosi's complicated career. Rhodes' devotion to the banishment of myth, also to its replacement with frank and humanizing fact, has provided a wealth of historical storytelling that, subsequently, makes the actor's known body of work all the more attractive and comprehensible. Just once i catch myself believing I know all there is usually to be known about Lugosi, along come Gary Rhodes and Expenses Kaffenberger with a brand new brace of revelations. The procedure advances immeasurably in No Traveler Results: The Lost Many years of Bela Lugosi." (Michael H. Price, coauthor of the Ignored Horrors series) "In No Traveler Results, Bela Lugosi scholar extraordinaire Gary D. Rhodes and Expenses Kaffenberger give a attractive time travel journey back to the later 1940s/early 1950s, when Lugosi - essentially out of favour in Hollywood - embarked on a Gypsy-like living of vaudeville, summer months stock, and special shows. While many historians have considered this period a limbo in Lugosi's career, with treasured few facts unearthed, Rhodes and Kaffenberger take the listener along for a wide-eyed drive as Bela performs in a nightclub so notorious that armed guards keep watch on the top, dresses as Dracula in a special show where he and a gorilla (a guy in a suit) play sports with the guillotined brain of a woman (a dummy), and races in one stock engagement to some other without ever missing a cue. Never in his American career was Bela so active, and never does his light sparkle so brightly, as he valiantly troupes to support his family, dominate time and disorder, and please his people. From the fastidiously researched education in the show business world of the time - and a stirring tribute to the appeal, brilliance, and inexhaustible professionalism and reliability of the legend who was Dracula." (Gregory William Mank, author of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story of a Haunting Collaboration)
