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You may not known this about me, but I’m named after a Hammer Films icon. Yup, Christopher Lee Eger, after the Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ. You know? Count Dooku, Saruman, The Man with the Golden Gun. Well before all that he volunteered for the Finns in the 1939 Winter War, then served in the RAF in World War II doing intellegence work. Years later he said of this, “I was attached to the SAS from time to time but we are forbidden – former, present, or future – to discuss any specific operations. Let’s just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that.”

Truly a pimp.

Well, Lee came to fame in the 1960s and 70s when I was born as Count Dracula in a number of films from the famous Hammer Film studio in the UK. My mom was so enamored with him that I picked up his first and last as my first and middle and I was Dracula several times as a kid of Halloween.

Hammer was a great company. One of the films they attempted to make but never did was Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls in 1971. All that is left from that attempt is the poster:

I would have seen it. They should have cast Lee as the Zeppelin commander and my mom would have seen it too. Bet it would be a classic today.

Oh, they “borrowed” the concept from a serial made in the 1930s by the way. Enjoy!

Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls (1936)