HUSAYN, 35	DERVISH, 50s rogue, Sufi mystic	WRIGHT, 35 American Missionary	DOLGORUKOV, 50 Russian Envoy
AQASI, Prime Minister of Persia	TAHIRIH Babi Poetess	SHAYKH, 20 young Babi	QUDDUS, 22 Babi leader, martyr
VAHID, 40 suave, urbane scholar	SHEIL, 42 British Envoy	TAQI, 41 new Prime Minister	HUJJAT, 35 Babi leader in Zanjan
FARRANT, 36 British Charge d'Affairs	KHAN, 40 Fars Governor at Shiraz	NOSE, Babi father of STREET and KID	UNCLE of the Bab beheaded in Tihran
MUSA, 30 Persian nobleman	WAR, 40 Persian Minister of War	BAQIR, 40 Babi at Tabarsi siege	MANUCHIHR, eunuch Isfahan Governor
KID, 10 survives Tabarsi siege	SADIQ, mulla crusty old reformer	BREAD, Arab vender in Karbila	NASIRI'D-DIN, 17 became "boy-shah"
DR. CORMICK, 27 British physician	ALI, TAHIRIH's uncle and brother-in-law	WOOL, merchant Babi, unpredictable	WARDEN, rough Kurdish chief at Mah-Ku
VOICE, 24	YOUTH, 18 executed with the Bab	STREET, 12 Babi hero from Shiraz	CONSTABLE, under Khan at Shiraz
EYES, 20 imprisoned with Bab	RUSSIAN, 20 "student" traveler	BROWS, 22 early Babi	FERRIER, French advisor and agent
SA'IDU'L-ULAMA Islamic authority	MUSTAFA KHAN led besiegers of Babis	MUHAMMAD SHAH, 38 sickly monarch

The casting, costume, make-up and hair concepts in these preliminary sketches were fun to do. We have a Sam Waterston WRIGHT, a Humphrey Bogart SHAYKH, a James Dean QUDDUS, a Marlin Brando VAHID, a Lee Marvin HUJJAT, an Anthony Perkins FARRANT, a Ringo Star NOSE, a Charles Manson WOOL, an Alfred Hitchcock CONSTABLE (you can't have a suspense thriller without a cameo by Alfred) and more!

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