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Saturday 25 July 2020

WORK AND GOOD GRACE! CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE : DIANA RIGG AND VALERIE VAN OST


WITH MY APOLOGIES, I have had to spend a few days away from the website and FACEBOOK PCASUK FACEBOOK FAN PAGE, with annoying but 'had to do' matters, so only a few post this last week. However, here are the few that have entertained at the PCASUK Facebook Fan Page, this week. Glad to report, biz as usual here on in 😉😊 - Marcus

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#ChristopherLee Saturday! A little nugget of good advice, from the late Christopher Lee. He must have had nerves and patience of steel!! When you look through that filmography! One film that comes to mind is Amicus films, 'I Monster' (1971) A film he suggested young and new director Stephen Weeks to step into, after 'House that Dripped Blood' director turned it down. It was a script Lee liked, but the film rode a whole saga of issues in regard of the actual production . . a 3D process didn't work... 'the Pulfrich effect' anyone? Weeks did very well considering, even though the film ran out of lolly, before the last shutter... shut! Lee is VERY good, as is Peter Cushing in the role of Utterson. It's a shame that the film performed poorly at the box office, at the time, but as with many of these 'fantasy films from this time', the passing of the years has been kinder to the film and it is now seen as a very faithful adaptation.


'I MONSTER' BEHIND THE SCENES RARE STILLS  GALLERY
PART ONE: HERE 

I DID A FEW YEARS AGO, post two great galleries of rarely seen photographs from 'I Monster' of Lee and Cushing.. and in these pics you can see, both appear to be having fun..and showing ...good grace! 😊


PART TWO OF 'I MONSTER' BEHIND THE SCENES GALLERY WITH #PETERCUSHING AND #CHRISTOPHERLEE : RIGHT HERE!


#CHRISTOPHERLEESATURDAY: ABOVE IS AN INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPH with Christopher Lee and Australian actress Kate Fitzpatrick doing promotion at the Martin Place Amphitheatre Sydney for their film The Return Of Captain Invincible from July 1983 With The Lord Mayor of Sydney, Douglas Sutherland joining them. This sadly is another of Lee's many 'over-looked' films in his long and movie packed career. This film also gave him a chance to doing some singing on film, with Lee playing the main villain, Mr. Midnight

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ABOVE: ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL rare colour photograph we shared of Peter Cushing, as Capt. Richard Pearson, with Robert Stack in 'John Paul Jones' (1959) .. a 'meh' film, but PC is very good! Although, there's lots of comments about the film on the thread at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page today HERE! This post comes with thanks to Lucy 😉😊


'WOMAN OF MY AGE ARE STILL ATTRACTIVE. Men of my age are not' ... so said, this amazing icon of entertainment last year. And you know, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE...does have point! Many actors from her era have either left us, or look like an unmade bed! We all know the Cushing Connection here, Mrs Peel in the Brit 1960's TV series, The Avengers, where PC played the very dashing Paul Beresford, a smooth operator, pushing all the buttons as romantic interest for Rigg's all action Mrs Peel and a finger on the button of death that commanded his deadly Cybernaut!


READ  MORE ON DIANA RIGG AND PETER CUSHING in the 'Return of the Cybernauts' 'The Avengers' episode in our PCASUK feature : RIGHT HERE!

DIANA RIGG'S CAREER also features the splendid 'Theatre of Blood' with Vincent Price. She also worked with Christopher Lee in the Avengers tv series.in 'Never, Never Say Die' in 1967. Having recently started in the international hit tv series, Game of Thrones, Rigg is in no hurry to retire, and I think like Mrs Peel, she'll be 'socking it to us' for a while yet! We celebrated Diana Rigg's birthday last week at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page on July 20th! It was a grand Happy Birthday Diana Rigg, who was born in 1938... Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE is still looking fabulous today!😉😀


YESTERDAY,  marked and remembered the birthday of the lovely Valerie Van Ost who was born July 25th 1944! As reference to her Peter Cushing connections, we mentioned the films 'Corruption', 'Incense for the Damned' and 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula' with Peter.


VALERIE WAS ALSO very popular in the Carry On series of film in the 1960's, in “Carry On Cabby,” “Carry On Don’t Lose Your Head,” “Carry On Doctor” and “Carry On Again Doctor,”. Van Ost’s sad passing was announced by agent Barry Langford who said in a tweet, “A sad goodbye to beautiful Valerie Van Ost, who passed away this week. Valerie gave up her successful acting career to become a respected casting director and was beloved in both profession. A native of Herkamsted, Hertfordshire, turned to acting after she had been a dancer in her teenager at London’s famed Palladium theatre. 


IT'S BELIEVED that at one time, she was once considered to be a possible replacement for Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in “The Avengers,” having once appeared in an episode of the show. In 1973, Van Ost took on her other most famous role, in the Hammer horror movie, “The Satanic Rites of Dracula'.” Van Ost played the role of a Secret Service secretary who is kidnapped by a satanic cult. Van Ost was married to movie producer Greg Smith. Smith had been the producer of Britain’s other great bawdy comedy series, the “Confessions” series of movies in the 1970s.


LATER IN 1985, Van Ost married Andrew Millington, with whom she set up a casting agency. This coincided with Van Ost’s retirement from acting. The pair cast five movies and a television series during the 1980s. Two of those films, “The Boys in Blue” and “Funny Money” were produced by her first husband.
 


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Friday 8 May 2020

ON SET 1974 BEHIND THE SCENES ON AMICIS FILMS / INDICATOR'S BLU RAY 'THE BEAST MUST DIE'



#MAKINGAWEREWOLF was a 'Dawg Gone Problem!', in 1974 . . that's for sure. And as we will probably learn from some of the 'extras' 'interviews' included on the soon to be released BLU Ray from #Indicatorfilms of Amicus films, 'The Beast Must Die'.. it was quite a job! Here are some photographs from the on set shooting days on the film, where 'The Beast' was needed and in residence. The 'experts on hand from Ted Samuels, make up Paul Rabiger and John Hilling from wardrobe, all appear to have had a hand in coming up with a solution. I am not expert and no nothing about dogs, I have a dribbling, furry log, who looks wild boar, that passes himself off as a pedigree PUG called Barney, and I believe him! 😮😃What breed of dog they are using here, I have no idea! Maybe you do? But with some added fur, teeth and attitude, they pull it off I think... just about ðŸ˜Š




FANS APPEAR to be as torn as a pair of 'postman's ravaged pants', on this film. Which I find odd. It's Amicus they did their own thing, only one Gothic film, mostly contemporary settings. Milton and Max left the tradition horror films to Hammer, who had more cash to bash a horror film. Amicus did different and took risks too!

 


ANYWAY, here are some more pics from the #PCASUK clutter for you to have a look at. I think it's worth noting that #INDICATOR / #POWERHOUSE has started to really build itself a sterling and quite trusted reliable reputation for BLU RAY and BOX SETS of considerable quality and content! SEVERAL of their #HAMMERFILMS collections have treated fans and collectors alike to very interesting titles supported with quite a stash of surprising extras (The recent Indicator Hammer Box Set 'FACES OF FEAR' VOLUME FOUR' included an impressive 4k remastering of 'The Revenge of Frankenstein' with the inclusion of some very rarely seen 'On Set' and Behind the scenes trims and footage of the #Braystudio floor during shooting with #PeterCushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson and Oscar Quitak) As, hoped, the '#THEBEASTMUSTDIE' blu ray also comes with its own bank of extras and goodies! It's open for pre-orders of it's LIMITED release right now 😉 - Marcus





#PCASUK NEWS FEATURE THAT WAS POSTED HERE A FEW DAYS AGO : SOME GREAT NEWS FOR PETER CUSHING AND AMICUS FILMS FANS FOR JUNE 2020!!The last of Amicus’ famed horror productions, 'The Beast Must Die' (1974) makes it's UK PREMIERE on BLU RAY in the UK on JUNE 29th 2020!  
  • Audio commentary with director Paul Annett with writer Jonathan Sothcott (2003)
  • Interview with Max J Rosenberg (2000): archival audio recording of the famed producer in conversation with Sothcott
  • The BEHP Interview with Jack Hildyard (1988): an archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the Oscar-winning cinematography in conversation with Alan Lawson
  • The BEHP Interview with Peter Tanner – Part Two, 1939–1987 (1987): an archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the acclaimed editor in conversation with Roy Fowler and Taffy Haines
  • Introduction by Stephen Laws (2020): appreciation by the acclaimed horror author
  • Directing the Beast (2003): archival interview with Annett
  • Super 8 version: cut-down home cinema presentation
  • Image gallery: publicity and promotional material
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • Kim Newman and David Flint trailer commentary (2017): short critical appreciation
  • New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
  • Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Neil Young, an archival article on Amicus Productions, a look at the James Blish short story which inspired the film’s screenplay, an extract from the press-book profiling actor Calvin Lockhart, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
  • UK premiere on Blu-ray
  • Limited edition of 3,000 copies
  • BBFC cert: 15
    REGION B
INDICATOR'S 'THE BEAST MUST DIE' is a LIMITED EDITION and is now available for PRE ORDER RIGHT NOW from POWERHOUSE RIGHT HERE!

Thursday 7 May 2020

INDICATOR RELEASES THE BEAST IN THE UK! AMICUS FILMS 'THE BEAST MUST DIE' ROARS ONTO ON BLU RAY!


NEWS: SOME GREAT NEWS FOR PETER CUSHING AND AMICUS FILMS FANS FOR JUNE 2020!!The last of Amicus’ famed horror productions, 'The Beast Must Die' (1974) makes it's UK PREMIERE on BLU RAY in the UK on JUNE 29th 2020!


#INDICATOR / #POWERHOUSE HAS STARTED to really build itself a sterling and quite trusted reliable reputation for BLU RAY and BOX SETS of considerable quality and content! SEVERAL of their HAMMER FILM collections have treated fans and collectors alike with very interesting titles supported with quite a stash of surprising extras (The recent Indicator Hammer Box Set 'FACES OF FEAR' VOLUME FOUR'  included an impressive 4k remastering of 'The Revenge of Frankenstein' with the inclusion of some very rarely seen 'On Set' and Behind the scenes trims and footage of the Bray studio floor during shooting with Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson and Oscar Quitak) As, hoped, the 'THE BEAST MUST DIE' blu ray also comes with its own bank of extras and goodies! JUST SEE BELOW 😃


'THE BEAST MUST DIE' INDICATOR BLU RAY High Definition REMASTER:  Calvin Lockhart (A Dandy in Aspic) and Marlene Clark (Ganja & Hess) have invited a disparate group of guests, including Peter Cushing (Corruption), Michael Gambon (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover) and Charles Gray (The Legacy), to their mansion in the English countryside. He believes one of them is a werewolf… and, before the weekend is out, he’ll find out who it is! The last of Amicus’ famed horror productions, 'The Beast Must Die' combines the country-house whodunnit with the werewolf shocker and adds a dash of blaxploitation for good measure.


  • Audio commentary with director Paul Annett with writer Jonathan Sothcott (2003)
  • Interview with Max J Rosenberg (2000): archival audio recording of the famed producer in conversation with Sothcott
  • The BEHP Interview with Jack Hildyard (1988): an archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the Oscar-winning cinematography in conversation with Alan Lawson
  • The BEHP Interview with Peter Tanner – Part Two, 1939–1987 (1987): an archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the acclaimed editor in conversation with Roy Fowler and Taffy Haines
  • Introduction by Stephen Laws (2020): appreciation by the acclaimed horror author
  • Directing the Beast (2003): archival interview with Annett
  • Super 8 version: cut-down home cinema presentation
  • Image gallery: publicity and promotional material
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • Kim Newman and David Flint trailer commentary (2017): short critical appreciation
  • New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
  • Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Neil Young, an archival article on Amicus Productions, a look at the James Blish short story which inspired the film’s screenplay, an extract from the press-book profiling actor Calvin Lockhart, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
  • UK premiere on Blu-ray
  • Limited edition of 3,000 copies
  • BBFC cert: 15
    REGION B
INDICATOR'S 'THE BEAST MUST DIE' is a LIMITED EDITION and is now available for PRE-ORDER RIGHT NOW from POWERHOUSE RIGHT HERE! 


ABOVE: The Dogs Dinner! The make job on actor Anton Diffring by make artist, Paul Rabiger in #TheBeastMustDie on blu ray for the first time in the UK in June AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW from INDICATOR / POWERHOUSE FILMS! 

 

FIND OUT MORE about the story and history of Amicus films, 'THE BEAST MUST DIE' at the PCASUK FEATURE written by TROY HOWARTH complete with STILLS GALLERY RIGHT HERE!

Wednesday 8 April 2020

CONE OF SILENCE : PCASUK FACEBOOK WATCH PARTY NOW LIVE!


PCASUK #WATCHPARTY! FOR A BUDGET of just £139,360 about £3,400.00 today, Aubrey Baring Productions got a LOT of film for their money, plus a very good cast! 'Cone of Silence' aka 'Trouble In The Sky', currently LIVE at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE as our latest 'Watch-Party' post,  is a 1960 British drama film that was directed by Charles Frend and starred Michael Craig, Peter Cushing, George Sanders, and Bernard Lee. Quite a big step away from what had occupied Cushing for the past four years at Hammer films, the role of Captain Clive Judd, gives us a view of his range we had not see for sometime. The story centres around an investigation into a series of crashes involving the fictional 'Atlas Aviation Phoenix' jetliner


SHOT AT SHEPPERTON STUDIOS, budget constraints led to the production using some miniatures to depict airfields and aircraft, although principal photography took place at Filton Airport in North Bristol, UK with the cooperation of the Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd. 'Cone of Silence' is loosely based on 1952 plane crash in Rome and subsequent investigations into the structural integrity of the de Havilland Comet airliner. . and how even the highest skilled of people can sometimes get it all very wrong! Still awaiting a blu ray release, this is a film that would look quite special in monochrome. . . as would many of Cushing's black and white feature films from this period... and why the recent Indicator blu ray release of 'Time Without Pity' looks so impressive! 😀 - Marcus

Thursday 2 April 2020

NEWS: INDICATOR PREPARES FIRST EVER RELEASE ON BLU RAY OF AN AMICUS FILMS CLASSIC!


NEWS: No fixed details yet, but #INDICATOR are currently working on what will be the very first release of Amicus films, 'I MONSTER' (1971) starring #ChristopherLee, #PeterCushing and Mike Raven. This is one that has been a very long time coming and most welcome.
 






PART ONE of the behind the scenes PCASUK RARE STILLS Gallery, is RIGHT HERE! 


PART TWO IS RIGHT HERE!

ABOVE: The USA cinema trailer for Amicus films, 'I, MONSTER' starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. A film with a production story, that sometimes is even more dramatic than the film!


THERE ARE NO details on extras, region or stats, but I LOVE that case and poster image design 😊😉


Monday 16 December 2019

BE A WINNER IN OUR PCAS CHRISTMAS COMPETITIONS 2019 : JUST SOME CUSHING PRIZES UP FOR GRABS OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS!


HO! HO! HO! Yeah, you know how it goes 😉 . . For the last EIGHT years I've launched a series of PCAS Christmas competitions with some CRACKER prizes and this year, thanks to our very generous sponsors, it's a such bumper sack of goodies this year, that any #Santa would have probs cramming his sack down your chimney, Missus 😉 Just a few of the selection in this banner photo, but LOTS of prizes, lots of chances in many #PeterCushing #Competitions over the #Christmas holidays, starting here and at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE THIS Wednesday. As ever, these competitions are FREE and open to everyone, wherever you are, so keep your eyes, like your Christmas dinner potatoes... PEELED! 😉 Have yourself a Jolly CUSHING CHRISTMAS right HERE 😉 Feel free to share and comment below, it's appreciated by our sponsors and yours truly 😉 - Marcus


INDICATORS EXCELLENT REMASTERED BLU RAY RELEASE OF 'TIME WITHOUT PITY' REVIEWED AND CAN BE DIRECTLY ORDERED HERE! 


WE WILL ALSO BE OFFERING UP PRIZES of Second  Sight Films  BLU RAY release of the LIMITED EDITION 1972 'ASYLUM'. We gave away prizes of the Second Sight Films Special Limited Release of 'Asylum' a few weeks ago... now here is ANOTHER chance to bag YOUR COPY! or PRE-ORDER the standard blu ray release  DIRECT HERE! 

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