Showing posts with label rare photograph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rare photograph. Show all posts

Wednesday 6 March 2019

THE BEST OF THE BEST AND A WEBSITE SHUFFLE!



WHICH PETER CUSHING Blu Ray release has presented the BEST items in it's EXTRAS and BONUS features and what were those personal stand out items for you?


OVER AT THE FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE followers are weighing up the best and most disappointing of DVD and BLU RAY EXTRA features of the last ten years of Peter Cushing releases. For many, that added attraction of also having interviews, short documentaries or galleries can sometimes be the make or break factor in IF they would purchase the release, often when perhaps they already own a copy of a film. These days it's not always given that a blu ray will contain any extras features. Some of the best remastered blu rays, seem to have maybe blown their budgets in making the remaster possible, that little if any lolly is left for a short documentary or interview. The finding of material and making of documentaries can be a costly buisiness. As the 'vaults' seem to have been well and truly emptied of free material, the making and presenting of new resources is sometimes well out of the reach of some distributors, it's always a very welcomed plus, to find new unseen features and  faces on documentaries and bonuses. The ground is getting thin though. The kick off period of crammed extra menu's for Hammer, Amicus and Cushing films, maybe now over. However, we have been treated to some excellent goodies in the past . . .  

R.WARREN: 'UK Blu-ray release of Dr Who and the Daleks has some lovely, behind the scenes, black and white footage, showing a small clip of Cushing and Roy Castle joking around on set, sadly it has no sound but still lovely.'

F.SAINSBURY: 'Mine has to be The Curse of Frankenstein bonus extras are superb especially and documentary called Life with Sir which is about Peter Cushing's secretary she takes about the death of Peter's wife and how he coped with his wife's death and working with Peter she talks about Peter's death its truly emotional.'

I GULYAS: 'Well I don't have the Bluray of house that dripped blood, but the DVD has a nice discussion of amicus and making of.'


AND IN CHATTING  about EXTRAS on dvd and blu rays... here is a heads up to a re-shuffle and layout to come this week at our website! For those of you who enjoyed or missed the huge selection of Peter Cushing reviews and features by Callum McKelvie here and at the website, we are making the library and galleries easier to find, by providing a great menu of all of Callum's features, including the rare stills and extras! Meanwhile, Here are links to TWO features that Callum wrote on the contentious issue of Cushing and Dr Who. HERE and HERE!  The 'Who' films on both DVD and Blu Ray, contained one of the best examples of EXTRA features on a release and still for some, takes some beating!



Tuesday 9 October 2018

CAN YOU SOLVE THIS TOUGH QUESTION? PLUS 'THE BEAST MUST DIE' RARE PRESS STILLS


A REVAMP to our usual 'Cushing Tuesday Toughy' Banner.. but the questions are of course, just as tricky and maybe tough.DO have a go! Answer will be here on Friday. BUT if you want to join in the fun and think you have CRACKED IT, why not skip over to our FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE where this has just been posted too, and post your ANSWER in the post thread!? Good Luck!



'A PHOTOGRAPH FROM CUSHING'S 'THE BEAST MUST DIE' PLEASE!' is the request from ARTY FACE at the THE FACEBOOK PACS FAN PAGE! YUP! YOUR REQUEST AND WISH is granted, Arty! A RARELY seen press publicity photograph of Peter Cushing as Dr. Christopher Lundgren, in Amicus films, 'The Beast Must Die' from 1974. Interestingly, Around 1972, Robert (Jaws) Shaw expressed an interest in playing the lead role of Tom Newcliffe in this film. Shaw's career had turned a little quiet and the bills had not! Calvin Lockhart got the lead instead! Hammer films, Don (Kiss of the Vampire) Sharp was the first approached to be director. 


'THE BEAST MUST DIE' was eventually directed by Paul Annett, who seriously objected to producer Milton Subotsky's idea of the 'Werewolf Break' gimmick, where the audience were invited to guess 'who the werewolf is!' Subotsky actually hated the script and the film, and 'Beast' was the last horror film produced by Amicus, in which co-founder Subotsky had the involvement of producer...and it all went sadly pear shaped and sour. IS BEAST one of your FAV Cushing Amicus films? Me? I wish it was, but sadly not...


Sunday 5 August 2018

WHEN SARUMAN AND DOOKU PLAYED GOLF : ONE CLUB TO RULE THEM ALL!


ALONG WITH HIS FAMILY and work, CHRISTOPHER LEE ... had two other great passions in his life. Opera and golf! When he sang, he did it with much aplomb and emotion. His golf wasn't too bad either. Rather than making 'holes' as the Count, here he had much more fun, taking many a skilful swipe on the course , and showing good sportsmanship, even when his shot landed in the 'cabbage' . . . golfing term, I believe for rough grass 😉 Here is a mid 1960's pose with his clubs case, complete with, one of those weird little hat things, they slip onto the club end. Anyone know what these are called??? When they met for the last time, Lee gave Peter a gift of one, that was a Sylvester the Cat design... a reference to their love of one of their most favourite Warner Bros cartoon characters. Yosemite Sam and Foghorn Leghorn made them howl too!


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Monday 30 July 2018

CHRISTOPHER LEE ON FRANKENSTEIN AND PETER CUSHING


CHRISTOPHER LEE ON PETER CUSHING . . .



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Tuesday 10 July 2018

A COUNTRY CLOD - HOPPER! TRY THIS WEEKS CUSHING TUESDAY TOUGHY!


A WITTY AND POINTED wonderful line of dialogue that Peter Cushing rattled off in what is one of his lesser known films, but often on TV. The photograph is from his 1968 film, CORRUPTION . . . not the film or character, we are looking for! BUT we will be sharing the answer NEXT Tuesday, along with ANOTHER TUESDAY TOUGHY! 
 
BELOW LAST WEEKS TUESDAY TOUGHY AND ANSWER!





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Sunday 28 February 2016

RARE DENBERG CUSHING PHOTOGRAPH HELPING TO HERALD 60TH ANNIVERSARY


TWO new banners to help mark our 60th Anniversary at our OFFICIAL PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE. We have some little pockets of joy, planned for later this year. Meanwhile, here is Peter Cushing in a  very popular photograph used in the Telegraph newspaper to accompany an interview about Helen. And a rare colour transparency, of Peter Cushing's Baron Frankenstein, showing off his latest creation in the shape of WOMAN... the fabulously sensitive actor Susan Denberg, in Frankenstein Created Woman (Hammer films 1967)

Saturday 25 July 2015

CUSHING, SHERLOCK AND HIS PIPE : PUFFING AND SUFFERING FOR HIS ART!


Peter Cushing in one of his many signature roles, Sherlock Holmes , in a rare publicity photograph from Hammer films 'The Hound of The Baskervilles' (1959) Pictured here with his pipe, that would bring him the 'Pipeman of the Year Award' in 1969, which turned out to be a bit of a mixed blessing...

 


Thursday 22 May 2014

WE HAVE OUR WINNERS: ONE LAST TIME COMPETITION


Here Are our WINNERS! Congratulations!

The QUESTION in our Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee 'ONE LAST TIME' Competition was:

Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee shared a personal motto. Choose the correct ONE from choices below:

A) STEP ASIDE!
B) STEP DOWN!
C) STEP AROUND!
D) STEP UP!
E) BIG STEPS!
F) STEP OUT!

The ANSWER WAS: F STEP OUT!

All THREE WINNERS have won a RARE hi res 8 x 12 photograph of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as featured at the bottom of this post! WELL DONE! Thank you to all who took part and entered in the fun. More Competitions to come THIS WEEKEND in our Peter Cushing 101 Birthday Celebrations!
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