A HAPPY 4TH OF JULY : RARE BACKSTAGE CANDID STILL OF PC AND SCREAM FACTORY RELEASES HELL BLU RAY DATE!

TODAY AND DURING these times... please look after each other, have a good time and a safe time 😉

NEWS: SCREAM FACTORY gives a new release date for the much anticipated blu ray release of Hammer films LAST Peter Cushing / Frankenstein film, 'Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell' (1974)! Scream Factory has announced that they will bring Terence Fisher’s sixth and final entry in the frightening Frankenstein cycle to Cushing and Hammer fans on August 18th, 2020.

US FANS have waited a long time for this one, while the film has enjoyed distribution on blu ray in other international regions, over the last few years

FULL PCASUK REVIEW OF FILM WITH GREAT GALLERY OF COLOUR STILLS! 

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... AND THEY WON'T  be disappointed with an addition of TWO NEW additions to the extras menus, not included on those other region releases : Audio Commentary With Film Historian/Author Steve Haberman And Film Historian / Film maker Constantine Nasr and a new documentary entitled, 'The Men Who Made Hammer': Roy Skeggs . . which one hopes that this is the first in a series of short docs on other Hammer 'men' and 'women' who helped to make Hammer such an amazingly successful production company . . also included are Audio Commentary With Actress Madeline Smith, Actor David Prowse, and Film Historian Jonathan Sothcott, a Theatrical Trailer and Radio Spots

DURING OUR #ThrowBackThursday this week, at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE I posted a rare and wonderful photograph of Peter Cushing back stage, making up and prepping for a theatre production probably around late 1940's early 50's. The title, I am STILL not sure about . . The Silver Whistle (??) but I am sure there are many out there that know much more about Peter's stage and theatre work than I profess to... who may identify the show he is appearing in! 😕 Any ideas?

AND FINALLY, at the Facebook PCASUK FAN PAGE this week, I posted this cute photograph of #VINCENTPRICE ... I loved the films which cast both Peter Cushing and Vincent together. I wish there were more...But, here's one of my fav Vincent Price pics... and as a quick puzzler I am asking, YOU which film does this come from AND who is the actress on the left? Many people did recognise it. Can YOU?

MARTIN LANDAU DEAD AT 89 1928 -2017

IT IS TERRIBLILY SAD HEARING THE NEWS that has just broken, that actor, writer, director MARTIN LANDAU has passed today.... The achievements of Ladau are many and most impressive, screen, theater and television. Our connection to this the mildest and kindest of men, are the television series SPACE 1999 in which Peter Cushing guest starred in an episode called 'The Missing Link' in 1976...but also, both Peter and Landau worked together in theatre production of 'The Silver Whistle 1957'. In a statement, Dick Guttman, a publicist for Mr. Landau, said that the actor died of "unexpected complications," but did not provide additional details.

LANDAU'S SEVEN DECADE career featured verdant artistic peaks - including his work for directors Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen and Tim Burton. A precociously gifted artist, Landau had been a cartoonist, illustrator and theater caricaturist at the New York Daily News in his teens before embarking on an acting career at 22. He had developed a strong talent for observing people's expressions and movements, as well as a flair for imitations and accents. Of thousands of applicants, only he and Steve McQueen were accepted in that class at the prestigious Actors Studio in Manhattan. Landau became a full-fledged star in 1966 with "Mission: Impossible," the CBS spy drama about an elite squad of government agents who infiltrate and destroy Cold War enemies.

THE CAST INCLUDED Steven Hill and later Peter Graves as the group's boss and Barbara Bain, then Landau's wife, as the sultry team member Cinnamon Carter. Lalo Schifrin's pulse-quickening jazzy score - and the self-destructing instructions that set every episode in motion - helped make the program a popular success. Landau had small roles in movie epics such as "Cleopatra" (1963) and "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965) while pursuing a prolific TV career. He was John the Baptist in an "Omnibus" adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play "Salome" and a sadistic western gunman in an episode of "The Twilight Zone."

"If I was an opera singer or a ballet dancer, I probably wouldn't be able to do that any longer, but being an actor playing old guys is kind of a gift," Landau told the Star, a South African publication. "Half of the people I came up with are gone, and the other half don't remember what they had for breakfast, so I'm very lucky."

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#HAMMERFILMSATURDAY: CUSHING LANDAU AND ERNEST THESIGER : THE MISSING LINK!

#HAMMERFILMSATURDAY: Here is a great behind the scenes photograph of Peter Cushing having his gold make-up fixed while shooting the #SPACE1999 episode, 'Missing Link'. St of the series, Martin Landau looks on. Why not try our TRIVIA QUESTION? Who would have thought there was a link between Landau, Ernest Thesiger and Peter Cushing?

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