JUST POSTED AT FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE one of the last of our PCASUK #WATCHWITHCUSHING Facebook #WATCHPARTIES in our quest to entertain during the #LOCK-DOWN period of the last three months! 'DARK PLACES' is one of few lesser seen films of Christopher Lee. It's a ghost story, with a few twists and some nice little surprises. It's a film of time... when it was produced back in 1974, but a lot of fun.
PCASUK WATCH PARTY! Tonight, you get the opportunity to judge which
version of Peter Cushing Sherlock Holmes 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'
you enjoy best! The BBC version we shared with you a short while ago on
another #WatchWithCushing!
Watch Party OR THIS version, produced by Hammer films also starring
Christopher Lee in 1958? Directed by Terence Fisher, it has fine
photography, performances and a cracking film score too by James
Bernard! Look out for scene stealer Miles Malleson as the Bishop. YOU can join the PCASUK WATCH PARTY HERE! Like all the Watch Party films and posts, this film will remain on the page after tonight too 😉
SURPRISE! It has been often said that, typecasting hung around
Christopher Lee for quite some time, maybe until later in his career
when, he believed there was a little more flexibility. Personally, I
always thought the majority of his roles, were often quite different,
the genre may have been somewhere in a shared ball park, but I wouldn't
say his role as the evil Edward Blake in 'I Monster' was the same as
say, Francisco Scaramanga in 'The Man with the Golden Gun' or even the
role of 'The Monster' in 'The Curse of Frankenstein' was in any close to
Kharis in 'The Mummy' . . In this interview, which you can find HERE he makes his point in
discussing how he always tried to surprise his audience.. which I think,
he in most cases certainly did. At the PCASUK FAN PAGE, we ask IF there are role you can remember,
where Christopher Lee played this card very well.. and surprised you?? Please feel free to skip to the page and tell us your thoughts 😊
FINALLY, A FEW DAYS AGO I posted and shared this photograph of #VincentPrice and director #PeteWalker
during the making of 'House of the Long Shadows' in 1982. Price was
offered this movie and accepted before the script was written. The
producers Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan never read the script . ..
interestingly the film ran out of money three weeks into shooting. The
film took five weeks to shoot and cost just under one million pounds
sterling and is the only film where all four, #PeterCushing, #ChristopherLee and #JohnCarradine,
all appear on screen together! Many 'Hammer and Amicus fans were a
little disappointed with the film and script when it was released.
Personally, I am very fond of it 😊 and on asking our followers and friends if they were too... got some interesting comments and answers! You can catch this photograph and those comments, which you too may want to contribute too maybe, RIGHT HERE! What are your thoughts??? - I hope you are all well and keeping safe this weekend? 😐😊- Marcus
#WATCHWITHCUSHING! 'The Blood Beast Terror' (1968) NOW LIVE at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FANPAGE WATCH PARTY! This is a film that for a long time had the sad reputation of being known as '#PeterCushing's
least favourite film'! A rep that was probably misunderstood, as time
has gone on to inform us, it was Cushing's 'on set' experience that
scored the 'no brownie points'. Like with a lot of tight budget movies
from this time, today we watch them with an 'understanding' maybe. Yup
the effects could be better, but I've seen much worse in
films that were produced with monster budgets, and no excuse! No one
looks good in a costume that is supposed to represent a 'real creature'
that is actually an inch to two inches in size, and every director
should have a note to themselves that reminds them, 'save some money for
the big finish' 😉Director, Vernon Sewell sadly did not.
BUT HE DID invest in a good cast, Robert Flemyng, replacing an ill #BasilRathbone
gives a great turn, Wanda Ventham is quite convincing and committed,
but I bet you she drew the line about wearing that costume, and Peter
Cushing as ever, gives good value with a cracking performance, relaxed,
charming and with some nice 'business' as Inspector Quennell. There's a
nod to #Frankenstein and body-snatches '#BukeandHare'
and the late Roy Hudd gets to make his first movie, with some well
timed black humour as the morgue attendant showing a knack that even
both #DonaldPleasence's Dr Seward in 'Dracula' and Cushing's Catflangue, in Legend of the Werewolf, would have been proud of!
