REMEMBERING #RAYMILLAND AND #SHUDDER GIVES A NIGHT OF #PETERCUSHING CHILLS THIS MONTH!

THOSE OF YOU who are able to 'tune in' to this channel are up for a real treat with three Amicus Peter Cushing films on the menu ... and the excellent Flesh and the Fiends as a desert! Put it in your diary! What a great way to start 2021!!! Do you a favourite in here??

 

TODAY WE REMEMBER,  the very talented actor Ray Milland, whose screen career lasted from the 30's all the way into the 80's… and covered multiple genres with his most notable films being The Lost Weekend (1945) (for which he won an Oscar) , Dial M For Murder (1954) and the horror classic's The Premature Burial (1962) X The Man with the X-ray eyes (1963) both for Roger Corman. He starred with Peter Cushing in The Uncanny (1977) and The Masks Of Death (1985) …..

NOTE: Of all the many cases of casting in the work of Peter Cushing, the time together on set of #RayMilland and Cushing, is one I wish we knew more about. well, anything! It's true, Peter only had a few days in Canada working on 'The Uncanny', but these two giants of the big screen had such a CV of work and experiences. It is a great shame that in both of Peter's auto-biographies, there is little that goes into the day to day work on his films, nothing on the detail of what the experience was actually like. So many people, real artists.. so few named or recalled.

 

 

OUR FULL FEATURE REVIEW on the release of 'THE UNCANNY' blu ray and the background on the making of the movie, with a expanded gallery can be found RIGHT HERE! 

 

ON BEING EXTREMELY GRATEFUL and fortunate to meet several of the actors and people who worked with #PeterCushing, doing interviews for PCASuk back in the late 70's early 80's... there were a quite a few , who were still working, still very sharp and could recall detailed memories, who also shared how sensitive the situation of working Peter could be. It was nothing he did intentionally, he always worked hard, totally professional and focused , but while sitting waiting during set up's, with the character vail dropped, looked fragile and withdrawn.. but he would chat, would interact... but you just couldn't ignore the fact, here was a very sad, damaged man, functioning, but almost wearing a shield.

 

THE PCASUK FEATURE on 'The Masks of Death' with gallery of images can be found RIGHT HERE!! 

 

I HAVE ALWAYS thought his habit of wearing white gloves, whilst smoking, was almost a flag, a subconscious signal he adopted, 'Please handle me, sensitively, 'with cotton gloves....' - Marcus

 

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