#MONSTERMONDAY: This really isn't what you would expect upon hanging a door you just bought from #B&Q or #HomeDepot! But then...it was no ordinary store or door. If you are foolish enough to try and cheat Peter Cushing's shop proprietor in Amicus films, #FromBeyondtheGrave...you only have yourself to blame, when beyond said door, the harmless pens and paper-clips are replaced by a mysterious room, with one very angry inhabitant, who wants to steal YOUR WIFE! For those of you who haven't yet had the pleasure of viewing the film, I'll stop there. For those who HAVE? What's your say? Sir Michael Sinclair, harmless cupboard ghost with squatters rights..or MONSTER???
I HAVE BEEN KNOWN at get-togethers when watching this film and this scene
in particular, to prattle on endlessly about the quality of the
cinematography and lighting in this scene.... quite superb!
IT WASN'T UNTIL quite recently I discovered that the actor playing Sir Michael is in fact, Jack Watson, of Babe fame ! Mainly a UK television-film actor, but a fine one, who has down the years kept my nephews and nieces entertained with his sheep herding trotter! Jack sadly left us in 1999 aged 84.
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#CHRISTOPHERLEESATURDAY:THE CONFUSION OF FU MANCHU!
#CHRISTOPHERLEESATURDAY!SOME INTERESTING opinions and advice from Christopher Lee in an interview recorded in 2001.
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#GETTHECUSHIONSUNDAY! THE BOX SAYS... 'Recently discovered CAMP CLASSIC! UNRELEASED for 25 YEARS!' ..Yeah, there was a reason for that delay 🙂 I wonder how much those critics were paid, or how much they drank before the screening??? ..It's a classic alright 😉
Anyone else have this release? This is one of those rare times where
the box and packaging is more exciting and impressive that the contents!
HOW CAN A FILM, that gives us great images like the one above, get it so wrong??? I
have said here many times, it almost seems that the budget and
imagination needed for the creation of the film, was diverted into the
publicity. The press and lobby photographs,
were printed on hi quality colour paper, the photographer who took
them, knew what he was doing.
THERE ARE SOME EXCELLENT photographs, the
press kit was pretty lush-deluxe too! In 1976, I was at a meeting where a
short promo reel was screened... it was made up entirely of the 'My
grand father was a grave digger' scene. Cushing (MacGregor) was playing
his character's grandfather, a young boy, actor Robert Edwards, played
Cushing in a wonderfully atmospheric scene. Horse drawn hearse, the
black feather plumes, wind howling... 'It took 40 years to bury my
grandfather! For a grave digger that is tragic!....' The tragedy is the
premise of Cushing playing a retired Horror film actor, holed up in a
creepy castle, playing the 'I could really be a vampire' card, was a
good idea. The props department even used actual press photographs of
Peter from his own films, to add back story evidence of MacGregor's
career on the screen.
THIS FILM PROBABLY gets more interest here at PCAS than it rightly deserves, and that is
probably because, we don't know WHY Cushing signed on the line. There have been well documented instances in the past, where Cushing, questioned details in script, The Brides of Dracula and The Mummy for example, I would think he would have almost certainly declined to be
involved with a film like this in his earlier years. And, I don't think we can lay the blame
at the director shooting extra scenes in PC's absence or an editor
putting a spin on the footage. I have never seen a full shooting script
for Tender / Tendre Dracula.. but I am pretty sure the scene of PC's
dashing out some buttock slapping (!!) to cast member Miou -Miou, was down in black and white, even if it was on a yellow or pink
rewrite page !
WE ASKED YOU AT OURFACEBOOK FAN PAGE what YOUR opinion and thoughts on the film were. Here are some of your comments from the post at the page:
S. ALEXANDER:'A
venture that Peter would have declined to be involved with in his
earlier years. Remember his initial objections and reluctance over 'The
Brides of Dracula'? Obvioulsly the finished cut differed from the
scripted scenes too.'
R.JOYCE:'I
to have confess...it's the only Cushing movie I can't sit through.
Beautiful box art. But it's a disjointed, pseudo erotic flick. Er, not
even that erotic, actually'.
J.PLAYER: 'I
watched it there last year...everytime I thought that I couldn't
believe I was watching that crap and was ready tonight it down,
something would happen that made me want to keep going to see how it
would end up!'
R.SMITH: I
have a fondness for films like this that are so bad they're not even
funny, just jaw dropping exercises in disbelief! Similar to the Bond
knock-offs of Lindsay Shonteff (you have to see these to believe their
creative ineptitude) I do feel there's a real need to see TENDER DRACULA on Blu-ray someday. The version I have on VHS is pretty shabby.
G.GRANT: I watched this on YouTube a few years ago😱It was really bad. I mean it had novelty value, because Mr Cushing was in it. But just awful
T.TUTTLE: I got 20 minutes into it and had to stop! My pain threshold wasn't high enough to make it!
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#MONSTERMONDAY: AND SO we present this week's #MONSTERMONDAY and our next candidate to fit the
bill of 'Is THIS this most terrifying 'Monster / Creature' encountered
in his work...' YOU decide 🙂 Below is a GREAT short and sweet interview with Peter about playing #DOCTORWHO. It seems Cushing did enjoy playing Dr Who, though as always and here, he is thinking about what
his 'public' wanted to see him appearing in. As Cushing says in his
motto, 'We are pleased to serve, and serve to please' in regarding an
actors life. Very surprised to also hear his opinion about the Daleks though!
It's a short clip and well worth a quick listen! Btw, we have a great little treat for #TOOCOOLTUESDAY tomorrow concerning William Hartnell and Peter Cushing . . .
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MANY, MANY THANKS to everyone who has joined our Peter Cushing Appreciation Society Facebook Fan Page in the last four weeks,
making it possible for PCAS to not only HIT the 25 THOUSAND followers
mark but, to FLY WAY PAST IT!! To be quite honest with you, I thought I
was seeing things, when I glanced at our total followers number. It's a
staggering amount of friends and followers for our little society! And
not since the Peter Cushing Appreciation Society was first founded in
1956...have so many friends belonged to this society. Peter would have been shocked I am sure!
WE KNOW FROM RECENT EMAILS and messages, PCAS has friends and
followers as far away as Moscow, many in Australia, a few thousand in
the UK, a huge amount in ALL the states of the USA, we get Hello's from
just about every country in Europe, Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand,
Brazil, Alaska and Canada.... To you ALL...... Thank you for your many
very kind words, comments and continued interest. To those who write our
fabulous features, those who send me photographs, cuttings and press
reports. The people with their eyes on PC film releases and the many
who I have have made friends with here over the past six years....
We
have recently move ALL our video clips, interviews, trailers and media
from the M.BROOKS youtube channel to our NEW PCASUK Youtube Channel. We
will no longer be updating posts at the M.Brooks channel. Why not give
the new channel a visit and maybe subscribe, so you don't miss a thing? HERE
IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE POSTING FOR YOU ALL and I hope to continue for quite some time yet. Here's to the NEXT big number...as Peter Cushing often said, it's time...'STEP OUT!'
#TBT There are SEVERAL young actresses in these two rare photographs,
and all but one of them have appeared in films starring Peter Cushing,
can you name these actresses? ALSO who is that actor, in the wet suit
and googles??? ANSWERS later....
ALSO MAYBE YOU MISSED the announcement of WEDNESDAY'S now being a REQUEST-A-GIF DAY at our FACEBOOK FAN PAGE ACCOUNT and here at the website. Well here is the first of our #GIMMETHEGIF requests, this one forour friend Catherine Anne…..'Dracula / Horror Of Dracula' (1958) Van
Helsing (Peter Cushing) leaps and runs down the table, to pull down the
curtains and expose the sunlight of DEATH! EXCELLENT choice, Catherine!
#TBT
ON REFLECTION it's a miracle that Peter Cushing appeared in 'The House
That Dripped Blood' at all! Shooting began at Shepperton studio in the
Summer of 1970. At the time, Peter's late wife Helen, was very ill and
unusual for Cushing he asked to be released from his contract or if
consideration could be given to the amount of time he would spend on
set. The producers would not agree to this, so Cushing had to leave the
shoot each day and speed back to his home in Whitstable,
and then return early the following morning, bright and fresh ready to
work.
DESPITE THESE PRESSURES, Cushing performance as actor Philip
Grayson, is a interesting one. Playing a peg in a love triangle, with a
wax figure...some of the shots in the film of Cushing walking lonely
along river banks and streets, you can't help wondering what was really
on his mind, as these were some of the last days he would spend with
Helen... at her bedside or not.... #throwbackthursday
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ABOVE HERE'S SOMETHING NEW for #SHERLOCKSUNDAYS, the weird and wonderful world of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Here's NUMBER ONE!
#sherlocksunday : NOTHING WORSE than being interrupted if you've got your head in a Sunday newspaper...even for Holmes! Peter Cushing as the elder Sherlock,a long time before the sudden trend in 'retired Sherlock plays and films' in Tyburn films, 'The Masks of Death' (1984)
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Peter Wilton Cushing was born on the morning of MONDAY 26th May 1913, at
'Ormandy', Godstone Road, Kenley, Surrey, UK...to father George Edward
Cushing and mother, Nellie Maria Cushing. Peter's father was a quantity
surveyor and Nellie was the daughter of a carpet merchant.
Little Peter had an elder brother, David, three years his senior. It
appears that mother Nellie had her heart set on having a girl. 'Wanting
'one of each' she had mitigated any disappointment in my arrival by
dressing me in girls frocks!', Cushing recalled..'allowing my hair to
grow in long curls, tied with a pink ribbon. Eventually, 'father exerted
his gentle authority' ... and Peter was more appropriately attired!
.....All of that, began so long ago.
Peter Wilton Cushing ' ...long curls, tied with a pink ribbon'.
Aged just two in 1915.
THE CUSHING FAMILY:from
bottom to top, David Cushing, Peter's older brother, Mother: Nellie
Maria Cushing, Father George Edward Cushing and a young Peter Cushing
at the top! This photograph was taken in the garden of 'Clearview', an
Art Deco house on St James Road, Purley, Surrey, Peter's father, a
quantity surveyor built the house in the year this photograph was taken,
1926.
This
is 'Clearview' as it looks TODAY!, An Art Deco house on St James Road,
Purley, Surrey. Peter's father, George a quantity surveyor built the
house in 1926. It was recently for sale last year!
Today, we REMEMBER and CELEBRATE. Happy Birthday, PETER CUSHING!
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