#HAMMER FILMS: CAPTAIN CLEGG / NIGHT CREATURES YOURS TO WIN! TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!

THIS SUNDAY 15th JUNE 2014! Can YOU take the test, and WIN? We have a PAIR of Final Cut Entertainment Blu Rays to give away this weekend!

TWO COMPETITIONS THIS WEEKEND AT PCASUK : DRACULA BLU RAYS, DRACULA SCRIPT AND CAPTAIN CLEGG BLU RAYS TO BE WON

Hello Everyone! Hope you've had a good week. It's Friday! #frankensteinfriday in fact! Couple of images then coming up for you later. Quite a crammed weekend over the next two days, ANOTHER competition 'So You think You Know Captain Clegg?, a chance to grab TWO COPIES of #finalcutentertainment's excellent blu ray release (on sale now out on 23rd June) There's still two days left to enter our 'So You Think You Know Dracula?' competition. (That wraps this weeknd Sunday 15th June) Plus we have some splendid stills for you tomorrow during our #onthesetsaturday posts... Plus all the usual stuff AND it's all World Cup Football free!!! Bargain!

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AHOY ME HEARTIES! SET YE TIME PIECE FOR THE WINNING OF 'CAPTAIN CLEGG' BLU RAY

AHOY ME HEARTIES! AVAST BEHIND, And all that...Get your sea legs ready, there's no time for hanging a jib, 'cause shiver me timbers, this weekend ye can grab yourselves, some real #PeterCushing #hammerfilms TREASURE, me beauties! And NO Crimping either! We've got some beautiful booty and plunder, A PAIR of fine blu ray's of the ol Captain himself..'CAPTAIN CLEGG'! Yours for WINNING! Still in their wraps they be and hot from the scallywags at Final Cut Entertainment. 

Join us for some grog, a tankard of Nelson's Folly, on the good lord's day, THIS SUNDAY 15th JUNE....and try thee luck at nabbing a copy for yourself in our competition. We'll be pulling out the bung hole and making much merriment, in celebration of  the ol' Captain. So, all hands on deck and get ye coxswain to steer ye a path, to our landing party here. All rapscallions and 'Brethren Of The Coast', most welcome. Be seeing ye, me handsomes..... AYE!

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FINAL CUT ENTERTAINMENT: CAPTAIN CLEGG NIGHT CREATURES BLU REVIEW

#hammerfilms 'CAPTAIN CLEGG' ' 'NIGHT CREATURES' blu ray starring Peter Cushing is due for street release on Monday 23rd Jun 2014. NEXT WEEK we'll be posting a full review of the blu ray and it's extras... PLUS you can WIN yourself some copies too

BEHIND THE SCENES: SYDNEY BROMLEY OLD TOM KETCH : NIGHT CREATURES CAPATIN CLEGG (1962)

Peter Cushing as Captain Clegg / Dr Blyss in Night Creatures / Captain Clegg (1962)...and two behind the scenes shots featuring actor Sydney Bromley, who you may remember playing terrified Old Tom Ketch in the film. Bromley had to fall backwards into a frog filled pond behind him, and land on a sunken mattress. Well, poor old Bromley missed the mattress, and hurt his back. The image on the right shows director Peter Graham Scott, giving him a helping hand out of the bog!

NEWS: NIGHT CREATURES / CAPTAIN CLEGG AND PHANTOM OF THE OPERA GET BLU RAY RELEASES

Final Cut is to release Peter Cushing's 'NIGHT CREATURES / CAPTAIN CLEGG' plus Hammer Films 'PHANTOM OF THE OPERA' on BLU RAY and DVD for March - June 2014. Barbara Shelley's 'SHADOW OF THE CAT' gets a release on dvd too. Unfortunately no hi def avaiable for a blu ray. All come with subs for the hard of hearing...Are we happy? More news on these releases coming up.

 

 

 

 

PETER CUSHING: YVONNE ROMAIN: OLIVER REED: CAPTAIN CLEGG : NIGHT CREATURES

SYNOPSIS:

During 1776 there was a notorious pirate sailing the high seas named Captain Clegg. When one of his crew, a mulatto (Milton Reid), killed his wife shortly after she gave birth, he cut out the man's tongue and marooned him on an island on the coral reef - however, this man was picked up by a passing ship later on... Moving forward to 1792, and the Romney Marshes in southern England are host to smugglers who the King's men are desperately trying to catch and stop from illegally importing alcohol without paying duty on it. 

One of the villages on the marsh has Dr Blyss (Peter Cushing) as its mild-mannered pastor, and today he is giving a sermon to the townsfolk in the local church. A troupe of the King's men led by Captain Collier (Patrick Allen) arrive in the area at the same time - will they uncover any wrongdoing?

COMMENTARY:

Captain Clegg, or Night Creatures as it was known overseas by a less giveaway title, was a Hammer exploit in the historical adventure stakes, a remake of the nineteen-thirties George Arliss vehicle Dr. Syn. Although it has elements of a horror film, it's not really part of that genre; in spite of the spectres haunting the marshes and the touches of macabre and the occasional brutalities, it's more of a romp, played straight but with the odd item of wit to lighten the story. It was scripted by Anthony Hinds under his John Elder pen name, with additional dialogue from Barbara S. Harper, and wins you over with its spirit and atmosphere.

That said, it's not what you could call surprising, so it's a better watch if you're feeling indulgent towards its predictability - although the film attempts to play games with the viewer's expectations, there's no doubt about who is doing the smuggling and who is really who under an assumed name. Cushing is a lot of fun here, whether preaching from his pulpit and encouraging his congregation to sing with more gusto, or revealed as the mastermind behind the illegal activities, here painting him as something of a Robin Hood figure with the best of intentions toward the villagers, if not the badly-behaved soldiers.

Every Robin Hood needs his Sheriff of Nottingham just as every good hero (or anti-hero, I guess) needs a formidable villain to show him off to his best advantage, and here the stern, booming-voiced Allen is the equal of Cushing. The plot throws in who turns out to be the daughter of Clegg, Imogene (Yvonne Romain), who works as the serving wench at the inn and wishes to marry Harry (Oliver Reed as a romantic type), the son of the squire, but how will he react when he finds out her lineage? 

Then there's the mute mulatto from the prologue who is kept on a leash by the soldiers and sniffs out any illegal alcohol - why does he seem to recognise Dr Blyss? Well, it's not too difficult to work out, is it? It's nice to see Hammer regulars like Reid and Michael Ripper, especially good as the undertaker, get a bit more to do than usual, and overall Captain Clegg proves most diverting, if never inspiring. What it really needed was a good old-fashioned swordfight. Music by Don Banks. 

REVIEW SOURCE: HERE
IMAGES: Marcus Brooks 

BEHIND THE SCENES OF CAPTAIN CLEGG: HAMMER FILMS: PETER CUSHING YVONNE ROMAIN AND OLIVER REED PHOTOGRAPH

GETTING THE VOWS RIGHT: Peter Cushing with the Rev Sidney Doran, vicar of Bray, helping Peter with rehearsing the marriage vows for Oliver Reed and Yvonne Romain's characters in Hammer Films CAPTAIN CLEGG / NIGHT CREATURES (1961)

HAMMER FILM PRODUCTIONS: 'CAPTAIN CLEGG' TONGUE IN CHEEK BEHIND THE SCENES PHOTOGRAPH (1962)

A great tongue-in-check photograph taken during the making of Hammer Film productions 'Captain Clegg' aka 'Night Creatures' (1962) starring Peter Cushing. Here we have Patrick Allen as Capt Collier and his Queens Customs men waiting at the bus stop! I think they would have needed something a little faster than a Number ten bus to catch Clegg, Mipps and the 'marsh phantoms'!

PETER CUSHING : BEHIND THE SCENES : HAMMER FILM PRODUCTIONS: 'CAPTAIN CLEGG' VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH