Showing posts with label cinema retro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cinema retro. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 July 2014

GREAT BRITONS PETER CUSHING ROYAL MAIL POSTAGE STAMP COMPETITION!



COMPETITION OPEN NOW! 
Here's your chance to win a set of the limited issue, Royal Mail 'Great Briton's Postage Stamps' that were issued last year. We have THREE sets to give away as prizes!


THE QUESTIONS:


1) Director Terence Fisher shot test footage of the Hound with children performers in smaller versions of Christopher Lee's and Peter Cushing's costumes, to try and make the appearance of the 'Hound' look bigger! TRUE OR FALSE?

2) The 'HOUND' was played by a Great Dane. His name was:
a) Trooper
b) Colonel
c) Major
d) Bonzo


3) Complete this line of Sherlock Holmes dialogue from the film: ' My professional charges are on a fixed scale, I do not vary them, except.....


4) The 'HOUND' wore a prosthetic mask, to enlarge his head and make his appearance more frightening. WHO made that mask?


5) Location work for the climax of Hammer films, The Hound of the Baskervilles, was actually shot on the moors of Dartmoor. TRUE or FALSE?


6) Actress MARLA LANDI played Cecile Stapleton, and was recommended for the role by Peter Cushing, after he spotted her in a film. TRUE or FALSE?


7) Hammer films, 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' was the second version of the film to be shot in colour.
TRUE or FALSE?


8) THE interior set of Baskerville Hall is actually the redressed set of Castle Dracula from 'Dracula , Prince of Darkness'. TRUE or FALSE?

9) According to uncredited producer Kenneth Hyman, from Warner Brothers, The Hound of the Baskervilles was made with a budget of approximately:
a) £35,000
b) £56,000
c) £92,000
d) £73,000




10) Andre Morell who played Dr Watson, appeared in how many feature films with Peter Cushing?

WHO CAN ENTER?:
As with ALL our PCASUK competitions, this competition is open to everyone! Even if you are not a 'follower' of this website.


YOUR ENTRY:
PLEASE SEND your answers to theblackboxclub@gmail.com ANY entries posted onto the comments feed will be deleted and not counted as an entry.


DEADLINE:
ALL entries must be in by the closing date of this competition: 9PM GMT TUESDAY JULY 22ND. The winners names will announced here on the pcasuk facebook page on WEDNESDAY JULY 23RD 10PM GMT.

Have Fun and Good Luck!

Saturday, 21 September 2013

CINEMA RETRO ISSUE 27 : UNPUBLISHED PETER CUSHING INTERVIEW AND AMICUS FEATURE


Heads Up! The very classy magazine, CINEMA RETRO current issue 27, features John Exshaw's UNPUBLISHED interview with Peter Cushing plus a very nice in-depth feature of the Amicus Edgar Rice Burroughs film adaptations The Land That Time Forgot, At the Earth's Core and The People That Time Forgot. If you've never purchased a copy of Cinema Retro, it's well worth every cent of your hard earned lolly. Every issue is packed with well researched features and illustrated with more often than not, with photographs of the 'not-often-seen' kind. They are shipping the issue now! http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php
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