#VERYHAPPY to see 'Rogue One : A Star Wars Story' trending on Twitter today 😲I can't help thinking that Peter Cushing would have very much loved the film too. Personally, I think #ROGUEONE is THE most beautiful cinematic #StarWars film of the whole series!
The #Sideshowtoys figure of #PeterCushing as Grand Moff Tarkin 'Star Wars' (1977) Quite an impressive figure. Apparently, #ForbiddenPlanet in Shaftesbury Avenue, #London has one in their figure display
cabinet opposite the checkouts!
JUST A FEW OF THE POST FROM THE LAST FEW MONTHS THEMED BY
PETER CUSHING AND THE ROLE OF TARKIN!
ABOVE: WE COULDN'T LET TODAYgo by without seeing this one more time! SEE ITHERE!
AN INTERESTING INTERVIEWwith actor GUY HENRY who played Tarkin in the film 'ROGUE ONE' his methods on playing the role and the technical expertise behind creating TARKIN for the film : RIGHT HERE!
AND FINALLY.. my appalling post and banner for APRIL FOOL'S DAY this year. Surprisingly, it DID actually net a few 😃😊😉 HAVE GREAT MAY FOURTH!
IT'S A VERY Happy Birthday to actor Mark Hamill we post today 😃 Hamill who is probably best known for his role as Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars Films and the role of providing the voice behind the animated BATMAN series of The Joker .
HAMILL co-starred with Peter Cushing in the first Star Wars film 'A New
Hope' (1977) However, Hamill was disappointed to learn that he had no
scenes with Peter's character Grand Moff Tarkin, so he took the time to
visit the set on the days Peter was working, to meet with him.
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MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU TODAY . . and always 😉😊 . . . Tarkin's not too happy about it, but over at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page we are asking, 'How will you spend yours?
THE KENNER Peter Cushing TARKIN figure. Most of you collectors will know the story of this Kenner series figure 🙂 But over at the facebook pcasuk fan page we are asking, just how many of you actually STILL have it? And there are a LOT of answers and comments!
#TOOCOOLTUESDAY! OUTRAGEOUS. FUNNY. WONDERFUL. Peter Cushing would have LOVED THIS..
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IT STILL SEEMS quite surreal writing this, one year on. A year today we
lost CARRIE FISHER. The shock rippled around the world, and I am sure
today, many will again feel that disbelief. Many here of course will
know her connection to Peter Cushing, through the movie, STAR WARS. As
Tarkin, they together played a key scene, with Peter cranking up his
performance, as the cruel and most Machiavellian of characters in the
Star Wars universe. Carrie later shared how difficult it had
been for her to find the motivation, to hate Peter's Tarkin. She
too,like many before her, had been charmed and moved, by his kindness
and manner on set, it was quite a task to actually say those lines.
WHILE CREATING the banner for today's
post, I dug though many hundreds of images of Carrie in file. They were
ALL magical. They ALL projected her sense of fun, wickedness and love of
life. Many were taken long before she started that painful and
disabling struggle, that tripped and distracted her later in life. There
were so many photographs, picking one, was just too difficult, picking
TWO, was really no easier. Just like the fact she is no longer here,
it's just not good enough . . . She really stands as one of the
brightest STARS, not just in that Star Wars Galaxy, but in the lives of
so many that she continues to touch. And today, we remember CARRIE
FISHER, as one very special star, who still shines . . . .
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#THROWBACKTHURSDAY!
There are several artists on the net that I follow regularly,
especially if they are in the habit of producing a Cushing or Fantasy
genre actor or character now and then. These TWO amazing poster
portraits of Cushing and Lee from their last two Hammer Dracula's, are
very good indeed. It seems a simple thing to do, take a great publicity
photograph from a popular film, and put a spin on the image, add some
subtle and stylish text and fonts... FAB... a contemporary
presentation, that would look great on any fans wall! I know next to
nothing about this artist, except their, I guessing their
name...FRANKLYN. There is a gallery of fine examples of Franklyn's work
on ebay. Some great Lee, Cushing and Hammer film LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
and reasonably priced too.😉 Go on spoil yourself, for Christmas . . . EBAY LINK HERE! I suspect they are going fast 😉 - Marcus
#THROWBACKTHURSDAY!!
With the arrival of the latest installment of the STAR WARS series now
at cinemas . . . here's a reminder of a where it all began . . . now, if
Tarkin could just remember, what he's going to do with that battle
station Ha! 🙂 - Marcus
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#MOMENTSOFTERRORMONDAY!: YOUR EMPIRE NEEDS YOU! A terrific call to arms from RALF SCHMITT! It's interesting, even a year on from Cushing's TARKIN re-emergence in ROGUE ONE, there us hardly a day when, something about this, probably now, the most famous of all Cushing's performances, doesn't appear on the 'Cushing Scanner!'..... and that is always a good thing!
TODAY'S #MOMENTOFTERROR
is a scene from 1959’s Hound of the Baskervilles, surely a firm
favourite of many of our readers. Coming at the climax of the film, this
is the moment where Christopher Lee’s Sir Henry Baskerville comes face
to face with the Hound. Hammer’s version of the tale is easily one of the creepiest of the many
filmed, preformed or staged over the many year’s and this scene is a
prime example. Of course it’s well known now that the titular hound is a
Great Dane in a rubber mask, but
Fisher’s skill at keeping the beast off screen until this crucial moment
is what makes it all the more shocking.
NOT ONLY this but it follows it up with one of the more disturbing
sequences in the entire film. As Cecile Stapleton attempts to escape
across the more Holmes, Watson and Henry Baskerville, unable to see her
in the darkness, listen to her pitiful cries as she is sucked under the
mire. It’s a shame that Hammer never thought to draw on any of Doyle’s other
Holmes stories as another Gothic thriller in the same vein with a
returning Cushing and Morell would have been a real pleasure. A truly
chilling moment and a worthy climax to another great from Hammer’s early
years.
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Happy Birthday To actor Mark Hamill, who is probably best known for his role as Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars Films .
HAMILL co-starred with Peter Cushing in the first Star Wars film 'A New Hope'
(1977) However, Hamill was disappointed to learn that he had no scenes
with Peter's character Grand Moff Tarkin, so he took the time to visit
the set on the days Peter was working, to meet with him... Hamill is a
huge fan of his and of Hammer Horror…judging by his VIDEO INTERVIEW above..!
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