IT'S SUNDAY and it's also NATIONAL GRANDAD DAY🙂
Here are two examples of splendid Grandfather's that Peter Cushing
played on the big screen, both quite loving and very brave! I have lost
count of the many times, so many of you have written in, to tell me how
much Peter LOOKS like your Grandad, or that you wish he HAD been! 🙂😉 Help us celebrate National Grandad Day Today 🙂 Over at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE we are asking followers, if they have a special Grandad memory or the best of times with your Grandad now! Feel free to join in!
PETER CUSHING played the Van Helsing GRANDAD, one more time to JOANNA LUMLEY'S Jessica Van Helsing, in the sequel to DRACULA AD 1972 'THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA'
MORE NEWS on OUR PCASUK OCTOBER COMPETITION! To celebrate and mark the release of the
REMASTERED blu rays of both Cushing and Christopher Lee Hammer Dracula
films, Dracula AD 1972 and The Satanic Rites of Dracula, we'll be
holding, what could be a very popular competition! Copies of the Warner
Brothers blu rays AND signed framed portraits will up for grabs! Make
sure you don't miss it and miss out!
THIS PICTURE is a little blurred, but the gentleman, posing with Peter Cushing here, was as SHARP and quick witted as they came! Who do you think he is and what did he write that Peter appeared in several times? Have fun and give us your suggestions over at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE NOW!
#CHRISTOPHERLEE
SATURDAY! Probably, one of THE most popular promo photos we have posted over the
years here on the pcasuk fb page and website. It's one of two colour
portraits and as an off set peep at #petercushing and #christopherlee while shooting the penultimate #hammerfilms Dracula, it's an amazing photograph. News of the release of #warnerbrothers
blu rays of Dracula AD 1972 and Satanic Rites, has met with lots of
interest, while we wait to find out if the remastered films, will carry
any extras. Over at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE, we are asking followers, WHAT would YOU like to see included in the EXTRAS FEATURES
of both releases?? Feel free to pop over there and add your ideas and thoughts!- Marcus
A NEW GALLERY IN CELEBRATION OF THE WARNER BROTHERS REMASTERED BLU RELEASE : ARRIVING HERE FRIDAY 28th OCTOBER 2018
EXCLUSIVE NEWS: WARNER BROS ARCHIVE have announced that they will be releasing BOTH DRACULA AD 1972 AND THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA, as REMASTERED BLU RAY BOTH IN OCTOBER 2018! Both promise to be GREAT treats!
DRACULA D 1972 SPECIFICATIONS: NEW 2018 1080p HD remaster! Running Time 96:00Subtitles English SDH Sound DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English Aspect Ratio 1.78:1, 16 X 9 WIDESCREEN COLOR. Disc Configuration BD 50. RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 2018
THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA SPECIFICATIONS : NEW 2018 1080p HD remaster! Running Time 88:00 Subtitles English SDH Sound DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English Aspect Ratio 1.78:1, 16 X 9 WIDESCREEN COLOR Disc Configuration BD 25 Release date: October 2018
THE CLASSIC HAMMER FILMS starring both Christopher Lee as Count Dracula and Peter Cushing as Van Helsing, have long been on the 'want it' BLU RAYS shopping list of many Hammer film fans. Now in REMASTERED BLU RAYS, that time has finally arrived! If the standard of the print and packaging of the previous WARNER BROTHERS Hammer BOX SET release of Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, The Mummy and Taste The Blood Of Dracula, is anything to go by, this shpould be a REAL treat. We await any news of EXTRA features. As soon as we get the, you will HEAR IT HERE FIRST!
LOOK OUT FOR UPDATES! MORE NEWS ON THESE RELEASES TO COME!
ABOVE ONE OF OUR PAST features on THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA BEHIND THE SCENES : CLICK HERE!
OUR PCASUK Satanic Rites Of Dracula REVIEW FEATURE and RARE STILLS Gallery : CLICK HERE!
FIND GALLERIES RARE IMAGES and much more besides in our TWO PART SERIES on THE HAMMER DRACULA FLICKS. Featuring some of the BEST moments from the Hammer / Christopher Lee Dracula archive! Now at this website . .
NEWS: Are you a COLLECTOR? Have any original stills from Hammer or
Cushing films? Maybe a cinema poster or two? IF you have a mint copy of
Hammer films DRACULA AD 1972 UK quad poster . . you might be sitting on
a little mint! According to the press release on the London Odeon BFI
IMAX FILM and MEMORABILIA AUCTION taking place on JUNE 28th this year,
one of their lots is this very poster and they are expecting the hammer
(!!) to go down on at least, EIGHT THOUSAND POUNDS for
the lucky bidder who wins it. PCAS also actually owns an original item
of this poster too. It was purchased from cinema poster and stills
trader Greg Edwards back in 1980. I actually bought the poster for the
collection as part of a double purchase deal... a quad of THE BRIDES of
DRACULA cost £40...but the DRACULA AD one cost.... £18!!!!
FOR MANY YEARS the AD 1972 memorabilia
had very little value, along with the Satanic Rites of Dracula, but
times have changed. A quad featuring bot AD and the 1970 film TROG has
been sold many times for anywhere from £100 to £300 UK pounds..but it's
RARE you get to see the poster from then film's original release.
SO...do YOU own any Cushing / Lee / Hammer posters and have you ever
purchased an expensive Cushing memorabilia item??
IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.
Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help
us reach all lovers of Peter Cushing's work AND Help Keep The Memory Alive!
#CUSHINGGIFWEDNESDAY!LOTS OF COMMENTS and messages posted to me here and at our PCAS YOUTUBE CHANNEL these past few weeks on PETER CUSHING in THE GHOUL. EVEN interest in the music that Cushing's character DR LAWRENCE plays to Veronica Carlson's Daphne! Cushing did quite a convincing job, of faking playing, and there have been quite a few times where he has had to do the 'FIDDLE' visually, but I don't ever recall him doing so with a piano, which almost the most common musical fake up on screen ! HOW MANY can YOU THINK OF?
PETER CUSHING as SHERLOCK HOLMES in the BBC version of 'THE BLUE CARBUNCLE'
ABOVE THE ENTIRE CUSHING 'THE BLUE CARBUNCLE ' EPISODE
from the BBC series in 1968
MUCH OF THE SOURCE MATERIAL FOR OUR WEEKLY GIFS, CAN BE FOUND IN THE ENTIRE UPLOADS OF THE PETER CUSHING FILMS AT OURPCAS YOUTUBE CHANNEL!
JUST CLICK HERE and be ENTERTAINED for HOURS! Please support us too and PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!
IT'S A GREAT PITY that both PETER CUSHING and DAVID WARNER only got to share such a short time together in a film, FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE. You can see in that scene, how they both had a chemistry, that complemented each other. IF they could have shared another film together, WHICH TITLE one would you choose?? Here nearing the end of WARNER'S story in one of Amicus portmanteau movies, his poor character
Edward Charlton in THE GATE CRASHER loses his will to find the 'figure' in the mirror, but sadly knows nothing of his own fate....
FIND OUT MORE about the Amicus film FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE and other films that PETER CUSHING made with the company through out his career, at THIS excellent EIGHT PART serial on THE AMICUS FILMS OF PETER CUSHING. PART SIX covers FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE and several others from the period of time, including MADHOUSE with VINCENT PRICE! AS usual it's just a click away,RIGHT HERE!
HERE IS SOMETHING EXTRA CONNECTED TO 'FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE' . . MANY
THANKS TO ROBIN MCDONALD who provided us with two great items for our
#TOOCOOLTUESDAY posts a little while ago, you may have missed.... This artwork was produced as a in joke among
the crew of Amicus films
'From Beyond The Grave' with Peter Cushing..the artwork was pinned to
the clapper-board during some of the shooting! Robin
McDonald, was a clapper operator on many of Peter's films.
AGAIN, MANY THANKS to Robin McDonald . . who sent us his much treasured cards
from Peter Cushing, to share with you. Peter DID so very much love his
cuppa tea!!!
BARBARA MURRAY who sadly only died quite recently in September 2014, was an actress who SHOULD have appeared in MORE work of the THRILLER AND SUSPENSE kind with AMICUS or Hammer films. Sadly, she never did. MURRAY was very famous for her TV work and few films. She looks like the kind of actress that BOTH film companies would have employed, but apart from a role as Enid Jason in segment 4 "Wish You Were Here" in AMICUS 'TALES FROM THE CRYPT' it all passed her by.
RICHARD GREEN who plays her VICTIM Husband, Ralph Jason, . . . a role that PETER CUSHING was originally going to play in the film, NOT ARTHUR GRIMSDYKE, for which he just about stole the whole film and won much respect and an award for... and the late Roy Dotrice, who sadly left us last year, as her lover. It's a bit of a GORY-STORY, this one for Amicus, considering producer's MILTON SUBOTSKY dislike of any inclusion of BLOOD or sex in his scripts and finished films. BUT Barbara does good and Richard Greene, who also worked with PETER CUSHING in Hammer films, SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST, in his famous Robin Hood role . .dies, wonderfully!
SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST, was one the CUSHING FILMS that made the GREAT list of TOP FIVE PETER CUSHING NON HORROR MOVIES... TO FIND OUT what titles made the OTHER FOUR CLICK HERE!
#DRACULAAD1972, is slowly starting to get the respect and interest it maybe should have received on it's release SOOO MANY years ago, by Hammer films. We have relentlessly posted about it in FEATURES and GALLERIES since we first arrived on the net back in 2010. There is ONE particular scene, that we have dug around in for a LONG time. The DEATH OF BOB. For those of you, those of you not so familiar with the character played by, PHILLIP MILLER, Bob was a bit of limp boyfriend of CAROLINE MUNRO"S character LAURA BELLOWS. Bob was a kind of hip but sensible version of FRED from the epic children's cartoon series SCOOBY DOO, but unlike Fred...DIES! It's not long before he too, falls under the spell of Christopher Lee's DRACULA and those two pointy teeth, until he is found denim's creased and he lifeless in the cemetery of St Bartolph's Church, by PETER CUSHING'S, Professor Lorrimer Van Helsing. BUT HOW he got there OR died was never explained in the film. It was only when studying some CONTACT SHEETS in the PCAS archive, that we came across the solution . . . READ BELOW! What FUN!
ABOVE:COME WITH US in a GREAT BEHIND THE SCENES DOCUMENTARY on the MAKING of DRACULA AD 1972, in this upload from ourPCAS YOUTUBE CHANNEL!
AND TO WRAP WITH FOR THIS WEEK: HERE is a GREAT PCAS CAROLINE MUNRO Dracula AD 1972 and EARTH'S CORE GALLERY! RIGHT HERE CLICK!
