DON'T THINK FOR A MINUTE THAT YOU CAN'T take another post of a Cushing Sherlock Holmes adventure? Snap out of it.😉😀 This one... is different 😉 #SirIanMckellen was 75, when he made that amazing Mr Holmes feature back in 2015. #PeterCushing
was 71 when he appeared in what would almost be his 'swan song' for the
big screen, and he pours just about everything he has in it 😊'Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death' (1984) is a pretty clever
film, with a very cool cast to help make it work.
THE THREE FACES OF Peter Cushing's Sherlock Holmes
'The Hound of the Baskervilles' (Hammer films 1959)
Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes in the BBC Television series of 1968
Cushing's Holmes in semi retirement in 'Sherlock Holmes and the
Masks of Death (1984)
THERE ARE MANY
very nice touches in this film and despite Peter's obvious age and his
belief he was too old to play it, it works, helped by Cushing's good
friend, John Mills who fills the role of Dr Watson confidently and with a
few well timed 'matured-creaks and groans'. Roy Ward Baker directs also
Ray Milland, Anne Baxter and #AntonDiffring are all lovely to watch and help put the cherry on what could have been quite a stale and mouldy cake!
I VERY MUCH LIKE the story in this film. At times it's bleak, quite dark
and uses one of the 'world's darkest of times' to under pin the evil
and threats' in this #Sherlock and #Watson
drama, written by Hammer's Anthony Hinds and N.J Crisp. It is a shame
Cushing thought himself not fit enough or capable to nail another Holmes
film, which was planned for production after this one. But, he did wait
while Tyburn were trying to source funding.
CUSHING MADE '#Biggles'
(1986) while waiting, which would be his last cinema role. I think he
more than managed to do his last Sherlock justice and finally bow out
from one of his most accomplished and always most confidently performed
roles in his long and varied career. I hope you enjoy this too 😊Marcus
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