#WATCHWITHCUSHING! OVER AT The FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE we have lanched our #WATCHPARTY for today, with ANOTHER dip into the 'Sherlock Holmes' BBC television series, 'A STUDY IN SCARLETT' with Peter Cushing again in the role of Sherlock Holmes 😊
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'Where there is no imagination, there is NO horror!' so says Peter
Cushing's Sherlock Holmes in 'A Study in Scarlett', in this episode from
his 1968 BBC television serial. Cushing had taken on the role for the
BBC when Douglas Wilmer's Sherlock, left the series. It would not be a
pleasurable experience for the actor, and when he and Wilmer were later
united on the Hammer/AIP production of 'The Vampire Lovers' (1970),
Cushing remarked that he would sooner spend
the rest of his career sweeping Paddington Station than to work for the
BBC again under similar circumstances. Cushing would later argue that
the strain affected his performance, indicating a preference for his
earlier, less hurried portrayal of Holmes in Hammer’s 'The Hound of the
Baskervilles' (1958).
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO CUSHING,
however, I disagree – where his earlier performance is a bit mannered,
he seems far more relaxed and comfortable in the role in the BBC series.
Sadly, many of the episodes no longer survive – but the ones that do
show just how effective Cushing really was in the role. 'A Study in
Scarlet' wasn’t the first of the series that he did for the BBC, but it
is the first in continuity of that surviving episodes. WHICH Cushing
Sherlock portrayal do you prefer, the 1958 Hammer Baskerville or the BBC
series? Stay Safe, Stay Inside, Stay Well Everyone 😉 - Marcus
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