REQUESTED:HERE'S A PHOTOGRAPH I posted a little while ago on here and at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page, requested now for a
repost by Mandy K, Cheryl T and others . .who missed it! This has to be
the most tactile and affectionate photograph, I have ever seen of Lee
with an actress . . off studio camera and on set!
AS I HAVE always said
on the subject of Lee feelings on appearing on both 'Satanic Rites of
Dracula' and 'Dracula AD 1972'. Lee may not have professionally liked the
idea of the films and their plots, but I don't think he sulked or pouted
around the set . . as some would have you believe. And I think, this
pic is a fair indication, that what director Alan Gibson said on making
both films, that everyone got on, it was relaxed and they had fun! Let's
face it, it's not everyone who can say they got a hug from Christopher
Lee...!
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WEDNESDAY'S would have returned to FREE GIF day over at our CLOSING FACEBOOK PAGE this week, instead of us
giving away rare contact sheets and colour Cushing, Lee and Price
photographs for you collectors out there. THOSE great gifts will resume here at the website
soon. Lots to give you, I think you will like! In the meantime GIFS. They are back on Wednesday's! I always
love posting images of Vincent and Christopher here. Good friends of
Peter's and always fun to share here. Especially, in THIS film. Not
everyone liked it. Personally, I LOVE it. Vincent, despite not being happy with
the finished production . . .still performed so well and Lee, come the
end, was truly terrifying!!! You KNOW this one... and what did you think of it...and were they right to be cast together in this special one? This GIF was requested by Dylan T! Hope you like it Dylan, it IS just as you asked for!
JON PERTWEE ONLY APPEARED I think, in just ONE Amicus film. His role in 'THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD', has always been popular. Assisted by Ingrid Pitt playing Carla Lind, playing his, Paul Henderson's girlfriend in Segment 4 'THE CLOAK' Pertwee was great. Probably the ONLY actor to have delivered a line about Christopher Lee playing the role of DRACULA, in a mocking way...and got away with it! CUSHING's role as Philip Grayson in his story with Joss Ackland, 'WAXWORKS' I always find a little trying to enjoy. Cushing was at this time, nursing he very ill wife, Helen.
HE TRIED to leave the commitment of the film, so he could be with her. Stubbornly, the producers said no. Cushing life Shepperton studios, every night, to travel to Whitstable, to be with his wife, to leave early the following early hours, for the next days shoot. This great GIF was requested by Paula Dean.
IT'S COMMON KNOWLEDGE whatever role Milton Subotsky suggested to Peter Cushing in any of his AMICUS FILMS, with the exception of a few starring roles, the script was always open, if there was a role Peter preferred to play. In TALES FROM THE CRYPT, Grimsdyke was NOT the role he was originally offered. Cushing was originally intended to play Ralph Jason, but after looking at the
script he suggested to Subotsky that he would do more justice to the
role of Mr. Grimsdyke. Subotsky never considered offering Grismdyke to Cushing, because of the connections with Cushing's own wife, Helen having passed, just months before.
THE ROLE OF THIS chap though, so Milton told me, was something Peter very much liked. On receiving the script, Peter told Milton he could supply most of the costume, and would be very happy to play it. It's one of Cushing's most amusing and yet a little dark too. The perfect combination for Cushing. Something that would make us, uneasy about a man who himself was the kindest and so much loved. Terri Beale this is YOUR requested GIF!
MARSHA A HUNT, is known to have had a good time when making Hammer films 'DRACULA AD 1972' and when the camera was off, she liked to have fun, and didn't take Christopher Lee's playing of the Count off camera and his authority, that seriously or respectfully at all. BUT when it came to shoot her scenes with his DRACULA, there was no shortage of, what appeared to be TRUE concern. HA! This GIF is requested by Dawn Hughes . .
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#CHRISTOPHERLEESATURDAY!
My Granny always said, 'You can always judge man by the quality of his
shoes..!' With Christopher Lee busily polishing his custom made Italian
brogues here, Granny would have obviously rated him quite high on her
crib sheet. That's a nice shine too. Lee obviously doesn't trust to
leave his shoes outside his hotel room door...after that LAST episode,
with one going missing.
The Prince of Darkness . . .. 'Dracula, Prince of Darkness' (Hammer films 1966)
ALL TOGETHER NOW:'FLASH! AHH...AHHH!' What a song! What a movie!
Think on this . . .what if GEORGE LUCAS has decided not to make #STARWARS
back in 1977, but instead, waited until 1980...and made, FLASH GORDON
instead???? . . .Cus-HING as MING would have been interest-ING
though...maybe? No? Mark H and dear Carrie, would have been perfect, not
sure about Karen Allen though . . 🙂 This stunn-ING mock up cinema poster is the work of El Ray Network, I believe.
#CHRISTOPHERLEESATURDAYS! Can YOU spot the shot, with Marsha Hunt, that never made it to the final UK edit of #DRACULA AD 1972...starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, before the big bow out, in the Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
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#ONSETSATURDAY: AT THE TOP: Pertwee and Pitt camp it up with glee on the set of 'The Curse of the Bloodsuckers', the 'film within a film' within the story of 'The Cloak'... one of the four stories in the Amicus portmanteau film, The House that Dripped Blood' (1971) ...which also starred Peter Cushing in a tale called, 'Waxworks'! TRIVIA: Among the photographs in the frame of Paul Henderson's mirror in his dressing room, is one of Jon Pertwee driving "Bessie," the car he drove as the Doctor in the BBC television series,Doctor Who. When Pertwee made THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD in 1971, he was still playing the Doctor. Interesting too, that VINCENT PRICE was first offered the part of Paul Henderson.
#ONSETSATURDAY : Director Freddie Francis during the shooting of the 'Wish You were Here' story from 'TALES FROM THE CRYPT' (1972)... actors on set are Roy Dotrice and Barbara Murray. 'Tales of course is the film in which Peter Cushing played Arthur Grimsdyke, in the story, 'Poetic Justice' TRIVIA: Peter Cushing was
originally intended to play Ralph Jason, but after looking at the script
he persuaded the producers that he would do more justice to the role of
Mr. Grimsdyke. Robin Phillips who played Grimsdyke's nasty neighbor, was only cast as James because original choice Ralph Bates was not free.
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#ONSETSATURDAY Director Alan Gibson blocks out the action for the scene during the making of Dracula AD 1972 TRIVIA: Gibson was not the first choice of director for the film, Paul Annett, who later went on to direct Peter Cushing in Amicus films, THE BEAST MUST DIE was first offered the chance to direct this project. The character of Jessica Van Helsing has been played in each respective
Hammer Dracula by an actress who'd portray a character romantically
linked to Ken Barlow in the UK soap opera Coronation Street - Stephanie Beacham, in 2009,
and Joanna Lumley, in 1973!
It’s FORTY FOUR YEARS since Peter Cushing’s Van Helsing told us about
the world’s deadliest vampire, Count Dracula in 1970’s London in Hammer
films Dracula AD 1972, which went into production this week in September
1971…
Peter Cushing, with Christopher lee and his family, his wife Gitta and daughter Christina on the set of DRACULA AD 1972
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