NEXT MONTH OCTOBER!#TurnerClassicMovies has #PETERCUSHING as their #STAROFTHEMONTH and
is screening a whole mass of some of his best work during October! Take
a look at these titles.. There's 15 'horror films' and seven very cool
dramas, including the rare 1967 'Some May Live' ANY of YOUR Favourites
Cushing Frighteners in HERE? 😀- Marcus
Monday October 5th
CASH ON DEMAND (1961) THE END OF THE AFFAIR (1955) TIME WITHOUT PITY (1957) JOHN PAUL JONES (1959) HAMLET (1948)
Monday October 12th
SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST (1960) DR. WHO AND THE DALEKS (1965) DALEKS - INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D. (1966) SHE (1965) VIOLENT PLAYGROUND (1958) IN SAIGON: SOME MAY LIVE (1967)
Monday October 19th
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1959) HORROR OF DRACULA (1958) THE MUMMY (1959) THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN (1967) FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED! (1970)
Monday October 26th
NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT (1972) MADHOUSE (1974) FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE (1973) SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (1970) THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA (1973) DRACULA A.D. 1972 (1972)
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#Howsyourhead? #PeterCushing and George Pravda in a scene from #Hammerfilms 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' (1969) ..'clang of name DROP -a-comin' ☹️😴😞😀..
I once had a chance meeting with George back in 1979, we talked about
this and his artificial prop head made for this delightful act of
trephining 😮👀
He told me how they made his rubber head, that they had to make a whole
head plaster cast of his head and 'I spent the whole morning with
straws up my NOSE!' ... charming! Peter of course consulted a
specialist, just to make sure he had the right drill bit and .. stomach
for it! Hmmm, thrilling-drilling! 🤮 - Take care everyone, Marcus
YOU CAN SEE GEORGE PRAVDA, in some neat 'fly-on-the-wall' footage, along with #PeterCushing, #VeronicaCarlson, #SimonWard, #FreddieJones along with director #TerenceFisher, on set and making #Hammefilms 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' in our vintage footage, posted as part of the #Lock-Down #WatchWithCushing films and clips at our Facebook PCASUK Fan Page!
INTERESTING FOOTAGE, where extra BLOOD is being applied to George Pravda's head make up. Although, his character on screen was never seen with this EXTRA gore in the UK theatrical prints. One must again, add this one to the 'footage for the Continental Print!' . . .
#CHRISTOPHERLEE We
HAM and EGGED it!' Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in TWO rare
photographs . .Lee here sharing thoughts on his work and long friendship
with Peter Cushing . . .
#VincentPrice YESTERDAY, over at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE I shared a lovely interview with Vincent Price in 1986, rebroadcast in 1993. ..as ever, charming, entertaining and funny 😊
'Madhouse' and 'House of the Long Shadows' were Peter Cushing appeared
with Vincent Price, I think are a joy to watch them together! I hope
you enjoy THIS INTERVIEW too 😉
#THROWBACKTHURSDAY: THROW YOUR MIND BACK about three years ago..... and the rare photograph I posted you can see on the RIGHT.
It's an image of writer Chris Knight from Cinefantastque 'behind the
scenes' at Elstree Studios, during the making of 'Dracula AD 1972', with
Christopher Lee. The photograph, an exposure on a contact sheet from
photographer and good friend of Christopher Lee's, Peter Nicolson,
wasn't actually titled or labelled. But it looked pretty obvious to me
and several others, that this was taken, during the shooting of AD.
Nicolson took several amazing behind the scenes shots during filming,
some were used in a feature on AD in volume 2 number 2, of
Cinefantastique . . an issue until recently, I have never seen before
until just a few days ago. Some thought on the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page it was taken during the making
of 'Taste the Blood of Dracula'... why not slip along to the page and tell us, what you think? - Marcus
POSTED AT THE FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE WITH OVER A 1,000 LIKES, is this fine full colour photograph, that I am sure you have seen many
time in black and white by the late and super talented photographer,
Terry O'Neil. Four legends in this pic, . . #PeterCushing, #VincentPrice, #ChristopherLee and #JohnCarradine
in 'House of Long Shadows' (1983)... each left us with a stellar
filmography, full of variety and cinematic history... .... I've been asking, could you
select THE film that you think, in your personal opinion was the
pinnacle of their movie careers though??? Suggestions please at the post on our Facebook Fan Page !
ON #SHERLOCKSUNDAY at the FAN PAGE we posted when Peter Cushing's Sherlock, got the 'stamp' of approval . .
ON SUNDAY TOO lots of interest, when we posted this :Today we are wishing HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the lovely ALICE KRIGE. Her first feature film role was in Chariots of Fire (1981) as the Gilbert and Sullivan singer Sybil Gordon.
Some of her best known roles are the dual role of Eva Galli/Alma Mobley
in Ghost Story (1981) ,Mary Brady in Stephen Kings Sleepwalkers (1992)
and the Borg Queen in the Star Trek franchise, beginning with the film
Star Trek: First Contact and then reprising the role in the Star Trek
Voyager finale 'Endgame'.
She co-starred with Peter Cushing in A Tale of Two Cities (1980) as Lucie Manette.....
ON MONDAY we posted this and marked this BIRTHDAY! Join us today in wishing DAVID CHIANG a VERY Happy Birthday!David Chiang Da-weiwas born on the 29th June 1947 in Shanghai,
(Republic of China) Chiang is a very famous actor and director, producer
in Hong Kong. Chiang was very much a martial arts superstar in the
1970s, working under the Shaw Brothers Studio. He has appeared in over
130 films and over 30 television series.
IN 1974, Chiang starred
along side Peter Cushing in Hammer films first of two co-partner
feature films with Hong Kong based studio, Shaw Brothers. 'The Legend of
the Seven Golden Vampires' Peter for the last time resurrected his
character of Van Helsing, and together with Chiang, Julie Ege and Robin
Stewart, took on an oriental Dracula played by actor John Forbes
Robertson and a hoard of Kung Fu zombie vampires!
WELL. . . . YES, the sound is somewhat distorted, the visual a bit fuzzy...
but here is a rare look onto the set of Peter Cushing's Hammer film,
'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' back in 1968. There's some interview
with Cushing and Veronica Carlson, and others... plus great sequences of
the actual shooting!
BUT I AM SURE the BBC has some crisp and shiny original footage of this in
their vaults, that licence payers paid for with the trusted belief that
Aunty Beeb would store and look after it, for resources, repeat
screenings and cinema archivists to watch and study.... Yes, right....
put another film can on the bonfire Aunty and take care that you don't
choke on that lolly and cash sandwich! Enjoy what's left everybody 😉 - Marcus
#HAPPYFATHERSDAY!
It's the day for Dad's whoever you are, wherever you are all over the
world. Father's here, Father's passed. Father's who can celebrate with
their children today, and Father's, for whatever reason can not - Marcus
ABOVE: PETER CUSHING and his family, his father, mother and brother, David
VINCENT PRICE and his daughter, Victoria with pet pug, Puffle!
CHRISTOPHER LEE, his daughter Christina and wife, Gitte!
TWO
FILMS and 16 Television Episodes! Over at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page, I have asked : What Do You Think, Made Peter
Cushing such a popular Sherlock Holmes? From 1959 and the Hammer film
adaption of 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' the role of probably the
world's most famous detective 'Sherlock Holmes', became quite
permanently welded to Peter Cushing as one of his most entertaining
roles... from a filmography containing over 90 motion pictures! From the
many actors who portrayed Holmes, what was it in Cushing's performances
that made him so popular?? . . . And as you wouks expect, there are some interesting theories and strong opinions... HERE!
A
CHUMP AT OXFORD (1940) was the penultimate Laurel and Hardy film made
at the Hal Roach studios. Stan Laurel played Stan / Lord Paddington,
Oliver Hardy is Ollie! The film is of particular note to us, because
Peter Cushing also featured in the cast.
#STANLAUREL
was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson on the 16th June 1890, at 3, Argyle
Street, Ulverston, Cumbria, England. He travelled to the US with the
Karno trope, and after a long period eventually Laurel signed with the
Hal Roach studio, so did Oliver Hardy, who was a member of the Hal Roach
Studios Comedy All Star players...and the rest is history! If I were to
pick anyone from this era of cinema history, Stan and Olly get my vote
every time.
IF
YOU HAVE NOT seen A Chump At Oxford, I highly recommend it, I have added the the theatrical trailer above! It's not just
for an opportunity to see a young Peter Cushing at work, but also the
joy of watching the skill and talent of the two 'boys'. It never got
better. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Stan, you still remain head and shoulders above
the rest!
#RichardBurton and Claire Bloom's 1956 production of 'Alexander the Great' might have been seen as 'not so great' at the box office, but #PeterCushing
turned in a very good performance, even with such a damp squid of a
script.. it also gave us a fabulous colour image like this this one,
just months before Cushing's career would take such a dramatic turn!
ABOVE : HERE IS A GOOD FRIEND friend to Peter Cushing, who played more than
one villain alongside him.. a STRONG character too! Over at the Facebook Fan Page, I have posted this and asked if you name him and
the two films in which he appeared with Peter Cushing? It's funny how some have complained that the question is too easy, while quite few.. are miles off and have ID the guy, incorrectly! 😀😉
SIR#CHRISTOPHERLEE remembered today. It is five years since the passing of Christopher
Lee... but his huge legacy of work and life, reminds us all here very
often, of how lucky we all were to have had such an impressive and
talent individual with us then . . and who still continues to entertain
and influence so many even today!
BACK IN 2015 when Christopher Lee passed, Bryan Adams posted this
comment about his time with Lee, during their photo session :
'Singer Bryan Adams has paid tribute to veteran actor Sir Christopher Lee, who died aged 93 on Sunday. The Canadian rocker met Lee - famous for his chilling portrayals of
screen villains from Dracula to the wizard Saruman in Lord of the Rings -
when he took photographs of him for a book.The pair hit it off and Adams told how the actor used to leave funny phone messages for him.
"One I can sort of recall was sort of like...'Hello Bryan, I see you
cut a swathe through Paris. Many people have called me to say they have
seen you in various states of debauchery, and quite right too'... It was
brilliant," he said.
Adams added Sir Christopher Lee was a "great character" who would be "greatly missed".
Back last year, I was sent a photograph of Christopher Lee, which I
thought was really something! I loved the pose, the lighting and the
attitude that the photographer had managed to get from Lee . . Little
did I know that, the photograph was one of a collection of portraits in
2018 at exhibition called 'EXPOSE', by none other than singer Bryan
Adams! His exhibition contains many really interesting portraits from
Sir Ben Kingsley, Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, Louise Bourgeois,
Lindsay Lohan and Dame Judi Dench. . . an impressive list, which also
included 'Her Majesty The Queen', no less! I still think this is
one of my most favourite portraits of Christopher Lee . . Lee would have
loved the position of his frame in the gallery too😉😊 - Marcus Brooks
AS YOU HAVE no doubt spotted, I try to share something related to his work with Peter often, plus we do have a Christopher Lee theme EVERY Saturday here too!
RECENTLY FOUND interviews, clips and banner features...these posts, thanks to
you are always well received and supported. I always take time to read
the many comments and text messages from followers and members, who
still miss his him and regularly watch his many many roles on TV and
film!
ABOVE : OUR RECENT PCASUK FEATURE on the CONTENTS of THREE personal SCRAPBOOKS that belonged to #CHRISTOPHERLEE : CLICK HERE!
AND IT IS HIS WORK, a great deal of it, that he would
probably be most proud of and I think, want to be remembered for.. We
can always enjoy that . . . in memory of one of the greatest!
#HAMMERFILMS#VAMPIREHUNTERS
: HAMMER were quite brave and sometimes successful, if a little too
late when they moved with times . . a tweak and change with style was
something they also tried with their vampires and vampire hunters. One
of the best and most imaginative was '#CaptainKronos : Vampire Hunter'.. with very entertaining side kick Grost and charm and sassy attitude from #CarlineMunro, it looked like a game changer, but sadly not to be. A real loss, me thinks ☹️😕 Over at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE I am asking if everyone would rate this film and some of its qualities alongside #PeterCushing's #VanHelsing and a film like, 'The Brides of #Dracula' .. or no?? - Marcus
