BACK IN THE 1990'S, cinema and the arts in the UK were looking for all kinds
of inventive ways to mark and celebrate British Cinema and it's many
stars. One such great idea was the Best Of British Cinema Hand Prints!
The release of this photograph to the press on February 24th 1992 and it
probably hasn't seen the light of day since then, came with the press
notes of . . .
'Stars of British Cinema put the palm prints into plaster slabs to part of a new monument to the stars! The slabs will be placed in the Prince Charles Cinema, in Leicester Square, London.Among the stars who placed the palms are Oliver Reed, Barbara Windsor and Peter Cushing'
ABOVE are two neat
behind the scenes photographs taken during Cushing's and Reed's shooting of
'Captain Clegg / Night Creatures' for Hammer films in 1962 . Cushing was
such a stickler for getting detail correct, that when the script called
for him to perform a wedding service for
Reed's and Yvonne Romain's characters, he called in Rev Sidney Doran,
the minister for the Bray church where this scene, and a lot of the
scenes in the film was shot!
OLIVER REED had worked with Peter in several films, 'The Sword of
Sherwood Forest 'in 1960, and a great pirate-smuggling movie, 'Captain Clegg' aka 'Night Creatures' in 1962,
both for Hammer Films and the weird, wonderful and terribly UN-PC, 'A Touch of the Sun' in 1979. Barbara Windsor, didn't work with #PeterCushing
on the big screen, but on occasions like this, as there were many in
the 1980's, they did socially rub shoulders. Peter looks very happy to
be there!
ABOVE AND VERY BELOW: Peter Cushing, Bruce Boa and Oliver Reed in the 1979 film 'A Touch of the Sun', a movie that manages to cross just about every UN-PC line, within the first ten minutes of it's sometimes uncomfortable screen time. Below, on it's release, straight to video, the misprint of Reed's surname, was just about it's last bow of bad timing, before sinking into a very dark sunset . .
ABOVE AND VERY BELOW: Peter Cushing, Bruce Boa and Oliver Reed in the 1979 film 'A Touch of the Sun', a movie that manages to cross just about every UN-PC line, within the first ten minutes of it's sometimes uncomfortable screen time. Below, on it's release, straight to video, the misprint of Reed's surname, was just about it's last bow of bad timing, before sinking into a very dark sunset . .
