TWO GREAT PCAS competitions, with MANY thanks to #Indicator and #Powerhouse
.. COPIES to be WON! You can read the PCAS review feature on
Indicator's blu ray release of 'Time Without Pity' Starring Michael
Redgrave and #PeterCushing with Ann Todd HERE!
THE FEATURE REVIEW AND GALLERY of Indicator's 'Hammer Volume Four : Faces of Fear'
which includes a REMASTERED blu ray release of Hammer 'Cushing's
'Revenge of Frankenstein' . . and some amazing EXTRAS.. will be soon at
the PCAS website! Meanwhile, look out for the REGION FREE blu ray competitions 😉 - Marcus
YOU CAN ORDER 'TIME WITHOUT PITY' DIRECT from POWERHOUSE : HERE!and the HAMMER VOLUME FOUR : FACES OF FEAR BOX SET DIRECT from POWERHOUSE :HERE!
TERRY O'NEILL , the photographer who chronicled London’s 1960s culture
by capturing the celebrities and public figures who defined the era,
has died aged 81.
O'NEILL, who was awarded a CBE last month for services to photography and was known for his work with the likes of #FrankSinatra, #DavidBowie and Elizabeth Taylor and #EltonJohn died at home on Saturday night after a long illness, his agency said. He had prostate cancer.
MANY#PeterCushing#ChristopherLee, #VincentPrice and #JohnCarradine
Fans, will know Terry's work from the outstanding promotional
photograph he created of all four movie icons for the 1983 film, 'House
of the Long Shadows'. The film brought all four actors together for the
first time, but it was O'Neill who captured it in an amazing photograph!
“IT IS WITH a heavy heart
that Iconic Images announces the passing of Terence ‘Terry’ O’Neill,
CBE,” a spokeswoman for the agency said. “As one of the most iconic
photographers of the last 60 years, his legendary pictures will for ever
remain imprinted in our memories, as well as in our hearts and minds
THE UK#RoyalMail has revealed the final set of stamps in its own #StarWars-themed collection.The 16-stamp set will mark next month's release of #StarWars: #TheRiseOfSkywalker, and features characters and vehicles from the Skywalker saga.
TEN STAMPS feature the characters #CountDooku, Lando Calrissian, Sith Trooper, Jannah, #GrandMoffTarkin, Darth Maul, Zorii Bliss, Wicket Warrick, Poe Dameron, and Queen Amidala.
THE COLLECTION will be release on November 26th 2019!
Many thanks to our friend and pcasuk follower, Johnny Thunders Martin for the heads up 😉
OVER AT THE FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE we have also opened up the post to YOUR suggestions! 'If you could choose ANY Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee character for a postage stamp, WHICH character would YOU choose?' Feel fee to have fun and make YOUR suggestion too!
THOSE OF YOU WHO ANSWERED 'Highgate' to our #WarnerBrothers / #PCAS Blu ray #competition last week, will recognize these really fabulous photographs 🙂 These stills were taken of Highgate Cemetery...located on Swain's Lane, Highgate, London . . by Dan and David Barratt 🙂
Dan is a friend and follower here on the PCAS facebook page, and kindly
offered to share his photographs here . . for anyone to see, what an
incredible and #magical place #HighgateCemetary truly is! Many, many of you recognized the location as the setting of the title sequence of #PeterCushing's 1974 #Amicusfilm,
'From Beyond The Grave' . . it was then and is now, such an incredible
place, a location that needs NO dressing!! I wonder how many of you,
reading this have visited there too? Any pics?? Many thanks to Dan and
David for sharing these 🙂 What do you think? - Marcus
Those of you who may want to comment on the photographs below, can do so by clicking HERE and going to the Facebook PCAS Fan Page post of this feature!
ORDER YOUR COPY of Amicus films, 'FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE' remastered BLU RAY from WARNER BROTHERS ARCHIVE HERE TODAY! JUST CLICK HERE!
#CONGRATULATIONS to BOTH our #WINNERS of our #PCAS#Halloween#Competition this year, TED JOHNSON and KELLY SHAW! 🙂 You have each bagged yourselves copies of the EXCELLENT #WarnerBrothersREMASTERED BLU RAY of the #Amicusfilms classic ' From Beyond the Grave'!
YOU'LL FIND OUR PCAS full review of the #WARNERBROTHERS remastered 'FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE' #BLURAY with GALLERY HERE: CLICK HERE!
THE ANSWER TO THE COMPETITION WAS'HIGHGATE CEMETERY'!
'FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE' has an all star cast supported by #PeterCushing,
who plays the keeper of the shop called 'Temptations Limited ..it's not your average Asda or Walmart, for sure! IF you too are
TEMPTED, this Warner Archive remastered blu ray is OUT NOW, set at
'region 0' .. and is certainly a addition worthy of any space on the shelf of any Cushing, Amicus films collector!
ORDER DIRECT FROM WARNER BROTHERS ARCHIVE STORE: CLICK HERE!
THANK YOU to everyone .. the MANY, who entered our competition HERE and at the FACEBOOK PCAS FAN PAGE and MANY thanks to the team at
#WarnerBrothers, who once again supported another fabulous PCAS
Competition! Keep a sharp eye OUT, for our NEXT PCAS #competition..
coming VERY soon. RIGHT HERE! 😃
Remembrance Sunday : REQUESTED: BEFORE Peter put on his base-ball cap
and bling, his recording of the Peter Kayne war poem, 'No White Peaks'
existed as a solum recording, accompanied by appropriate piano . . The
Rap version, as we posted in our previous post today, never quite sat
comfortably with Kayne, and as for Peter Cushing he was happy to assist,
even though the recording of his vocals had been made at his home in
Whitstable months before. ABOVE, This is the original recording and maybe more
fitting ..
NO WHITE PEAKS by Peter Kayne
No white peaks on mountains high For there is no snow left in the sky No children going out to play Upon a sunny summer’s day No lovers to kiss or caress in the park And when the sun’s bright, it still seems dark The will-‘o-the-wisp of a spider’s web The soldiers too busy to bury their dead The pall of smoke where a house used to stand A mother and child lie hand in hand And in the air where birds once flew There’s the screeching sounds of something new Shells explode with the thunder of war And somebody dies or maybe more For they seem to lose count and they’re not really sure Of how many people have died in that war Oh there must be a reason why men fight For both sides think that they’re right The dead can’t speak but of this I’m sure If they could they’d say “No more. No more killing. No more hate. No more war before it’s too late.” Too late for those who’ve died in vain And those with bodies racked in pain Too late for those who’ve gone through Hell With their limbs torn loose from the blast of a shell Are we so blind we cannot see That this will be our destiny? No white peaks on mountains high For there is no snow left in the sky. —Peter Kayne
ABOVE: AFTER THE RELEASE of #PeterCushing's reading of Peter Kayne's poem 'No White Peaks' as a charity record, the recording embraced re-mixing of the vocal into #DanceMix! At 78 years of age on 11 November 1991, Peter Cushing released the recording, made a promo video and appeared live on the UK tv show, #RichardandJudy'
in an interview to help give the release a push! It's true Peter never
considered himself a singer . . hence the 'only speaking the lyrics in
the song in my performance on the #MorecambeandWise
Show'!' ..and thought 'Rapping' was 'Something you got round a parcel'.
Here is the entire interview! Owing to traffic problems, Peter arrived
late, but the live show waited moving items, until he arrived. In this
interview we also get to see some clips from the very rarely seen promo
video. Peter does well and uses his still considerable charm on
co-presenter Judy Finnegan.
ABOVE: AS RECENTAS 2012, another remix of Peter Cushing's reading landed on YOUTUBE, this time with a emotive 'Battle Hymn of Republic' playing! One thing for sure, come Remembrance Day or Veterans Day you usually see one of these three versions appearing somewhere. It's great that Cushing's reading still gets interesting and exposure. . .
FROM 1960, Peter Cushing, Yvonne Mitchell, writer Nigel Kneale and director Rudolph Cartier reflect on the huge reaction to the live broadcast of the BBC Sunday Night Drama, '1984' aired 12th December 1954. For any television broadcast to prompt any reaction from the government at this time, was indeed quite rare. But watching Peter, Yvonne Mitchell and Morell here, gives a pretty good idea of THEIR fears too... To an extent it changed drama on the BBC and put Cushing into a another area of work all together, for many years to come... It's a short feature and certainly worth watching...
BORN TODAY November 8th 1847 in Clontarf, Dublin, Republic of #Ireland… we mark the BIRTHDAY of #BRAMSTOKER, creator of #Dracula and a hundred thousand nightmares! #HappyBirthday, Mr Stoker!!!
BACK IN 2016, for some it was an act too hard to accept. #PeterCushing's
Grand Moff Tarkin featured nearly 20 years since his passing, kind of
live and kicking courtesy of mega bucks CGI, presented on the big screen
in the #StarWars
epic, Rogue One. In a cinematic series where the footing is firmly
rooted on a fantasy and other worldly canvas, those who wanted to
embrace could. This week #Hollywood has announced the arrival of another CGI resurrection, in #JamesDean. Dean will be recreated in an action drama entitled #FindingJack
through a mixture of old footage and computer-generated creations
projected over stand-ins, as a secondary character called Rogan. The
producer Anton Ernst said he will try to keep Dean's “legacy firmly
intact”.
AND AS IN the case of Peter Cushing, the 'estate' or family are on
board. “We feel very honoured that his family supports us,” he said.
“The family views this as his fourth movie, a movie he never got to
make. We do not intend to let his fans down.” says Antin Ernst. Zelda
Williams, daughter of the late actor and comedian #RobinWilliams, accused the producers of “puppeteering the dead” while #LordoftheRings actor #ElijahWood tweeted a simple “NOPE” in response to the news, while #Avengers star #ChrisEvans wrote: “This is awful... the complete lack of understanding here is shameful.”
OVER ATTHE FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE we are asking what your opinion on this?! . .. Should the Cushing Tarkin CGI
appearance be seen as an interesting 'one-off' and a good try, totally
necessary to help embellish and tell the story of Rogue One . . Is this
a CGI trick too far, bringing James Dean, once more to the big screen??
'TO CHRISTINE. Amazing stuff. Thank you so much from Peter Van Helsing, Best Peter Capaldi'
NO, THIS IS INTERESTING! YES?. . Here is a very neat 'multiplicated'
photograph of what was a screen grab of Peter Cushing as Van Helsing,
from the closing moments of #hammerflms 'Dracula' aka 'Horror of #Dracula'
(1958), slaying Christopher Lee's first appearance as 'The Count'. A
very talented 'Peter's Capaldi and Cushing' fan, who I believe is called
Christine, skilfully pasted Mr Capaldi's
head onto the image, providing us with amazing and insightful snap
of...what could have been, gracing the BBCUK and Netflix international
screens next year. What a TREAT it would have been to have seen PC as
Van Helsing, he fits the roles so well, as did... PC 😉
A missed opportunity, me thinks. Never mind, we'll get to see an
actress play the Vampire Hunter instead. Seriously, I hope this all
works out for them 😊 What do you think?
MEANWHILE HERE is Christine's text that accompanied her post of this photograph 😀
"MANY THANKSto #PeterCapaldi who signed one of my Dracpaldi manips during the autograph session at the #Supanova Gold Coast last weekend! . . .I made the Van Helsing/ Dracula 'manips' some months ago; some time later the PeterCushingAppreciationSociety.com blog posted two of them. The Peter Capaldi autograph was a birthday present for me from my daughter."
HERE IS HER story about meeting Peter Capaldi - he is such a nice man!“Met the amazing Peter Capaldi today at the Supernova Gold Coast to
sign two pictures for my little brother and Mum as a birthday present.
But I couldn’t afford another Autograph for myself, already had a
picture with him, which was such a lovely moment standing next to this
kind man.
HE DID MAKE personalised Autographs that day so I told him
that this were birthday presents for two other huge fans back home. As I
explained him the fanart my mum made, showing him as Peter Cushing (
PC, he was/is a huge fan ), he suddenly had a third picture in front of
him and asked for my name. It was so overwhelming and unexpected, I
asked him if it’s okay if I could hug him while I tried to handle my
tears.Thank you so much PC , it was an unforgeable moment and it still
feels unreal.
PETER CAPALDI, for me he is the kindest, gentlest actor and of course my favourite Doctor, always will be.nThank you so much! ~ “Many thanks to Peter Van Capaldi!
REMEMBERING:
Melissa Stribling who was born today November 7th 1927. Stribling
appeared in just the one film with Peter Cushing...but boy did she pick
the right one! She also got to play in one of Hammer films most iconic
scenes in their 1958 'Dracula', where Christopher Lee's Count, in the
dead of night, visits her home and..without a word.. seduces her. The
scene is so super charged with sexual tension,
it almost crackles off the screen and as a result got the scissors
treatment from the censors at the time. In 2013, in Hammer's restored
print the exorcised footage was replaced, giving us the full picture of
what Director Terence Fisher, Stribling and Lee had originally intended
and created.
I'VE READ SEVERAL reviews of 'Dracula' both from the time of the films' release in 58 and in more recent times, that Stribling was a curious choice for the role of Mina Holmwood, that compared to the likes of Valerie Gaunt and other Hammer actresses, even though she was only in early 30's when she appeared in Dracula, many thought her slightly ordinary and plain. I totally disagree...but if that was the case, I can't help thinking that, director Fisher's choice in Stribling was intentional. That subtext in the story of Arthur Holmwood's wife being frustrated and bored, suddenly being charmed and seduced by the exotic and erotic Count, Stribling was...the perfect choice.
REMEMBERING DAVID OXLEY. ( November 7th 1920 - October 30th 1985 ) Was
there ever a more terrifying, evil, rip snorting, bag of fury than
Oxley's portrayal of Sir Hugo Baskerville in the 1959 #Hammerfilms production of 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' starring #PeterCushing as #SherlockHolmes and Christopher Lee as Sir Henry? I must be honest, I actually find him more frightening than the hound! 😃
