#FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED' 1969 : #ONSETSNAPS! ALBUM #2 : #FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY!

THIS WEEK'S #FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY #ON-SET #SNAPS! On set this week, snaps are taken from the roll of #HAMMERFILMS 1969, 'FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED' starring #PeterCushing, #VeronicaCarlson and Simon Ward, all directed beautifully by #TERENCE FISHER!

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed was a 1969 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Films, starring Peter Cushing, Freddie Jones, Veronica Carlson and Simon Ward.^[2] The film is the fifth in a series of Hammer films focusing on Baron Frankenstein, who, in this entry, terrorises those around him in a bid to uncover the secrets of a former associate confined to a lunatic asylum

THE PLOT: Baron Frankenstein returns to his lab to find a thief stealing his equipment. Frankenstein abandons his lab, moves on and stays at a boarding house run by Anna Spengler. Anna's fiance Karl Holst is a doctor at the local insane asylum where Frankenstein's former fellow scientist Dr. Frederick Brandt now resides. After discovering Karl has been stealing narcotics in order to support Anna's ailing mother, Frankenstein blackmails Karl into helping him kidnap Brandt so he can get the secret formula of his experiment. Frankenstein and Karl kidnap Brandt and bring him into the house. Meanwhile, Brandt has a heart attack, prompting Frankenstein and Karl to transplant Brandt's brain into the asylum's administrator Professor Richter's body.

WHILE THE CREATURE RECOVERS, Frankenstein and the lovers relocate to a deserted manor house when the police begin to close in. In the lab, the creature awakes and is horrified by his appearance. He scares Anna, who stabs him, causing him to escape. Frankenstein returns and finds the creature gone. In a rage, he fatally stabs Anna and goes after the creature. The creature makes it to his former home, but his wife refuses to accept him as her husband. Wanting revenge on Frankenstein and knowing the Baron will eventually track him there, he allows his wife to go free and pours liquid paraffin around the house. . . .

FRANKENSTEIN SOON ARRIVES, with Karl following. Inside the house, the creature makes fires to trap him. Frankenstein finds the papers of discovery and flees, but is ambushed by Karl, and they fight. The creature emerges and carries a screaming Frankenstein into the burning house . . .

THE ABOVE PHOTOGRAPH is a strange one. The prologue of 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' involves a murder, which you presume is either carried out by The Baron himself or an aid. At no time, do you see WHO has the fatal weapon of the sickle, that carries out the deed, BUT we presume it IS The Baron. Usually, a selection of shots, where you see something like this, the actual role actor, isn't needed on set, as a stand in or unnamed actor, whose face isn't actually see, is used for those shots. The question is, was Peter Cushing actually there using the blade for the shoot OR are these posed, along with a crew, for the publicity camera man? 

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#PETERCUSHING CHARCOAL ARTWORK EXCELS! PLUS ON SET SNAPS FROM #HAMMERFILMS / SHAW BROS #VAMPIRES CUSHING KUNG FU EPIC!

#PETERCUSHING ARTWORK, Charcoal and pencil, by thegoodfield.. do we like this? 😉😏This was passed onto me, but here is his site: CLICK HERE! 

ABOVE: A SELECTION of photographs posted today in a cracking album, at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE. On set pics, showing a surprising amount of happy smiling faces, during the making of the #HAMMERFILMS and #RUNRUNSHAW production of 'The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires' released in the UK on OCTOBER 7th 1974. In true Hammer films fashion, a good year or so AFTER the KUNG FU phase had dropped out of trend in UK and across Europe. Hammer's thinking, plans, trend timing, rhythm and method was NEVER quite in sync. Only Hammer could release 'To The Devil A Daughter' in 1976, THREE years after the splash of the trend setter, 'The Exorcist'! I mention the Happy faces because, as you Hammer fans will no doubt know, the production of 'Golden Vampires' and the other film, 'SHATTER' in the  'two films deal-agreement' with Shaw Bros, were a bit of a TRUE horror story and nightmare to produce. 

JUST WEEKS into production of 'Golden' director Roy Ward Baker.. who during his long and illustrious career, had dealt with and had experience of the 'show and film stopping attics of both Bette Davis AND Marilyn Munroe'.. was at his wits end, had nibbled all ten of his fingers nails, down to the knuckles, while trying to make a film, in a studio system that recorded no sound during shooting, leaving all that for dubbing in post production... and a whole skip load of other Shaw Bros daily antics. The stress made producer Michael Carrears leave London in a flash and jump on a plane, fly to Hong Kong, make nice with Ward Baker, to tie up the shoot of 'Golden' and ended up directing 'SHATTER' also starring Peter Cushing in a 'guest star' slot, with uncredited assistance from one, Monte Hellman. BOTH films look fine and good fun. 'GOLDEN' is a lovely mix of Hong Kong 'ghosty-zombie-vampires' in true Hong Kong fashion and tradition. 

IN THE STILLS, Peter Cushing you can see, is very happy, once again diving, jumping, swinging and fighting, and totally in his element... despite being 62 at the time. Just when you think his stunts can't get any more action packed, you witness what appears to be him slipping off balance while fighting a vampire and accidentally falling into a camp fire, then rolling back out! Stunt man having an accident? Nope. It was Cushing and he no doubt LOVED IT!

SOME OF ABOVE photographs are from a previous PCASUK feature, also from 'Shaw's Southern Screen' and 'Hong Kong Movie News' Magazines; and also the Hong Kong publication 'Cinemart Magazine' and the fabulous 'CoolAssCinema' website. 

 

THE SEPTEMBER 2020 PCASUK COMPETITION is STILL LIVE, until OCTOBER 30th 2020, see below! But, here's a sneaky HEADS UP, on another who is waiting in the WINGS and coming soon! 😏😅

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TCM TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES : STAR OF THE MONTH : PETER CUSHING PLUS DONALD PLEASENCE BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY

TYING IN NICELY . . with the screening of the Amicus #PeterCushing... and Donald Pleasence . . film, 'From Beyond the Grave' (1974) which is being screened in #TCM #Halloween films season on Wednesday October 26th and their Peter Cushing 'Star Of The Month' season... is also the Birthday Anniversary TODAY of . .. #DonaldPleasence!

TODAY MARKS the anniversary of the birthday of actor Donald Pleasence on October 5th 1919. Born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, he was the son of Alice (née Armitage) and Thomas Stanley Pleasence, a railway stationmaster.

TODAY, after his passing... you can read all about Pleasence service during WW2, his capture as a prisoner of war, humbleness kept that under wraps for most of his life.. but he would talk and share about a fateful day and television broadcast, where both he and Peter Cushing received positive critical attention for their roles in the BBC version of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) from the novel by George Orwell. Pleasence played Syme, to Cushing Winston Smith. BOTH terrified the British public! The post marking his birthday over at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page is right now, extremely popular with comments and memories. If you have a fav film or role in which Pleasence excelled, please feel free to skip along there and share and comment too!

JUST OVER A MONTH AGO, we posted a heads up.. er not off!... that US Turner Classic Movies have made our dear #PeterCushing, Start of the Month for October 2020! Every MONDAY evening they will be screening a host of Peter Cushing films.. some of these also have a Halloween / Hammer films / Horror flavour too! They start tonight at 8pm with THESE titles : 

*CASH ON DEMAND (1961)1

* THE END OF THE AFFAIR (1955)

* TIME WITHOUT PITY (1957)

* JOHN PAUL JONES (1957)

* HAMLET (1948)

* A CHUMP AT OXFORD (1940)

* VIGIL IN THE NIGHT (1940)

 

An AMAZING TREAT! Over at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE we are are asking which films will YOU be watching? AFTER the screening we are asking you to drop by and let us know what you thought of the film(s) you have watched and what are your thoughts on those films! Leading up to and during Halloween, TCM and many other channels are also screening their Horror Treats too. Feel free to let us know what's out there too! For our friends and followers in the US, this promises to be a fabulous weekly experience.. 

 

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THE MAN WHO CREATED FRANKENSTEIN : CANDID CUSHING ON SET : LEE WITH PIPE AND REMEMBERING EDWARD JUDD AND JILL BENNETT

#HEADSUP! LOVE #PeterCushing? LIKE Peter Cushing's #frankenstein? Then, you'll LOVE this . .MORE news on this #documentary and BOOK, next Frida'sy #FrankensteinFriday!

 

ABOVE: Actor Richard Hunter poses with Peter Cushing during the making of 'House of the Long Shadows' in the grounds of Rotherfield Park, in Hampshire, England. Tea breaks were frequent during the making of the film, a common tradition with films made in the UK .. which US actor Desi Arnaz Jr. thought was a wonderful perk! It seems sadly that Richard has left the acting profession and now works in the tech crew, with lighting! A nice pic here though . . 

 

YESTERDAY, at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE during the #ChristopherLee Saturday, I posted and shared this rare pic of Sir Christopher foolishly saying . .  'Now, here's something you don't see everyday' 😏😔 Well, we all know #PeterCushing HATED the pipe and had problems when playing Holmes... keeping glasses of milk, just out of shot, to take a glug from, to stop him from gagging! ( see in the thread below, Peter Cushing was made 'Pipe Man of the Year' in the UK in 1969, ironically!) But Lee however, not so.... other than when playing Holmes himself, can you recall a role he played where he smoked a pipe on screen????? ...and everyone provide a VAST list of movies, where LEE DID smoke a pipe! Well, what do I KNOW??? 😕😆 - Marcus

 

REMEMBERING EDWARD JUDD today, who was born on this day 4th October 1932. Judd achieved his biggest successes with a series of science fiction films 'The Day The Earth Caught Fire' (1961) ,'First Men In The Moon' (1964) and co-starring with #PeterCushing in 'Island Of Terror' (1966) fighting the silicates…..

 

FULL PCASUK REVIEW with STILL GALLERY. RIGHT HERE! 

 

REMEMBERING #JillBennett today . . many will remember Bennett for her role as Jane Maitland in Amicus films '#THESKULL' from 1965. She played Peter Cushing's wife, in a role that could have been a little like many of Hammer's Jimmy Sangster's female characters. Thankfully, #MiltonSubotsky had a more of an expanding range when it came to actresses roles... and her role in The Skull is all too brief but, when both her and Cushing share screen time, it's worth the watch! 

 

YOU'LL FIND THE PCASUK full REVIEW and RARE STILLS GALLERY HERE! 

 

BENNETT MADE MANY appearances in British films including Lust for Life (1956), The Criminal (1960), Hammer films, The Nanny (1965), Inadmissible Evidence (1968), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Julius Caesar (1970), I Want What I Want (1972), Mister Quilp (1975), Full Circle (1977) and Britannia Hospital (1982). She also appeared in the Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981), Lady Jane (1986) and Hawks (1988). Her final film performance was in The Sheltering Sky (1990). Bennett was married to play-write John Osborne. She and Osborne divorced acrimoniously in 1978.

 

BENNETT SADLY died by suicide on October 23rd 1990, aged 58, having long suffered from depression and the brutalising effects of her marriage. In 1992, Bennett's ashes, along with those of her friend, the actress #RachelRoberts (who also died by suicide, in 1980), were scattered by their friend Lindsay Anderson on the waters of the River Thames in London. A very sad end to a very talented actress . . .  

 

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