#TCM : ANOTHER SIX SUPERB #PETERCUSHING 'STAR OF THE MONTH' FILMS TONIGHT AT TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES !

#HEADSUP! TONIGHT in the US, those of you who watch Turner Classic Movies are in for your second week treat, of a whole four MONDAY'S of TCM Peter Cushing 'STAR OF THE MONTH' film screenings! It starts with 'Sword of Sherwood Forest' at 8pm, . . . and a list of more extreme levels of Cushing's range, you couldn't ask for

* SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST

* DOCTOR WHO AND THE DALEKS

* DALEK’S INVASION EARTH: 2150 A.D.

* SHE

* VIOLENT PLAYGROUND

* CORRUPTION

 

Many thanks to Dennis Lynch and a whole army of other pcasuk friends and followers, who have supplied me with information!

WHICH FILMS will YOU be watching? AFTER the screening I would love for you to drop by at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page and let us know which films you have watched and what are your thoughts on those films! Leading up to and during #petercushing #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 another fabulous #TCM Monday Night experience.. 😊 - Marcus

 

AND FINALLY, a requested Repost for Sam Jenkins, at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page today! . . This has to be the strangest circumstances and environment for two chaps, to stop and have a chat!?? You think? I wonder what they are talking about?? #ChristopherLee and Hammer films producer Anthony Nelson Keys on the set of 'Dracula Has Risen From The Grave' (68) at Pinewood studios  

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#COMIC OPPORTUNITIES : CREEPY EERIE AND VAMPERELLA!

#COMIC Opportunities! Gentlemen of GOOD Reading! There's nothing like the golden opportunity for PR and marketing people, to actually get rubber stamp and validation of your product, into the hands.. even if one hand IS gloved.. of an associated celebrity in a 'photo-op. Famous Monsters magazine were 'famous for it, as were many others. Here's #PeterCushing and #christopherLee 'holding' some comics you maybe familiar with too!

 

DESPITE #ChristophreLee's detachment from the concept of Dracula from the late 1970's onwards, there was a time when he was quite engaged in the character and whole exploring of the book... with standard, checked jacket, here he inspects the comic, DRACULA LIVES! I do remember purchasing the very first issue of this comic in the UK, it came with a free little poster. Not sure what Lee makes of this though . . .

 

PETER CUSHING with a copy of 'EERIE' . . difficult to dat this pic, but costume tells me, it could be during the shooting of the TV series, 'ZOO GANG'. The series is set on the French Riviera in Nice. The guest stars included #PhilipMadoc, Peter and Jacqueline Pearce. #RogerDelgado . . best known for his role as Doctor Who villain #TheMaster, also appeared, although he had died in a car crash prior to the series' broadcast. Peter's episode was called 'The Counterfeit Trap' broadcast May 3rd 1974. Plot is, the gang decides to stop a gold-smuggling ring, paying for the gold with counterfeit French Francs. Alec gets arrested when the police think he killed the couriers. Peter Cushing stars as the local investigating magistrate with Jacqueline Pearce as his wife. It was directed by #JohnnyHough, who directed Peter in 'Twins of Evil' and 'Biggles'

NOT A CANDID opportunity shot, but a publicity photograph of Peter Cushing as Dr Who, studying the UK Eagle comic in the 'Dr Who and the Daleks' (1965).. a really nice touch...

 

AGAIN . . .at the Festival du Film Fantastique de Paris 1974.. where someone has slipped him a copy of the #Vamperella... a concept that Peter was going to sat in for Hammer films... comic into his hands.. and taken a snap.

 

DID YOU MISS THIS?? No panic, HERE it is: RIGHT HERE! 

 

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BREAKING NEWS: NETWORK RELEASES SERIES TWO OF POPULAR 'ORSON WELLES GREAT MYSTERIES' DVD

NEWS : Following the success of their volume ONE dvd release of 'Orson Welles Great Mysteries' with #PeterCushing and #ChristopherLee . . NETWORK now has the SECOND volume ready for pre order, with a release date of OCTOBER 25th 2020. Again some great cast members, in the twisted tales including : ncluding Victor Buono, Ian Bannen, Hugh Griffith, Joan Collins, Anton Rodgers, Dean Stockwell, Joss Ackland, Carol Lynley, Francesca Annis, Alec McCowen, Anna Massey, Richard Johnson, Hannah Gordon, Claire Bloom, Patrick Macnee and #CharlesGray. A good purchase price, for a whole 319 minutes of entertainment and memories 😏

THE EPISODES featured on this set – including classic tales from Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Stanley Ellin and W. Somerset Maugham are:

Money to Burn
Battle of Wits
Come Into My Parlour
Farewell to the Faulkners
The Inspiration of Mr Budd
The Dinner Party
Unseen Alibi
Death of an Old-Fashioned Girl
A Point of Law
Where There's a Will
The Power of Fear
Ice Storm
A Time to Remember

Format: DVD
Number Of Discs: 2
Picture: 1.33:1 / Colour
Region: 2
Running Time: 319 Minutes 

Release Date: OCTOBER 25th 2020

SERIES ONE with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee episodes are STILL for sale from NETWORK : RIGHT HERE! 

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#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? 

PLEASE JOIN US FOR ANOTHER ALBUM of #Frankenstein #PeterCushing ON-SET Behind the scenes SNAPS next FRIDAY!

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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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