Saturday, 17 October 2020

#FACEBOOK MILESTONE #STARWARS RETRO AND GUY HENRY CELEBRATES

THE ABOVE POST AND TEXT POSTED AT THE FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE on THURSDAY 15th October! 

#WOW! and #THANKYOU! This post, is not a boast... nor a brag. It is a heartfelt reach out to you! I find it amazing in these worrying and very troubled times, where everyone has more than enough on their plate to deal with, you our friends and followers, still have time to slip away escape, and distract yourselves with memories and images, of a different time. It is also a clear sign that the work and films of #PeterCushing, are still as popular as ever, easily accessible now and enjoyed the world over. I think the humble and modest, Cushing would have been very surprised by that! Here, interesting stories about his life off screen, still create interest and a steady flow of questions and enquiries to the page. PCAS is indeed a very friendly and entertaining 'safe house', so you tell me and goodness knows, on the internet now, we need one.

#2021 MARKS our tenth year on# Facebook and 10th #birthday of the PCASUK website/ Blog too! It will also be a year where I will be expanding our range, to present some new features focusing kind of unexplored Peter Cushing work. The #PCASUK archive of video and audio interviews with actors, directors and crew who worked with Peter.. these #interviews have only be shared in edited form, back in the late 1980's/ / early 90's as part of a 'audio tape magazine'... will now form a #live monthly visual #PODCAST. It's 15 years since I have dragged myself in front of a camera or even touched an editing desk.To think I once made a living from this for 35 years, sadly until I crashed, television takes no prisoners! It had all been in storage, but was dusted off last year, kick started and worked a treat! Some new software and learning and I was once again, loving it! I guess it's a bit like riding a bicycle.. you don't forget!

AS USUAL I WILL BE reviewing some interesting new books, dvd's and blu rays of Cushing's work, some from Warner Bros planned for next year, running several features on the release of Donald Fearney's new blu ray documentary for 2021, 'The Man Who Created #Frankenstein', along with reviews on the #Hammerfilms books published by #WayneKinsey, and some jaw-dropping recently uncovered and still not shared Peter Cushing / Hammer television material, long thought erased or lost! There will be the competitions, and I hope a few surprises, along with, my regular typos and lame exclamation and water marks . . but more importantly I hope, there will be YOU and your continued support, comments, shares and interest! PCASUK really is a 'one man band' here. I don't play the game of assistance of Facebook's 'post boosting', I don't need to, YOU make all that happen! This is a #hobby, one that has quite surprisingly expanded ever year. It's a hobby that I do love, made all the more fun, with you all being here too!


EVERY POST at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page is illustraited, we post around 2 to three posts a day, across international time lines. #ChristopherLee, #Hammerfils, #Amicus films, actresses, actors, directors and crew members, all feature in our posts. Competitions, features and RARE images... ANYTHING with a Peter Cushing connection! Above, a small selection of post from the last month . . 

CAN I SHARE a HUGE welcome to all who have LIKED and FOLLOWED us in the last few weeks, thank you for joining us. To the never failing regulars, the band, thank you, I would be lost without you, as Peter Cushing would indeed say, 'In all sincerity, may God's blessing be with you always!'.... Please keep safe everyone and look after yourselves, your family, loved ones and friends - Marcus 

NEWS: Although I am sure many #StarWars collectors and fans may have known about this for a while, maybe you haven't see this Hasbro Retro game?? The Star Wars Escape From The #DeathStar Board Game, has been released as part of #HasbroRETRO series.. along with this very neat Exclusive Retro Collection 3.75-Inch #PeterCushing #Tarkin Figure, as part of the box feature! You can find more details along with order info at the Hasbro #Facebook page.  Has anyone here apart from PCASUK Facebook follower #ScottEdwardHeasmer, who sent me the details today, got one of these 😏????


TODAY WE WISH a very happy birthday to #GuyHenry an actor who was busily working in a UK soap drama... and then was thrust into the spotlight, following huge anticipation for the arrival of the STAR WARS movie, #ROGUEONE



ABOVE: Short INTERVIEW with GUY HENRY on playing TARKIN and his thoughts on Peter Cushing and how he played the role in the film 'Star Wars : A New Hope' back in 1977. CLICK HERE!  
 

MORE PCASUK GUY HENRY Tarkin Material HERE! 
 

HENRY WASN'T just playing any character though, it was a role that would split the opinion of Cushing fans, movie goers and #StarWars Followers, the world over.... A Job Well done, Mr Henry 😀 A VERY Happy Birthday to you, have a great day!

PLEASE COME JOIN US at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! With posts every day, rare images and photographs, features and prize competitions.You'll have good company with over 34 thousand followers and friends, all celebrating the LIFE and CAREER of Peter Cushing OBE!

Tuesday, 13 October 2020

HIGH RANKING TYPECAST? AMAZING PC ARTWORK : #CHRISTOPHEREEQUOTE!

#QuoteSnap! #ChristopherLee It's the role that made him a star, but as he would tell you, 'I have played much more besides, 'black hat and white hat' roles!' This has been posted over at the Facebook PCASUK Fan PageI to day too, asking if you had a pick a Lee role, other than #Dracula, as one of your favs.. what would you choose and is getting some surprising answers!!

ALSO POSTED AT THE Facebook PCASUK Fan Page today is this amazing,  #PeterCushing as Van Helsing in 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula' (Hammer 1973) Ink, marker & coloured pencil drawing on cream drawing board by Frederick Cooper (2020) . . a very popular post...what do you think?

FULL REVIEW OF THE FILM along with a RARE STILLS GALLERYHERE!

THE PCASUK REVIEW of WARNER BROS Remasterd BLU RAY of 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula' along with stills and captures : RIGHT HERE! 

PLEASE COME JOIN US at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! With posts every day, rare images and photographs, features and prize competitions.You'll have good company with over 34 thousand followers, all celebrating the LIFE and CAREER of Peter Cushing OBE!

Monday, 12 October 2020

#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  

PLEASE COME JOIN US at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! With posts every day, rare images and photographs, features and prize competitions.You'll have good company with over 34 thousand followers, all celebrating the LIFE and CAREER of Peter Cushing OBE!

Sunday, 11 October 2020

#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! 
 

PLEASE COME JOIN US at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! With posts every day, rare images and photographs, features and prize competitions.You'll have good company with over 34 thousand followers, all celebrating the LIFE and CAREER of Peter Cushing OBE!
 

Friday, 9 October 2020

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! 

PLEASE COME JOIN US at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! With posts every day, rare images and photographs, features and prize competitions.You'll have good company with over 34 thousand followers, all celebrating the LIFE and CAREER of Peter Cushing OBE!
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