STUDIO CANAL ANNOUNCES NEW 4K REMASTERED RELEASE OF BOTH #PETERCUSHING #DRWHO FILMS FOR CINEMA RELEASE PLUS 4K BLU RAYS

NEWS: THIS UK SUMMER you’ll be able to enjoy #PeterCushing's #DrWho and the epic #Daleks movies on the big screen. . . .It's now nearly 60 years after they were first released in 1965 and 1966, Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. will be back in cinemas ...Remastered and restored in full 4K! The films will be released theatrically in the UK from 10th July 2022.

 

ABOVE is the exciting new trailer for the films, showing off the restoration, which I hope will intrigue a new generation of fans to the films ...and of course Peter Cushing! The Cushing movies are to date the only big-screen outing for a Doctor Who adventure (barring a few screenings of the 50th anniversary special in 2013), and this release will give Whovians another chance to see them as they were originally intended. According to StudioCanal, both films will be released on 4K UHD Collector’s Editions, steel-books and digital platforms, with Dr. Who and the Daleks releasing first on 20th June followed by #Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. on the 18th July. Both releases are Regions A, B & C playable . . 

 

THE BLU RAY releases will include booklets with a brand new essay, a 32-page Titan mini-book, two new posters and behind-the-scenes features including audio commentaries from cast and Doctor Who experts (including #MarkGatiss, Rob Shearman, #KimNewman, #BernardCribbins and Gareth Owen) and new featurettes including The Dalek Legacy and Restoring Dr. Who in 4K among others. Hip WHO Ray! Yes? 😲😏 - Marcus 

 

ONE OF SEVERAL PCASUK #PeterCushing #DrWho features with full colour galleries with rare behind the scenes stills and lobby cards, you can find here on the PCASuk blog. Above is PART TWO of a Callum Mckelvie two part feature on BOTH Dalek / Dr Who films : RIGHT HERE! 

 

HELLO AT LAST! MAY 17TH 1994

A RECALL and REPOST: Here's a post, I made at the Facebook PCASuk Fan Page quite a while ago, that has been requested by Harvey Cole, NY USA... the images are of a slightly grainy quality, being screen captures from the pcasuk video #PeterCushing and #ChristopherLee ''The Last Meeting' 1994. Clips of which you can watch at the pcasuk youtube channel

 

 

ABOVE: One of my fav clips from the many. Cushing asks of Christopher Lee's wife Birgit (Gitta) Kroencke, to which Lee announces, 'Gitta sends her love, She said, 'Give him my love... while he's here!'... their 'black and gallows humour' just shows how close as friends they really were... - Marcus 

 

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'IT'S ALL BEEN RATHER LOVELY!' REMEMBERING: JOHN LE MESURIER : BORN TODAY 1912

#REMEMBERING actor #JOHNLEMESURIER Born today April 4th 1912! The son of a solicitor, British character actor John Le Mesurier attended public school in Dorset, England, before embarking on a career in law. However, acting was his true calling, and at age 20, with his parents' approval, he began his acting career by studying drama at the Fay Compton School of Acting, where one of his classmates was Alec Guinness.

 

A pic of Le Mesurier on the train platform at Bristol. I LOVE his message in the signature, 'Best wishes John Le Mesurier (Bristol Station for some reason!!) - marcus

 

TO COVER Le Mesurier's work in film and tv, would need a fan page of it's own. I've always admired his languid, good-natured, bemused style. It made his comedy roles even funnier. Le Meisurier, was an actor that really did fit the motto of 'Don't Act, Be yourself'... With great talent and ease, Le Mesurier applied this to many roles, rarely stepping out of that frame, a shift of two degrees either way, but not that often.

 

'Its All Been Rather Lovely': Remembering John Le Mesurier. Pic with the death notice he requested be seen in the press... John Le Mesurier wishes it to be known that he conked out on November 15. He sadly misses his family and friends.' .......

 

IF YOU CATCH Le Mesurier in a role, look carefully because his hands are marvellous to watch. Along with his eyes they did a lot of work very elegantly. Very much like Cushing, he made all his roles believable. The script maybe a dead trout, sinking but his performance, not so! 

 

IN THE UK he is best remembered for his most popular role of Sgt. Wilson in the long-running television series Dad's Army (1968). Although preferring comedy, Le Mesurier also excelled in drama, winning a BAFTA award for Best Actor of the Year in 1971 for his performance in Dennis Potter's 'Traitor' (1971) (TV). 

 

SADLY, Le Mesurier only appeared in one film with Peter Cushing, in the role of Barrymore, in #Hammerfilms 'The Hound of the Baskerviles'. Hardly any screen time together, it's a great shame that he didn't work with Cushing again. Btw, the order of John Le Mesurier and actor Ewen Solon's who played Stapleton names are reversed in the closing cast credits.

 

Much missed and so loved as a bit of a national institution.. Remembered today, John Le Mesurier : April 5, 1912 - November 15, 1983  - Marcus 

 

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#GOODBYE AND THE LAST MEETING : #PETERCUSHING AND #CHRISTOPHERLEE

I AM SURE, we have all seen the photograph of #PeterCushing and #ChristopherLee standing in a doorway of the recording studio in Canterbury, when leaving after the recording their narration of Ted Newsom's 'Flesh and Blood' doc in 1994? It may well be the 'last photograph' .. but as we have seen from the library of the PCASuk 'Last Meeting' clips of Peter and Lee having great fun and telling stories.. a video camera was running the whole time too.

 

HENCE AT THE TOP is a screen capture, after the doorway pic, of Lee walking Peter to the car, that was taking him home to the Broughton household. In real time, without posing or cameras, Christopher Lee said goodbye to Peter, in private in the car park of the studio.... then Peter is helped into the back of the car, wrestling with a brolly, they close the back passenger door, and Peter waves smiling, through a misted up window . . . In hindsight, you can see, it had to be that way, or neither of them would ever have left. - marcus brooks

 

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