Sunday 5 June 2016

GIFS GALLERY: WE'VE HIT ANOTHER MILESTONE OVER AT FACEBOOK


THIS IS AMAZING! A HUGE thank you to everyone who visits and supports this Facebook Fan Page and who has joined us in the last SEVEN DAYS, since we announced reaching TWENTY TWO thousand followers!


THE PETER CUSHING Appreciation Society Facebook Fan Page now has Over 23 THOUSAND Friends and Followers! This, I hope you realise, has only been archived with your fantastic support, your likes, shares. The total was hit BEFORE my chat with Nick Digilio on WGN RADIO in the USA, yesterday. You may have spotted the change in the total, like I did on Wednesday. I thought there was a bug or a glitch in the facebook system...so we waited, to see if it changed. But no, it racked up 22 thousand last Wednesday, and THIS Wednesday this NEW total was reached. It's still climbing!


I GUESS THIS PROVES what we have always known... it isn't really a question of Peter Cushing's assured place in cinema history, this proof of his relevance... TODAY! You prove that, and not just here.... I'll leave you with this though... A tool I use to assist with managing the website and this page, is an 'ALERT' option on my google mail. So, if any news, feature or mention of Peter Cushing is made on the net, I get a notification in my mail, to let me know. Let me just say, SIX out SEVEN days, there are ALWAYS fifty to sixty notifications...in the morning! That is filled up again with NEW notifications after lunch! AS Peter said about Helen when she passed, 'She hasn't GONE anywhere, she is HERE!' I have to agree, Peter Cushing is very much alive and kicking...and not just here either!




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Saturday 4 June 2016

BANGING THE DRUM IN CHICAGO PETER CUSHING WGN RADIO WITH NICK DIGILIO



YESTERDAY I was thrilled to be invited on to WGN Radio for another interview with NICK DIGILIO about our society and you! It was a blast. Nick really does LOVE Peter Cushing. He would easily be a contender for our UBER FAN feature!


AS ALWAYS it was a pleasure and I invite you to click the link below and hear all what YOU'VE been up to and how Nick floors me with an unexpected question...that I couldn't answer! Doh! Many thanks to Dan the producer, Nick, BOB who called in with a question... and everyone who made it possible for us all to indulge ourselves and wallow in Peter Cushing for half an hour!


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Thursday 2 June 2016

GIF GALLERY NUMBER SIX : GORGON, SPACE 1999 AND A DANCING CUSHING


MOST DAYS visitors to our Peter Cushing Appreciation Society Facebook Fan Page are treated to a GIF or two. They can be source from any idea of Peter Cushing's career or life. It's a quick animated snap shot of a key point in a dramatic scene or even Peter mugging faces during a tv interview, and then, there's the best thing about GIFS...it repeats it! Over and Over and Over, in a never ending loop. Poor Peter was featured in a recent posted clip from THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN being lifted off the ground and then throttled by Christopher Lee as The Monster, with his feet dangling! Now, he is doom to spend the rest of eternity, on our post, going up and down, throttled, up and down throttled... it's no way to treat a Super Star...!


Going Out In A Blaze Of Glory: Peter Cushing and Freddie Jones Hammer films, 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' (1969)

PLEASE enjoy this latest selection of animated gifs, from posts at our FACE BOOK FAN PAGE. Please feel free to download em, keep em or repost em, share em or use them on your blog, forum or internet community page. You are HELPING to promote Peter Cushing's appreciation society and KEEPING the MEMORY ALIVE!


TURNED TO STONE: Peter Cushing and Prudence Hyman in Hammer films, The Gorgon (1964)


Peter Cushing as the mysterious RAAN in the 1976 episode 'The Missing Link' fromthe tv series 'Space 1999' 


Peter Cushing as Major Holly, strutts his stuff and cranks up the moves
at the kazbar in Hammer Films, 'She' (1965)


What the 1967'Night of the Big Heat' lacks in budget and 'monster reveal' it makes up for in spades with atmosphere and drama. Here Cushing as Dr Stone comes face to face, with '...whatever it is out there'! 


Dave Prowse as The Monster in Hammer films, 'Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) was hardly the best behaved creation, and not what you would call, a model pupil. Here Peter Cushing in his last appearance as Baron Frankenstein, tries to teach his creation, a lesson. Very soon, The Monster teaches THEM ALL a lesson they will never forget...

A GREAT FEATURE ARRIVING HERE : TUESDAY 7TH JUNE 2016 

FOR LANEY DOWER : CUSHING, LEE AND CHRISTINA ON HAMMER FILM SHE SET


FOR LANEY DOWER! '..some pictures of Peter and Christopher Lee on set, please?' ... Here you go, Laney : Peter, Christopher Lee and daughter, Christina on set during the making of Hammer films, 'SHE in 1964. With Lee doing his party trick with a sword! was there no end to this man's talents? Feel free to request images, I DO get stuck for ideas occasionally. - Marcus




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Tuesday 31 May 2016

GIFS FROM FEAR IN THE NIGHT : GEESON AND CUSHING


#toocooltuesday Hammer films, Fear in the Night is probably the best of the bunch in which Peter Cushing'as role in screen-time is really little more than a guest spot with Cushing working a mere four day's filming for a £1,000 in 1971.





Cushing is worth every penny, Judy Geeson is great, Ralph Bates is terrifying...and Joan Collins does what she does best...you can fill in the gap here! It's a tight little thriller that has all of it's tiny budget of £114,000 up on the screen...

FULL REVIEW AND GREAT PHOTO GALLERY HERE

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY : PETER CUSHING / ALICE KRIGE : A TALE OF TWO CITIES

#‎TOOCOOLTUESDAY‬: ONCE IN A WHILE, I post something, that I REALLY hope everyone will see or watch..and this clip is one of those post. If Peter Cushing as poor ol Arthur Grimsdyke in Tales from the Crypt, made you weep...this is sure to touch you.


ABOVE is a short scene from the 1980 film, A Tale of Two Cities, an all star cast, with Peter and Alice Krige playing the father and daughter, Manette... if this doesn't set your bottom lip a quiver, you had better check you still have a pulse. It's cool. Too cool! Let me know what you think....


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Monday 30 May 2016

DR KNOX COMES A KNOCKING : ITS MONDAY!


THIS WEEK'S CANDIDATE for the ‪#‎monstermonday‬ crown is, infamous Scottish anatomist, zoologist, ethnologist and..surgeon, DR ROBERT KNOX. Peter Cushing played Knox to wonderful effect in the 1960, John Gilling film, 'Flesh and the Fiends' aka 'Mania'. He was very well supported by both Donald Pleasence and George Rose as the grave robbers and body snatchers, Burke and Hare.
'FLESH' is one of those rare jewels in the Cushing filmography, missed by many but is certainly worth catching, if you have not seen it. Gritty, grimy, squalid and a bit of a shocker for it's time... Cushing holds the emotive balance in his performance extremely well...right up the closing credits..that one is never really quite sure, if Knox was indeed the real MONSTER of the piece, after all... what do you think???

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Sunday 29 May 2016

#SHERLOCKSUNDAY : THE CASE OF THE SABOTAGED DANCING MEN EPISODE


#SHERLOCKSUNDAY Here's a little tale, a story, a case that would puzzled the great #SHERLOCKHOLMES himself maybe. THE CASE OF THE SABOTAGED EPISODE, concerns the events that unfolded live before the British television viewing public on the night of MONDAY 16th SEPTEMBER 1968. When the unsuspecting viewers settled down to watch the latest episode of the BBC's 'SHERLOCK HOLMES' series, starring Peter Cushing as Holmes and Nigel Stock as Dr Watson. Back in 1968, this series was not only the BBC's first Sherlock outing in colour, but it was afforded the luxury of being broadcast on an early form of video tape. Any outdoor location work, was shot on film and inserted, edited into the finished EDITED video programme.


AT THE POINT of completion, each programme existed in two forms, an edited version, with all studio sequences edited in order, just as you would see in an broadcast at home. The other version would be what is known as B ROLL footage, this consists of the entire recorded programme in a very rough form, with sometimes many recordings of the same scene, complete with mistakes, outakes and errors. OUR STORY BEGINS....



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DRACULA CINEMA POSTER GOES UNDER THE HAMMER

THE NEXT TIME anyone tells you Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Hammer films have had their day...show them this! The BBC 'FLOG IT' television programme, known for selling anything from, well... cinema history , your grandmother, etc..finds out what we all already knew... Peter Cushing + Christopher Lee + Hammer Films = MONEY! There are only FIVE Hammer 1958 DRACULA UK Quad poster in existence . .  . .



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