Showing posts with label asylum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label asylum. Show all posts

Tuesday 2 June 2020

TELEVISIONS FIRST MR DARCY : BRIAN COX AND ROBERT POWELL : SIR JOHN MILLS AND CUSHING LAST SHERLOCK ADVENTURE


WAY BEFORE Colin Firth or Matthew Macfadyen got gals and ladies hearts a fluttering with their portrayal of Mr Darcy in Jane Austin's 'Pride and Prejudice' on film, #PeterCushing was gracing homes and living rooms of UK families, on their newly purchased cathode-ray tubed TV set, with every intention of going over the heads of hubby and grandad's ... making his wanted targets faint and call for the smelling salts with two #BBC drama productions!

IN 1952 CUSHING was well on his way to making BBC drama on tv and radio his domain. The chillers of his BBC Orwell's '#1984' and Nigel Kneale's 'The Creature' would have to wait a few weeks... right now he wasn't interested in STAKING hearts, his was really making them throb and pound with affection, passion and much interest! Cushing was television's FIRST Mr Darcy and he followed it just two years later with his portrayal of Beau Brummell... what a heat throb!
 
 
 
OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS we have marked and celebrated.. oh and forgotten to post, TWO great actors BIRTHDAYS! First, actor BRIAN COX, who as most of us know here, starred with Peter Cushing in the Hammer House of Horror TV series episode, SILENT SCREAM in 1980. We said, 'An extremely reputable actor with an outstanding CV and who has never stopped working since he started in the mid 1960's. Some amazing characters in movies and recently the role of Churchill in a very entertaining drama..... Manhunter is a firm favorite with many, with Cox playing Dr. Hannibal Lecktor in 1986 . . . maybe a firm fav with you?' Many of you did! This was a very popular post and several of you mentioned a recent interview were Cox shared his thoughts of working with Peter in 'Silent Scream' and had only very god things to say! So, it was Happy Birthday Brian Cox..


THEN ON JUNE SECOND, I did the unthinkable... thankfully just this once. I with my aged memory, forgot to share a banner i had made just a few days before, for marking actor Robert Powell's birthday! 😖 So with apologies here it is below and was posted with the following text along with a shared memory of my own.. I was surprised I could remember this, even if i couldn't remember what i had prepared just a few days ago! 😐 


“I never cease to say and I repeat it to the world since 1977. I am not Jesus Christ, I am just an actor and British comedian” - Robert Powell.

.. A BELATED #HAPPYBIRTHDAY! to actor #RobertPowell who was born on the 1st June 1944! I missed it! Powell is best known for the title roles in 'Mahler' (1974) and 'Jesus of Nazareth' (1977), and for his portrayal of secret agent in Richard Hannay in 'The Thirty Nine Steps' and its subsequent spin-off television series. For us, we recall his performance in one of the very ace AMICUS films of the 70's 'Asylum' his 'innocent' Dr. Martin! He had some superb scenes with both actors Geoffrey Bayldon and #HerbertLom.
 
 
'A few years ago at a press Q and A for a film Powell was appearing in and the press meet he was also attending, I over heard a stuffy reporter behind me say to his friend, 'I don't know why he always says that about telling people he was only PLAYING Jesus, it's like he thinks he as the only one who has! You never heard Graham Chapman say that!' Where I had to turn around and tell him..'That's because Powell played Jesus Christ... Chapman played Brian!!' ...... - Marcus
 
 
 
'ASYLUM' is one of the many portmanteau films that Amicus did so well. #PeterCushing played the 'suspect' Mr Smith in the 'The Weird Tailor' story along with Barry Morse, written by #RobertBloch and directed by Roy Ward Baker. Without giving any spoilers, Powell had the perfect face and demeanour for the role, where you just couldn't help but want to shout, 'BEHIND YOU!' Listen out for many voice overs from Powell on UK tv advertisements and documentaries, he has a gift for it! Please join us wishing a 'belated' Happy Birthday to #RobertPowell, our birthday wishes / card is not in the post, but right here 😊


BACK IN 1980, plans had announced for Peter Cushing to appear as Sherlock Holmes in a project that would see Holmes being encouraged out of retirement by Watson, for one last case. This project would eventually emerge in 1984 as Tyburn films 'The Masks of Death', a film for UK's TV Channel Four directed by Roy ward Baker. Roy described the film as 'a film made by Holmes enthusiast, for Holmes enthusiasts!' Cushing played an elderly but still spry Sherlock with John Mills as Dr Watson and Anne Baxter as Irene Alder. The production started rolling on July 21st 1984, a full four years after Cushing had signed on the line and after Cushing had been diagnosed and fought off prostate cancer


CUSHING PLAYED SHERLOCK with quite some punch and moxie! He would be around for another ten years.. and some of his best private and public days were yet to come 😊 There was plans for another Cushing Holmes film 'The Abbot's Cry' and another film based on the career of an actor much like Cushing... but PC decided it was time to hang up the deerstalker and all the other hats and give his last bow. In this post at the How do you think he would have worked out in that second and last Sherlock 'The Abbot's Cry' based on his performance in 'Masks of Death'? He was to have appeared in an episode of Jeremy Brett's Granada Holmes series 'The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: The Last Vampyre' too! Even though he didn't think he could do Abbots Cry, would you have liked to have see him try?


YOU MAY REMEMBER I did a gallery of the amazing artwork of #DarylJoyce back in 2017 HERE and at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE? Well there's more! Here is a selection of some of his latest amazing Hammer film #PeterCushing #Frankenstein work! 


SOME YOU MAY have seen previously, but they have now been fashioned to carry tittles and casts, just like a cinema or press poster! I think 'Created Woman' and 'Destroyed' are my favs. Do you have a fav? Oh many thanks to good friend, Johnny Thunders Martin for suggesting this post and providing the details - Marcus


Thursday 28 May 2020

COME WIN COME ONE COME ALL AND BAG YOUR BLU RAYS IN CUSHING BIRTHDAY BUMPER PRIZE COMP!


PETER CUSHING Celebration Competition 2020! You can ONLY enter this PCASUK Competition at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE BY USING THE MESSAGE BUTTON 😉 Here is the QUESTION! The lovely gimme PRIZE! Your OPPORTUNITY! Now it's over to YOU! Good Luck Everyone! - Marcus



JUST CLICK HERE!

Friday 3 January 2020

CUSHING CHRISTMAS PCAS COMPETITION WINNER NUMBER TWO REVEALED HERE!


Congratulations ALLEN! A Happy New Year to you!
 

THE ANSWER we were looking for was c) THREE DAYS! Amicus were FAST workers, for sure! MANY thanks to everyone who entered this and our last competition and to our very generous sponsor SECOND SIGHT FILMS. You can order YOUR copy of this release from January 5th 2020 DIRECTLY HERE! 


ABOVE: OUR FINAL CHRISTMAS CUSHING COMPETITION IS STILL LIVE until January 12th 2020. YOU CAN ENTER HERE at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE!

Sunday 29 December 2019

LIVE! ANOTHER TWO CHRISTMAS COMPETITIONS : YOUR XMAS CHANCE TO BAG GREAT PRIZES HERE!


PCASUK #CHRISTMAS #COMPETITION 2#! HERE IS YOUR CHANCE to bag a copy of SECOND SIGHTS FILMS excellent BLU RAY release of the 1972 Cushing / Amicus Classic '#ASYLUM'. We gave away quite a few of these as FAB prizes a few weeks ago, thanks again to SECOND SIGHT! If you missed out, here is another chance! 

THIS COMPETITION, is now LIVE HERE at the Facebook PCAS Fan Page and  like ALL our competitions is open to anyone, everyone, wherever you are Have fun, biut you can ONLY ENTER at our Facebook Fan Page. Good Luck and many thanks to SECOND SIGHT FILMS for their support with this and our other competitions this week  

SECOND SIGHT FILMS WILL RELEASE this BLU RAY on January 6th 2020, and you can place YOUR ORDER for your copy, right now at their website, RIGHTHERE!

THIS COMPETITION ENDS and CLOSES on Wednesday 1st January 2020 MIDNIGHT GMT. WINNING ENTRY REVEALED Thursday 2nd January 2020!
MERRY CHRISTMAS and GOOD LUCK!! - Marcus




YOU CAN READ OUR PCAS review of the Second Sight Films BLU RAY release, RIGHT HERE!


HERE AS PROMISED... here is the 4th PCAS #Christmas Competition, LIVE RIGHT NOW HERE at the Facebook PCAS Fan Page! You can ONLY ENTER at our Facebbok Fan Page!There are a few more to come, up until New Years Day. Good luck with this one too! Please read the details on the #Competition Banner..


CHECK OUT OUR PCASUK REVIEW of Second sights Films BLU RAY release of THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' for yourself! RIGHT HERE!

IF YOU want to order your own copy of Second Sight Films blu ray of Amicus films, 'The House That Dripped Blood' starring #PeterCushing, #ChristopherLee, #JonPertwee, #IngridPitt and many others... it's released on January 6th 2020, and you can place your order directly at their site HERE!

MANY THANKS to the team at #SecondSightFilms for sponsoring our competitions . . . i Hope you are all having a Smashing Festival holiday Good Luck! - Marcus

Monday 16 December 2019

BE A WINNER IN OUR PCAS CHRISTMAS COMPETITIONS 2019 : JUST SOME CUSHING PRIZES UP FOR GRABS OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS!


HO! HO! HO! Yeah, you know how it goes 😉 . . For the last EIGHT years I've launched a series of PCAS Christmas competitions with some CRACKER prizes and this year, thanks to our very generous sponsors, it's a such bumper sack of goodies this year, that any #Santa would have probs cramming his sack down your chimney, Missus 😉 Just a few of the selection in this banner photo, but LOTS of prizes, lots of chances in many #PeterCushing #Competitions over the #Christmas holidays, starting here and at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE THIS Wednesday. As ever, these competitions are FREE and open to everyone, wherever you are, so keep your eyes, like your Christmas dinner potatoes... PEELED! 😉 Have yourself a Jolly CUSHING CHRISTMAS right HERE 😉 Feel free to share and comment below, it's appreciated by our sponsors and yours truly 😉 - Marcus


INDICATORS EXCELLENT REMASTERED BLU RAY RELEASE OF 'TIME WITHOUT PITY' REVIEWED AND CAN BE DIRECTLY ORDERED HERE! 


WE WILL ALSO BE OFFERING UP PRIZES of Second  Sight Films  BLU RAY release of the LIMITED EDITION 1972 'ASYLUM'. We gave away prizes of the Second Sight Films Special Limited Release of 'Asylum' a few weeks ago... now here is ANOTHER chance to bag YOUR COPY! or PRE-ORDER the standard blu ray release  DIRECT HERE! 

Wednesday 11 September 2019

REMEMBERING ACTOR HERBERT LOM : CLOUSEAU : PHANTOM AND MUCH MORE


TODAY WE REMEMBER Herbert Lom a Czech-born British film and television actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939. In a career lasting more than 60 years, he appeared in character roles, often portraying criminals or villains early in his career and professional men in later years.Some of his best known roles are Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in 'Pink Panther' films & as Dr Roger Corderthe in the ITV TV series 'The Human Jungle' . ..





LOM STARRED with Peter Cushing in two films for Amicus, 'Asylum' (1972) and 'And Now The Screaming Starts' (1973). Other notable horror films include 'The Phantom of The Opera' (1962) for Hammer films, 'Murders in the Rue Morgue' (1971) , 'The Dead Zone' (1983) also 'Dark Places' (1972) & 'Count Dracula' (1970) both Christopher Lee... 




Wednesday 31 July 2019

WHAT WERE YOUR FIRST AND EARLIEST PURCHASES OR FINDS??


OVER AT THE FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE THIS POST is gaining a fair bit of attention! REMEMBER WHEN??? 😉 Here's a great question from follower Dan Barrett which he posted to us a few days ago! Here Dan's QUESTION: What are your earliest Peter Cushing discoveries? One childhood memory I have is of heading into my local Woolworths and finding this absolute gem in a bargain bin of vhs tapes: The Uncanny. Despite the 18 rating and being substantially under age, I managed to buy it unchallenged. I think I watched it, practically, until I wore the tape out. Cushing is brilliant as the terrified and fidgety eccentric author Wilbur Gray and there's a cracking performance from the wonderful Joan Greenwood. Wilfred Josephs' score is brilliant too (he composed music for The Prisoner and, although his theme tune was rejected in favour of Ron Grainer's, lots of his quirky score is used throughout the series). The Uncanny kicked off my love of Peter Cushing and portmanteau horror movies. IF YOU would like to join in the chat, just click that BLUE LINK at the top of this text!
 

ABOVE A FACEBOOK UPDATE ON OUR LAST PCASUK COMPETITION! We will be posting a FULL REVIEW along with SCREEN CAPS on the TWO SECIOND SIGHT FILMS AMICUS BLU RAYS featured here as prizes, ASYLUM and THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' VERY SOON!



Sunday 30 June 2019

SECOND SIGHT FILMS : PCASUK COMPETITION WINNERS ANNOUNCED : ASYLUM LIMITED EDITION BLU RAYS PRIZES!


CONGRATULATIONS James Pearcy, Vivienne Dunston, David Little and Carl Beach! You are ALL Winners and have all bagged yourself a copy of the Second Sight Films Limited Edition Blu Ray release of Amicus films 'ASYLUM'..... Well Done! You will need to message us please 😉 MANY thanks to Second Sight Films for sponsoring your competitions over the last two weeks! They are VERY good releases, prints and extras! Look out for our PCAS review of BOTH Second sight Film releases 'House that Dripped Blood' and 'Asylum' this week. For everyone who entered and didn't win, thanks for taking part and your support . Make sure YOU are around on FRIDAY 😉 - Marcus



THE COMPETITION ANSWER : MR SMITH 😉


#SECONDSIGHTFILMS Limited Edition BLU RAYS of BOTH 'ASYLUM'  and 'THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' are available NOW for PRE-ORDER HERE!

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