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Monday 2 October 2017

PRIVATE RAWLINGS IS ON PARADE FOR #MONSTERMONDAY!


#MONSTERMONDAY! Private Rawlings, as played by the late and great, Sir John Hurt.... Tom Rawlings, deserter, creepy chap and surely accomplice to murder . . . in Tyburn films, THE GHOUL....or was it all Peter Cushing's, Dr Lawrence to blame? Private Rawlings, Monster or Victim? You Decide and tell us over at the  PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE!



NEED TO REMIND YOURSELF OF RAWLINGS DEVIANCE? simply sit back and watch the film, above!





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Tuesday 18 October 2016

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: GRAND HORROR HOUSES AND A BIRTHDAY GIRL WITH GIFS!

 



#TOOCOOLTUESDAY Peter Cushing out and about in Munich in 1979, during the making 'Hitler's Son'. It's another case of 'Horrendous film made in Europe . . .  but did provide us some great photographs!'


#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: Ok...so I am guessing, the photographer said, 'That's great Peter. HOLD IT there! ...and he did just...that Peter Cushing with Joyce Broughton his friend and secretary for 35 years.


#TOOCOOLTUESDAY : Finally, can you name the Peter cushing films, in which these very grand houses appeared??



#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: TODAY OCTOBER 18TH, A Birthday Girl! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GORGON TODAY...52 years old! We mark this one every year, but a tip of the hat, top of course...to our good friend, Joshua Kennedy who reminded me.. So, ...For Gorgon-Super-Fan Josh, you know, you nor the movie haven't aged a day!

 

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Sunday 22 May 2016

#SHERLOCKSUNDAY 'HE WAS LIKE PETER PAN!' FRANCIS ON CUSHING PLUS COMPETITION


Producer Kevin Francis, close friend of Peter Cushing remembers Cushing's time working on the Tyburn film, THE MASKS OF DEATH with John Mills who played his, Dr Watson. In photograph: Left to right: Peter Cushing, John Mills, Kevin Francis and Anthony Hinds / John Elder script  writer of 'Masks of Death

AND TODAY....


TWO PRIZES, for TWO LUCKY WINNERS of Tony Earnshaw's , 'An Actor and a Rare One' and 'The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook' edited by Peter Haining are up for grabs in this week's #SHERLOCKSUNDAY.

Our competition will be posted here and at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE TODAY at  6pm GMT 14:00 Sunday, Eastern Time, 11:00 Sunday, Pacific Time (PT) 13:00 Sunday, Central Time (CT) 04:00 Monday, in Canberra ACT, Australia, 20:00 Sunday, in France..... this competition is OPEN TO EVERYONE...Wherever you are, for SEVEN DAYS!


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Tuesday 19 April 2016

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY : CUSHING POSES FOR LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF PINEWOOD


#toocooltuesday : Peter Cushing poses for the press at Piewood studios, during the making of Tyburn Films, Legend of the Werewolf (Francis 1974)


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Sunday 22 February 2015

SIR JOHN MILLS REMEMBERED: SHERLOCK HOLMES THE MASKS OF DEATH


Today we mark the birth of one, Lewis Ernest Watts Mills... or as we knew and loved him... Sir John Mills. He was without doubt, one of our most popular and beloved English actors and born today February 22nd 1908. In a career that stretched over eight decades, Mills appeared in over 120 films, debuting in 1932 in 'Midshipmaid Gob' right up until 2009 in 'The Snow Prince'. Many of his roles like Pip in 'Great Expectations' in 1946, Shorty Blake 'In Which We Serve' in 42, Captain Scott in 'Scott of the Antarctic' in 48 and the alcohol troubled Captain Anson in 'Ice Cold in Alex' in 58 would make him an internationally renowned star.


Mills appeared in two films with Peter Cushing, the first in 1976 entitled 'Trial by Combat' aka 'A Dirty Knight's Work' as Sir Edward Gifford. It was no more than a guest appearance, slotted in when another project on Cushing's slate fell through. The second though, was a much grander enterprise with Tyburn films and marked Cushing's return to the character of Sherlock Holmes...and Mills as Watson! They made a terrific team as a much older duo, so impressive was the chemistry that another Cushing /Mills / Sherlock film from Tyburn was planned entitled 'The Abbot's Cry', but was scuppered owing to Cushing's fragile health.


Like Cushing, Mills was in his private life a sensitive romantic, in January 2001 at the age of 92, he and wife Mary, age 89, renewed their marriage vows at St. Mary's Church, next to their home, Hills House, in Denham, England. When they had wed 60 years earlier, he was denied a church service because he was serving in the Army during World War II. Happy Birthday, Sir John!

 Sir John Mills died on the 23rd of April 2005.



Monday 3 November 2014

Wednesday 22 October 2014

LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF: 'I AM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN YOUR WOLVES!'


Peter Cushing as police pathologist and amateur detective, Paul Cataflanque in 'Legend of the Werewolf' (Tyburn 1975)

.....'..Cushing seems to be enjoying himself enormously - almost all his scenes, until the last have a ghoulish humour about them. It is never forced, it is just a witty, clever, concentrated performance. Cataflanque is eating his tea as the newest cadaver is brought in. 'Ooh dear,' Cushing clucks, with his mouth full, peering under the sheet, 'that's very nasty...' He gets rid of his pompous superiors by mischievously presenting them with a gullet and when he does a bit of undercover research in the local brothel he is left bashfully holding a frilly garter!'
( David Miller, The Peter Cushing Companion. 2000)

Tuesday 12 August 2014

'LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF' RON MOODY AND PETER CUSHING


Ron Moody Remembers Peter Cushing:
 

"Some scripts are so terribly over the top, there's a terrible temptation to send them up" I said to Peter Cushing. We were sitting in the late summer sunshine outside a very realistic French bistro on the lot of Pinewood studios, between takes on Tyburn films, 'Legend of the Werewolf'. I was playing the zooo keeper, and regarded the whole thing as a bit of a half term holiday, so i was decked out in a stove pipe bowler hat, a black embrosse wig, a ten o'clock shadow and set of buck teeth that made me look like a Neanderthal throwback! Actually, I rather thought I looked like Humphrey Boart. Anyway, if the hero could be a werewolf, why shouldn't the zoo keeper be an ape? Here, I must add, Freddie Francis, the director, thought it was a very funny idea.

Peter didn't. He surveyed me quizzically for a moment, his eyes twinkled. "If you were sending it up" he said, "We wouldn't have you on the film." And he MEANT it. For this sweet-natured, gentle man, dangerously on the verge of sainthood, there could be no mockery of his beloved craft. He played every one of his 'horror roles' with no less dedication then he had applied to his earlier classical career and the stream of powerful dramas that had established him as television's leading actor. His total belief and immersion in everything he did lifted these fantasy / horror tales from the banal to the believable, he commanded respect for the genre, lifted it up, almost single highhandedly, to the level of credibility that made everyone of them a minor classic!

Working with a great actor, something always brushes off! My zoo keeper, hair, hat, teeth and all, was never sent up! In fact, I like to think that my animal man was totally believable, completely identified within film, and had, dare I presume to say it, a touch of Cushing
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