CONGRATULATIONS STEWART and DAN! Stewart has bagged a copy of the #Indicator / #Powerhousefilms#Hammerfilms
box set, 'Hammer Volume Four : Faces of Evil' ... which in it's four
remastered Hammer films blu rays includes a superb remaster of #PeterCushing's
'The Revenge of Frankenstein' with some great extras PLUS a copy of
Indicator's remastered blu ray of 'Time Without Pity' starring Michael
Redgrave and Peter Cushing. Our 'runner
up' Dan Evans has won a copy of 'Time Without Pity' too! Well done
chaps! In the last of our FIVE #PCAS Cushing Christmas #Competitions, I trust you will feel that these goodies as a post Christmas bonus? 😉
MANY THANKS to everyone who took part in this all our other competitions
this Christmas and all our other many PCAS Competitions throughout 2019!
Thank too to our very generous sponsor Indicator / Powerhouse. You ca
now purchase your own copies of Hammer Volume Four : Faces of Evil and
'Time without Pity' DIRECTLY from Powerhouse HERE and HERE!
OUR PCASUK review feature and gallery on INDICATOR's blu ray remastered release of 'TINE WITHOUT PITY' HERE!Our review of Hammer Volume FOUR : Taste of Fear, is on it's way!
MANY THANKS ALSO to all our sponsors last year for supporting and providing some
superb prizes and giveaways, these include Warner Brothers, Second Light
Films, Twilight Time and many many others!
HERE'S TO #2020 and a whole year of exciting opportunities and PCAS Competitions!
#AHAPPYNEWYEAR EVERYONE! . . and while you are celebrating, why not try your luck at THIS your LAST PCAS #PeterCushing#Christmas#Competition
of 2019! This, like all our FOUR other Competitions this Christmas
week, is OPEN to everyone and anyone, wherever geographically you may
be... and it also has some great prizes attached.. this time for the
Winner AND Runner- Up! First Prize, for the FIRST CORRECT ANSWER pulled
out of the deep and creepy hat... is #Indicator's
excellent remastered Blu Ray Box set, Hammer Volume Four : Faces of
Fear, which contains FOUR Hammer films, 'The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll',
'The Damned', 'Taste of Fear' AND... 'The Revenge of Frankenstein',
starring Peter Cushing as The Baron, in the sequel to the first Hammer
Frankenstein film of 1957, 'The Curse of Frankenstein' 😉
THE EXTRAS ONthis release are also really quite special and include the
'never before released' behind the scenes footage of Cushing on set
during the making of 'The Revenge of Frankenstein' at Bray studios! A
full spec of the box set and it's extras, you can see below! As well, as
winning this great box set, your win will also include a copy of
Indicator's recent blu ray remastered release of the 1957 fab crime
thriller, starring Michael Redgrave AND Peter Cushing, 'Time Without
Pity'. . . there is also a copy of this blu ray for the SECOND WINNERS
NAME drawn out of the deep and creepy hat! 🙂 How do you bag these prizes? It's simple!
LIKE ALL PCASUK COMPETITIONS, you just have to ANSWER the Competition
Question BELOW ..and send your answer to us VIA the PCAS Facebook Fan
Page Message Button ONLY! Any entries posted onto the thread below will
be deleted and declared void. SO HERE comes the Competition . .
COMPETITION QUESTION:In 1958 when 'The Revenge of Frankenstein' was released, the
UK newspaper, the Daily Telegraph was so shocked and horrified by what
they saw on the screen, that the newspaper suggested the British Board
of Film Classification create a special NEW category for the film! Was
that category:A) For Saturdays Only? B ) For Cushing Fans Only? C) For
Crackpots Only? D) For Sadists Only?. This Competition is now LIVE
and closes on SUNDAY 12th January 2020 MID-DAY GMT, so plenty of time
to enter 😊
HAVE FUN and Good Luck EVERYONE and Do Have A Happy, Healthy and Safe
2020! Many thanks to the team at Indicator for sponsoring this and many
other PCAS Competitions during 2019! You can order your own copies of
both these Indicator Hammer films and Peter Cushing titles from
Powerhouse, just by following THIS LINK!
THE BOX SET Specifications : INDICATOR LIMITED BLU-RAY EDITION BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES:
THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN New 4K restoration Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historians Marcus Hearn and Jonathan Rigby (2019) Audio commentary with horror and fantasy authors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (2019)
Back from the Dead: Inside ‘The Revenge of Frankenstein’ (2019, 22
mins): new and exclusive documentary, featuring Alan Barnes, Kevin Lyons
and Jonathan Rigby, exploring aspects of the film’s production Hammer’s Women: Eunice Gayson (2019, 8 mins): profile of the Hammer star by film historian Pamela Hutchinson A Frankenstein for the 20th Century (2019, 27 mins): video essay by film historian Kat Ellinger and Dima Ballin
Arpeggios of Melancholy (2019, 13 mins): appreciation of composer
Leonard Salzedo’s score by David Huckvale, author of Hammer Film Scores
and the Musical Avant-Garde Outtakes reel (1958, 12 mins, mute): rare, unseen on-set footage Super 8 version (8 mins, b&w, mute): cut-down home cinema presentation Original theatrical trailer Joe Dante trailer commentary (2013, 2 mins): short critical appreciation Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Limited edition exclusive 36-page booklet with a new essay by Marcus
Hearn, Kieran Foster on Hammer’s unrealised Tales of Frankenstein
television series, Jimmy Sangster on The Revenge of Frankenstein, a
selection of promotional materials, an overview of contemporary reviews,
and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray
THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historians Josephine Botting and Jonathan Rigby (2019)
Identity Crisis: Inside ‘The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll’ (2019, 19 mins):
new and exclusive documentary, featuring Alan Barnes, Kevin Lyons and
Jonathan Rigby, exploring aspects of the film’s production Hammer’s Women: Dawn Addams (2019, 11 mins): profile of the Hammer star by British cinema expert Laura Mayne Interview with Paul Massie (1967, 10 mins): archival audio recording of the film’s star
Now and Then: Wolf Mankowitz (1968, 28 mins): archival interview
featuring the screenwriter in conversation with broadcaster Bernard
Braden Mauve Decadence (2019, 11 mins): appreciation of composer
Monty Norman’s score by David Huckvale, the author of Hammer Film Scores
and the Musical Avant-Garde The Many Faces of Dr. Jekyll (2019, 7 mins): an overview of the censorship history of The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll Original theatrical trailer Sam Hamm trailer commentary (2013, 3 mins): short critical appreciation Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Limited edition exclusive 36-page booklet with a new essay by Kat
Ellinger, a selection of promotional materials, an overview of
contemporary reviews, and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray
TASTE OF FEAR High Definition remaster Original mono audio
Two presentations of the film: Taste of Fear, with the rarely seen
original UK title sequence, and Scream of Fear, with the alternative US
titles New audio commentary with Kevin Lyons, editor of The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and Television
Body Horror: Inside ‘Taste of Fear’ (2019, 23 mins): new and exclusive
documentary, featuring Alan Barnes, Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby,
exploring aspects of the film’s production Hammer’s Women: Ann Todd
(2019, 12 mins): profile of the Taste of Fear actor by Melanie Williams,
author of Female Stars of British Cinema: The Women in Question The
BFI Southbank Interview with Jimmy Sangster (2008, 68 mins): archival
audio recording of the celebrated filmmaker and screenwriter in
conversation with Marcus Hearn at London’s BFI Southbank The BEHP
Video Interview with Jimmy Sangster (2008, 117 mins): archival video
recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project,
featuring Sangster in conversation with Jonathan Rigby The BEHP
Interview with Douglas Slocombe, Part Two: From Hammer to Spielberg
(1988, 82 mins): archival audio recording featuring the renowned
cinematographer in conversation with Sidney Cole Fear Makers (2019, 9 mins): camera operator Desmond Davis and assistant sound editor John Crome recall the making of the film
Anxiety and Terror (2019, 25 mins): appreciation of Clifton Parker’s
score by David Huckvale, author of Hammer Films’ Psychological
Thrillers, 1950–1972 Super 8 version of Scream of Fear (20 mins): original cut-down home cinema presentation Original US Scream of Fear theatrical trailer Sam Hamm trailer commentary (2013, 2 mins): short critical appreciation Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Limited edition exclusive 36-page booklet with an essay by Marcus
Hearn, Jimmy Sangster on Taste of Fear, an archival on-set report, a
selection of promotional materials, an overview of contemporary reviews,
and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray THE DAMNED (2x Blu-ray) 2K restoration Original mono audio Alternative presentations of the complete 96-minute version, playable as either The Damned or These Are the Damned Box-set exclusive presentation of the rarely seen original 87-minute UK theatrical cut of The Damned on Disc 2. Audio commentary with film historians Kat Ellinger and Samm Deighan
On the Brink: Inside ‘The Damned’ (2019, 27 mins): new and exclusive
documentary, featuring Alan Barnes, Kevin Lyons, Nick Riddle and
Jonathan Rigby, exploring aspects of the film’s production Hammer’s Women: Viveca Lindfors (2019, 15 mins): profile of the renowned actor by film historian Lindsay Hallam Looking in the Right Place (2019, 10 mins): actor Shirley Anne Field recalls working with Oliver Reed and Joseph Losey
Children of ‘The Damned’ (2019, 24 mins): former child actors David
Palmer, Kit Williams and Christopher Witty discuss their experiences of
makingThe Damned Something Out of Nothing (2019, 7 mins): screenwriter Evan Jones reflects on his first feature-film credit Smoke Screen (2019, 12 mins): interview with camera operator Anthony Heller Beneath the Surface (2019, 26 mins): interview with filmmaker Gavrik Losey, son of director Joseph Losey Beyond Black Leather (2019, 15 mins): academic I Q Hunter discusses The Damned No Future (2019, 26 mins): appreciation by author and film historian Neil Sinyard
The Lonely Shore (2019, 21 mins): appreciation of James Bernard’s score
by David Huckvale, author of James Bernard, Composer to Count Dracula: A
Critical Biography Isolated music & effects track Original US theatrical trailer Joe Dante trailer commentary (2013, 4 mins): short critical appreciation Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Limited edition exclusive 36-page booklet with a new essay by Richard
Combs, Joseph Losey on The Damned, a look at the US pressbook, an
overview of contemporary reviews, and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray
YOU CAN READ our FULL PCAS REVIEW and GALLERY of the INDICATOR BLU RAY release of 'THE WITHOUT PITY' HERE!
TIME WITHOUT PITY: THE SPEC:
AVAILABLE NOW : ORDER YOUR COPY DIRECTHERE! Limited Blu-ray Edition (World Blu-ray premiere)
Following his blacklisting in the McCarthy HUAC hearings, director
Joseph Losey (Eva, The Damned, Secret Ceremony) moved to the England in
the 1950s. The gritty British suspense thriller, Time Without Pity was
the first film he made in the UK under his own name.
In a
BAFTA-nominated performance, the great Michael Redgrave (Goodbye Gemini,
Connecting Rooms, Dead of Night) stars as an anguished father whose son
is convicted of murder and languishing on death row. In a desperate
race-against-time, he attempts to prove his son’s innocence whilst
bringing the real murderer to justice.
With photography by
Freddie Francis (The Elephant Man), and a superb supporting cast
including Ann Todd (Taste of Fear), Leo McKern (X the Unknown), and
Peter Cushing (Corruption, The Beast Must Die), Time Without Pity is
brilliantly accomplished slice of Brit-noir, and a potent cry against
capital punishment. Time With Out Pity LIMITED BLU-RAY EDITION BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES: High Definition remaster Original mono audio
The John Player Lecture with Joseph Losey (1973, 80 mins): the
celebrated filmmaker in conversation with film critic Dilys Powell at
London’s National Film Theatre New and exclusive audio commentary with Neil Sinyard, co-author of British Cinema in the 1950s: A Celebration The Sins of the Father (2019, 16 mins): filmmaker Gavrik Losey, son of Joseph Losey, discusses Time Without Pity Horlicks: Steven Turner (1960, 1 min): vintage commercial for the malted milk drink, directed by Joseph Losey New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Limited edition exclusive 40-page booklet with a new essay by Robert
Murphy, Joseph Losey on Time Without Pity, Jeff Billington on the
MacMahonists and Time Without Pity, an overview of critical responses,
and film credit World premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies REGION FREE
THE FILM 'TIME WITHOUT PITY' is an adaptation of Emlyn Williams' pot-boiler stage play entitled 'Someone Waiting',
a 1953 psychological thriller, which is something of a curio
if performed on a theatrical stage today. The great fictional focal English murder, is rooted in a 1956 middle
class, whose sayings and doings often strike a modern audience as more than
faintly comic. BUT within the context of a cinematic drama, produced just one year after Williams's staged debut of the play, directed by an American motion-picture director, whose highly personal style was often manifested in films centring on intense and sometimes violent human relationships... it is something far more sinister and real.
THE PLOT AND OPINION :
A young man wrongly convicted of murder (Alec McCowen), and the
last-minute hunt for the real killer by his dipsomaniac father
(Michael Redgrave). 'TIME WITHOUT PITY' was the first time Joseph Losey had filmed under his own name, since the trauma of the blacklist, and it shows in the interesting play with clocks, for instance, indicating not just that
Redgrave is racing against a 24-hour deadline to uncover the truth, but
that his alcoholism was a way of making time stand still, by shutting out
his responsibilities . . . to his son and to society.
BY SHIFTINGthe emphasis
from thriller to anti-capital punishment pleading, Losey also cleverly pulls on all threads of the plot, cranking up the cogs and dragging us all-in on the structure, the race against time and the whole thing slipping through the fingers of Redgrave's guilt ridden alcoholic, while the noose swings waiting too. The clever devise of letting the viewer KNOW who the true murderer IS, makes the the whole thing even more interesting, as we watch the bullying racked up murderer sweat and twist his himself away from being exposed, the father fighting off his dependency on drink and the innocent son, sink further and further into hopelessness, in his dingy prison cell, praying his father doesn't fail him..again. ! It is an undeniably powerful film.
PETER CUSHING was to appear in another black and white crime drama, just few years later for Hammer films called 'Cash on Demand' in 1962, where director Quentin Lawrence, would also apply similar tension triggers, but as much as 'Cash' delivers a sweet and justified ending, 'TIME WITHOUT PITY' deals with a much course and raw villain. Violence and murder against vulnerable women is one of the most frightening relations in the cinema crime family, and requires equally cruel and brutal comeuppance for the perpetrator in the end. So in quite a bit more than co star, here Cushing plays barrister Jeremy Clayton , who himself has no choice but to chase the clock too. Once again, as in 'Cash' Clayton plays on what was one of Cushing's great strengths, 'fear and tension for himself, and/or of others'. 'TIME WITHOUT PITY' is also superbly shot by Freddie Francis, a director who Cushing would work with on a further eight films over the next twenty years. The film is conceived with a
raw-edged brilliance, right from the brutal opening murder, that
accommodates even the symbolism of a Goya bull, with the real killer
(Leo McKern) finally cornered and goaded into a murderous/suicidal charge ..
UNLIKE HAMMER FILMS 'Cash on Demand' and 'The Naked Edge' (1961) with Cushing again playing another barrister and Gary Cooper in sadly his last film, along with another thriller called 'Suspect' in 1960 . . 'TIME WITHOUT PITY' Cushing was still delivering on the gain he made on his tortured and broken Winston Smith in the BBC's 1984 in 1954, just three years before 'Pity'. Interestingly, 'The Curse of Frankenstein' was made the SAME year, as 'Time Without Pity'and in some ways could be said to have a more frightening monster. A working class man, who has worked his way up, to new money by grafting, but also by beating and crushing anything that gets in his way. Public position and cash, he thinks gives him the right and authority, to bend the rules, the law and to manipulate and abuse any woman who associates with him, certainly in his domain of his workplace.
HOW INTERESTING that a film, produced by a man who was seen as an outcast in his industry over 65 year ago, manages to reflect the dangerous and often manipulative practices of many a powerful and trusted man, working with women in the workplace . . the mirror might have been made in 1957, but sadly the chipped and flaking reflection we are seeing is today . .
INDICATOR REMASTERED BLU RAY
THE VISUAL:
The good news about the INDICATOR premier release on blu ray of 'TIME WITHOUT PITY' is it actually looks, VERY good and just as we hoped it would, when we first heard about this planned release a few months ago. So, visually it is WONDERFUL! Thankfully, the visuals are as they should be and at 1080P, the contrast is often deep, a nice layer through out. For a film from this period you would expect some grain, and what you see is totally in keeping with how a theatrical presentation of this release of a monochrome film would indeed look. It's HD, it's monochrome, and the results from that combination, trusting on a very well looked after print, are always impressive.
THE AUDIO:
Indicator has used a linear 24-bit PCM mono track in the original English
language.The soundtrack is clear, no buzz, no clicks. It IS very sharp.The score written by the late Tristram Cary, who also provided the musical scores for Hammer films 'Quatermass and the Pit' and 'Blood from the Mummy's Tomb', the 1955 classic 'The Lady Killers', Peter Cushing's 1963 'Violent Playground' and . . .as he was a pioneer in electronic music, having become inspired by his WWII
Royal Navy training in radar, and built the first electronic studio at
the Royal College of Music, was also instrumental in the invention of the
synthesizer. .. he wrote the music for 27 episodes of Patrick Troughton's 'Doctor Who' from 1964-66 .. here provides a dramatic score for the often teasing tensions, threats and contrasting rumblings and then unexpected outbursts from a major bully and psychotic murderer. It's all there, can be heard and appreciated . . Dialogue is also clear, no distortions when the audio is carrying high pitched vocals, and manages low background audio atmosphere, when dramatic mix of music and action visuals drop suddenly. Overall, the audio is a very impressive and compliments the visuals.
THE EXTRAS:
One of the first extras I couldn't wait to use, was the very interesting facility that allows you to play the film, while listening to a John Player Lecture from 1973, with director Joseph Losey himself! The 80 minute conversation with very knowledgable film critic Dilys Powell at the National Film Theatre, is a very entertaining treat to access on maybe a second viewing. Plenty here, on a career that was never dull, and full of its own dramas. But it's Losey's thoughts and experience on how, he looked for other levels in plots, scripts and characters, how he used the camera and blocked a scene, that I found most interesting. This is the man who worked with Bertolt Brecht and directed Dirk Bogarde in 'The Servant' and ' The Accident', I am all ears! Many viewers and collectors, may find this extra as a 'no bonus' and of 'little interest' especially as the recording was never intended for public use or broadcast, the audio quality is a little weak. Indicator flags this up, within its title menu. Personally, for me it's a certainly a gain. I am the kind of viewer that wants the lot. Whatever is available, include it on the extras. My purchase then viewing experience has always been to, if possible, without sounding like an anorak / geek, have a good-time and learn all I can about a film I have just shelled out, good lolly for!It's all part of the journey and the learning! So, for me this was no injustice, poor show or problem... I just turned up the volume. Simple.
IF YOU ENJOY extras that inform and educate too, then a new audio commentary with author Neil Sinyard, of 'British Cinema In The 1950's : A Celebration' maybe well 'float your boat' too! It's a neat and interesting extra too. I have always personally preferred, enjoyed packages of extras, that contain, what I haven't seen before, different. It doesn't have to be another menu of often seen press stills the size of postage stamps or another chance to see THAT grubby trailer that has sat on Youtube for the last eight years. No, give me, that grainy end segment of an film interview, found in a dusty vault or some long gone film collectors garage . . 'and you only have the last three minutes, out of the 20 that were shot? Fine. Let me SEE it!' I am your man! Which is why, I leaned closer to my TV when I came across the option for ' A vintage Horlicks malted-hot-drink commercial . . directed by Losey too! It's great 😀😃😉 Next is film maker, Gavrik Losey, son of Joseph Losey in a new 15 minute video interview entitled 'The Sins of the Father' where he details the making of 'Time Without Pity' and it's place in his father's impressive body of film work as a director, of reputation and who created often a different persective. The Indicator blu ray package also has a LIMITED EDITION and EXCLUSIVE 40-page booklet, with a new essay by Robert Murphy, Joseph
Losey on Time Without Pity, Jeff Billington on the MacMahonists and Time
Without Pity, an overview of critical responses, and film credits. This
is LIMITED to just 3,000 copies.
SO IN CONCLUSION .. The Indicator Blu Ray release of 'TIME WITHOUT PITY' ticks the box for very good 1950's tense drama, it's quality Brit Noir, it possess an excellent cast, Leo McKern and Michael Redgrave, are at different ends of a career, and BOTH fill that screen, with talent you just don't see today. This release also stands as a more than worthy addition to your Peter Cushing collection, this is a VERY good example of why critics 'kicked off a long running, biting their pencils and punching their type-writers' in what was a what they saw as a justified mega-strop, stating that Cushing had copped out of quality work, and slipped into the fantasy cinema market'! THIS was what Cushing actually excelled at, and what's more, he knew that too. Choices huh? If you have never, for whatever reason, never experienced a Joseph Losey directed movie, THIS is a very good place to start. Lastly, if you already own the dvd of the film, this is a very commendable upgrade... that I can assure you, won't be around long. Nope it's not a hard sell, it's a fact. Indicator is very lucky but deservedly so, to have earned themselves quite a LARGE and quite dedicated clientele . . collector's who buy in bundles, out of choice, predominantly just Indicator releases. Why? Check out their website or facebook page and you'll see past releases of very interesting releases in limited runs and copies. They SELL.
PACKAGING is always of a very good standard, matching other releases . . collectors LOVE matching or colour coded spines of great quality cases and above all, specific and well researched sleeve notes and COVER ARTWORK. They very rarely drop the ball in their remastering, they are often exclusive but always... quite classy! 😉 That's why this release comes highly recommended . .
Marcus Brooks
TIME WITHOUT PITY: THE SPEC:
Release date: 28 October 2019 Limited Blu-ray Edition (World Blu-ray premiere)
Following his blacklisting in the McCarthy HUAC hearings, director Joseph Losey (Eva, The Damned, Secret Ceremony) moved to the England in the 1950s. The gritty British suspense thriller, Time Without Pity was the first film he made in the UK under his own name.
In a BAFTA-nominated performance, the great Michael Redgrave (Goodbye Gemini, Connecting Rooms, Dead of Night)
stars as an anguished father whose son is convicted of murder and
languishing on death row. In a desperate race-against-time, he attempts
to prove his son’s innocence whilst bringing the real murderer to
justice.
With photography by Freddie Francis (The Elephant Man), and a superb supporting cast including Ann Todd (Taste of Fear), Leo McKern (X the Unknown), and Peter Cushing (Corruption, The Beast Must Die), Time Without Pity is brilliantly accomplished slice of Brit-noir, and a potent cry against capital punishment.
INDICATOR LIMITED BLU-RAY
EDITION BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES:
High Definition remaster
Original mono audio
The John Player Lecture with Joseph Losey (1973, 80 mins): the celebrated filmmaker in conversation with film critic Dilys Powell at London’s National Film Theatre
New and exclusive audio commentary with Neil Sinyard, co-author of British Cinema in the 1950s: A Celebration
The Sins of the Father (2019, 16 mins): filmmaker Gavrik Losey, son of Joseph Losey, discusses Time Without Pity
Horlicks: Steven Turner (1960, 1 min): vintage commercial for the malted milk drink, directed by Joseph Losey
New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Limited edition exclusive 40-page booklet with a new essay by Robert Murphy, Joseph Losey on Time Without Pity, Jeff Billington on the MacMahonists and Time Without Pity, an overview of critical responses, and film credits
World premiere on Blu-ray
Limited edition of 3,000 copies
#PHILTD154 BBFC cert: PG REGION FREE
Blu-ray
Release Date:
October 28th,
2019
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MICHAEL
REDGRAVE was of the generation of English actors that gave the world
the legendary John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier,
#Britain three fabled "Theatrical Knights" back in the days when a
knighthood for thespian was far more rare than it is today. . . Sir
Michael Redgrave. A superb actor, Redgrave himself was a charter member
of the post-Great War English acting pantheon and
was the sire of an acting dynasty. According to his daughter, Vanessa,
and son Corin, Sir Michael's favourite film roles were in The Browning
Version (1951), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) The
Dam Busters (1955) The Lady Vanishes (1938) #1984 (1956) Dead of Night
(1945) and The Magic Box (1951) and many more gems . .
PETER CUSHING appeared in a 1955 stage production of The Browning Version as
Andrew Crocker-Harris in London, recorded and transmitted by BBC TV.
He co started with #PeterCushing in Time Without Pity, Cushing's role
as barrister, Jeremy Clayton is neat role. Cushing plays it with an
impatient sharpness , that makes you feel all the more sorry for
Redgrave's 'David Graham'. Just a support role, but in that added to
Cushing's already sizeable characters he had played in theatre, radio
and massiviely on television. Redgrave's opinion about working in film,
when he had made such a career of the theatre, was pretty much like
Peter Cushing also felt . .'I didn't think I'd be any good in films... I
couldn't imagine myself on the screen. Besides, there were such
exciting things to do in the theatre, so much to learn!'. Michael
Redgrave passed away on this day in 1985 only one day after his 77th
birthday.
If
you are not familiar with Time Without Pity, a little later we have posted and shared a clip over at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE, which features a scene with both Redgrave and Peter from the film. IF you
have seen the film, love to know, what do you think of it?
MICHAEL REDGRAVE was of the generation of English actors that gave the world the legendary John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier,
Britain three fabled "Theatrical Knights" back in the days when a
knighthood for thespian was far more rare than it is today. . . Sir Michael Redgrave. A superb
actor, Redgrave himself was a charter member of the post-Great War
English acting pantheon and was the sire of an acting dynasty. According to his daughter, Vanessa, and son Corin, Sir Michael's favourite film roles were in The Browning Version (1951), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) and The Dam Busters (1955). Peter Cushing appeared in a 1955 stage production of The Browning Version as Andrew Crocker-Harris in London, recorded and transmitted by BBC TV. Cushing's role as barrister, Jeremy Clayton is neat role. Cushing plays it with an impatient sharpness , that makes you feel all the more sorry for Redgrave's 'David Graham'. Just a support role, but ine that added to Cushing's already sizeable characters he had played in theatre, radio and massiviely on television. Redgrave's opinion about working in film, when he had made such a career of the theatre, was pretty much like Peter Cushing also felt . .'I didn't think I'd be any good in films... I couldn't imagine myself on
the screen. Besides, there were such exciting things to do in the
theatre, so much to learn!'.Michael Redgrave passed away only one day after his 77th birthday.
DIRECTED BY JOSEPH LOSEY, and starring Michael Redgrave as a confused
alcoholic father, racing against the clock, trying to save his son who
is sentenced to death...Redgrave turns in a wonderful performance in TIME WITHOUT PITY. It's a
British film noir thriller, and has a very watchable cast...of which
Cushing is one of the support players. Ann Todd and Leo McKern are at
the top of their game, Freddie Francis is director of photography... in
only the second film of his career, Lois 'Miss Moneypenny' Maxwell and
Joan Plowright also make an appearance. This is a sneak peep a
taster....see what you think?
ABOVE THIS WEEK'S TUESDAY TOUGHY AND BELOW, LAST WEEKS ANSWER!
ABOVE: A REQUESTED DEATH to end the day. FOR TOMMY TWO FANGS . . . hmm Here is probably the MOST CELEBRATED scene from one of Cushing's, Lee's and Hammer's DRACULA films. COMPLETE with censored removed shots, Dracula DEATH from 'DRACULA' / HORROR OF DRACULA' 1958 . . .
