#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: ABOVE IS THE LEGAL contract between Peter Cushing and Hammer film Productions, for Cushing's LAST FRANKENSTEIN film for the studio, 'Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell' (1973) Along with details regarding Cushing's daily rate of £250.00 ( that by todays rate, allowing for inflation is around £3,000 pounds sterling) there is also an allowance for Peter Cushing's accommodation at Browns Hotel in London and a supplement payment of £25 per week towards the cost of Cushing's driver!
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#SILENTBUTDEADLY: THE SCRIPT FOR HAMMER FILMS fifth Frankenstein film 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' afforded the 'creation' an opportunity to share his feelings and emotions, in a way that no other 'monster/creation' had before in any of the previous Cushing / Frankenstein's'. How fortunate than, to have cast the excellent Freddie Jones as the unfortunate Professor Richter / Doctor Brandt, who was able to do that dialogue justice. For once the one who had gone under the Baron's knife, had intelligence and cunning, and no more than in the scene where this clipped GIF comes from.
WHILE DESPERATELY dashing from room to room, looking for those all important notes, a hidden Brandt stops Frankenstein in his tracks, 'I fancy that I AM the spider and YOU are the fly, Frankenstein'. Lit by the flames of a flickering rag, Brandt stands at the top of the staircase, holding glass lanterns full of combustible oil. Brandt invites Frankenstein to a deadly game of cat and mouse. If he wants get out out of the house alive, he will have to out fox Brandt, and his intention of burning down the house, with them inside! Giving us one the all-times best endings to a Hammer film.
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#SILENTBUTDEADLY:
Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) looks on in horror on discovering
his friend, Jonathan Harker (John Van Eyssen) in Dracula's coffin, now transformed into
a vampire! There is only one thing for it! Hammer films Dracula Horror of Dracula (1958) Requested by Junior Fleetwood.
OUR #MONSTERMONDAY TRIBUTE TO THIS SCENE A FEW WEEKS GO!
#SILENTBUTDEADLY:
VINNIE GOES PUFF! Paul Toombes sits in total boredom, during the junket
party for his Dr Death movies, unfortunately it also brings together
people and duds from his past, that he would rather forget . . . Weird
coincidence, when I met with Vincent Price in 1980 and asked him about
Madhouse, he said, 'I really would rather not talk about that one...!'
He smiled and that made me laugh! Personally, it's a film I never get
bored of...! Request by Dan T
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WORLD
ENVIRONMENT DAY 2017. Do you do your bit for the enironment too? Remember the story in
Cushing's Dr Terror's House of Horrors.... we really do have to get on
with looking after the planet...or, like in this movie, vines, triffids ,
will go on the rampage!
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THE VAN HELSING TERROR TALES were a regular feature in comic strip
form that appeared in the popular UK magazine 'The House Of Hammer'
during the mid 1970's. Here we have gathered four of the best drawings
of the host character mostly drawn by artist Brian Lewis… Which drawing
gets your vote?
Candid Cushing: PARK LIFE: I think if you were taking a leisurely walk
in your local park, and you happened to see this figure strolling along,
even from a distance...you could see this no ordinary gentleman. Hat at
a cheeky angle, umbrella swinging in time with his gait, there is no
one else this COULD be. Peter Cushing takes a stroll in the park, circa
1986.
A colour shot, taken the same day, minus the hat! These photographs were part of a photo-session for the Mail on Sunday newspaper. The shot above, I believe was also used for one of the many reprints of Peter's autobiography in paper back in the USA.
The
Peter Cushing Appreciation Society UK, was founded back in 1956, and is
the original Fan Club. It's now on the net at it's own facebook fan
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now with over 21,000 followers world wide. Now you can access vintage
hi res publicity photographs, promotional material, features, interviews
both in text and on video with the actors, directors and friends who
knew the man, the artist and friend, Peter Cushing.
It's a great way keep up to date with on the news of remastered blu rays, dvds and streaming of films from Cushing's extensive career on both the big screen, tv and radio. Hear and see vintage Cushing interviews from our extensive library, many being seen and heard for the first time. Access our huge library of reviews and rare galleries of stills, lobby cards, many collectors items available as transparencies and contact sheets from Cushing's Hammer Horrors, his famous portrayals of Baron Frankenstein, The Vampire Hunter : Van Helsing, Christopher Lee's Count Dracula nemesis , the famous Baker Street detective, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Who on the big screen...and lets not forget forget his 22 films with the Prince of Terror, Christopher Lee. They both had a talent to terrify, and left audiences screaming for more over three decades.
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It's MONDAY. It's MONSTERMONDAY! Every week, we ask you to request a
'monster' for us to feature in a gallery at our website. This MONDAY,
it's a request from TRACEY WOODWARD from Birmingham, UK.Tracey says,
"Pictures please of the lady with the Snake head! And Peter Cushing and
Christopher Lee. And my favourite Dr Who too, Patrick Troughton! Did you know the actress who played the Gorgon in this Hammer film, was
a ballet dancer, Prudence Hymen? She was really beautiful when she was a
young dancer. I wonder why Hammer picked her?? Thank you in advance.
Best wishes, keep up the great work, Tracey"....
Thank YOU Tracey. Here's your gallery AND there's much more in an
extension of this feature posted at the FACEBOOK FAN PAGE... in the next hour. If
YOU have a REQUEST for a MonsterMonday, drop us a line!
Well,
her she is in all her glory... Prudence Hyman, in her dancing
days...and in a reference photograph belonging to the make up artist on
the film, Roy Ashton. I am not sure why Hammer choose Prudence, but I do
have some recollection of Roy telling me, it was something the props
guys had in mind, in connection with how the Gorgon would move on
camera...she had to float and have grace. So, they hired a dancer! There
is for those who are not aware of it, a whole back story of misfires
and trial and error, in regard of the Gorgon's look in this film...and
those troublesome snakes...!
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It's time for another Win and Win Again...with Scream and Scream Again!
TWO copies are up for grabs in this quicky competition, but the comp is
only open for FIVE HOURS!! It's 4pm gmt NOW.. you have until 9pm gmt to
count those severed HANDS! GOOD LUCK!
COMPETITION NOW CLOSED! HERE ARE THE WINNERS! CONGRATULATIONS TO PENNY AND DEAN!
Very sad to hear of Richard Pasco passing recently. Richard Pasco appeared with Peter Cushing in: Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960) The Gorgon (1964)
'Richard Pasco, who has died aged 88, was one of the finest classical actors of his generation.
Though he did not achieve the star status that would have come from
appearing in a long-running TV series, no one who saw it will ever
forget his alternation of the roles of Richard II and Bolingbroke in a
famous 1973 RSC production. Gifted with a mellifluous voice and a strong
presence, he worked with all the major companies, including long stints
at Bristol Old Vic and Birmingham Rep in their heyday. Pasco had a
prolific, stage-driven career that few young actors today can hope to
emulate.'
