Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts

Thursday 16 April 2020

STRIPPING, POETRY AND POE : WITCHFINDER VINCENT PRICE ENTERTAINS!


#WATCHWITHCUSHING! FOLLOWING SOME REQUESTS I have received for suggestions of posts that you would like to see shared here.. This one is for Shelia P, Dale J, Michelle J and Matt K πŸ˜ƒThey have requested this interview with Peter Cushing's good friend and twice screen buddy, #VincentPrice, having seen it on the PCASUK YouTube Channel πŸ˜‰My pleasure. It's a fine and VERY amusing interview, where Vincent certainly entertains πŸ˜„


#WATCHWITHCUSHING! AND SO... our last clip of the day at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page and a suggestion from Stuart H, Audrey K, Rob Sadler, Barbara C, Emma Teile, M Aldrich and Tori F . . if you are ready to sleep, what better way than a sweet lullaby from Vincent Price from the end credit sequence of the 1974 'Madhouse' starring Vincent, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri and Linda Hayden. Despite the gnashing of teeth it got from the critics and even some fans who today, see it as a waste of the talents of Price and Cushing,  it still stands as one of my personal favs. YOU can hear this clip at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! HERE! This one is for you too, #JimMorrow πŸ˜‰ Sweet dreams, sleep tight, sleep well, stay safe πŸ˜‰ - Marcus 😴😴 πŸ’€πŸ’€






Friday 13 September 2019

REMEMBERING ACTOR FREDDIE JONES ON HIS BIRTHDAY TODAY


QUITE EARLY ON in my tv and film watching habits, I learnt that the actor, Freddie Jones, was always worth watching. Even if it was a new tv drama, a film or even a radio play at my grans, whatever I was up to, while passing through the room, THAT voice would immediately capture my ear. You couldn't walk away. My Mum and Gran were huge fans too, 'It's Freddie JUNUCE!' she would say. My mother was brought up in the South Wales valleys and had a habit of mis-pronouncing certain words, names, as a somewhat strange 'Hilda Baker' wrapped and tongue twisting, weird mangled type malapropisms...'Jun....uce!' 'Yes!' I would smile and agree .'With a surname like that, he's obviously Welsh!', she would gleam with pride. He wasn't, but I wouldn't dream of breaking the spell for her.





WE HAD ALL SEEN JONES, in an ITV play version of 'Sweeney Todd' back in 1970. We were terrified. But something I noticed, far more than the tension or the murders..was his delivery. His words, his prosody! Next time I saw him was in Cushing's 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' . . again there it was. The pauses, the rhythm. It was tense and it and he pulled you in with each pause. What is he going to say next? I don't think Freddie Jones actually was capable of being dull. Listen and watch his performance as Prof Professor Julian Keeley, with Peter Cushing in Christopher Lee's last Hammer Dracula film, 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula'. It's a master-class in 'How to terrify an audience, with no props, masks or make-up and yet a full tool kit of quivers, nuances and dialogue super charged  with, suggestion! Find yourself, five films or tv shows.. and you'll see, when he speaks, everyone is listening. I watched 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' in a midnight double bill cinema, packed to the gills, with drunks, dribbling into free fall and slopping into back row seats just after closing time. Del Boy's with dates and 'men with dirty-macs'. Nearly all were diving into candy's, crisps, cans, scraping and trawling the bottoms of slimy twin ice cream tubs while sucking to collapse, their cardboard cartons of Kiora. It was annoying and noisy...except when Freddie was on the screen. Then, it went quiet and everyone tuned in. 



WE COULD POUR over the many, many gold star roles and others that do more than just twinkle, when the rest of the cast and film, were not even sparkles, in Jones' beady-eye πŸ˜‰ ! I wish I had seen Jones in Ronald Harwood’s affectionate near-portrait of Sir Donald Wolfit in 'The Dresser' (1980), an old ham called “Sir” who faces disaster in the mirror while preparing to play King Lear. It was a huge success. You can see how he filled that role, that theatre. It is said, 'After his 1980 run, no following actor, in The Dresser – Albert Finney in the 1983 film, Anthony Hopkins on television in 2015, nor Ken Stott in the West End in 2016 – matched the rumbling thunder of Jones in Manchester and subsequently at the Queen’s in London!' Sadly, I didn't see it and we have to make do with snippets and a radio version on YouTube. Better than nothing. He was certainly better than most gave him credit for. But there's gems to find, for sure! Quality, if not quantity. And for that we say thank you, with bended knee, and surprised sadness, on realising it is a mere two months, since Freddie bowed and left us, for the last time. Happy Birthday, Freddie Jones. He once said, ' “My life springs from my wife, my family, my work and my whisky.” . . Well, in remembering, we'll celebrate and certainly toast to that





Monday 28 January 2019

HELP GIVE PC A INSTAGRAM PRESENCE!


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Friday 16 June 2017

#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY: HAND TINTED CURSE OF THE BANDAGES AND NEW FOR SATURDAYS!


#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY: Here's a request for Gail Bridgeman who has asked us to repost our tinted 10 x 8 publicity still of Peter Cushing from 'The Curse of Frankenstein' she wrote, 'I saw a lovely colour photograph of Peter on your page a few weeks ago, I should have copied it when I saw it, but I thought I would go back and find it later. Guess what? Finding things on facebook is HARD! Would you repost it please? Many thanks and keep up the great work, Gail'





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The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, facebook fan page and youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCAS coordinator since 1979. PCAS is based in the UK and USA.  

Friday 10 February 2017

DOUBLE BILL OF PETER CUSHING : SHERLOCK AND A WEREWOLF!




 ALL UPLOADS AND CLIPS AT OUR
YOUTUBE CHANNEL ARE NON MONETIZED. 

ANOTHER NEW DOUBLE BILL at our PCAS YOUTUBE CHANNEL TWO rare Peter Cushing films, that have never had a digital release. One marks Cushing's last performance as Sherlock Holmes and the other, interestingly is a story that originally started life as the original idea, that went on to become #HAMMERFILMS bench-mark in Gothic werewolf horror, 'The Curse of the werewolf, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Oliver Reed!



ALTHOUGH HE NEVER GETS THE CREDIT, back in the 1970's, producer Kevin Francis did a very brave thing indeed, with his company, 'Tyburn films'. Just as the film industry in the UK, was in it's last gasps, Francis nailed his colours and formed a production company, that not only gave us three very good Peter Cushing releases...but also a format for making feature films in the UK, that was new, cost effective and quite radical. Sadly, even with the best plan in the world, nothing could stop the rot, that turned off the oxygen, to what was once one of the country's greatest assets and exports. That was then, now...put your feet up and enjoy Francis's vision of a great Peter Cushing movie... he went on to become a very close friend to Cushing, but was also very much a HUGE FAN of his work.





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Thursday 9 February 2017

A TRIPLE BILL OF 60'S CUSHING 'DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA'


THREE SIXTIES CUSHING GOODIES . . . ready to watch. Right Now at our YOUTUBE CHANNEL HERE. . .OR BELOW



THE NAKED EDGE is a 1961 thriller film starring Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr with a co starring role by Peter Cushing. The movie was a British-American co-production distributed by United Artists, directed by Michael Anderson and produced by George Glass and Walter Seltzer, with Marlon Brando Sr. as executive producer. The screenplay was by Joseph Stefano and Max Ehrlich, the music score by William Alwyn and the cinematography by Erwin Hillier and Tony White. The production design was by Carmen Dillon. The film was shot in London and at Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, and was Gary Cooper's last film.


CASH ON DEMAND is a firm favorite  with Cushing fans and another from the selection of dramas that Peter Cushing made during the early 60's. It's a great watch, with a fine two-hander performance from Cushing and Morell. Yes, it does have a Christmas angle, but this one can be watched any time of the year. To hi-jack a certain phrase . . . 'A rogue IS'NT just for Christmas!'


'IF A BRITISH FILM opens with a horse-drawn hearse in a Bavarian town and features a few of corpse exhumations, then you won’t be surprised to see Peter Cushing and a couple of Night of the Demon (1957) veterans in the cast list. In fact, you’d be forgiven for assuming The Man Who Finally Died is a hoary old Brit-horror. But actually, it isn’t. Then again, maybe it is; there’s more horror here than our imagination can easily conjure!' : 'The Man Who Finally Died' Starburst Magazine


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Friday 17 June 2016

MORE CLIPS MORE POSTS NEW YOU TUBE CHANNEL FOR PCAS!


PCAS NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL: Our NEW and UPDATED You Tube Channel is now LIVE! A few days ago we started the process of transferring our archive of clips, interviews and vintage material to the new home at You Tube, during this time, will be no longer post material at our original channel, all new posts and archive can now be found HERE


We trust you come and seek us out, join us or resubscribe, for longer clips than we can post here on facebook, the best archive of Peter Cushing media and much more! Our original channel will remain live / open for the next few weeks, until the transfer is complete! Thank You - Marcus


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Thursday 25 February 2016

THE YOUNG PETER CUSHING AND THE 49TH PARALLEL


A little bit of fun this morning on the our Peter Cushing Appreciation Society Facebook Fan Page concerning Peter Cushing's time in Canada during 1940 and staying at the YMCA while trying to find work.

Cushing Connections: The film the 49th Parallel staring Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier who can tell us the PETER CUSHING connection with this film??? And how he nearly got himself arrested?? 

ANSWER


Our PCAS YOUTUBE CHANNEL IS : HERE

Monday 8 February 2016

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR : PETER CUSHING AND SIMIAN FRIEND #CHINESENEWYEAR


Happy Chinese New Year TODAY! 2016 is the YEAR of the MONKEY! Here's Peter Cushing with a simian friend...during the making of which Bray Hammer film?? Happy New Year... and have a banana!


DONALD FEARNEY'S 'THE LEGEND OF HAMMER'S MUMMY'S' DOCUMENTARY WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING...FOR FREE... AT OUR SOCIETY YOUTUBE ACCOUNT TODAY! RARE STILLS, INTERVIEWS. THE HISTORY OF HAMMER FILMS MUMMY FEATURES! DON'T MISS IT!


IT'S OUR 60TH ANNIVERSARY PCAS 1956 -2016!
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