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Sunday 30 November 2014

THE HEIRESS PETER CUSHING : ''HAPPIEST DAYS'


Peter Cushing as Dr Austin Sloper in the stage play, 'The Heiress' and some pages from his personal script. As always written annotations, pointers and notes here about personal props, costume..some of the items were belonged Peter Cushing himself.


During it's run at the Horseshoe Theatre, Basingstoke from 21st October until November 1st 1975, The Heiress played to full houses. Cushing stated at the time that the few weeks he had spent with the production were the happiest he had experience since Helen's passing in 1971.


Helen Ryan who also starred in the production remembers, 'Peter was wonderful, super in the play, but he was so terribly nervous. The play opened at 7.30pm and Peter would be at the theatre three hours beforehand to check his props and costume!' Before this engagement, Cushing had often stated that his 'legitimate theatre' days, were well behind him...

Friday 7 November 2014

MINA THE ONE WHO GOT AWAY! MELISSA STRIBLING REMEMBERED


REMEMBERING: Melissa Stribling who was born today November 7th 1927. Stribling appeared in just the one film with Peter Cushing...but boy did she pick the right one! She also got to play in one of Hammer films most iconic scenes in their 1958 'Dracula', where Christopher Lee's Count, in the dead of night, visits her home and..without a word.. seduces her. The scene is so super charged with sexual tension, it almost crackles off the screen and as a result got the scissors treatment from the censors at the time.


In 2013, in Hammer's restored print the exorcised footage was replaced, giving us the full picture of what Director Terence Fisher, Stribling and Lee had originally intended and created.

Thursday 24 July 2014

BFI DAYS OF FEAR AND WONDER AND 1984 DVD RELEASE


NEWS: Peter Cushing Part of The BFI Sci-Fi 'Days Of Fear and Wonder' Season: The season will also include the long awaited DVD Premiere of Nigel Kneale’s 1954 BBC adaptation of George Orwell’s classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, starring Peter Cushing, Andre Morell and Yvonne Mitchell. Cushing's 'Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD' is also part of the seasons very impressive line up of classic sci fi screenings. Click here for a terrific preview / trailer:HERE


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