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Friday 28 June 2019

RARE PHOTOGRAPHS : BEHIND THE SCENES AND LOBBY STILLS : FRANKENSTEIN FRIDAY!


#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY OUR FIRST OF FOUR WEEKS Frankenstein Hammer Cushing fun! To kick us off to start, here are four from a set of eight quite rare lobby stills, from #Hammerfilms 'The Evil of Frankenstein'. These are the many photographs you would usually see in the lobby or outside the cinema in the glass cases. These particular original photographs were also hand tinted. They chose balck and white photographs, and tinted each set with liquid dyes. This was CHEAPER than colour photographs. Many of these sets were purchased by the manager of the cinema, were used once and then thrown away, after the film had played for it's duration in the local cinema. Colour transparency, were far too expensive, to be used for exhibition purposes, when used for only seven days!  Over the years they can fade and get a little tatty if not looked after. These were in good condition, but have also been freed of dust and slight damage of pin holes. They now, I think you'll agree, look GREAT!  We also have the first of a series of rare publicity and press photographs, from 'The Evil of Frankenstein'. . . .


  














ABOVE: SEVERAL OF MAKE UP ARTIST ROY ASHTON'S DIFFERENT DESIGNS
FOR THE 'EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN' CREATION. 



Monday 18 December 2017

WHAT KATY DID AFTER HER EVIL STINT AND VERY GRIM FIGURE IN FRANKENSTEIN AND ITS NOT FROM THE LAB!


#GETTHECUSHIONSUNDAY! Here's pretty neat, large hi res photograph, taken by the publicity stills camera man. This would have been cropped out by the magazine or newspaper editor. But if you look carefully, as well as the lovely Katy Wild in this shot on the back lot set of Cushing's 'The Evil of Frankenstein' at Bray studios, the Baron appears to live quite close to a 1960's railway line... and the large 1964 Bedford truck top right, maybe keeping the engine running, to give the Baron, his goods and chattels a quick get away maybe?


A QUESTION on the PCASUK FACEBOOK FAN PAGE TODAY promoted the banner above, after posting the Katy Wild behind the scenes photograph, from 'THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN'


EDWARD MORLEY asks: 
'Wasn't she an actress from 'The Horror of Frankenstein' and later moved to Australia? I am sure she was in a mini series called 'Spy Force'. A really lovely actress'.


WE ANSWERED:
'You are right, Edward. Katy appeared in Spy Force as Lieutenant French! The series, as you say was Australian and ran for two series. Actress Kate O'Mara appeared in 'The Horror of Frankenstein' (1970) with Ralph Bates and Veronica Carlson, sadly no Katy though. I've posted some items from the series and two pics of her, in a banner for you above....


EDWARD REPLIED: 
'Oh Wow! Thank you so very much for the update and info. Just so many wonderful actresses and hopefully still with us. 


AND FINALLY, a post that prompted much laughter at the PCASUK FACEBOOK FAN PAGE yesterday . . .The next time you are watching Peter Cushing's second installment in the Hammer films Frankenstein series, 'The Revenge of Frankenstein' . .. take a look at the REAL monster sitting in the corner of the room, during the meeting of the medical committee. Those who say the film didn't really have a monster, need to feast their eyes on THAT lump of plaster, that I think is trying to allude to the Greek Venus de Milo by one, Alexandros of Antioch . . . I have a feeling this one was created in ten minutes at the Hammer carpentry and plaster shop by the great 'Bert of Cheswick', after a liquid lunch at the local hostelry just outside Bray studios! I almost feel like shouting 'Behind YOU!' to Cushing! BLIMEY! . . .N.B Many of you also mentioned that this 'statue' also appears almost five years later, in Hammer films, THE GORGON (1964), in the foyer entrance of Castle Borksky!




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Monday 17 August 2015

THAT FEMININE TOUCH: PART THREE: KATY WILD AND CAROL GARDNER : EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN


The Revenge of Frankensein in 1958 - one part horror, one part black comedy, one part love story - was a high water mark of Hammer's Frankenstein series. It wasn't until 1964 that the Baron returned, for the first time directed by someone other than Fisher. Cameraman turned director Freddie Francis took the helm this time and the female aspects were somewhat 'muted.'


In fact, one of the female characters in the film is a mute, played by twenty-two-year old redhead Katy WIld, who had appeared in such television series as The Avengers and The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre. Her role as 'Beggar Girl' in The Evil of Frankenstein was the closest the film had to a leading lady, despite the fact she had no dialogue.


The only other woman of note in the cast was Caron Gardner, a buxom blonde who had decorated Robert S Baker's and Monty Berman's The Hellfire Club (1960) and served as the foil to Benny Hill on television. Gardner would find herself elevated to a higher 'plane' later in 1964 when she was cast as one of the pilots in Pussy Galore's Flying Circus  in the third 007 movie, Goldfinger.


Meanwhile, she was Evil of Frankenstein's sex bomb, 'Burgomaster's Wife.' Hammer's approach to sex was becoming more and more blatant, and Gardner filled out the character's corselette deliciously.


Financed by Universal, Evil was a throwback to their Frankenstein series of old, and Cushing's Baron - in a screenplay written this time by Anthony Hinds under his pen name of John Elder - certainly seems to have mellowed with age. Interestingly enough, Frankenstein actually defends a lady this time, when the Machiavellian hypnotist Zoltan (Peter Woodthorpe) attempts to force himself on the Beggar Girl. Zoltan is eventually kicked out of the Baron's castle.


In fact, the Baron seems to be the one who is put-upon in Evil. Having created a Karloff-like monster (Kiwi Kingston) years before (there is virtually no continuity to the two previous films), he returns to his ancestral home to find that most of his possessions have been stolen. To recover his property, he stages a raid on the Burgomaster's house that is something of which Douglas Fairbanks would have been proud.


As the burgomaster's voluptuous wife graces a bed that was once Frankenstein's own, the police arrive and attempt to gain entry into the bedroom, which he has locked. Frankenstein grabs the bedclothes and ties them to the bedpost, climbing out of the window on his makeshift rope. He bids the fair lady 'Goodnight' before leaping out the window, pulling the bed across the room in the process.


This is one of the most enjoyably light-heared scenes in the entire series, a tribute to Cushing's dashing dexterity and to Gardner's sweetness as the bemused wife. 

Written by Bruce G Hallenbeck
Images and Design: Marcus Brooks Jamie Sumerville


DID YOU MISS PART TWO? CLICK RIGHT HERE 

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