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Saturday 17 March 2018

CHRISTOPHER LEE SATURDAY EUNICE HAS A BIRTHDAY AND LEE HAS A TALL TERRIBLE TALE!


TODAY WE WISH a happy birthday to the lovely Eunice Gayson. Best known for playing Sylvia Trench, James Bond's girlfriend in the first two Bond films (Dr. No 1963 and From Russia with Love 1963). Originally, Gayson was to be cast as Miss Moneypenny, but that part went to Lois Maxwell instead. BELOW we have great part of the series that we produced with BRUCE G HALLENBECK on the actresses tht appeared with PETER CUSHING in the HAMMER FILMS Frankenstein series of film, of which EUNICE was indeed one . .




EUNICE GAYSON WOMEN IN GOTHIC : PART TWO : HERE!


AN INTERVIEW feature we made with CHRISTOPHER LEE a while ago, some of you have emailed about, having problems finding, to repost! So, for your entertainment (!!) here it is again today on CHRISTOPHERLEESATURDAY!  Enjoy!







Thursday 18 January 2018

ACTOR PETER WYNGARDE DIES AGED 84


VERY SAD to hear that actor, Peter Wyngarde has passed . .
The Innocents, Jason King, Department S, The Avengers, Night of the Eagle . . they are just the ones I can think of, that I watch quite regularly. He did work with Peter Cushing in the big cinema event that was 'Alexander the Great' in 1956. He played Pausanias and Cushing, General Memnon.
Peter Wyngarde was believed to have been 84 years young, when he passed on Monday January 15th. Sleep well, Mr Wyngarde . . .





FEATURE AND GALLERY ON 'THE INNOCENTS' starring DEBORAH KERR, PETER WYNGARDE and MICHAEL REDGRAVE at our supplement website : THEBLACKBOXCLUB.COM 


AN 'THE INNOCENTS' USA lobby card, fearing DEBORAH KERR and the late PETER WYNGRADE.




REMEMBER! IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll  love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.  Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. 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   

Thursday 12 October 2017

'RARE LESSER SEEN PETER CUSHING SEASON': SOME MAY LIVE (1967)



SPOILERS: Here's a little PCAS exclusive, to start our 'Lesser Seen Peter Cushing Season'. 'SOME MAY LIVE' isn't a film you will see mentioned in many books on Cushing, if it is it will be a short synopsis, cast and distributor. It's a title that has out foxed most researchers, and has sadly been largely forgotten since it's short release by UK distributors Butchers in August 1967. Unlike many Vietnam War dramas, 'Some May Live' was produced while the War was still very much rolling on.



PRODUCED AT A TIME when GB was starting to feel the economic pinch and studios were looking for cheaper pot-boilers to bring in much needed work and finance, Foundation Pictures Krasne Entertainments, were looking for a film that could package Hollywood actors for the US market and secure a name for the home shores too, they offered Peter Cushing the leading role of John Meredith, shortly after he had wrapped work on Hammer films , 'Frankenstein Created Woman' at Bray studios and 'Night of the Big Heat' both with director Terence Fisher. Here Cushing is directed by Vernon Sewell, who in a just few weeks after completing this film, would go on to direct Cushing in 'Tigon films 'The Blood Beast Terror'.


'SOME MAY LIVE' tells the story of Kate Meredith, a decoder for American intelligence, who is compelled by her foreign correspondent husband, to give him classified information, which is then passed on to the Viet Cong. She is plagued with guilt, especially after her activities lead to an attempted assassination of a U. S. senator. In addition, she becomes disillusioned by her marriage and has an affair with the assistant to a high level army intelligence official. She becomes persuaded to relay false information to her husband even though she knows that it will likely result in his execution by the Communists. 


IT'S A GOOD WATCH, an entertaining film, with Hollywood actors Joseph Cotten and Martha Hyer adding name value, weight and drama, Cushing gets to flex some character muscles we don't see that often, which makes some scenes worth the watch in itself . .. MORE titles to come and another 'Lesser Seen' Peter Cushing film, next Wednesday...HERE! MANY thanks to film collector and archivist JEAN LAYETTE for helping us bring this little gem to your attention..You'll be hearing much about Jean in the coming weeks! MERCI JEAN!


ABOVE: One of the RARE airings of #SOMEMAYLIVE 
on television in 1993

TRIVIA: What is the connection between THS FILM and the BBC tv series, 'MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS'? 




IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll  love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.  Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. 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

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
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