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Peter Cushing was identifiable by his noble air and refined manner, by all appearances a gentleman. Yet he is best remembered for those moments in film where he plunges the stake, without reservation or mercy, into the waiting chest of the sleeping vampire, amid deafening screams from the dying and a pool of blood to reassure us that the deed is done. For Cushing was one of the mainstays of the British horror film, as defined by Hammer Films. His frequent pairing with Christopher Lee in dozens of horror films over several decades was the most famous "scream team" since Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi went to their great rewards.
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Peter Cushing played Wilhuff Tarkin at Elstree Studios. He often complained that the boots for playing Tarkin were too small, and so the Director allowed him to wear a pair of slippers, shooting him from the waist up.
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The illustrated book includes a charming snapshot of a very young Peter Cushing at a 1936 family picnic, plus a touching 1952 candid of Cushing and his wife Helen, clearly madly in love with each other. The one thing that would have made Miller's thoughtful appraisal more useful would have been separate filmographies for both actors. For Cushing, at least, Deborah Del Vecchio and Tom Johnson finally wrote the book they had been dying to read for years: "Peter Cushing: The Gentle man Of Horror and His 91 Films". This superb book is written with deep affection, infectious enthusiasm, and most importantly, scrupulous accuracy. Even better, Johnson and Del Vecchio went on to write "Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography" that will answer every question you may have wanted to ask about the legendary studio. Illustrated with hundreds of photographd, the Del Vecchio / Johnson books contain enough detail & lively writing to satisfy nitpicky scholars and unabashed fans alike.
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Synopsis: The sixth entry in Hammer Films' Frankenstein series, this film finds Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) in charge of a lunatic asylum. When young doctor Simon Helder (Shane Bryant) is institutionalized for attempting to create synthetic life, Frankenstein is delighted: now he'll have an assistantRead More
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