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Peter Cushing
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Peter Cushing - what members say
review by A customer from Crewe
Superb 22 March 2004
review by from ALTRINCHAM
27 April 2004
review by A customer from Dundee, Scotland
Atmospheric Hammer Horror version of Conan Doyle classic 10 December 2004
Peter Cushing - filmography
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Tales Of The Unexpected - Vol. 1 - 4
(4 discs)
(2000)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Anna Neagle
Director: none
Certificate: 
Contains 16 episodes of the mystery/suspense, sci-fi series by Roald Dahl: "The Vorpal Blade," "The Tribute," "The Best Chess Player In The World," "The Wrong 'Un," "Hit And Run," "Have A Nice Death," "The Reconciliation," "Wink Three Times," "The Verger," "The Surgeon," "Time To Die," "Skeleton in ..read more »
 
58%
from 223 members
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Top Secret
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Michael Gough
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Certificate: 
The second of Zucker-Abraham-Zucker's theatrical-feature spoofs (Airplane was the first, discounting the patchwork Kentucky Fried Movie), Top Secret! lampoons practically every film genre. Specifically, however, this is a hybrid of an Elvis movie and a World War II underground resistance thriller. ..read more »
64%
from 4,714 members
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House Of The Long Shadows
(1982)
Starring: Desi Arnaz Jr., Christopher Lee, Richard Todd
Director: Pete Walker
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Desi Arnaz Jr. plays Kenneth Magee, the young writer who bets that he can bat out a mystery play in one evening. Magee squirrels himself away in a forbidding old mansion where, unbeknownst to him, a bizarre family reunion is scheduled to commence. As the participants begin dropping like flies, ..read more »
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Hammer House Of Horror - Complete
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
Certificate: 
The Hammer House Of Horror - Complete Collection contains the entire run of the "Hammer House Of Horror" television series from Hammer Studios. Episodes in the four-disc DVD box set include: "The Silent Scream", "Carpathian Eagle", "Witching Time", "The House That Bled to Death", plus many more. ..read more »
66%
from 1,687 member
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Shock Waves
(1977)
Starring: Clarence Thomas, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
Director: Ken Wiederhorn
Certificate: 
A demented Nazi scientist creates a race of undrownable mutants. Though thought to be destroyed, years later they reappear in the form of unstoppable SS zombies. An all-star cast of acclaimed actors, including Brooke Adams (DAYS OF HEAVEN) and John Carradine (THE HOWLING), lend clout to this ..read more »
52%
from 29 members
Not available for rental
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The Uncanny
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Ray Milland
Director: Denis Heroux
Certificate:
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Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots...
57%
from 228 members
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At The Earth's Core
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Doug McClure, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
Director: Kevin Connor
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When eccentric Victorian scientist Dr Abner Perry (Peter Cushing, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) and his assistant develop a high powered drill they decide to test its capabilities in a remote Welsh Mountain. The drill proves too powerful and plunges the duo into a vast cavern at the earth’s ..read more »
58%
from 742 members
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Legend Of The Werewolf
(1975)
Starring: Peter Cushing, David Rintoul, Lynn Dalby
Director: Freddie Francis
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A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows into adulthood only to kill the one-man band. He runs off to Paris, where he develops a jealous, overprotective crush on a prostitute, leading him to attack her client, incurring a pursuit by a determined ..read more »
58%
from 9 members
Currently unavailable
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The Satanic Rites of Dracula
(1974)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Michael Coles, William Franklyn
Director: Alan Gibson
Certificate:
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Professor Van Helsing (Cushing) learns that Dracula (Lee) is holding his granddaughter and several government officials prisoner. He must learn their whereabouts and destroy all vampires!
63%
from 219 members
Currently unavailable
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And Now The Screaming Starts
(1973)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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In the 1973 cult classic AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS, an inconsiderate young couple moves into a house already inhabited by a dismembered and disgruntled hand . Catherine (Stephanie Beacham) is a lovely young bride set to start a new life with her wealthy new husband Charles (Ian Ogilvy.) But a ..read more »
58%
from 453 members
Not currently released
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Nothing But The Night
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors
Director: Peter Sasdy
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Atmospheric chiller NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT-- based on the novel CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT by John Blackburn -- stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as a Scotland Yard inspector and a forensics expert sent to investigate a series of mysterious deaths among the elderly caretakers of a Scottish ..read more »
52%
from 20 members
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The Creeping Flesh
(1972)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Lorna Heilbron, George Benson
Director: Freddie Francis
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A professor returns to Britain with a skeleton unearthed in New Guinea. He believes it will help him discover the origins of Man... but he is unaware that the remains are those of Shish Kang... the Evil One...
58%
from 400 members
Currently unavailable
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Night of the Big Heat
(1972)
Starring: Patrick Allen, Peter Cushing
Director: Terence Fisher
Certificate:
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Unnatural temperatures, electrical chaos, failing telephones, and alien creatures that even dynamite cannot stop.
59%
from 456 members
Currently unavailable
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Horror Express
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas, Alberto De Mendoza
Director: Eugenio Martin
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This horror science-fiction thriller, a cult favourite, takes place in 1907. Professor Caxton (Christopher Lee), a fossil-hunter has discovered some sort of pre-human creature frozen in ancient Manchurian ice. He is travelling to London with his find on the Trans-Siberian Railway and is horrified ..read more »
60%
from 941 members
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Asylum
(1972)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Four tales of terror are revealed to a new doctor by four mental asylum inmates. Each tale leads to a puzzling mystery which is solved during the final tale.
62%
from 524 members
Currently unavailable
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Twins Of Evil
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Mary Collinson
Director: John Hough
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Classic Hammer Studios vampire tale. Starring stunning identical twins Mary and Madeleine Collinson as the "Twins of Evil". Both look exactly alike - which one was the twin of evil? Victims of a vampire curse lead to a witch-hunt headed by Peter Cushing, a fanatical Puritan leader of a bizarre ..read more »
65%
from 612 members
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I, Monster
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Richard Hurndall, George Merritt
Director: Stephen Weeks
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A production of 'Jekyll And Hyde' with the characters' names changed to Marlow and Blake. Dr Marlowe carries out experiments on drugs that are supposed to release inhibitions while Mr Blake becomes more hideous with each transformation.
57%
from 363 members
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The House That Dripped Blood
(1970)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Nyree Dawn Porter, Denholm Elliott
Director: Peter Duffell
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Scotland's Yard's search for a missing film star leads them to a haunted house, which serves as the framework for this sharp British anthology of four horror tales starring icons Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Ingrid Pitt. In the four stories, a writer's murderous creation comes to life, a wax ..read more »
63%
from 1,030 member
Not currently released
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Simon Ward
Director: Terence Fisher
Certificate:
The key image of this film occurs early on, as a hideous monster removes its face, only to reveal itself as Baron Frankenstein in a mask. Hammer's fifth installment in the series sees the transformation of doctor into monster complete. Peter Cushing's portrayal of the Baron here is all insanity and ..read more »
66%
from 547 members
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Island of Terror
(1966)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Edward Judd
Director: Terence Fisher
Certificate:
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Doctors Brian Stanley and David West are called to investigate a series of deaths on a remote island. On their arrival, they are shocked to discover puncture marks on the corpses, suggesting that the victims were not killed by disease, but instead by some sort of indestructible creature...
61%
from 507 members
Not currently released
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Dr Terrors House Of Horrors
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Ursula Howells, Max Adrian
Director: Freddie Francis
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A mysterious, dark fortune teller named Schreck joins five travelers (Christopher Lee, Roy Castle, Kenny Lynch, Donald Sutherland, and Alan Freeman) on a train, offering to predict their futures with Tarot cards. The stories he sees in his deck of cards, or what he refers to as his "house of ..read more »
66%
from 1,292 member
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She
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, John Richardson
Director: Robert Day
Certificate: 
In this lavish fantasy/adventure three treasure-seekers come across the lost African city of Kura and encounter the all-powerful, immortal Empress Ayesha (Ursula Andress), who dubs one of them the reincarnation of her long-lost love. SHE, which also features Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, is a ..read more »
55%
from 756 members
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The Gorgon
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley
Director: Terence Fisher
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Classic Hammer horror, in which residents of a middle-Europe village are being found petrified into stone. Academics arrive to solve the mystery and find themselves face to face with Medusa herself.
63%
from 215 members
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Captain Clegg
(1962)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen
Director: Peter Graham Scott
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Captain Collier (Patrick Allen) and his band of sailors show up to an English coastal town to investigate reports of "Marsh Phantoms" who ride by night spreading terror to the town. The Captain suspects that the local reverend (Peter Cushing) might be hiding something. Are the phantoms genuine or a ..read more »
57%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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The Naked Edge
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr, Eric Portman
Director: Michael Anderson
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George Radcliffe's testimony sends Donald Heath to prison for murder and the theft of over 60,000 pounds. Soon after, Radcliffe invests a large sum of money in an ultimately profitable business venture. Radcliffe's wife Martha begins to suspect...
63%
from 47 members
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Cone Of Silence
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Michael Craig, Bernard Lee, Peter Cushing
Director: Charles Frend
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Veteran pilot George Gort (Bernard Lee) faces a Court of Inquiry as the result of the crash of a Phoenix jet airliner He is severely cross-examined by Sir Arnold Hobbes Q.C. (Gorge Sanders) and found guilty of a pilot error. The pressure mounts on Gort when Captain Judd (Peter Cushing) accuses him ..read more »
68%
from 127 members
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Brides Of Dracula
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Martita Hunt, Freda Jackson, Christopher Lee
Director: Terence Fisher
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Hammer Films and director Terence Fisher followed the excellent Horror of Dracula with this well-made, richly-colored sequel which suffers only from the conspicuous lack of Dracula himself -- since Horror's Christopher Lee had declined participation in further Dracula sequels for the time being. In ..read more »
69%
from 383 members
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Suspect
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Ian Bannen
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
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After years of research scientists are ready to reveal their greatest triumph - a virulent germ that can stamp out bubonic and syphus epidemics. However, the Authority invokes the Official Secrets Act and gags the team, claiming that in the wrong hands this formula could be used for germ warfare. A ..read more »
55%
from 63 members
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The Mummy
(1959)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Robert Urquhart, Hazel Court
Director: Terence Fisher
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Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee star in this stylish Hammer Horror directed by Terence Fisher. Egypt, 1895: An archaeological expedition led by Stephen Banning (Felix Aylmer) and his son John (Peter Cushing) discover the 4000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka. Ignoring warnings from a mysterious ..read more »
61%
from 1,115 member
Currently unavailable
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Dracula
(1958)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Robert Urquhart, Hazel Court
Director: Terence Fisher
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Dracula (1958) is the first of the studio's many vampire movies, a stylish and exciting adaptation of Bram Stoker's original with Lee and Cushing as The Count and Van Helsing respectively.
71%
from 594 members
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Horror of Dracula
(1958)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling
Director: Terence Fisher
Certificate:
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This Hammer Studios classic is far closer to the letter (and spirit) of the Bram Stoker novel than the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula. The premise finds the infamous count journeying from his native Transylvania to England, where he takes a headfirst plunge into the London nightlife, and begins to ..read more »
70%
from 1,034 member
Currently unavailable
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Revenge Of Frankenstein
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Francis Matthews
Director: Terence Fisher
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When Dr. Frankenstein escapes the guillotine he returns to his sepulchral experiments, starting over with fresh body parts and assisted by a hunchbacked dwarf. Running a clinic for the wealthy, he secretly creates another creature from various body parts and places the brain of his hunchbacked ..read more »
64%
from 557 members
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The Curse Of Frankenstein
(1957)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Robert Urquhart, Hazel Court
Director: Terence Fisher
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Baron Frankenstein lets his zeal get the better of him when he kills a scientist in order to obtain a brain for the macabre experimental creature he is stitching together. But when the creature comes to life it embarks on a rampage of terror for which Frankenstein is blamed and condemned to the ..read more »
64%
from 935 members
Currently unavailable
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The Abominable Snowman
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
Director: Val Guest
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This is a so-so early Hammer horror film from Nigel Kneale, who also wrote The Quatermass Experiment. Forrest Tucker and botanist Peter Cushing lead an expedition to the Himalayan Mountains (actually the Pyrenees, but who's complaining?) in search of the legendary Yeti. Several mysterious locals ..read more »
61%
from 518 members
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Time Without Pity
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Leo McKern, Lois Maxwell, Alec McCowen
Director: Joseph Losey
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In TIME WITHOUT PITY, director Joseph Losey delivers yet another multi-layered, atmospheric thriller. The film follows an alcoholic father (Michael Redgrave) who struggles to save his innocent son from the gallows, even as a cruel rival (Leo McKern) continues to keep him on the defensive. This was ..read more »
59%
from 85 members
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The End Of The Affair
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Recently freed from his MGM contract, Van Johnson headed to England to star in a series of pictures, the first of which was The End of the Affair. Adapted by Lenore Coffee from the novel by Graham Greene, the film casts Johnson as Maurice Bendrix, the clandestine lover of married Briton Sarah Miles ..read more »
64%
from 141 members
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Moulin Rouge
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Jose Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Katherine Kath
Director: John Huston
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Moulin Rouge is the story of 19th century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, portrayed by José Ferrer. The film records his frustration over his physical handicap (the growth in his legs was stunted by a childhood accident), his efforts to lose himself in Paris' bawdy Montmartre district, and ..read more »
58%
from 683 members
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Hamlet
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie
Director: Laurence Olivier
Certificate:
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In the opening scene of Hamlet, Laurence Olivier describes the play in a voice-over as "the tragedy of a man who couldn't make up his mind". But Olivier's screen adaptation is considerably more thoughtful and complex than this thesis would suggest. The contradictions and ambiguities of the title ..read more »
65%
from 1,777 member
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Hamlet - Blu-ray
(1948)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie
Director: Laurence Olivier
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Before Kenneth Branagh, before Mel Gibson, Laurence Olivier gave the definitive portrayal of 'the man who could not make up his mind'. In 15th-century Denmark, young Prince Hamlet is racked by torment and indecision after seeing a vision of his deceased father. The late king's ghost informs his son ..read more »
70%
from 43 members
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House of the Long Shadows
(1938)
Starring: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
Director: Pete Walker
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An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has several, rather odd, inhabitants.
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from 12 members
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...Absolutely superb. The second episode featuring Peter Cushing is quality, and the other two aren't far behind....
