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Captain Clegg (U.S. title: Night Creatures [1]) is a 1962 British adventure horror film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, and Oliver Reed. [2] It produced by John Temple-Smith for Hammer Film Productions. It is loosely based on the Doctor Syn character created by Russell Thorndike.
Peter Wilton Cushing was born in Kenley, then a village in the English county of Surrey, on 26 May 1913 to George Edward Cushing (1881–1956) and Nellie Marie (née King) Cushing (1882–1961). [2] His father, a quantity surveyor , was a reserved and uncommunicative man whom Peter said he never got to know very well.
This was the sixth and last time that Peter Cushing portrayed the role of Baron Victor Frankenstein, a part he originated in 1957's The Curse of Frankenstein. [5] Cushing had long been known throughout his career for his meticulous attention to detail, even in the planned handling and usage of props.
The Curse of Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) is a brilliant scientist willing to stop at nothing in his quest to reanimate a deceased body.After alienating his longtime friend and partner, Paul Krempe (Robert Urquhart), with his extreme methods, Frankenstein assembles a hideous creature (Christopher Lee) out of dead body parts and succeeds in bringing it to life.
Variety praised Cushing's performance as a "most effective study in single-minded integrity which knits the film together admirably." The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 3/5 stars, writing: "This explicitly scary and darkly atmospheric retelling of the Burke and Hare story stars Peter Cushing, exceptional as the coldly ambitious Dr ...
Night of the Big Heat is a 1967 British science fiction film directed by Terence Fisher, and starring Patrick Allen, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Jane Merrow. [2] It was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by John Lymington, and was released in the UK by Planet Film Productions.
The Revenge of Frankenstein is a 1958 Technicolor British horror film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn and Eunice Gayson. [2] Made by Hammer Film Productions , the film was a sequel to The Curse of Frankenstein , the studio's 1957 adaptation of Mary Shelley 's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or ...
The attack was part of a plot by the Saracen Sir Palamides (Peter Cushing) and the pagan Cornish King Mark (Patrick Troughton) to overthrow Arthur and Christianity and take over the country, whilst pretending to be Arthur's friends and allies - Palamides is a knight of the round table and Mark has faked his own baptism. [6]