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I mean to get back to watching and reviewing some Hammer, but in the meantime here's a touching glimpse into Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing's friendship.
Aren't we all?The Quatermass Experiment was on earlier on Talking Pictures. I’ve never seen it before. Not bad for a 1955 Hammer - must’ve been one of the first. Quatermass was a brash American who rubbed the Brits up the wrong way. Jack ‘evenin all’ Warner played his usual even-handed policeman, Thora Hird a drunk woman, & Jane Asher as a child briefly featured. I'd never have recognised her if it hadn't been announced beforehand [by Caroline Munro] ex Bond girl & lust object.
I may be a lust object but I’ve never been a Bond girl.Aren't we all?
Why, it's a picture of two of our mods, hard at work...I must get back to watching/reviewing some Hammer films. In the meantime, here are two of the studio's biggest... wait, what?
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A very good film, coincidentally I watched it this week.Not Hammer, but Hammer-adjacent and a good watch, Horror Express is available online in pretty sharp definition here:
https://archive.org/details/HorrorExpress1972
Lee, Cushing and Telly Savalas, horror, train: what's not to like?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_Express
Both Lee and Cushing collected model soldiers and you do occasionally see parts of their collections up for sale with provenance.
Looks like he'd fit right in on this forum...