Showing posts with label mystery and suspense. Show all posts
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Sunday 10 February 2019

PC 'BUILDS UP' TO ANOTHER GREAT TELEVISION PERFORMANCE FOR ORSON WITH NETWORK DVD


RELEASED TOMORROW 'Orson Welles Great Mysteries' and along with a feast of other great names and casts, Peter Cushing stars with Susannah York in 'La Grande Breteche' ... Cushing gives us a top notch 'sly and cruel' performance. 


NO MERCY IN THIS CUSHING ROLE, for sure. But it is wonderful to see this very cool TV series from the 1970's. Network has a done a very good job in presenting the series, just as it was seen back in the day.  


SHOT ON 'EARLY DAYS' VIDEO, with some film inserts, it is, what it is. Anyone who is familiar with the visual quality of Anglia TV's early 'Tales of the Unexpected' or some of the Cushing's BBC Sherlock episodes, will be aware of where studio television production and editing was at, during this time. If you are familiar too with the quality of the BBC 1970's classic, 'I, Claudius', you'll know there was little room for tone and shadows, early TV video cameras, needed light. But that doesn't spoil or take anything away from what we are watching here. In this first Volume from Network..let us hope there will be a second...it's the performances, the drama and tension that is worth every penny!


SOME REVIEWERS, will have already received their copies and maybe some of you too? I would love to hear any opinions you may have on this much awaited for TV classic!

Saturday 1 July 2017

NEWS: HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR TV SERIES GETS BLU RAY RELEASE


NEWS: HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR TV SERIES GETS BLU RAY RELEASE! At last the fan favorite TV SERIES from the 1980's comes to BLU RAY in a fine BOX SET containing the entire series of thirteen 51 minute episodes, including 'Silent Scream' starring Peter Cushing, Brian Cox and Elaine Donnelly. No word on extras yet in this REGION B/2 Pal Blu Ray collection of three discs from Network. 




AS WELL AS PETER CUSHING there's a starry cast including . . .Nicholas Ball, Rachel Davies, Antony Carrick, Brian Cox, Anna Calder-Marshall, Gary Raymond, Gary Bond, Georgia Hale, Emrys James, Peter McEnery, Jon Finch, Prunella Gee, Ian McCulloch, Patricia Quinn, Simon MacCorkindale, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Gareth Thomas, Denholm Elliott, Lucy Gutteridge, Diana Dors, Celia Gregory, Paul Darrow, Pierce Brosnan, Barbara Kellerman, Norman Beaton, Warren Clarke, Julia Foster, George Innes, Suzanne Danielle, Sian Phillips, Anthony Valentine, and some past Hammer directors also return to steer the show in the Hammer style: Tom Clegg, Alan Gibson, Don Leaver, Don Sharp, Peter Sasdy, Robert Young. The Blu Ray Box Set is released on October 23rd 2017 and retails between £35.00 to £39.00, shop around! Do you have some favorite episodes?



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