I didn't like Peter Cushing in this
He didn't have the caring, likeable nature he usually portrays in his movies. In this I found him arrogant and untrustworthy.
Didn't like him at all. The character, not Peter!!
Peter Cushing played the baddie for once. Why shouldn't he - why would Christopher Lee (Peter's best mate) grab all the fun every time?
"Oh look - a lovely spider!
'' ,, And it's eating a butterfly!"
Can you name any other movies in which Peter Cushing was a baddie?
share"SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST" (Hammer, 1960. Cushing played the Sheriff himself!) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054358
"STAR WARS [EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE]"! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759
"Oh look - a lovely spider!
'' ,, And it's eating a butterfly!"
Two movies I haven't seen. Thanks.
shareI too thought it was interesting to see Cushing and Lee playing against the obvious casting. They're both such good actors, they could play most things well anyway!
Regards Peter Cushing playing a baddie - his Baron Frankenstein was never what you'd call a Mr Nice Guy!!!
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Yes, it shows what a good actor Peter was and Lee is. :)
What was the movie in which Cushing, playing Dr Frankenstein, rapes that blonde woman. Could be the later one....maybe 1969...or 1973.
He was ruthless in that...
The blonde lady who was on the receiving end of Peter's less-than-gentlemanly attentions (as the dastardly Baron, of course!) was Veronica Carlson in 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' (1969).
That was one of the few times that the Baron showed that he was driven by urges other than to create humans out of bits of other humans!
It was a rather short scene, but it was still a bit of an eyebrow-raiser, as one was not used to seeing Peter get up to any rough stuff of that nature!
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"I am not young enough to know everything." : Oscar Wilde
Yeah, it was a case of Baron Hard-on in that....
shareHow soon they forget...it seems to have slipped everyone's mind that Mr. Cushing played the Grand Moff Tarkin in the original Star Wars (episode Four). The GMT is one of the most evil villains in cinema history, and Cushing played him to the hilt. An amazing performance.
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"Oh look - a lovely spider! And it's eating a butterfly!"
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Peter Cushing has played fascinating villains in a number of films:
He's the SS Commander in "Shock Waves".
I vividly recall the TV ad that was shown so often waaaay back then. When I watched the skeletal pirates walk slow-mo across the ocean floor in the first "POTC", I thought of that "Shock Waves" trailer!
Prior to "Frankenstein & the Monster from Hell", he played the Baron in two other films: "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed" AND "Frankenstein Created Woman". It's amazing that he could play such a particularly vile character, one that generally was presented by Universal movies as quite a decent fellow.
I think he deserves yet another mention for Grand Moff Tarkin. "Deliciously evil" comes to mind! Wasn't he amazing?!
As the fortune teller in "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors", he's not exactly a good guy. Maybe he's just very creepy, but he's not the fellow he plays so often, as in "The Creeping Flesh", in which he doesn't mean to do any harm to his daughter but does. Of course, he's rather shady in "Torture Garden"~"owning" Edgar Allan Poe.
~~MystMoonstruck~~
It might be of interest to note that said rape scene was forced upon the filmmakers by the Hammer brass for "marketing reasons". They shot it, but Terence Fisher, Peter Cushing, and Veronica Carlson immediately washed their hands of it. When the film was originally released in the United States, said scene was cut... and rightfully so. It adds nothing to the movie and is out of the Baron's character. You can rationalize it all you want, but the real reason Frankenstein rapes Anna is because Hammer wanted him to.
sharenope, wasn't out of the Baron's character, i recommend watching the first film in the series 'Curse of Frankenstein'
shareHe was also one cold-blooded Doc Frankenstein in CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, where his character is determined to do whatever he has to do in the name of science, even if it means offing a couple of people on the side! It's also the only portrayal of the Frankenstein monster by Christopher Lee, who does a adequate job of it.
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