Peter CushingFilmography

Biggles

Actors: Neil Dickson, Alex Hyde-White, Fiona Hutchinson, Peter Cushing, Marcus Gilbert

Synopsis: Based on the characters created by popular fantasy author Capt. W. E. Johns, Biggles: Adventures in Time casts Neil Dickson in the title role. Biggles is a World War I British flying ace with a gift for time travel. Sucked into Biggles' adventures is a 1980s fast-food entrepreneur, played by Alex Hyde-White Read More

Monsters and Maniacs

Silent Scream

Synopsis: In this film, a collection of rare and unique animals, including human beings, becomes a captivating hobby for the former commander of a Nazi concentration camp. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Top Secret!

Actors: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Christopher Villiers, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: 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" Read More

The Masks of Death

Actors: Peter Cushing, John Mills, Ray Milland, Anne Baxter, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: Twenty-seven years after Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), Peter Cushing makes a belated return to the role of Sherlock Holmes in the made-for-television Masks of Death. Befitting his age, Cushing plays Holmes in retirement, content to play his violin and look after his bees. He is dragged back Read More

Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues

Actors: Mare Winningham, Blythe Danner, Perry King, Vera Miles, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: This semi-sequel to William Gibson's The Miracle Worker recounts the early adult years of the profoundly handicapped but brilliant Helen Keller. Helen, played by Mare Winningham, enters college, with her friend and mentor Annie Sullivan Macy (Blythe Danner) by her side. As Helen's international Read More

Sword of the Valiant

Actors: Miles O'Keeffe, Cyrielle Claire, Leigh Lawson, Sean Connery, Trevor Howard

Synopsis: In this uneven dramatization of a legendary sword-and-sorcery tale, the Green Knight (Sean Connery) is a magician who appears at King Arthur's court brandishing an axe and challenging anyone to do battle with him. When no one responds, King Arthur himself steps into the breach -- but is turned Read More

House of the Long Shadows

Actors: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Desi Arnaz, Jr., John Carradine

Synopsis: In this umpteenth remake of the George M. Cohan-Earl Derr Biggers play Seven Keys to Baldpate, 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 Read More

Monster Island

Actors: Terence Stamp, Peter Cushing, Ian Sera, David Hatton, Gasphar Ipua

Synopsis: After cannibalizing Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth in his 1977 film Where Time Began, Spanish director Juan Piquer Simon returned to the author with this substandard retelling of Mysterious Island. The story concerns a shipwrecked group who discover natural wonders and a gold Read More

A Tale of Two Cities

Actors: Peter Cushing, Chris Sarandon, Flora Robson

Synopsis: Chris Sarandon does the "far, far, better thing" when he tackles the dual role of Syndey Carton and Charles Darnay in this Anglo-American TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. The ubiquitous producer/screenwriter combination of Norman Rosemont and John Gay was responsible for Read More

Arabian Adventure

Actors: Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Oliver Tobias, Emma Samms, Puncet Sira

Synopsis: A valiant prince battles an evil sorcerer to rescue his true love in this colorful fantasy, which features high adventure and plenty of special effects. The hero must overcome a number of dangers, along the way receiving help from a beautiful street urchin and a magical rose. ~ Judd Blaise, All Read More

Hitler's Son

Actors: Bud Cort, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: The leader of a right-wing political party discovers that a young man named Willi (Bud Cort), an illiterate woodcarver, is actually the son of Adolf Hitler. He and his chauffeur kidnap the boy from a mental hospital and then set out to prepare him to start the Fourth Reich. Believe it or not, this Read More

The Uncanny

Synopsis: In an attempt to sell his manuscript, a writer tries to persuade a prospective publisher that cats are ultimately evil by providing him with three different stories of kitty brutality in this anthology of horror. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Die Standarte

Actors: Simon Ward, Siegfried Rauch, Viktor Staal, Verónica Forqué, Gerd Boeckmann

Synopsis: Toward the end of 1918, soldiers in the Austrian army were well aware that things were not going well. In this story, an army cadet arrives to serve in Belgrade and receives orders to serve in a regiment which is accompanying a Hanoverian princess on her return to Vienna. While in Belgrade, the Read More

Land of the Minotaur

Synopsis: Brian Eno composed the score for this horror tale about a cult (led by Peter Cushing) which kidnaps Greek tourists for their ritual murders. Also known as Minotaur and The Devil's Men. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Star Wars

Actors: Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: George Lucas' mythological popcorn movie is a two-hour roller-coaster ride that has passed into movie legend. The story, for the tiny number of people not familiar with it, concerns a farm boy named Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) who discovers that the used robot recently purchased by his family Read More

Shock Waves

Actors: Peter Cushing, Brooke Adams, John Carradine, Fred Buch, Jack Davidson

Synopsis: This horror film concerns a shipwrecked yachting party. Rose (Brooke Adams) and her fellow yacht-mates, including the captain (John Carradine) run aground on an island when they hit an odd-looking freighter. Once beached, they meet up with an aging SS Commander (Peter Cushing) who had been in Read More

The New Avengers: The Eagle's Nest

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Peter Cushing, Derek Farr

Synopsis: The New Avengers begins its two-season run with "old" avenger John Steed (Patrick Macnee), as fastidious and gentlemanly as ever, teamed with two new, young, and attractive partners: Purdey (Joanna Lumley), a sexy, cool-headed martial arts expert (sound familiar?), and Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt), a Read More

The Great Houdinis

Actors: Paul Michael Glaser, Sally Struthers, Vivian Vance, Ruth Gordon

Synopsis: Made for television, The Great Houdinis tells the life story of famed American illusionist/escape-artist Harry Houdini and his wife Bess. Studiously avoiding covering the same ground as the 1953 Houdini theatrical-film biopic, director Mel Shavelson's script for Great Houdinis spends a great deal Read More

At the Earth's Core

Actors: Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro, Cy Grant, Godfrey James

Synopsis: This is the second sci-fi adventure based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first being 1975's The Land That Time Forgot. At The Earth's Core stars Doug McClure as explorer David Innes and Peter Cushing as professor Abner Perry, whose experimental "iron core" drill goes out of control and Read More

A Choice of Weapons

Synopsis: A former policeman investigates a series of murders by centering on an organization which re-creates medieval battles. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Legend of the Werewolf

Actors: Peter Cushing

Synopsis: Peter Cushing stars as a police investigator whose search into a series of murders--committed during the full moon--leads him to a French zoo run by a strange keeper. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Ghoul

Actors: Peter Cushing, John Hurt, Alexandra Bastedo, Gwen Watford, Veronica Carlson

Synopsis: England's Tigon studios produced fairly sophisticated period horror films in the 1970s, including this drawing-room horror-mystery directed by Hammer stalwart Freddie Francis. Peter Cushing stars as a former priest who harbors a dark and horrible secret in his attic. The locked room serves as a Read More

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

Actors: Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith

Synopsis: The sixth entry in Hammer Films' Frankenstein series, this film finds Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) in charge of a lunatic asylum. When young doctor Simon Helder (Shane Bryant) is institutionalized for attempting to create synthetic life, Frankenstein is delighted: now he'll have an assistant Read More

Madhouse

Actors: Peter Cushing, Vincent Price

Synopsis: This semi-serious horror film represented the first on-screen pairing of icons Vincent Price and Peter Cushing, who play, respectively, aging former horror star Paul Toombes and actor-turned-writer Herbert Flay, who unite in an effort to revive the popularity of Toombes' screen character "Dr. Read More

Tender Dracula

Actors: Peter Cushing

Le Grande Trouille

Actors: Peter Cushing

Synopsis: When Macgregor (Peter Cushing) announces that he is no longer going to appear in horror films, but wants to work in romances, two screenwriters are sent to his eerie house to try to persuade the ghoulish man to keep doing horror films. They are not above dotting his house and the surrounding Read More

Call Him Mr. Shatter

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Ti Lung, Lily Li, Peter Cushing, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: Mr. Shatter (Stuart Whitman) is an international assassin, hired to bump off a top government official. He is compelled to fend off a host of Oriental kung-fu and karate experts. Peter Cushing and Anton Diffring make brief appearances. The film -- shot simultaneously with Legend of the Seven Read More

Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride

Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Coles, William Franklyn, Freddie Jones

Synopsis: The final installment in Hammer Studios' Dracula series is also the least interesting of the lot. A fairly direct follow-up to Dracula A.D. 1972, this sequel finds the Count (Christopher Lee) developing a potent strain of bubonic plague which he and his devil-worshipping disciples plan to release Read More

And Now the Screaming Starts!

Actors: Geoffrey Crutchley, Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: This creepy, atmospheric horror film from England's Amicus Productions dispenses with much of the tongue-in-cheek presentation of their popular '70s horror anthologies (such as Asylum and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors) in favor of a more adult-oriented approach. The story begins in the 18th Read More

Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires

Actors: David Chang, Peter Cushing, Shih Szu, Robin Stewart, Julie Ege

Synopsis: In this strange but fun genre hodgepodge, Prof. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) is up against seven rotting vampires clad in gold masks. They were revived by Dracula (John Forbes-Robertson) at the behest of a Chinese priest in 1804 and a century later are terrorizing the village of Ping Kuei. One of Read More

From Beyond the Grave

Actors: Ian Bannen, Ian Carmichael, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors, Margaret Leighton, Ian Ogilvy, Donald Pleasence, Nyree Dawn Porter, David Warner

Synopsis: The multipart From Beyond the Grave features Peter Cushing as the owner of a sinister antique shop. Utilizing the various artifacts in his establishment, Cushing metes out retribution to customers who try to bamboozle him. The quartet of horror playlets included herein are "The Gate Crasher," "An Read More

The Devil's Undead

Synopsis: More widely seen in Britain as Nothing but the Night, this atmospheric chiller -- based on the novel Children of the Night by John Blackburn -- stars the ubiquitous Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as a Scotland Yard inspector and a forensics expert sent to investigate a series of Read More

Tales from the Crypt

Actors: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Patrick Magee, Ralph Richardson

Synopsis: The phenomenon of Tales from the Crypt seems to have no endings, only changes. This successful pun-filled style of presenting ironic horror tales had its beginnings in William Gaine's E.C. comic series. At one time, outlandish E.C. Comics were at the heart of a national furor over the "evils" of Read More

The Creeping Flesh

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Peter Cushing delivers one of his finest hand-wringing performances as Emmanuel Hildern, a Victorian man of science who relates a mad tale of horror to his half-brother and professional rival James (Christopher Lee). His tale begins with the discovery of the weird skeletal remains of a large Read More

Asylum

Actors: Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Robert Powell

Synopsis: Four short stories by master of macabre Robert Bloch are related by the inmates of a mental institution. In the first story, Richard Todd murders his wife and cuts her body into little pieces -- but that doesn't stop her from seeking revenge. In the second, Peter Cushing orders crooked tailor Barry Morse Read More

Fear in the Night

Actors: Ralph Bates, Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Judy Geeson

Synopsis: Peter Cushing took time off from his Frankenstein and Dracula duties to star in the standard-issue melodrama Fear in the Night. Cushing plays Michael Carmichael, the headmaster of a private school, where Robert Heller (Ralph Bates) is engaged as an instructor. Heller also indulges in Read More

Horror Express

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: This horror science-fiction thriller, a cult favorite, 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 traveling to London with his find on the Trans-Siberian Railway and is horrified to Read More

Dracula A.D. 1972

Actors: Stoneground

Synopsis: Hammer Studios attempted to inject new blood into their Dracula series by setting their next installment in ultra-mod '70s London, where the Count is revived after 100 years by a gang of devil-worshipping swingers led by the not-so-cleverly-named Johnny Alucard (Christopher Neame), and later Read More

The Beast Must Die

Actors: Carl Bohun, Sam Mansaray

Synopsis: In this little horror film, a wealthy sportsman (Calvin Lockhart) invites a house full of guests to a big-game hunt that he's devised. He's sure that one of the guests is a werewolf, and he intends to stalk it, find it, and kill it. As a film viewer, you are alerted at the outset that a mystery Read More

Dr. Phibes Rises Again

Actors: Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Valli Kemp, Hugh Griffith, John Thaw

Synopsis: This sequel to the stylish 1971 melodrama The Abominable Dr. Phibes once more stars Vincent Price in the title role. Long believed dead, Phibes arises from a state of suspended animation, in search of the means to bring his deceased wife back to the land of the living. Phibes also wears a rubber Read More

I, Monster

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Mike Raven, Kenneth J. Warren

Synopsis: In this fairly interesting variant on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from Britain's Amicus Studios, Christopher Lee stars as Marlowe, a stuffy doctor who develops a formula to release inhibitions. When he takes it, Marlowe turns into the evil and repulsive Mr. Blake. The twist is that Blake gets uglier Read More

Twins of Evil

Actors: Peter Cushing, Madeleine Collinson, Mary Collinson, Kathleen Byron, Dennis Price

Synopsis: This entry in Hammer Films' long-running vampire series of the '60s and '70s is one of the most evocative and original. The story features voluptuous twin Playboy centerfolds Madeleine and Mary Collinson as sisters who, without parents, are sent to stay with their oppressive uncle (Peter Cushing Read More

The House That Dripped Blood

Actors: John Bennett, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott, Christopher Lee, Jon Pertwee

Synopsis: This anthology picture about a bad-luck mansion is a thriller with four episodes--all framed by a police investigation. A review of the files of the local policeman (John Bennett) shows that everyone who has owned the mansion has died in a horrible fashion. In the first episode, "Method for Read More

One More Time

Actors: Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Esther Anderson, Maggie Wright, Leslie Sands

Synopsis: Rat-pack pals Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford reprise their roles of Charlie Salt and Chris Pepper, respectively, in this film that marks the directorial debut of comedian/writer Jerry Lewis. Lawford also plays Lord Sydney Pepper, the twin brother of Charlie who is a murder victim. Salt and Read More

The Vampire Lovers

Actors: Ingrid Pitt, George Cole, Madeline Smith, Kate O'Mara, Peter Cushing, Ferdy [Ferdinand] Mayne, Dawn Addams

Synopsis: This sexy horror story from Britain's Hammer Films finds Ingrid Pitt playing three roles, the most notable being a lesbian vampire who will resort to biting a man only when it is absolutely necessary. A doctor and a manservant are victims, but only after she has exhausted all attempts to sink her Read More

Scream and Scream Again

Actors: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Judy Huxtable, Alfred Marks

Synopsis: Strange and terrible things are afoot and the police are helpless to stop them in this taut, complicated thriller. First a heart attack victim goes to the hospital and awakens to find limbs missing, and later, the body of a rape victim is found with two strange puncture wounds upon her wrist. Read More

Bloodsuckers

Actors: Peter Cushing

Synopsis: This badly-dated but interesting variant on the vampire subgenre is loosely based on the Simon Raven novel Doctors Wear Scarlet. The story details the seduction of an Oxford resident (Patrick Mower) into a satanic vampire society while studying in Greece. The chief twist here is that vampirism is Read More

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

Actors: Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Simon Ward, Thorley Walters

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Corruption

Actors: Peter Cushing, Sue Lloyd, Kate O'Mara, David Lodge

Synopsis: A guilt-ridden plastic surgeon becomes murderously obsessed with restoring the beautiful face of his fashion-model fiancee in this horror film. It was he, in a jealous rage, who accidentally disfigured her, when he burst into a photography session, got into a fight with the cameraman and ended up Read More

The Mummy's Shroud

Actors: Andre Morell, John Phillips, David Buck, Elizabeth Sellars, Maggie Kimberley

Synopsis: A murderous mummy is on the loose and it's got the Hammer Films stamp on it, but this tame terror flick never gets the bandages off when it comes to thrills, chills, and gore. A British archeological team consisting of Sir Basil Walden (Andre Morrell), Paul Preston (David Buck), a photographer Read More

Island of the Burning Doomed

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: The famed British horror trio of Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and director Terence Fisher brought John Lymington's sci-fi novel Night of the Big Heat to the screen in this slow-moving shocker. The plot concerns a small British island where alien protoplasm creatures are attempting to raise the Read More

Some May Live

Synopsis: In this war drama, an Army intelligence officer stationed in Saigon labors to discover the identity of the double-agent in his department who has been sending classified information to the Soviets. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Blood Beast Terror

Actors: Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng

Synopsis: Set during the Victorian era, the film stars Peter Cushing as a Holmeslike detective on the trail of a serial killer. The mystery angle is minimal, since we know virtually from the beginning that the killer is a gigantic....moth! It seems that Wanda Ventham, daughter of addled scientist Robert Flemyng Read More

Avengers: Return of the Cybernauts

Synopsis: The Avengers' sixth season opened with an exciting harkback to the classic third-season episode "The Cybernauts." The plot is set in motion by the brother of the man whose earlier attempt to use robotic technology to take over the British economy was foiled by Steed and Emma. Thirsting for Read More

Torture Garden

Actors: Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams, Peter Cushing, Michael Bryant

Synopsis: The Torture Garden is an "omnibus" chiller, adapted from four short stories by Robert Bloch (Psycho). Each is introduced by Burgess Meredith, playing a sinister carnival barker by the name of Dr. Diabolo. The doctor's audience consists of five people, four of whom are apprised of their ultimate Read More

In Saigon: Some May Live

Synopsis: A woman who works for American Intelligence headquarters in Saigon relates important military information to her husband, a communist agent. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.

Actors: Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks, Andrew Keir, Roberta Tovey

Synopsis: This entertaining sequel to 1965's Dr. Who and the Daleks has been released under several titles: Invasion Earth 2150 AD, Daleks Invade Earth: 2150 AD, and Daleks-Invasion Earth 2150 AD. So guess when the story takes place? Peter Cushing returns as eccentric time-traveller Dr. Who, idol of Read More

Island of Terror

Actors: Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray, Eddie Byrne, Sam Kydd

Synopsis: At a cancer research lab off the coast of Ireland, a group of scientists dies under mysterious circumstances. Before anyone notices their demise, the human and bovine inhabitants of the island's lone, tiny village begin to turn up dead -- with their bodies the consistency of tapioca pudding. Read More

Doctor Who & The Daleks

Actors: Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden, Roberta Tovey, Barrie Ingham

Synopsis: Dr. Who was/is the longest-running entertainment series ever to run on the BBC, and for a variety of reasons, including its sassy humor, delightfully idiotic sets and special effects, and some first-class star-turns by a series of usually underrated actors in the title role, it generated a fanatic Read More

The Skull

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Jill Bennett, Patrick Wymark

Synopsis: Adapted from the Robert Bloch short story "The Skull of the Marquis de Sade," this inventive gothic chiller from Amicus stars Peter Cushing as Professor Maitland, a collector obsessed with obtaining artifacts reputed to have occult powers -- including the title object, believed to be from the Read More

Frankenstein Created Woman

Actors: Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters, Robert Morris, Peter Blythe

Synopsis: Hammer Studios followed up Evil of Frankenstein with this entertaining sequel, again starring Peter Cushing as the quintessential mad scientist obsessed with the reanimation of dead bodies and the creation of superhuman creatures. His latest project involves transferring the mind of a Read More

She

Actors: Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, John Richardson, Christopher Lee, Rosenda Monteros

Synopsis: Hammer Films co-produced this lavishly mounted adventure, the fourth adaptation of the novel by H. Rider Haggard. In Jerusalem, Leo Vincey (John Richardson) meets with a slave girl, Ustane (Rosenda Monteros), who has been charged with bringing him to an immortal queen, Ayesha (Ursula Andress). Read More

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Roy Castle, Donald Sutherland, Neil McCallum

Synopsis: Not to be confused with David Hewitt's abominable Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors (AKA The Blood Suckers), this clever horror omnibus is one of the better early anthologies from Amicus Productions, thanks to Freddie Francis' stylish direction and a tongue-in-cheek approach from writer Milton Subotsky Read More

The Evil of Frankenstein

Actors: Peter Cushing, Peter Woodthorpe, Duncan Lamont, James Maxwell, Sandor Eles, Katy Wild, Kiwi Kingston

Synopsis: Hardly the best of Hammer Studios' Frankenstein epics, The Evil of Frankenstein is too much the mixture as before to be truly memorable. Back in business once more is Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing), who finds his fabled monster (Kiwi Kingston) frozen in a block of ice. Once the creature is Read More

The Gorgon

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley, Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis: A small German town falls prey to an unseen monster that turns its victims into lifeless statues in this mid-'60s outing from Hammer Studios. When the girlfriend of bohemian artist Bruno Heitz (Jeremy Longhurst) becomes the latest townsperson to turn up dead, her corpse transformed to stone, Bruno Read More

Fury at Smugglers Bay

Synopsis: Squire Trevenyan (Peter Cushing), magistrate of an 18th century coastal village where a little smuggling has always gone on (and been tolerated), learns that a group of wreckers have moved into the district, destroying ships and slaughtering their survivors in order to steal the cargo. The local Read More

The Man Who Finally Died

Synopsis: In this drama, set after the end of WW II, a young man returns to his father's small Bavarian village and is dismayed to learn that he died after he married a young woman and escaped from the communists. The young man listens, but he believes there is more to the story, and so begins looking into Read More

Cash on Demand

Synopsis: A ruthless crook abducts the wife and child of a bank manager and then masquerades as an insurance company detective while scheming to rob the institution in this crime drama. Unfortunately, some of the manager's employees learn about the plot and the terrified manager must beg them to remain Read More

Night Creatures

Actors: Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper

Synopsis: In this engaging costume melodrama of skulduggery on the low seas set back in the 18th-century, the swamps of a small seaside town and the nocturnal activities of the towns' men provide the atmosphere and action. The Royal Crown suspects a bit of smuggling is going on in this locale, and they send Read More

The Hellfire Club

Synopsis: Although released in the United States as a 63-minute black-and-white film, this 93-minute British swashbuckler from the producer/directors of Jack the Ripper is actually a lush color spectacle which looks like one of the Hammer Films adventures of the time, even though it was produced by New Read More

The Risk

Actors: Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Peter Cushing, Ian Bannen, Raymond Huntley

Synopsis: The Risk is a mild melodrama concerning the political aspects of germ warfare. A group of British scientists led by Peter Cushing develop a means of wiping out the bubonic plague and typhus. Unfortunately the method is variable enough to run the risk of spreading the very diseases it is designed Read More

The Naked Edge

Actors: Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr, Eric Portman, Diane Cilento, Hermione Gingold

Synopsis: There is nothing like suspecting your husband of murder to add suspense to a marriage, at least that is the case in this standard whodunit with a compelling plot. George Radcliffe (Gary Cooper) testifies in court against a man suspected of murdering George's business partner, absconding with a lot Read More

Cone of Silence

Actors: Michael Craig, Peter Cushing, Bernard Lee, Elizabeth Seal, George Sanders

Synopsis: Captain Gort (Bernard Lee) is an airline pilot who must answer to a Court of Inquiry after the crash of a Phoenix jet. Although he passes a battery of tests, pilot error is the determined cause of the accident. Sir Hobbes (George Sanders) is the Queen's council whose relentless prosecution helps Read More

The Brides of Dracula

Actors: Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson, David Peel

Synopsis: 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. Read More

The Flesh and the Fiends

Actors: Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence, Dermot Walsh, Renee Houston

Synopsis: Mania is the venerable Burke and Hare story, previously cinematized by producer Val Lewton as The Body Snatcher. Peter Cushing plays a respectable 19th-century Edinburgh doctor who needs fresh cadavers in order to continue his crucial research. Since the exhuming of bodies for medical purposes is Read More

Sword of Sherwood Forest

Actors: Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall MacGinnis, Richard Pasco, Jack Gwillim

Synopsis: Having portrayed Robin Hood on TV for five years, Richard Greene reprises the role in Hammer Films' Sword of Sherwood Forest. This time, Robin does a little undercover work to determine the wicked machinations of the Sheriff of Nottingham (played by Hammer stalwart Peter Cushing). Our Hero and the Read More

The Mummy

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: While on a dig in Egypt, British archaeologist John Banning (Peter Cushing) desecrates the tomb of Princess Ananka, awakening her mummified lover (Christopher Lee). With revenge on his mind, the mummy follows Banning and the rest of his group back to England, but becomes quite taken with Banning's Read More

John Paul Jones

Actors: Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn, Jean-Pierre Aumont, MacDonald Carey

Synopsis: Robert Stack stars in this sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While originally a loyal soldier of the King's army, Jones in time becomes a fervent supporter of the American Revolutionaries, and he volunteers to lead the colonists' ragtag fleet Read More

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Actors: Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, Miles Malleson, David Oxley

Synopsis: In the 17th century, the arrogant, cruel Hugo Baskerville (David Oxley) brutalizes a servant and prepares to turn the man's daughter over to his equally depraved companions, but she escapes. When he catches up with the girl in a ruined abbey, he kills her and then is attacked and killed himself by Read More

Violent Playground

Actors: Stanley Baker, Anne Heywood, David McCallum, Peter Cushing, John Slater

Synopsis: Violent Playground opens with a few West Side Story style shots of a Liverpool street gang, commandeered by a very nasty-looking David McCallum. We're going to be seeing a lot more of McCallum before the final fadeout: His sister (Anne Heywood) is in love with an upright police officer (Stanley Baker Read More

The Revenge of Frankenstein

Actors: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn

Synopsis: He may be calling himself "Dr. Stein," but the audience isn't fooled: that popular general practitioner (Peter Cushing) in the mittel-European village of Carlsbruck is none other than our old friend, Victor Frankenstein. No one seems unduly concerned when the patients in a charity clinic begin Read More

The Horror of Dracula

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Melissa Stribling, Michael Gough, Carol Marsh

Synopsis: 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

Time Without Pity

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Peter Cushing, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: Time Without Pity carried the name "Joseph Losey" on the credits -- the first time in three years that the blacklisted director was permitted to use his own name on a film. This British-made suspense film was based on a play by Emlyn Williams. Michael Redgrave stars an anguished father whose son (Alec McCowan Read More

The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Maureen Connell, Richard Wattis, Robert Brown

Synopsis: 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

The Curse of Frankenstein

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Valerie Gaunt

Synopsis: Curse of Frankenstein was the "breakthrough" picture for the fabled Hammer Studios. Told in flashback, the story centers around Baron Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing), a dangerously arrogant scientist who takes it upon himself to play God. Using portions of dead bodies, Victor fashions a Read More

Alexander the Great

Actors: Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Darrieux, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: The short life and quick death of Alexander the Great is recounted in this literate historical epic. Decked out in a blonde wig, Richard Burton stars as the Grecian warrior who conquered the known world while only in his twenties, then wept because there were no more worlds left to conquer. While Read More

Magic Fire

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Carlos Thompson, Valentina Cortese, Alan Badel

Synopsis: Filmed in Germany (where it was released in 1954), Republic's Magic Fire is the life story of controversial 19th century composer Richard Wagner. Alan Badel comes off more as villain than hero as Wagner, which though historically accurate makes it hard for the audience to pull for the central Read More

The End of the Affair

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills, Peter Cushing, Stephen Murray, Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis: 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 Read More

The Black Knight

Actors: Alan Ladd, Peter Cushing, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: Alan Ladd once more journeyed to England to make a film for Columbia's British counterpart (Warwick Studios), and the result was the lively swashbuckler The Black Knight. Ladd plays John, a young swordmaker who aspires to join the Knights of the Round Table. Unfortunately, he is falsely accused of Read More

Moulin Rouge

Actors: José Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Suzanne Flon, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Katherine Kath, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Pride and Prejudice

Actors: Daphne Slater, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: Long before she was "discovered" by Hollywood, 19th century novelist Jane Austen was well represented on British television. Of her limited output, Pride and Prejudice -- the satirical tale of an ambitious provincial wife, a houseful of marriageable daughters, and a seemingly "helpless" heroine Read More

Hamlet

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Jean Simmons, Norman Wooland, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large portions of the text, his cinematic version of Hamlet is widely considered the best out of several dozens (and counting). Hamlet (Olivier) is a medieval Read More

They Dare Not Love

Actors: George Brent, Martha Scott, Paul Lukas, Egon Brecher, Roman Bohnen

Synopsis: In this drama, which blends romance with suspense, Prince Kurt von Rotenberg (George Brent) is attempting to flee his native Austria one step ahead of German troops. In his travels, he meets Marta Keller (Martha Scott), and amidst the chaos that surrounds them, the two fall in love, even though Read More

A Chump at Oxford

Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Forrester Harvey, Wilfred Lucas, Forbes Murray, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: Back at Hal Roach Studios for the first time since 1938's Block-Heads, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star in the uneven but generally rewarding A Chump at Oxford. The boys are cast as street-sweepers who hope to better their lot in life by attending night school. Fate intervenes when Stan and Ollie Read More

Laddie

Actors: Joan Leslie, Tim Holt, Virginia Gilmore, Joan Carroll, Spring Byington, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: 1940's Laddie was the third cinemadaptation of the heartwarming story by Gene Stratton-Porter (the second version, filmed in 1935, was directed by no less than George Stevens). Tim Holt plays the title character, a good-natured Indiana farmer who falls in love with immigrant English girl Pamela (Virginia Gilmore Read More

Women in War

Actors: Elsie Janis, Wendy Barrie, Patric Knowles, Mae Clarke

Synopsis: Musical comedy favorite Elsie Janis, who gained renown in WW1 as "The Sweetheart of the AEF", returned to the screen after a long absence in Republic's Women in War. The story is the old chestnut about two volunteer Red Cross nurses, Pamela (Wendy Barrie) and Gail (Mae Clarke), both in love with Read More

Vigil in the Night

Actors: Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley, Julien Mitchell, Robert Coote

Synopsis: A dedicated nurse in a British hospital takes a nervous rookie under her wing. When the new nurse messes up and causes a patient's death, she protects her and loses her job. She eventually finds work at another bigger and more rundown hospital and there falls in love with a handsome young doctor. Read More

The Howards of Virginia

Actors: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Richard Carlson

Synopsis: Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was no exception, despite the presence of Cary Grant in the lead. Most of the story takes place in the colonial capital city of Williamsburg, Virginia, where Matt Howard (Cary Read More

The Man in the Iron Mask

Actors: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale, Warren William

Synopsis: Man in the Iron Mask is independent producer Edward Small's 1939 edition of the much-filmed Dumas classic. The title character is the rightful King of France, imprisoned by his pretender-to-the-throne twin brother (both roles are played by Louis Hayward, with an uncredited Peter Cushing doubling Read More