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Excellent Captain Clegg film review here follow the link, by Vaar Aragon |
Official Publicity Manual - hammer review publicy manual !!! Captain Clegg (1962) & Night Creatures
This
is the Hammer Films remake with peter Cushing as Clegg. Thorndike had
originally sold the right to London Films for a pittance and when Hammer
bought London Films they had the rights to Dr Syn. The film was re-titled
as Night Creatures in 1970 .
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Film Review"1792
- The Romney Marshes - flat and desolate - was the land of a proud and
independent people. Their shores faced the shores of France - and many
was the shipload of wine and brandy smuggled across the sea in defiance
of the king's revenue men. Many legends have come from this corner of
England - but none so widely believed or widely feared - as the legend
of the Marsh Phantoms - who rode the land on dark misty nights - and struck
fear into the hearts of all who crossed their paths....."
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From a great reviewer M Haoglin comes............................
The old Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow story, given the Hammer treatment.
Also known in the U.S. as Night Creatures, and not also known as
Dr. Syn, incidentally, because Disney had already acquired the
rights to that novel (and hence, title) for a competing version of the
same story. Captain Clegg is a direct remake of the 1936 film version,
not the original novel. Pictured here is the German poster, which translates
as The Captain Clegg Gang. As late as 1972, Cushing had an interest
in remaking this story
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r sFor Sale if your are quick and rich are the following items :mailto:greg_turnbull@yahoo.com has the following for sale (for only $1750 for both notebooks) [Night Creatures/Capt Clegg] Dr. Syn and Awaiting Revenge Two versions of an original screenplay by Cushing himself. [hammer films ltd], 1961. the screenplay of Hammer's production of Capt Clegg (brit title) of Night Creatures (US title) is credited to John Elder (Anthony Hinds) and Barbera S. Harper based on the Dr Syn novels of Russell Thorndike. It is well known that Peter Cushing was very interested in the quality of the screen plays for the film productions in which he was involved. It was unknown until now that he had written his own complete version of a screen play as a sequel to the Dr Syn project. Presented here are 2 Cushing versions. One is a coplete 31 page densely worded, typed draft on a legal-size sheets entitled 'Dr Syn' written by him in 1961. the other is a quarto-sized notebook is doing a new remake of the story. This notebook draft is handwritten in ink containing literally hundreds of words in Cushing's own own hand. In the finished film Cushing plays and 18th centuary English vicar ia a small coastal village noted for its trade in smuggling liquor. Unbeknown to the vilages, Cushing is actually a famous pirate who lives a dual life using the smuggling as a way to help benefit his village. |
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Awaiting Revenge (1972)
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Night Creatures Click HERE to View 41 secs | Now available a short excerpt of the Hammer Night Creatures, more to follow.... |