Terence Fisher
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Solved: Case of the 3 best Holmes...Films star, stage actor and the greatest screen Van Helsing. Typically, Cushing makes Holmes his own in Hammer's fabulous, Terence Fisher-directed 1959 adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" with Christopher Lee (Dracula to... In this article: Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing, Nigel Bruce, Jeremy Brett, Van Helsing, Military Cross, World War I, World War II, and The Hound of the Baskervilles |
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Independent.co.uk - Film & TV | December 10, 2009
British B-movies - Cheap thrills from the past
...had been holding out for a "star" (perhaps Donald Sinden), but Graham Scott talked him into hiring Pleasence. Equally striking is Terence Fisher's To the Public Danger (1948), made by The Rank Organisation at Highbury Studios, its little...
In this article: Patrick Hamilton, Susan Shaw, Donald Pleasence, Dracula, Peter Graham Scott, and Harry H Corbett
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Wikipedia | November 11, 2009
Terence Fisher
...Leggett in Terence Fisher: Horror, Myth and Religion, 2001). For a detailed discussion of Fisher's works, see The Charm of Evil: The Films of Terence Fisher by Wheeler Winston Dixon (Metuchen N.J. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1991).
In this article: London, God, Horror, The Curse of the Werewolf, The Curse of Frankenstein, Hammer Films, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Wheeler Winston Dixon
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So Long at the Fair
...is a 1950 British thriller film directed by Terence Fisher and Anthony Darnborough. It stars Dirk Bogarde and Jean Simmons. In its plot elements and style the film is reminiscent of many of the films of Alfred Hitchcock. The title derives...
In this article: So Long at the Fair, Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Into Thin Air, and Benjamin Frankel
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Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
...Hooper and Michael Ripper. The world of the film is arguably far darker and more ambiguous than the world created by director Terence Fisher for the previous three films in the Dracula series. The film opens in a middle-European village...
In this article: Count Dracula, Dracula, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Dracula, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, and Dracula
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The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
...is a 1960 horror film by Hammer Film Productions. It was directed by Terence Fisher, and stars Paul Massie as Dr. Jekyll, and co-stars Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee and David Kossoff. It was written by Wolf Mankowitz, based on the story of Dr....
In this article: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, Jekyll and Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Christopher Lee
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Stephen Murray (actor)
...larger film roles were Uncle Henry in London Belongs to Me (1948, heavily made-up to look several decades older) and the lead in Terence Fisher's Four Sided Triangle (1953). He once again appeared under heavy make-up as the elderly Dr...
In this article: Stephen Murray, Macbeth, Queen Elizabeth I, King Lear, Leontes, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Lear, and John Gabriel Borkman
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Final Appointment (1954 film)
Final Appointment is a 1954 British film directed by Terence Fisher. It starred John Bentley , Eleanor Summerfield and Hubert Gregg. It also featured Arthur Lowe, later to become famous for his portrayal of Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army, in...
In this article: Final Appointment, Second World War, Captain Mainwaring, Arthur Lowe, Hubert Gregg, Eleanor Summerfield, and Dad's Army
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Cinema under the Stars
...unravels, transforms, continuously defines and configures itself new. Micky Hardin, daughter of "Hammer House of Horror"-Director Terence Fisher ("Dracula"), attended Cinema under the Stars, watching her fathers movie "The Mummy", to talk...
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
...is a British horror film directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Film Productions in released in 1969 . The cast includes Peter Cushing (Baron Frankenstein), Freddie Jones (the Creature), Veronica Carlson and Simon Ward. The film is the fifth...
In this article: Victor Frankenstein, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Narcotic, Frankenstein Created Woman, Veronica Carlson, Peter Cushing, Oxygen, Paraffin, and The Evil of Frankenstein
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EW.com - PopWatch | October 27, 2008
Bits and Bobs (Vol. 16): A new DVD set scares up creepy classics from the Hammer films vault PopWatch Blog EW.com
...vampires with a sickle in 1971's Twins of Evil - to the genuinely creepy, like 1952's Stolen Face, directed by Hammer mainstay Terence Fisher. The story focuses on Paul Henreid, a plastic surgeon in love with a concert pianist who refuses to...
In this article: Peter Cushing, DVD, Dracula, Little Dorrit, The Innocents, Jimmy Sangster, Paul Henreid, and Christopher Lee
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Terence Fisher (23 February 1904 – 18 June, 1980), was a film director who worked for Hammer Films. He was born in Maida Vale, a district of London, England.
Fisher was arguably one of the most influential horror directors of the second half of the 20th century. He was the first to bring gothic horror alive in full Technicolor, and the gore, sexual overtones and explicit horror in his films, while mild by modern standards, were unprecedented in his day. His first major gothic horror film was The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), which launched Hammer's long association with the genre and made British actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee leading horror stars of the era. He went on to film a number of adaptations of classic horror subjects, including Dracula (1958), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) and The Mummy (1959).
Given their subject matter and lurid approach, Fisher's films, though commercially successful, were largely dismissed by critics during his career. It is only in recent years that Fisher has become recognised as an auteur in his own right. His films are characterised by a blend of fairy-tale, myth and sexuality. They draw heavily on Christian themes, and there is usually a hero who defeats the powers of darkness by a combination of faith in God and reason, in contrast to other characters, who are either blindly superstitious or bound by a cold, godless rationalism (as noted by critic Paul Leggett in Terence Fisher: Horror, Myth and Religion, 2001). For a detailed discussion of Fisher's works, see The Charm of Evil: The Films of Terence Fisher by Wheeler Winston Dixon (Metuchen N.J. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1991).
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