A Return To 70s Hammer/Amicus mayhem..

[Donald the Great]

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5. I think that is Ian Hendry and his segment was Reflection of Death. A really good actor was Mr Hendry and we lost him far too soon.

2. Are you referring to the two Dick Barton films released by Hammer in the 40s, Dick Barton Special Agent and Dick Barton Strikes Back?

I am staffslad..well done. Yes agree on Hendry. Was he not the first John Steed in Avengers? Quite a while since I watched Sister Hyde.

[staffslad]

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5. I think that is Ian Hendry and his segment was Reflection of Death. A really good actor was Mr Hendry and we lost him far too soon.

2. Are you referring to the two Dick Barton films released by Hammer in the 40s, Dick Barton Special Agent and Dick Barton Strikes Back?

[staffslad]

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1. Mocata played by Charles Gray.

3. Diana Dors.

4. That was Dean Jagger in X the Unknown.

2. and 5. to follow......

[staffslad]

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1: Is that the one where he falls thru the ice and drowns?

6: Anton Levey wrote the Satanic Bible. Was it him?

1. Yes. Dracula ends up on the ice of the moat surrounding his castle. Father Sandor shoots at the ice and it breaks up, plunging Dracula into the icy water.

6. No. The author was Dennis Wheatley. He was also the source for Hammer's To the Devil, a Daughter and The Lost Continent.

7. The two real-life bodystealers in Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde were Burke and Hare, although as Sister Hyde is set in the 1880s and Burke and Hare committed their crimes in the 1820s, the writers took a sizeable poetic licence in their inclusion.

[Donald the Great]

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1: Who was the chief satanist in Devil Rides Out.

2: Name the crime capers Hammer made in he 40s.

3: Name the female lead in the Hammer noir Man Bait.

4: Name a 1956 sci fi and its American male lead.

5: Name the actor and what segment he appeared in Tales From the Crypt.

[Donald the Great]

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1: Is that the one where he falls thru the ice and drowns?

6: Anton Levey wrote the Satanic Bible. Was it him?

[staffslad]

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Will have a think about 1 and 6.

2: Rasputin

3: The owner of the shop.

4: Donald and Angela Pleasence.

5: Plague Of the Zombies?

7: This lady. Martine Beswick.

Correct, Donald. Interestingly, Rasputin and Dracula, Prince of Darkness shared a number of cast members and were, I believe, paired on a double bill at their time of release.

[staffslad]

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The one with the killer piano was that not with John Standing and ursula Howells.

Sorry, I meant that Torture Garden had the story about the killer piano

[Donald the Great]

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Will have a think about 1 and 6.

2: Rasputin

3: The owner of the shop.

4: Donald and Angela Pleasence.

5: Plague Of the Zombies?

7: This lady. Martine Beswick.

[Donald the Great]

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The pic you posted was from Torture Garden, showing Dr. Diabolo and Atropos, with Burgess Meredith and Clyttie Jessup. I suppose the obvious one would be either Burgess Meredith or Peter Cushing, so I shall go for Michael Ripper and Bernard Kay. Isn't this the one with the killer piano?

The one with the killer piano was that not with John Standing and ursula Howells.

[staffslad]

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The pic you posted was from Torture Garden, showing Dr. Diabolo and Atropos, with Burgess Meredith and Clyttie Jessup. I suppose the obvious one would be either Burgess Meredith or Peter Cushing, so I shall go for Michael Ripper and Bernard Kay. Isn't this the one with the killer piano?

[staffslad]

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Here are a few:


1. In Dracula, Prince of Darkness how did the Count meet his end?

2. Which crazy monk was played by Christopher Lee in a 1966 Hammer film?

3. What part did Peter Cushing play in From Beyond the Grave?

4. In the same film, a famous father and daughter played, appropriately enough, father and daughter in one story. Who were they?

5. Synopsis: A Cornish village is plagued by a mysterious sickness and a famous London doctor is called in to investigate. He finds that those who have died have been seen walking around near a local tin mine. What was the film?

6. Who wrote the novel upon which the Hammer film The Devil Rides Out was based?

7. In Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, who played Sister Hyde and which real-life pair of body stealers were featured?

[Donald the Great]

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Leave a new quiz for me while I sleep friend.

[Donald the Great]

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Susan George and Ian Ogilvy, yes. Ogilvy played Simon Templar in the 70s show Return of the Saint.

Not Faye Dunaway. She was in Mommie Dearest, but I meant the subject of Mommie Dearest, Joan Crawford, whom she played. Joan played a scientist in Trog from 1970, probably a film she wasn't so proud of, and it doesn't turn up that much on TV anymore.

Oh yes TROG.. any wonder I forgot about that masterpiece.sic sic

[Donald the Great]

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The first Hammer film was The Public Life of Henry the Ninth in 1935. The studio's first foray into colour, gothic horror was Curse of Frankenstein in 1957. The first film that really put them in the public gaze was probably The Quatermass Xperiment.

The Quatermass teleplays were written by Nigel Kneale.

I would class the third British horror film maker as being Tigon. It was founded by Tony Tenser in 1966. It's 3 best films were imo The Sorcerers, Witchfinder General and Blood on Satan's Claw, though, personally, I do not like WG that much.


I will get back to you on the pic.

Spot on as usual staffslad.