Available from Amazon.co.uk
Here is a link to a great video featuring footage from The Damned:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHjGeCvxDRg
name='SirOllyBolly' timestamp='1285956670' post='479097']
Available from Amazon.co.uk
Here is a link to a great video featuring footage from The Damned:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHjGeCvxDRg
Nice clip. I have never seen the film and hadn't realised that Kenneth Cope was in it. Who was the older chap who makes the mistake of picking up Shirley?
name='John Hamilton' timestamp='1285959637' post='479112']
Nice clip. I have never seen the film and hadn't realised that Kenneth Cope was in it. Who was the older chap who makes the mistake of picking up Shirley?
It's Macdonald Carey.
name='dpgmel' timestamp='1285965772' post='479157']
It's Macdonald Carey.
Ah! the penny drops. Many thanks
received the DvD Today
this is surely an over looked masterpiece.
Not the run of the mill Hammer .
there is a lot going on in this movie , from King (Oliver Reed ) educated leader
of the biker gang , and control freak to his young sister (Sally Ann Field)
her relationship with American tourist (Macdonald Carey)who is more than twice her
age ,
the eerie sculptures , dramatic coastlines and the sinister goings on at the MOD Research base. its not long before emotions are flying high. the fatalistic feel
to the movie , you just know it will end in tears.
Arthur Grants B&W cinematography adds a serene beauty and does create somewhat of a chilly atmosphere however things get decisively chillier once we get into those caves ...
these children are learning the 3 R's Reading Writing and Radiation !
comes with a booklet full of facts all about the movie and its writers and stills.
Richard.
This has been available at MovieMail as an exclusive for a bit now along with The Gorgon and The Two Faces of Dr. Jeckyll, both of which are now available on Amazon as well.
name='lionheart' timestamp='1286404192' post='480494']
comes with a booklet full of facts all about the movie and its writers and stills.
And very informative it is too - here's an extract:
Commercial artist John Stockle designed posters for numerous Columbia films in this period, and had already attended the shooting of The Damned in order to get pictures for his latest assignment. Hammer offered him the services of unit stills photographer Tom Edwards for a day, and Oliver Reed, Shirley Anne Field and members of King’s gang posed for Stockle on a Weymouth side street. In many of the pictures Stockle asked Reed to menace Field with a knife, and although the shots bore no resemblance to any scenes from the film they went on to dominate the front-of-house set. One shot of King astride a motorbike and menacing his sister formed the centrepiece of the British poster, which created the false impression that this was less a science fiction thriller and more a film in the tradition of The Wild One (1953)
This is similar to what Hammer did for Curse of the Werewolf where a whole series of publicity shots were taken of Oliver Reed in werewolf make-up menacing Yvonne Romain. In the film Romain plays Reed's mother(!) and dies in childbirth. The two do not share a scene together.
Presumably, Hammer thought that Romain's impressive cleveage meant that she was more suitable for these stills than the relatively flat-chested Catherine Feller who played Reed's girlfriend.
The poster for Hammer's The Abominable Snowman featured a woman cowering in terror from a yeti. In the film itself no women encounter the yeti.
I imagine that it is also an exercise in which images will put more bums on seats...
name='SirOllyBolly' timestamp='1286536938' post='480883']
And very informative it is too - here's an extract:
One shot of King astride a motorbike and menacing his sister formed the centrepiece of the British poster, which created the false impression that this was less a science fiction thriller and more a film in the tradition of The Wild One (1953)
which I am sure is a far more sellable image
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