Cushing Curiosities (Blu-ray)

6 DISC COLLECTION INCLUDES 5 FEATURE FILMS, 6 BBC TELEPLAYS, 200-PAGE BOOK AND 16+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES

From Hammer Films to STAR WARS, he remains one of genre films' best-loved actors. Now celebrate six of the most unexpected, rarely seen and decidedly curious performances from the legendary career of PETER CUSHING: Cushing delivers a rare villain turn in the 1960 aviation thriller CONE OF SILENCE. That same year, Cushing brought gentle dignity to The Boulting Brothers' cold-war drama SUSPECT. In 1962's THE MAN WHO FINALLY DIED, Cushing co-stars opposite Stanley Baker as a former Nazi hiding a grave post-war secret. Cushing returns to his iconic role of SHERLOCK HOLMES in these six surviving episodes of the 1968 BBC TV series. The oft-maligned 1971 shocker BLOODSUCKERS can now be reassessed for the first time in its Restored Extended Version. And Cushing portrays a vampire for the first and only time in 1974's off-the-wall erotic comedy TENDER DRACULA, premiering here in its Director's Cut. Each disc has been mastered from original vault elements with over 16 total hours of trailers, commentaries, vintage interviews, location features and more, plus the all-new 200-page book PETER CUSHING: A PORTRAIT IN SIX SKETCHES by award-winning horror film historian Jonathan Rigby.

Special Features

• Commentary For SUSPECT By Jonathan Rigby & Kevin Lyons
• Commentary For THE MAN WHO FINALLY DIED By Kim Newman & Barry Forshaw
• Commentaries For All SHERLOCK HOLMES Episodes Featuring Kim Newman, Barry Forshaw & David Stuart Davies
• Lost SHERLOCK HOLMES Segments With Optional Commentary By Jonathan Rigby & Kevin Lyons
• Commentary For BLOODSUCKERS By Jonathan Rigby & Kevin Lyons
• John Hamilton on Robert Hartford-Davis
• Commentary For TENDER DRACULA By Jonathan Rigby & Kevin Lyons
• Interview With Pierre Grunstein
• Interview With Bernard Menez
• & More!

Bonus Materials

• Newsreel Of Peter Cushing And His Miniature Soldiers
• Peter Cushing On The Funster Show With Paul Carrington
• The Guardian Interview With Peter Cushing
• Peter Cushing Interviewed By Tony Dalton, Author Of Terence Fisher: Master Of Gothic Cinema
• Cushing's View – 1973 Interview With Peter Cushing On Whitstable And His Late Wife Helen
• Audio Commentary For SUSPECT By Jonathan Rigby, Author Of English Gothic, And Horror Historian Kevin Lyons
• Audio Commentary For THE MAN WHO FINALLY DIED By Kim Newman, Author Of Anno Dracula, And Barry Forshaw, Author Of Brit Noir
• Audio Commentaries For All SHERLOCK HOLMES Episodes Featuring Kim Newman, Author Of Anno Dracula, Barry Forshaw, Author Of Brit Noir And David Stuart Davies, Author Of Starring Sherlock Holmes: A Century Of The Master Detective On Screen
• All SHERLOCK HOLMES Episodes Available With BBC Countdown Clock
• Illustrated Peter Cushing Audio Interview With David Stuart Davies
• Lost SHERLOCK HOLMES Segments With Optional Commentary By Jonathan Rigby, Author Of English Gothic, And Horror Historian Kevin Lyons
• Audio Commentary For BLOODSUCKERS By Jonathan Rigby, Author Of English Gothic, And Horror Historian Kevin Lyons
• STRANGER IN THE CITY (1961) - Short Film By Robert Hartford-Davis
• Daddy's Girl - Interview With Director Robert Hartford-Davis' Daughter, Jean Hartford-Davis
• Bite Me! - Tigon: Blood On A Budget Author John Hamilton on Robert Hartford-Davis
• The Trip - Interview With Uncredited Drug Orgy Actress Françoise Pascal
• FREEDOM SEEKER Title Sequence
• BLOODSUCKERS Trailer
• Audio Commentary For TENDER DRACULA By Jonathan Rigby, Author Of English Gothic, And Horror Historian Kevin Lyons
• Love Me Tender, Dracula - Interview With Director Pierre Grunstein
• Menez of Speaking - Interview With Actor Bernard Menez
• TENDER DRACULA Trailer