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Colin,
You are right it was the charming Amicus flick Doctor Terror's House of Horrors. The segment you referenced is entitled "The Disembodied Hand" and featured Mr. Lee as the pompous art critic Fanklyn Marsh. The hand in question belonging to Michael Gough. The other segments were called "Werewolf", "Creeping Vine", "Voodoo" and "Vampire". Zero points to Amicus for such creative naming of the segments! [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
Peter Cushing appeared as the titular character who boards a train and tells the fortunes of the other passengers, who were Mr. Lee, Neil McCallum, Roy Castle and I think, Alan Freeman. A fun film and a great early memory of Mr. Lee!
For me, I think seeing The Three Musketeers in the cinema was really the first time I registered Mr. Lee as an actor rather than as strictly a character in a film. That film, combined with The Man with the Golden Gun are pretty much my earliest memories of seeing Mr. Lee.
A couple years later, I think, I first registered Peter Cushing in At the Earth's Core during it's cinema run. At the time, my cousin would indulge me and take me to see a whole slew of Arkoff type pictures every Saturday afternoon. Oddly, the cinema...called The Tivoli...showed nothing but porn films all week long, but every Saturday afternoon they showed kiddie matinees.
Thanks for reminding me of those fun-filled innocent days of moviegoing...not to mention the hurling of flattened popcorn boxes during the intermissions! Funny the associations one has stored away.
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