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Captain Clegg (U.S. title: Night Creatures [1]) is a 1962 British adventure horror film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, and Oliver Reed. [2] It produced by John Temple-Smith for Hammer Film Productions. It is loosely based on the Doctor Syn character created by Russell Thorndike.
Hammer liked Reed and gave him good supporting roles in the swashbuckler The Pirates of Blood River (1962), directed by John Gilling; Captain Clegg (1962), a smugglers tale with Peter Cushing; The Damned (1963), a science fiction film directed by Joseph Losey; Paranoiac (1963), a psycho thriller for director Freddie Francis; and The Scarlet ...
He appeared in the Hammer film Captain Clegg (1962), known in the United States as Night Creatures. Cushing starred as Parson Blyss, the local reverend of an 18th-century English coastal town believed to be hiding his smuggling activities with reports of ghosts. [21] The film was roughly based on the Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike.
Horror films released in 1962; Title Director Cast Country Notes The Awful Dr. Orloff: Jesús Franco: Riccardo Valle, Perla Cristal, Howard Vernon: France Spain [1] The Cabinet of Caligari: Roger Kay: Glynis Johns, Dick Davalos: United States United Kingdom [2] Cape Fear: J. Lee Thompson: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen: United ...
Captain Clegg may refer to: Captain Clegg a character in the Doctor Syn stories; Captain Clegg, a 1962 film by Hammer Films; Captain Clegg & The Night Creatures, a psychobilly band featured in the 2009 film Halloween II
He played the big pirate in Swiss Family Robinson (1960) and had a memorable role as the mute Mulatto in the Hammer film Captain Clegg (1962). Reid appeared in three James Bond films: as Dr. No's Guard in Dr. No (1962), as a temple guard in Casino Royale (1967), and as Sandor, Roger Moore's opponent in a rooftop fight in The Spy Who Loved Me ...
The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with Lawrence of Arabia winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures will celebrated their 50th anniversaries.
In the Arliss film Doctor Syn, Syn escapes to sea with Mipps and the rest of the Dymchurch smugglers, whereas Captain Clegg ends more faithfully to the novel, with Parson Blyss being killed by the mulatto (who is then killed by Mipps) and then being carried to and buried in Captain Clegg's empty grave by Mipps. Captain Clegg was released in the ...