Insane, Amazing, and Misunderstood: Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joc4Oak_VaY&ab_channel=TheHorrorGeek
#TheHorrorGeek #MikeBracken #SickFlicks #Phenomena #DarioArgento #JenniferConnelly #DonaldPleasence #HorrorMovie #HorrorMovies #HorrorFam #MutantFam

John Carpenter's Most Underrated Film?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Ta0tj5Trk&ab_channel=TheHorrorGeek
#TheHorrorGeek #MikeBracken #SickFlicks #PrinceofDarkness #JohnCarpenter #DonaldPleasence #HorrorMovie #HorrorMovies #HorrorFam #MutantFam

This Thumbnail is Better than the Movie...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br4fdPyCLpQ&ab_channel=TheHorrorGeek
#TheHorrorGeek #SickFlicks #HorrorMovie #HorrorMovies #80sHorror #TheDevonsvilleTerror #MikeBracken #HorrorFam #MutantFam #UlliLommel #DonaldPleasence

Fans of CSC will enjoy this greatly - though sadly not featuring our beloved Vera of Bradford.
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RT @markhod70
The programme I made a few years ago where I rooted out some self-financed 7-inch singles and tracked down the musicians is repeated this Friday on BBC Radio 4 Extra, 8pm. Especially interesting for @weddingpresent, @adamaofficial and #DonaldPleasence
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xrv9z
https://twitter.com/markhod70/status/1651124200688562176

44 years ago:
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (US)
An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
1979-04-13
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/155797
#GoodLuckMissWyckoff #MarvinJChomsky #DonaldPleasence #RobertVaughn #EarlHolliman #ClassicMovies

63 years ago:
Hell Is a City (UK)
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned ...
1960-04-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28784
#HellIsaCity #ValGuest #StanleyBaker #JohnCrawford #DonaldPleasence #Hammer #ClassicMovies

63 years ago:
Circus of Horrors (UK)
A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.
1960-04-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/27405
#CircusofHorrors #AntonDiffring #ErikaRemberg #DonaldPleasence #Horror #ClassicFilm

48 years ago:
Escape to Witch Mountain (US)
Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to wit...
1975-03-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/14821
#EscapetoWitchMountain #JohnHough #EddieAlbert #RayMilland #DonaldPleasence #SciFi #ClassicMovies

57 years ago today:
The Fugitive
S3E25: With Strings Attached
Kimble is hired as a chauffeur by Geoffrey Martin, a 17-year-old violinist whom has grown weary of his career and would like to stop playing professionally for a few years when he decides to go away to college. But Geoffrey's demanding guardian/instructor, Max Pfeiffer, refuses to let Geoffrey go be...
Airdate: 1966-03-15
https://themoviedb.org/tv/10083/season/3/episode/25
#TheFugitive #DonaldPleasence #ABC #tvshows

52 years ago:
THX 1138 (US)
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they star...
1971-03-11
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/636
#THX1138 #GeorgeLucas #RobertDuvall #DonaldPleasence #IanWolfe #SciFi #ClassicMovies

Donald Pleasance, Robert Vaughn, and Herbert Lom all in the SAME MOVIE? I am so there.
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RT @pleasencebook
Great trailer for 1989 film 'River of Death' directed by Steve Carver, featuring Michael Dudikoff • Robert Vaughn • Herbert Lom and #DonaldPleasence as Heinrich Spaatz #CannonFilms #Cannon
https://twitter.com/pleasencebook/status/1632479027003904000

31 years ago:
Diên Biên Phu (FR)
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.
1992-03-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/74714
#DiênBiênPhu #DonaldPleasence #ChristopherBuchholz #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

49 years ago, was the release of the British film, "From Beyond the Grave". 💀🔪🐍🎥

It was the last (and bizarre) of the anthology horror films by Amicus Productions.

Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is “Offers You Cannot Resist”.

#Anthology #Horror #CineMastodon #FilMastodon #MoviePoster
#PeterCushing #DavidWarner #DonaldPleasence #AngelaPleasence

[1993] The Big Freeze - Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired gentle-folk on the coldest day of the year in Finland. Starring Bob Hoskins, Eric Sykes, Donald Pleasence, John Mills and Spike Milligan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB7TiWOzXtc

#OldBritishTelly #BobHoskins #EricSykes #DonaldPleasence #JohnMills #SpikeMilligan

63 years ago:
The Battle of the Sexes (UK)
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson, a businessman who asks for her help to bring his company into the 20th Century. The staff, led by Mr Martin, has other ideas—and a...
1960-02-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43106
#TheBattleoftheSexes #PeterSellers #RobertMorley #DonaldPleasence #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies

49 years ago:
From Beyond the Grave (UK)
Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is "Offers You Cannot Resist". A nasty fate awaits all of them—particularly those who cheat the shop's Proprietor.
1974-02-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/48014
#FromBeyondtheGrave #PeterCushing #DavidWarner #DonaldPleasence #Horror #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

On February 2, 1995 cult film icon Donald Pleasance died in Saint Paul de Vence, France.
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R.I.P. (1919 - 1995)
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#RestInPeace #DonaldPleasence #Halloween #TheMutations #MutantFam #HalloweenII #TheMutations #EscapeFromNewYork #THX1138 #Art #FanArt #MovieArt #MovieHistory

56 years ago:
The Night of the Generals (FR,GB,US)
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
1967-01-29
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/42700
#TheNightoftheGenerals #PeterOToole #OmarSharif #TomCourtenay #DonaldPleasence #Columbia #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

56 years ago:
The Night of the Generals (FR,GB,US)
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
1967-01-29
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/42700
#TheNightoftheGenerals #PeterOToole #OmarSharif #TomCourtenay #DonaldPleasence #Columbia #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

38 years ago:
Phenomena (IT,CH)
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
1985-01-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/29161
#Phenomena #DarioArgento #JenniferConnelly #FioreArgento #DalilaDiLazzaro #DonaldPleasence #Horror #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film