A separate screenplay by Nigel Kneale for theaters, parallel to the 1979 Quatermass four part mini-series. Read More »
Tag Archives: Piers Haggard
Pennies from Heaven (1978) Piers Haggard, Cheryl Campbell, Bob Hoskins, Gemma Craven
Arthur, a sheet music salesman, has an ear for the hit tunes, but nobody will trust it. Read More »
A Summer Story (1988) Piers Haggard, Imogen Stubbs, James Wilby, Susannah York, Drama, Romance
The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) Piers Haggard, Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Barry Andrews, Horror
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980) Piers Haggard, Richard Quine, Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson, Comedy
Fu Manchu’s 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu’s age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu. Nayland suspects Fu will kidnap the king and queen and demand the George V diamond as ransom. Scotland Yard recruits Alice Rage to stand-in for the queen. Fu nabs the “fake” queen; Rage becomes enamored of Fu and aids him in his quest for the George V diamond.
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