Special Guest Appearance by ... Peter Cushing (Part II)

Two excellent British actors in a crappy Spanish-American adaptation of a novel by Jules Verne, which had no monsters at all in it: Peter Cushing and Terence Stamp. Stamp is already an the beginning established as the main villain of the piece, while Cushing had just three scenes at all - the one you see here, one with his nephew immediately afterwards, and one at the finale. The guest star with the shortest scene, however, was Spanish horror legend Paul Naschy, who passes away only a few minutes into the movie. At least in Germany, these three got top billing. Well ...

In the novel, William T. Kolderup - Cushing's character - is the richest man in the world. Taskinar is his rival and competitor, always coming in close second.

The Spanish director was J. Piquer Simon, by the way. The Spanish actor playing the auctioneer was uncredited.

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[Jendellyn]

Gorgeous, Peter Cushing is gorgeous! And I don't care if this film is so bad - it can't be too bad as long as it features Peter Cushing and is based on Jules Verne's novel! Thank you for posting! I will post the entire film in a while! ;)

[Thespilian]

I wished 'A Tale of Two Cities' would be avaliable on DVD, filmed around the same time as this, with Cushing giving an award-worthy performance as Dr. Manette. A much, much fruitier part in a far better literary adaptation. And I was so excited when this here came to screen: Cushing and Verne, wow ... =_=

Funnily, both Rathbone and Lee played in earlier versions of Dickens' novel - both the part of decadent Marquis St. Evremonde.