Nathaniel Clegg / Parson Blyss

Nathaniel Clegg, also known as Parson Blyss and Captain Clegg, is a fictional member of the clergy as well as a smuggler featured in the 1962 horror film Night Creatures, also known as Captain Clegg. The character was played by British actor Peter Cushing. Clegg's ship was a three-master named the Imogene, which was named for his daughter. The bosun under Captain Collier claimed to have chased the ship for more than two years. Nathaniel survived being hanged as a pirate, he mentions that the hangman was actually one of his own crew and helped him fake his death. as a man who was once a terror on the seas and after a very close call with death, very narrowly escaping the hangman’s noose, he would turn to the lord and to providing a community with the means to look after itself financially. As the good and quick-witted Parson Blyss, Cushing looks to defy the King’s men still and he does so in a very witty manner with a little black humour here and there to keep you not only in rapt attention but doing so with a smirk on your face. The man is as magnetic as he has ever been and he seems more at home here with not only the clever dialogue by Anthony Hinds but the swashbuckling adventure of it all. the almost carefree Blyss, who tends to play at things with the soldier, almost not caring about what he says as if knowing that the man will never catch him. It is an interesting relationship between the two because Blyss as played by Cushing, seems to float between the responsible person and his old life as a scoundrel and it is extremely humorous and entertaining to watch.