Ged Jones
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Let’s Make Dirty Movie
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Read more: Let’s Make Dirty MovieHere’s a little puzzler for us! This 1976 French movie (original title ‘Attention les yeux!’), wasn’t released in the UK until 1980 by Amanda Films Ltd. I don’t recall that we ever dealt with a distribution company of that name, so I’m at a loss as to who we picked it up from. As for…
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Film For The Collector #4
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Read more: Film For The Collector #4The magazine went on from strength to strength, and at its peak reached over 1,400 subscribers. When Dave Worrall left Derann, he continued with his role as editor through his new company Solo Marketing, all we had to do was send all the material along to his premises in Christchurch and he would supply us…
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The Fall of the Roman Empires
Read more: The Fall of the Roman EmpiresA 40 page souvenir brochure: This 1964 historical epic receives an 6.7 rating on the IMDb. Directed by Anthony Mann its star studded cast includes Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, Christopher Plummer and James Mason. A ponderous tale in which the deceased emperor’s son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine…
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The Comeback
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Read more: The ComebackThis was one of the titles we picked up from Enterprise for both Super 8 and video. We issued the title on both VHS and Beta, other titles in the package were ‘Kingdom of the Spiders’, ‘The Redeemer’, ‘Dogs’, ‘Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth’ and ‘Leopard in the Snow’. It was a nice entry…
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Film For The Collector #3
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Read more: Film For The Collector #3As the magazine grew and matured it attracted regular articles and reports from the likes of Barry Littlechild: His ‘Littlechild Report’ was witty and at the same time there was a little bite. Tony Shapps: Who had a regular two page feature devoted to Scope and 3D, entitled ‘Shappervescence’. David Oxland: Film Soundtracks. David Fulton,…
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The Band Wagon
Read more: The Band WagonA two page article from a January 1954 film magazine. This 1953 musical receives an 7.4 rating on the IMDb. Directed by Vincente Minnelli it stars Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse and Oscar Levant. Gorgeous MGM feature about an aging movie star uncertain of his future teaming up with a ballerina to headline a new Broadway…
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Die Screaming Marianne
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Read more: Die Screaming MarianneA horror thriller from Pete Walker starring Susan George and Barry Evans from 1971. The plot was fairly simple with sisters fighting over an inheritance, which ends in deadly consequences. We’d picked up a number of Pete’s titles, of which this was perhaps the weakest. However the name Susan George helped us shift a few…
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Film For The Collector #2
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Read more: Film For The Collector #2Originally only available as part of the membership to ‘The Derann Club’, a group who also had access to exclusive super 8 offers, it was launched in September 1985, a magazine of just 20 pages and looking like a large fanzine! Try as we might we couldn’t find writers who had the expertise or time…