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A four page retrospective article from Films and Filming October 1962. This 1935 musical comedy receives a 7.7 rating on the IMDb, A wonderful example of how to fill 101 minutes. Fred Astaire plays an American dancer who comes to Britain and falls for a model, who then mistakes him for his producer. Some fine…

A small entry from Picture Show dated November 1955: This 1953 animated short  receives a 7.1 rating on the IMDb, We released so many Walt Disney shorts during 1991 -2000 that it’s hard to pick out just one, however this ten minute Academy Award winner is one of the few that appears in any of…

A two page article from the May 1975 issue of the ABC Film review illustrates this modern rock opera based on the phenomenally successful album from The Who. This 1969 concept album was given the big screen treatment by Ken Russell, who himself had built a reputation for his way out approach and execution when…

Three pages from Showtime May 1965. I’ve always considered this star studdied comedy Britain’s answer to the American ‘The Great Race’, however I see that this was in fact released around four months prior to the US made comedy. Ken films released a nice 400′ selected scenes edition, which turned out to be an excellent…

A page article from the January 1964 issue of Showtime and a re-release piece from 1984 found in an ABC Film Review. Released in 1963 this was Walt Disney’s eighteenth full length animated feature.  Based on an Arthurian legend, Disney showed it had the capability of making a film without a  princess. This was Walt’s…

A two page article from the May 1974 issue: This 1974 family adventure receives a 6.4 rating on the IMDb.  Based upon Arthur Ransome’s children’s novel, it’s the story of a group of children who man the sailing dinghies,’Swallow’ and ‘Amazon’, and play mock ‘sea-battles’. it stars Virginia McKenna and Ronald Fraser. PM films released…

A page from an unknown issue of ABC Film Review: This 1973 crime drama was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won seven of them! Paul Newman and Robert Redford had already appeared together in 1969s ‘Butch Cassidy and athe Sundance Kid’…. another box office success! I’d been among the audience at the first showing…

A two page article from the November 1974 issue, The sales of the film ‘That’ll be the day’ had been very good, so it was natural for Derek to ask EMI for the rights for the sequel, unfortunately he was somewhat discouraged when he was able to watch the film and decided to release a…

A two page advert from a Kine Weekly gives us a broad idea of the nature of this 1953 Italian production, originally called ‘Spartaco’. Pete Walker released the film on his Heritage label and and the 400′ must have fooled a number of collectors into thinking that this was the Kirk Douglas 1960 production. Here’s…

A two page article from the October 1952 issue: This 1959 drama receives a 6.8 rating on the IMDb and is a fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight. Directed by David Lean and featuring Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd and Nigel Patrick. Issued on Super 8 by Powell Films as…