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A page from an unknown issue of the ABC Film Review: This 1968 horror drama receives a 6.7 rating on the IMDb, and I felt shell shocked as I left the cinema when I saw on it’s initial theatrical release… it was so violent for its time. Walton Films released this a 4×400′ edited feature…

A two & ½ page article from the December 1988 issue of the ABC Film Review: This 1988 adventure comedy receives a 7.7 rating on the IMDb and is the fantastical tale of a world where all our favourite cartoon characters are alive and living beside us. Stupendous and often hectic fun as  a  toon-hating…

A 24 Souvenir brochure heads this entry. This winner of ten Academy Awards was released in 1961 receives a measly 7.6 on the IMDb! This musical and ‘South Pacific’ are perhaps my favourite movie musicals of all time. It received a feature release from Kempski in ‘Scoptimax’ and Derann was later lucky enough to pick…

A potted review from Film Illustrated Monthly 1949, Vol. 4 No. 6: One of the feature titles on our contract with ‘Ivy Film’ in New York. Starring John Wayne, Gail Russell and Gig Young, it was produced by Republic Pictures and released in 1948.  With Wayne in probably in his most romantic role as Ralls,…

2½ pages from the March 1973 issue of ABC Film Review: I allways thought this was a strange film to release on Super 8, however Iver Films issued a number of films that were a surprise the the collecting community. The story is set during World War II, with a deserting soldier dressing as a…

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…