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A two page article from the February 1971 issue: This was another title we picked up from EMI and I’m sure there were better Hammer films to had, but the poster art caught Derek’s eye and that was it. Considering the hammering the critics had given this film it sold well, probably due to the…

A two page article from the August 1969 issue of the ABC Film Review: This 1968 drama receives a 7.0 rating on the IMDb, is a film adaptation of the successful stage production from writer Frank Marcus and follows the life of a soap opera actress whose world begins to unravel, when she hears her…

An original pressbook heads this entry. A science fiction thriller from 1957, starring Jeff Morrow and one from our contract with Ivy Film.  Ivy Film had purchased many of its titles from NTA (National Telefilm Associates), which had closed down its TV distribution the previous decade. Much of NTAs product was from  Twentieth Century Fox…

An eight page campaign book from one of its many UK re-releases leads us into one of Derann’s most successful selling Disney animated features. This 1967 Oscar nominated  musical adventure receives a meagre 7.6 rating on the IMDb and was Walt Disney’s nineteenth full length animated feature. Inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s Mogli stories and having…

A page article from the October 1972 issue. Considering Steve McQueen only appeared in around 26 feature films, during a career that was cruely cut short, it’s amazing that there was there were so many released on 8mm. ‘The Blob’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, ‘The Great Escape’, ‘Soldier in the Rain’, ‘The Cincinnati Kid’, ‘The Sand…

A two page article from the May 1981 issue of ABC Film Review. This 1981 Sci-fi comedy  receives a 5.5 rating on the IMDb and is a badly thought out reworking of the classic ‘Shrinking Man’ from 1957. Vivid colours and manic humour do not make a movie and this didn’t appeal in any great…

A two page article from the November 1969 issue: I remember thinking how studio bound the North Pole sequences looked to me when I first saw this in a cinema! My opinion hasn’t altered, but I do love the Michel Legrand music score. It is nevertheless a taut cold war thriller, with Rock Hudson, Ernest…

A potted review from the August 1974 issue: This 1972 horror thriller receives a 6.5 rating on the IMDb, stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas and is a mixture of Horror and Sci-Fi. UFA released a 2×400′ abridged version while in the USA it received a full feature release. I don’t possess the…

A two page article from the December April 1954 issue: This delightful comedy drama was the BAFTA winner for best film in 1954. Charles Laughton hogs the screen in every scene in which he appears, I’m not typically into a film of this nature, but was pleasantly entertained throughout. Even following a number of inquiries…

A two page article from the September 1973 issue of ABC Film Review, Clint Eastwood’s name was enough to sell any title and this tale of a gun-fighting stranger who’s hired to bring the townsfolk of Lago together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws was no exception. Castle Films released a 200′ in…