Ged Jones

  • Kronos

    Kronos

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    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…

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  • The Jungle Book

    The Jungle Book

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    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…

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  • Junior Bonner

    Junior Bonner

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    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…

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  • The Incredible Shrinking Woman

    The Incredible Shrinking Woman

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    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…

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  • Ice Station Zebra

    Ice Station Zebra

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    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…

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  • Horror Express

    Horror Express

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    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…

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  • Hobsons’s Choice

    Hobsons’s Choice

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    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…

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  • Highplains Drifter

    Highplains Drifter

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    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…

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  • Hello, Dolly!

    Hello, Dolly!

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    Nice 36 page souvenir brochure and our feature label open this weeks entry. This 1969 musical comedy receives a meager 7 rating on the IMDb. Barbra Streisand is wonderful as the effervescent Dolly Levi who travels to Yonkers to find a partner for “half-a-millionaire” Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece’s intended, and his two…

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  • The Guns of San Sebastian

    The Guns of San Sebastian

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    A two page article from the May 1968 issue of the ABC Film Review: This 1952 action adventure receives a 6.5 rating on the IMDb and stars Anthony Quinn as outlaw   Leon Alastray who is being hunted by the Spanish army, but is given sanctuary by a priest in a village terrorized by marauding…

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