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  • Gorgo

    Gorgo

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    A two page article from the November 1961 issue: This British 1961 film was the first giant monster on the rampage in colour and was the most expensive one ever made by its British backers the King Brothers.  MGM distributed the film in the USA, which explains how Red Fox Enterprises were able to add…

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  • GIGI

    GIGI

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    No pages from the ABC Film Review… but here’s very nice 16 page souvenir brochure to fill the gap. Ken films released a very pleasant 400′ which sold very nicely, however a few years later and following a telephone call from Bob Lane the MD of Ken Films, there began the start of a collaboration…

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  • F/X (Murder by Illusion)

    F/X (Murder by Illusion)

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    A page article from the August 1986 issue: This 1986 thriller receives a 6.7 rating on the IMDb and is a clever tale of a movie special effects man who is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster…. and then finds himself double crossed and on the…

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  • Frenzy

    Frenzy

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    A page from an unknown issue: This 1972 Alfred Hitchcock thriller receives a 7.4 rating on the IMDb and is often sited as his most brutal film. This was the his first movie shot in Britain since ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’ in 1956. Castle Films issued a 200′ edition and later a 400′…

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  • Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

    Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

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    A two page article from the July 1969 issue: This 1969 Hammer horror receives a 6.7 rating on the IMDb and was Hammer’s and Cushing’s fifth venture into the world of Mary Shelley. The Baron is conducting a series of experiments leading up to a brain transplant of a colleague into the body of a…

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  • The Fog

    The Fog

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    A two and a half page article from the November 1980 issue: I first saw this film in a London cinema (just off Leicester Square), during its first or second week of release… and for some reason was under the impression it was going to be a movie based on the book by Britain’s number…

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  • Fantastic Voyage

    Fantastic Voyage

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    Three pages from the November 1966 issue of Showtime: This spectacular fantasy was released in the UK just one month prior to Hammer’s equally exciting ‘One Million Years B.C.’ and together they catapulted Raquel Welch to fame. The story  follows a group of technicians who are shrunken to microscopic size and injected into the bloodstream…

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  • The Evil of Frankenstein

    The Evil of Frankenstein

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    A two page spread from the June 1964 issue: This film was my first taste of a Hammer ‘Frankenstein’ and the second feature ‘Nightmare’ was perhaps the better of the two films. But I can imagine the excitement Derek must have felt when he was given the go ahead to issue this title and several…

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  • Escape From Alcatraz

    Escape From Alcatraz

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    A two page article from the April 1979 issue of ABC Film review: This 1979 action drama receives a 7.6 rating on the IMDb, and is based on what is thought to be the only successful attempt to escape from this high security prison, when three men forge a clever plan. Starring Clint Eastwood, Patrick…

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  • Don’t Give Up The Ship

    Don’t Give Up The Ship

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    Here we have a re-release pressbook/sheets for this Jerry Lewis movie, his fifth solo film. Jerry wasn’t a very popular headliner with our customers and only a couple of the Derann staff enjoyed his energetic and manic humour! It was one of the full features released by Viacom on Super 8 and was issued as…

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