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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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′…

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…

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…

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…

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…