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A three page article from the January 1984 issue: This 1983 action thriller receives a 6.1 rating on the IMDb, and was a reworking of 1965 OO7 movie ‘Thunderball’ in which a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent steals two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated. It wasn’t a bad movie…

A three page article from the February 1963 issue, plus a souvenir brochure: Firstly ley me begin by saying that I’ve never seen this or any film version of this seafaring drama…. just not on my menu! Nominated for 7 Academy awards and running just under 3 hours it’s obviously an epic in every sense…

A two page article from the January 1952 issue: This movie has a good rating on IMDb and has Humphrey Bogart as a crusading District Attorney, who gets his chance to prosecute the boss of Murder Inc. Albert Mendoza. Originally distributed by Warner Brothers, this 1951 crime thriller was in fact an independent production from…

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…