Ged Jones

  • Tickle Me

    Tickle Me

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    We’d already discovered the ‘Elvis’ factor when it came to sales and rental with the highly successful package of films from Grand National so to find this in the EMI catalogue was a bonus. Not one of his best films, but one I had enjoyed at the ABC in Wolverhampton when it was first released.…

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  • Carry on Abroad

    Carry on Abroad

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    One of the two ‘Carry On’ films we picked up from our second contract with Rank Film Distributors. This film and ‘Carry on Camping’ outsold any title we had previously released. Released as a 4×400′ plus two 400′ extracts all made it into the Derann sales catalogue. Another label designed by Marianne Frost. Label courtesy…

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  • George Formby Souvenir

    George Formby Souvenir

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    I’ve tried hard to remember something, anything about where this was acquired, but to no avail. All i can say is that it was a pretty good seller… but all of George’s titles sold well. This is the entry in the 1978 sales catalogue says. “George sings ‘Little Stick of Blackpool Rock’, ‘Guarding the Home…

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  • I Don’t Want to be Born

    I Don’t Want to be Born

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    Yet another feature from our second contract with Rank Film Distributors. This  production from 1975 is also known as ‘The Monster’, ‘It Lives Within Her’ and ‘Sharon’s Baby’. Joan Collins, Eileen Atkins, Ralph Bates and Donald Pleasence are the stars of this ‘exorcist’ inspired tale of a woman who gives birth to a baby, a…

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  • Night Hair Child

    Night Hair Child

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    Another feature from our second contract with Rank Film Distributors. This Italian production from 1972 was originally entitled ‘La tua presenza nuda!’ and is also known as ‘What the Peeper Saw’ and ‘Night Child’. The film received minor cuts for its initial UK cinema release. However in 1978 the introduction of the Protection of Children…

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  • Round the Bend

    Round the Bend

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    It’s taken me some time to work this one out. A 200′ comedy short that was in fact an edited episode of a 1962 TV series aired under the title ‘Dial RIX’. This episode had Bernard Bresslaw and Bernard Cribbins feturing in a light hearted look at the motor car. It was already available when…

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  • The Woman Eeater

    The Woman Eeater

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    One of the titles we picked up from Stan Hart at Supreme Films situated in Old Compton Street. Not the greatest title, but the quality was very good…. better than the some other titles in the contract ‘The Trollenberg Terror’ and ‘Behemoth, The Sea Monster’.  Another label designed by Marianne Frost. Box art courtesy of…

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  • Movie Magazine #2: Hammer House of Horror

    Movie Magazine #2: Hammer House of Horror

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    Due to the surpeising success of ‘Movie Magazine No1’ issuing a second volume was a no brainer and as both Derek and I were big fans of the Hammer horrors it was decided that this would be the suject of number two. There were sequences from ‘Scars of Dracula’, ‘Horror of Frankenstein’, ‘Countess Dracula’, ‘Quatermass…

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  • When Girls Undress

    When Girls Undress

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    This was pure European titillation comedy! Its original German title was ‘Matratzen-Tango’, and when ever it was shown to an audience or any of the many working mens clubs it went down a treat! Our Super 8 prints were only average but that didn’t deter the sales. The label was designed by Marianne Frost Label…

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  • Generic “B” Western

    Generic “B” Western

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    By the mid 1980’s we had accumulated negatives from numerous US distributors and it was obvious that the popularity of the B western had been one of their largest catalogue fillers. We would get the lab to run off test prints and those that  didn’t look too bad mad their way into our sales catalogues.…

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