Ged Jones
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Hercules
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Read more: HerculesThis was one of a number of titles Derek had picked up from Stan Hart, who operated a small but lucrative 35mm distribution company called Supreme. Like much of his product this was purchased by Stan for re-release around the many second run cinemas. It had been part of the Derann 16mm hire library for…
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The Leon Errol Comedies
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Read more: The Leon Errol ComediesAs with Edgar Kennedy, I wasn’t familiar with the his name, and he was far less popular with Derann customers that either Edgar Kennedy and Charlie Chase. Again Derek was able to use 16mm lavender prints as the master material resulting in very nice Super 8 prints. Our 1967 sales catalogue lists five titles. ‘Shocking…
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The Tigon Shorts
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Read more: The Tigon ShortsOur contract with Tigon included four horror’s ‘The Sorcerers’, ‘The Blood Beast Terror’, The Blood on Satan’s Claw’ and ‘The Creeping Flesh’ and as what seemed to be the thing to do in those days, as soon as the feature had been released a 200′ edition was produced. I edited the short from ‘The Sorcerers’,…
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The Flesh Eaters
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Read more: The Flesh EatersThis little gem was released to theaters in the USA in 1964, however it wasn’t until it was re-released in 1968 that ‘Grand National Pictures’ (GNP) got around to releasing it in the UK. The original label had been quickly put together by Derek using publicity material from Grand National and was only used for…
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The Ghost of St. Michaels
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Read more: The Ghost of St. MichaelsI may not have been familiar with American comedy actor Edgar Kennedy, however I knew and was a huge fan of Will Hay. As soon as we saw the title at EMI I just knew it was right for our sales catalogue. Co-starring a very young Charles Hawtrey, Claude Hulbert and John Laurie and set…
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The Gil Lamb Comedies
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Read more: The Gil Lamb ComediesAs with Edgar Kennedy and Leon Errol, I wasn’t familiar with the this name, and he was on par with Errol with sales. Again Derek was able to use 16mm lavender prints as the master material resulting in very nice Super 8 prints. Our 1967 sales catalogue lists four titles. ‘Ghost Busters’, ‘Bashful Romeo’, ‘Grunt…
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The Quick and the Dead
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Read more: The Quick and the DeadYet another title picked up from Grand National Pictures. A pretty standard war drama with American troops trying to make it back through enemy-occupied territory to the safety of their own lines. A quickie label from Marianne Frost and printed by myself inhouse. Label courtesy of Peter Brooke at ‘SPROCKETS’ .
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Dangerous Exile
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Read more: Dangerous ExileThis historical drama features a host of British stars, including Belinda Lee, Keith Michell, Anne Heywood and Finlay Currie to name just a few, but its main star is Louis Jourdan who would really hit stardom the following year in his next film, ‘Gigi’. There’s also a 13 year old Richard O’Sullivan who would become…
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The Blood Beast Terror
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Read more: The Blood Beast TerrorOne of the titles from our contract with Tigon and wasn’t on par with the other horrors we picked up at the time. It has a solid cast with Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng, Wanda Ventham and ‘Doctor Who’ regular Kevin Stoney, but they are all wasted in what is a very poor effort indeed. Peter…
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The Chiltern Hundreds
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Read more: The Chiltern HundredsThis light comedy was one of the titles we picked up from Rank Film Distrbutors for our first contract. Directed by ‘Paddy’ Cartairs it revolved around Tony Pym, who’s out to impress and marry wealthy American June Farrell and decides to run as Parlimentary candidate, only to discover unexpected competition from the family butler, who…