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Journey to the Center of Time
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Read more: Journey to the Center of TimeAfter a little research I’ve found that this was another title Derek picked up from Ember Films. I’m a great lover of time travel movies and although this is cheaply made (lots of clips from other films helping to keep down the costs), I still enjoyed it. It was given a sort of remake with…
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Paradise Hawaiian Style
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Read more: Paradise Hawaiian StyleThis was another of the Elvis Presley features we picked up from Grand National, whose contract also included the western ‘Last Train from Gun Hill’ and five additional Elvis Presley musicals: ‘G.I. Blues’, ‘Blue Hawaii’, ‘Girls!, Girls!, Girls!’, ‘Fun in Acapulco’ and ‘King Creole’, all originally released by Paramount Pictures and produced by Hal Wallis…
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The Nutcracker
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Read more: The NutcrackerAt just 27 minutes this would have made a wonderful 600′ release, but of course in 1976 600′ releases had yet to hit the market and we released as a 2×400′ (1 full 400′ and second containing just 200′). This enjoyable animated Soviet creation was produced and released in Russia in 1973 by Soyuzmultfilm, under…
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Last Train From Gunhill
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Read more: Last Train From GunhillThis highly acclaimed western from 1959 was directed by John Sturgess and had a brilliant and talented cast that included Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones and Earl Holliman. As with the other Hal Wallis productions we’d acquired from Grand National it was released uncut, but unlike the Elvis movies it failed to sell in…
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The Severed Arm
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Read more: The Severed ArmThis rather lame horror thriller was another film we’d picked up from Grand National. The title and its premise sound pretty good, with its plotline concerning five men who find themselves trapped in a cave after a rockfall and resort to cutting off the arm off one of their number in order to avoid starvation.…
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
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Read more: Flash Gordon Conquers the UniverseFlash Gordon was created by Alex Raymond and first appeared in 1934. The strip was inspired by, and created to compete with, the already established Buck Rogers adventure strip. This serial, released in 1940, was the third to be produced by Universal Pictures and as with the first two it starred Buster Crabbe, a former…
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Copacabana
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Read more: CopacabanaThis was a warm and generally amusing little musical from our Ivy Films deal. The prints, although only taken from a 16mm master, were very good and it was popular enough to have its own label. Designed by Marianne Frost it was printed by professional printers, not at Derann. I for one love the Marx…
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Pathe News (Generic Label)
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Read more: Pathe News (Generic Label)I doubt you would believe the number of copies we sold of these special reviews of the year! We added a couple new reviews to the list at least twice a year and it became difficult to keep all of them in stock at any one time. It was a similar story for the Movietones,…
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Night of Bloody Horror
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Read more: Night of Bloody HorrorI’m almost ashamed to admit that this was one that I never got around to watching on super 8 and only managed to see a few years ago on one of those cheap Mill Creek DVD compilations… and it turned out to be pretty average fare of the 1970s! I reckon it was on the…
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The Fabulous Jolson [#1 – #4]
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Read more: The Fabulous Jolson [#1 – #4]Derek was a big Al Jolson fan (The feature ‘The Jolson Story’ from the Columbia deal we had, was the first title to be released), but as early as 1970 Derann had another Jolson film in their sales catalogue ‘Hallelujah, I’m a Tramp’ from 1933, a comedy musical that co-starred Frank Morgan, Harry Langdon and…