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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…
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Generic Adult Film
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Read more: Generic Adult FilmIn the early days of Derann, there had always been a market for an ‘X’ rated movie [for overseas readers let me add that an X certificate in the UK was an indication that the film was suitable for viewing by people over 16 years of age. The British censor was very harsh and would…
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
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Read more: Girls! Girls! Girls!This was the third most popular 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’, ‘Paradise Hawaiian Style’, ‘Fun in Acapulco’ and ‘King Creole’, all originally released by Paramount Pictures and produced…
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The History of Mr. Polly
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Read more: The History of Mr. PollyReleased in 1949 (which makes it just one year younger than myself), this is a light hearted affair with John Mills as the quiet and ‘lost’ Alfred Polly, as he tries to find his place in the busy and harsh world. One of the titles from our first contract with Rank Film Distributors and based…
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Virgin Witch
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Read more: Virgin WitchAnother Tigon production and if I’m honest this was chosen just to make it a six title contract. However saying that here is a film that had witchcraft, plenty of luscious lovelies and a fair sprinkling of naked flesh… not to mention a touch of lesbianism! It starred Ann and Vicki Michelle (real life sisters),…