Derann Film Labels
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The Creeping Flesh
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Read more: The Creeping FleshAnother of the titles we acquired from Tigon, from whom Walton Films had already acquired and released the titles, ‘Witchfinder General’, ‘Curse of the Crimson Altar’, ‘Black Beauty’, ‘Hannie Caulder’ and ‘Doomwatch’. There didn’t seem much left to chose from and so this horror thriller with two icons of British horror, Peter Cushing and Christopher…
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Grave of the Vampire
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Read more: Grave of the VampireThis was one of the many titles we’d picked up from Ember Films, another small independent distributor that Derek had dealt with many times even before I joined in 1975. Most were rights for our 16mm rental side, (‘The Shooting’, ‘Dial Rat for Terror’, Togetherness’ and others), but a few also had the 8mm thrown…
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Journey to the Center of Time
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Read more: Journey to the Center of TimeI not sure where we picked this up from, it had been edited and Filmatic laboratories had made the negative and were just delivering prints when I joined the staff in the middle of 1975. I’m a great lover of time travel movies and athough this is cheaply made (lots of clips from other films…
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What’s Good For the Goose
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Read more: What’s Good For the GooseAnother of the titles we acquired from Tigon. Derek saw the name of Norman Wisdom and that was that! Directed by future film mogul Menahem Golan, it has Norman as a mild-mannered banker getting turned on by the flower power generation, including a scrumptious Sally Geeson and having it off to a groovy soundtrack by…
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Night of the Bloody Apes
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Read more: Night of the Bloody ApesThis Mexican horror from 1969, originally titled ‘La Horripilante Bestia Humana’ has its fair share of cheap gore and a liberal helping of female wrestlers! It also featured footage of an actual human heart transplant operation in two separate scenes and it was these that added it to the video nasty list, where it remained…
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The Sorcerers
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Read more: The SorcerersWalton Films had already released a number of Tigon titles, ‘Witchfinder General’, ‘Curse of the Crimson Altar’, ‘Black Beauty’, ‘Hannie Caulder’ and ‘Doomwatch’, but we knew there were still a were a number of titles we would be able to market. They had their offices in Hammer House in Wardour Street and it only took…
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Generic 200′
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Read more: Generic 200′It was a natural step, that as we introduced labels for specific titles, that it was decided that we should have labels for most if not all of the films we released. Rather than produce a vast number of individual labels a Generic label was the ideal solution, as some films just ticked over and…
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King Creole
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Read more: King CreoleApparently James Dean was first in the running for this role that, several years later, would be played by Elvis Presley. It was to have been a gritty urban drama based on the best selling 1952 novel by Harold Robbins ‘A Stone for Danny Fisher’. Following Dean’s death and the casting of Elvis, it was…
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Countess Dracula
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Read more: Countess DraculaThis was Derann’s first Super 8 Hammer feature in colour and was one of the films included in our first contract with Rank Film Distributors. Derek had a soft spot for the Norman Wisdom film ‘Trouble in Store’ and admittedly this title, along with it’s two 200′ extracts (‘The Window Dresser’ and ‘Don’t Laugh at…
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Kronos
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Read more: KronosA science fiction thriller from 1957, starring Jeff Morrow and another 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 (who owned 50% of NTA), and…