Miscellaneous

It wasn’t their lack of persuasion from United Artists that caused the absence of a selection of this Chaplinesque characters antics in the Derann sales catalogues, no this ‘Pink Pests’ name was constantly brought into every conversation we had with our contact at UA, (head of TV sales… as they didn’t have a 16mm/8mm sales…

CARRY ON SERGEANT: 1958 In September 1958 a new British institution was born with the release of the first of a new comedy film series. ‘Carry On Sergeant’ was the UKs third most successful film of that year and the series would continue into the 1990s. There was some talk of a revival just a…

There will be a number of readers who know the story concerning our deal from 1968/9, a landmark contract for Derann in which we acquired the rights to several Universal/Paramount titles that included ‘The Evil of Frankenstein’, ‘Magnificent Obsession’, ‘Flower Drum Song’, ‘The Mummy’, ‘The Invisible Man’, ‘To Hell and Back’, ‘Blue Skies’ and its…