Super 8 Film Releases

A two page article from the January 1962 issue: I can’t admit to being a big Cliff Richard fan, but I did go to see at least three of his movies at my local ABC and this was the first. This Warner-Pathe release was a big hit in both the pop charts and the film…

A page from an unknown issue: I originally saw this early Hammer Science Fiction thriller on a double bill along with William Castle’s 1958 thriller ‘Macabre’ at a local “flea pit” in the mid 60s. The sequence in the lift stayed with me for weeks! We picked up the 8mm rights along with ‘The Quatermass…

A two page article from the December 1955 issue: I saw this classic musical fantasy at the ABC in Stourbridge, when it was given a re-release along with “Tom Thumb’ in the early 70s. I was enchanted by the whole experience and own it on DVD, Blu-ray (3D) and 4K. Ken Films released the title…

A page from an unknown issue of the ABC Film Review: This 1968 horror drama receives a 6.7 rating on the IMDb, and I felt shell shocked as I left the cinema when I saw on it’s initial theatrical release… it was so violent for its time. Walton Films released this a 4×400′ edited feature…

A two & ½ page article from the December 1988 issue of the ABC Film Review: This 1988 adventure comedy receives a 7.7 rating on the IMDb and is the fantastical tale of a world where all our favourite cartoon characters are alive and living beside us. Stupendous and often hectic fun as  a  toon-hating…

A 24 Souvenir brochure heads this entry. This winner of ten Academy Awards was released in 1961 receives a measly 7.6 on the IMDb! This musical and ‘South Pacific’ are perhaps my favourite movie musicals of all time. It received a feature release from Kempski in ‘Scoptimax’ and Derann was later lucky enough to pick…

A potted review from Film Illustrated Monthly 1949, Vol. 4 No. 6: One of the feature titles on our contract with ‘Ivy Film’ in New York. Starring John Wayne, Gail Russell and Gig Young, it was produced by Republic Pictures and released in 1948.  With Wayne in probably in his most romantic role as Ralls,…

2½ pages from the March 1973 issue of ABC Film Review: I allways thought this was a strange film to release on Super 8, however Iver Films issued a number of films that were a surprise the the collecting community. The story is set during World War II, with a deserting soldier dressing as a…

A four page retrospective article from Films and Filming October 1962. This 1935 musical comedy receives a 7.7 rating on the IMDb, A wonderful example of how to fill 101 minutes. Fred Astaire plays an American dancer who comes to Britain and falls for a model, who then mistakes him for his producer. Some fine…

A small entry from Picture Show dated November 1955: This 1953 animated short  receives a 7.1 rating on the IMDb, We released so many Walt Disney shorts during 1991 -2000 that it’s hard to pick out just one, however this ten minute Academy Award winner is one of the few that appears in any of…