Super 8 Film Releases

A page article from the July 1980 issue: This 1979 family adventure receives an 7.4 rating on the IMDb. Directed by Carroll Ballard and starring Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney and Teri Garr. This Oscar nominated movie follows the the drama of a young lad is shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast of Africa…

A page article from the January 1978 issue of ABC Film Review: This 1977 Sci-Fi horror receives a 6.3 rating on the IMDb. Directed by the specialist in body horrors David Cronenberg and starred Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore and Terri Hanauer. Surgery leaves a Montreal motorcyclist with a bloodsucking appendage in her armpit and soon…

Full page from a Films and filming magazie: This 1957 crime thiller receives a 7.2 rating on the IMDb. Directed by Cy Endfield it stars Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan and William Hartnell. A BAFTA nominated film about a rookie trucker trying to expose the rackets run by his boss. PM Films…

A three page article from the August 1965 issue of ABC Film Review: This 1965 historical epic receives a 5.8 rating on the IMDb. Directed by Henry Levin it starred Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif and James Mason. Columbia Home Movies released a 200′ colour/silent sound/silent editions. Box art found on the internet.

A two page article from the July 1978 issue. This 1977 live action/animation family fantasy receives a 6.3 rating on the IMDb. Oscar nominated movie directed by Don Chaffey & Don Bluth (animation) it featured Sean Marshall, Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Shelley Winters and Mickey Rooney. Walt Disney were still trying to emulate the success…

A two page article from the August 1978 issue of the ABC Film Review. This 1978 action drama receives a 6.8 rating on the IMDb. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris. A thoroughly enjoyable romp about a British banker who hires a former British Army colonel turned…

A two page article from the December 1968 issue: This 1968 western drama receives a 5.6 rating on the IMDb. Directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Stephen Boyd and Jack Hawkins this western features a group of European aristocrats who while hunting in New Mexico in the 1880s come into conflict…

A two page article from the July 1976 issue: This 1976 war drama receives a 6.5 rating on the IMDb. This BAFTA nominated film was directed by Jack Gold and featured Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer and Simon Ward. Iver Films released the movie as a 2×400.  Search as I might I can’t find a decent…

A two page article from an August 1962 issue: This 1961 fantasy adventure receives a 6.7 rating on the IMDb, but deserves much better, This was the first film with stop motion from Ray Harryhausen I ever saw and I can still remember the thrill of those clashing waves that changed colour as the music…

A page article from the March 1978 issue of ABC Film Review. This 1977 Sci-fi horror  receives a 4 rating on the IMDb, but this didn’t stop the super 8 collectors making this a popular purchase. An astronaut is transformed into a murderous gelatinous mass after returning from an ill-fated space voyage. The 400′ release…