Super 8 Film Releases

Three pages from the October 1954 of Films and Filming: This 1954 drama receives an 8.1 rating on the IMDb and was nominated for twelve Academy awards and won won eight of them.  This was Brando’s sixth motion picture, he plays Terry and he  runs errands for Johnny Friendly who is a gang lord and…

A two page article from the December 1957 issue: Rightfully considered one of the best supernatural thrillers of the 50s, this is an intellegent working of the M R James short story ‘Casting the Runes’. Dana Andrews and Niall MacGinnis give us a masterclass in the art of the casual underplay which all leads to…

A page article from the February 1980 issue: Many 8mm customers must have been surprised when Walton Films issued this title, however the older customers would have remembered that Walton had released 200′ and 50′ glamour films many years earlier. In truth the Walton ’empire’ had been built from the sales of those early entries.…

A three page article from the January 1984 issue: This 1983 action thriller receives a 6.1 rating on the IMDb, and was a reworking of 1965 OO7 movie ‘Thunderball’ in which a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent steals two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated. It wasn’t a bad movie…

A three page article from the February 1963 issue, plus a souvenir brochure: Firstly ley me begin by saying that I’ve never seen this or any film version of this seafaring drama…. just not on my menu! Nominated for 7 Academy awards and running just under 3 hours it’s obviously an epic in every sense…

A two page article from the January 1952 issue: This movie has a good rating on IMDb and has Humphrey Bogart as a crusading District Attorney, who gets his chance to prosecute the boss of Murder Inc. Albert Mendoza. Originally distributed by Warner Brothers, this 1951 crime thriller was in fact an independent production from…

A two page article from the February 1971 issue: This was another title we picked up from EMI and I’m sure there were better Hammer films to had, but the poster art caught Derek’s eye and that was it. Considering the hammering the critics had given this film it sold well, probably due to the…

A two page article from the August 1969 issue of the ABC Film Review: This 1968 drama receives a 7.0 rating on the IMDb, is a film adaptation of the successful stage production from writer Frank Marcus and follows the life of a soap opera actress whose world begins to unravel, when she hears her…

An original pressbook heads this entry. A science fiction thriller from 1957, starring Jeff Morrow and one 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…

An eight page campaign book from one of its many UK re-releases leads us into one of Derann’s most successful selling Disney animated features. This 1967 Oscar nominated  musical adventure receives a meagre 7.6 rating on the IMDb and was Walt Disney’s nineteenth full length animated feature. Inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s Mogli stories and having…