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  • Journey to the Center of Time

    Journey to the Center of Time

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    After a little research I’ve found that this was another title Derek picked up from Ember Films. I’m a great lover of time travel movies and although this is cheaply made (lots of clips from other films helping to keep down the costs), I still enjoyed it. It was given a sort of remake with…

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  • Paradise Hawaiian Style

    Paradise Hawaiian Style

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    This was another of the Elvis Presley features we picked up from Grand National, whose contract also included the western ‘Last Train from Gun Hill’ and five additional Elvis Presley musicals: ‘G.I. Blues’, ‘Blue Hawaii’, ‘Girls!, Girls!, Girls!’,  ‘Fun in Acapulco’ and ‘King Creole’, all originally released by Paramount Pictures and  produced by Hal Wallis…

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  • Last Train From Gunhill

    Last Train From Gunhill

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    This highly acclaimed western from 1959 was directed by John Sturgess and had a brilliant and talented cast that included Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones and Earl Holliman. As with the other Hal Wallis productions we’d acquired from Grand National it was released uncut, but unlike the Elvis movies it failed to sell in…

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  • Night of Bloody Horror

    Night of Bloody Horror

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    I’m almost ashamed to admit that this was one that I never got around to watching on super 8 and only managed to see a few years ago on one of those cheap Mill Creek DVD compilations… and it turned out to be pretty average fare of the 1970s! I reckon it was on the…

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  • King Creole

    King Creole

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    Apparently 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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