Grand National
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Songs From Tickle Me
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Read more: Songs From Tickle MeWe’d already disscovered the ‘Elvis’ factor when it came to sales and rental with the highly successful package of films from Grand National so to find this in the EMI catalogue was a bonus. Some great musical numbers, all gleaned from early LPs in oder to save money. We released a 400′ a 4×400 and…
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Tickle Me
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Read more: Tickle MeWe’d already discovered the ‘Elvis’ factor when it came to sales and rental with the highly successful package of films from Grand National so to find this in the EMI catalogue was a bonus. Not one of his best films, but one I had enjoyed at the ABC in Wolverhampton when it was first released.…
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Knuckle Men
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Read more: Knuckle MenThis was another title that was already available to hire in our 16mm library when I joined the staff at Derann in mid 1975. It had been picked up from Grand National Pictures and was a typical 70s action thriller with lots of fist fights. Derek edited a 400′ and a label was ordered from…
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Massacre in Rome
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Read more: Massacre in RomeThis historical war drama was something of a first for us, we were much more at home with horror or adult sexromp comedies. Maurice Wilson, MD of Grand National, almost gave the rights this title to us. Based on a true incident in which on March 23, 1944: 33 German soldiers were killed by a…
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Sixty Glorious Years
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Read more: Sixty Glorious YearsAs this colourful historical drama was originally released in 1938. I assume that this was a title Derek had acquired from a UK distributor for a re-release… possibly Grand National. It may have already have been released as a feature in black and white (someone out the may know the answer), however this was a…
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The Flesh Eaters
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Read more: The Flesh EatersThis little gem was released to theaters in the USA in 1964, however it wasn’t until it was re-released in 1968 that ‘Grand National Pictures’ (GNP) got around to releasing it in the UK. The original label had been quickly put together by Derek using publicity material from Grand National and was only used for…
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The Quick and the Dead
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Read more: The Quick and the DeadYet another title picked up from Grand National Pictures. A pretty standard war drama with American troops trying to make it back through enemy-occupied territory to the safety of their own lines. A quickie label from Marianne Frost and printed by myself inhouse. Label courtesy of Peter Brooke at ‘SPROCKETS’ .
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G.I. Blues
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Read more: G.I. BluesThis was the second most popular 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: ‘Blue Hawaii’, ‘Girls! Girls! Girls!’, ‘Paradise Hawaiian Style’, ‘Fun in Acapulco’ and ‘King Creole’, all originally released by Paramount Pictures and…
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Blue Hawaii
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Read more: Blue HawaiiThis was the best seller 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’, ‘Girls! Girls! Girls!’, ‘Paradise Hawaiian Style’, ‘Fun in Acapulco’ and ‘King Creole’, all originally released by Paramount Pictures and produced…
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Paradise Hawaiian Style
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Read more: Paradise Hawaiian StyleThis 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…