Marianne Frost
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The Ghost of St. Michaels
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Read more: The Ghost of St. MichaelsI may not have been familiar with American comedy actor Edgar Kennedy, however I knew and was a huge fan of Will Hay. As soon as we saw the title at EMI I just knew it was right for our sales catalogue. Co-starring a very young Charles Hawtrey, Claude Hulbert and John Laurie and set…
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The Gil Lamb Comedies
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Read more: The Gil Lamb ComediesAs with Edgar Kennedy and Leon Errol, I wasn’t familiar with the this name, and he was on par with Errol with sales. Again Derek was able to use 16mm lavender prints as the master material resulting in very nice Super 8 prints. Our 1967 sales catalogue lists four titles. ‘Ghost Busters’, ‘Bashful Romeo’, ‘Grunt…
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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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Dangerous Exile
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Read more: Dangerous ExileThis historical drama features a host of British stars, including Belinda Lee, Keith Michell, Anne Heywood and Finlay Currie to name just a few, but its main star is Louis Jourdan who would really hit stardom the following year in his next film, ‘Gigi’. There’s also a 13 year old Richard O’Sullivan who would become…
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The Blood Beast Terror
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Read more: The Blood Beast TerrorOne of the titles from our contract with Tigon and wasn’t on par with the other horrors we picked up at the time. It has a solid cast with Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng, Wanda Ventham and ‘Doctor Who’ regular Kevin Stoney, but they are all wasted in what is a very poor effort indeed. Peter…
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The Chiltern Hundreds
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Read more: The Chiltern HundredsThis light comedy was one of the titles we picked up from Rank Film Distrbutors for our first contract. Directed by ‘Paddy’ Cartairs it revolved around Tony Pym, who’s out to impress and marry wealthy American June Farrell and decides to run as Parlimentary candidate, only to discover unexpected competition from the family butler, who…
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The Charlie Chase Comedies
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Read more: The Charlie Chase ComediesUnlike Edgar Kennedy, I was familiar with the name of Charlie Chase as I’d seen ‘Another Wild Idea’ which had featured a ray which had temporarily rid him of his inhibitions and landed him in hilarious trouble. This was another small group of titles Derek decided to issue along with the Edgar Kennedy, Leon Errol…
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The Legend of Dracula
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Read more: The Legend of DraculaThis was just one of the many titles we picked up from Norman Salter at his one man business Viscom, in Wardour Street. Originally titled ‘In Search of Dracula’, it was an 82 minute documentary exploring the legends of vampires, using books, paintings and early films on the subject. It was actually an eerie, but…
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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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The Edgar Kennedy Comedies
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Read more: The Edgar Kennedy ComediesI wasn’t familiar with the name of Edgar Kennedy and his ‘slow burning anger’ comedy when Derek decided to issue a number of the many comedy shorts he’d made for RKO. What I do recall is that Derek was able to use 16mm lavender prints as the master material and that the quality was first…