Tigon
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Simon Simon
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Read more: Simon SimonAlong with the six features we picked up at Tigon this 30 minute comedy short from 1970 was added at the last moment. Edited to 1×400′ it was a welcome addition to our comedy section but was only moderately successful, even with the number of cameo appearances. Marianne Frost designed the label, which I printed.…
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The Tigon Shorts
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Read more: The Tigon ShortsOur contract with Tigon included four horror’s ‘The Sorcerers’, ‘The Blood Beast Terror’, The Blood on Satan’s Claw’ and ‘The Creeping Flesh’ and as what seemed to be the thing to do in those days, as soon as the feature had been released a 200′ edition was produced. I edited the short from ‘The Sorcerers’,…
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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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Virgin Witch
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Read more: Virgin WitchAnother Tigon production and if I’m honest this was chosen just to make it a six title contract. However saying that here is a film that had witchcraft, plenty of luscious lovelies and a fair sprinkling of naked flesh… not to mention a touch of lesbianism! It starred Ann and Vicki Michelle (real life sisters),…
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The Blood on Satan’s Claw
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Read more: The Blood on Satan’s ClawAnother of the titles we acquired from Tigon, this severely under-rated horror yarn fairly drips with a thick, creepy atmosphere that is hard to shake. The incredibly sexy Linda Hayden stars as the leader of a group of children who discover, then worship, the remnants of what appears to be a demon in a farmer’s…
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The Creeping Flesh
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Read more: The Creeping FleshAnother of the titles we acquired from Tigon, from whom Walton Films had already acquired and released the titles, ‘Witchfinder General’, ‘Curse of the Crimson Altar’, ‘Black Beauty’, ‘Hannie Caulder’ and ‘Doomwatch’. There didn’t seem much left to chose from and so this horror thriller with two icons of British horror, Peter Cushing and Christopher…
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What’s Good For the Goose
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Read more: What’s Good For the GooseAnother of the titles we acquired from Tigon. Derek saw the name of Norman Wisdom and that was that! Directed by future film mogul Menahem Golan, it has Norman as a mild-mannered banker getting turned on by the flower power generation, including a scrumptious Sally Geeson and having it off to a groovy soundtrack by…
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The Sorcerers
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Read more: The SorcerersWalton Films had already released a number of Tigon titles, ‘Witchfinder General’, ‘Curse of the Crimson Altar’, ‘Black Beauty’, ‘Hannie Caulder’ and ‘Doomwatch’, but we knew there were still a were a number of titles we would be able to market. They had their offices in Hammer House in Wardour Street and it only took…
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The Tigon Deal
Read more: The Tigon DealA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers, or obtain 16mm for our library. Contracts & Rights Chapter 9 Our adverts in Movie Maker show that the number of new titles we were producing was now enough to fill an entire page…