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Film Club Sky 328 Newsletter Freesat 306 APR/MAY 2020 Virgin 445 Freeview 81 Film Club Sky 328 newsletter Freesat 306 APR/MAY 2020 Virgin 445 Dear Supporters of Film and TV History, What an awful time we are all witnessing, we do hope you are all safe, well and wallowing in nostalgia on Talking Pictures TV. It’s nice to have a bit of a way to escape from the news every once in a while. It’s been a challenging time here at HQ trying to keep everything going and keep the channel on air for you all. We are working our hardest and keeping the cinema doors firmly open. Renown Pictures also continues to be open for business and we are still posting orders to you all every day. It might be difficult for some of you to get to a post box at the moment; we love receiving post but if it is difficult you can order with us over the phone using a card if that helps, it’s always nice to talk to you all. We were so sad to hear of the passing of Roy Hudd on the 15th of March. A great friend and supporter of the channel, he will be greatly missed. A tribute to his life and work is on page 5 of this newsletter. ‘At last,’ I hear you cry! That’s right – it’s the long awaited release of our next new DVD box set The Renown Crime Collection Volume 6! Filled with unseen and rare crimes and cases to crack, with optional subtitles, all for just £20 for the whole collection. Films include the very rare, previously lost British crime filmWho Killed The Cat? and as a bonus feature along side Police Dog the film, is a very rare police dog training film from the 1970s. There are hours and hours to help keep you entertained in these days of being confined to barracks! For those who missed any of the previous editions of our very popular crime collections, if you buy this new Volume 6, you can get any of the previous volumes for just £10 EACH! Also in this month’s newsletter is the release of our beautiful Bombshell Compacts – which really are a must for all bombshells – and our limited edition new Talking Pictures TV Bag, perfect for picking up those necessities – just £10 while stocks last. As we can’t visit the pub, we bring the pub to you with the Roll Out The Barrel DVD release from the BFI, looking back at the history of British pubs on pages 14-15; there’s more bombshells with a brilliant book on Ruth Ellis, Diana Dors, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield on page 7, plus a box set of the series OUT with Tom Bell that all of you have been enjoying recently on the channel on pages 20-21. Also, rare new DVD releases, Passport To Shame, Whirlpool and Appointment With Venus and, as requested, Volume 1 of the BFI Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box, to complete the set. Something for everyone! Fans of our Imperial War Museum Season will enjoy many new films from their archives over the coming months, including: IWM: The Team (1941), a Second World War short film stressing the importance of team work and IWM: Salvage with a Smile (1940), a Second World War comedy short explaining the value of salvage with Kathleen Harrison and Ronald Shiner. To celebrate the 75th Anniversary of VE Day on Friday 8th May, we have a Vera Lynn CD on page 10 with lots of favourites for you to sing along to. Good news, Noel has finally, after years of trying, managed to unlock the vaults at Paramount to bring some very rare premieres to Talking Pictures TV this month, for many of which this will be their UK Television premiere. More info on pages 24-25. We also have a host of premieres coming on the channel, including Up The Junction (1967) with Suzy Kendall and Dennis Waterman, No Room At The Inn (1948) with Freda Jackson, Joy Shelton and Hermione Baddeley; Houdini (1953) with Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh and Another Time Another Place (1958) with Lana Turner and Sean Connery. Heartfelt thanks to all of you for being so supportive when we had to postpone our 7th Festival Of Film in St Albans. For those of you who were booked into the Premier Inn for this event, they will refund you if you contact them as we managed to get them to overturn their ruling on refunds for our ticket holders. We now await the re-opening of the venue to get a new date. The Frank Marker Windsor event has also been post- poned, but we are all looking forward to October’s Stockport Film Festival, where surely we can all meet up once again and enjoy a day together. Until next month let’s stay safe, keep our spirits up and dream of the day we can all meet up in the ‘Quiet Woman’ for a swift ’arf, have a pie at Sid’s Café, get Sam Kydd to give us a taxi ride to the party and share an embrace like the Huggett family! ’Til we meet again, some sunny day, keep smiling through... Until next month, thank you as always for your continued support, Very best wishes, Sarah, Noel & Neill 1 You will receive everything on both pages Scotland Yard needs you! A collection of Crime Capers from the 1960s, 50s and 60s. Can you solve the crimes? Films include: Who Killed the Cat? with NEW EXCLUSIVE Mervyn Johns, I Met a Murderer starring James Mason, Smokescreen with Peter Vaughan and RENOWN 3 DVD SET Christopher Lee in Police Dog. Disc One CRIME COLLECTION WHO KILLED THE CAT (1966) Running time: 83 mins. A ‘lost’ British crime thriller directed by Montgomery Tully. Volume 6 Cast: Mary Merrall, Ellen Pollock, Amy Dalby, Mervyn Johns, Vanda Godsell, Conrad Phillips. JUST £20 A scheming widow persecutes three old ladies, even poisoning WITH FREE UK POSTAGE a pet cat – but fate takes its revenge on her… I MET A MURDERER (1939) Running time: 75 mins. Call Us Now On Freephone A British thriller directed by Roy Kellino. Cast: James Mason, Pamela Mason, Sylvia Coleridge, William Devlin, 0808 178 8212 Peter Coke, Esma Cannon, Sheila Morgan, James Harcourt and Sheppy as The Dog. A murderer on the Or 01923 290555 run meets a young woman who conceals her suspicions because she wants to use the story for a book. DANGEROUS GROUND (1934) 64 mins. A crime drama directed by Norman Walker. Cast: Malcolm Keen, Jack Raine, Joyce Kennedy, Martin Lewis, Kathleen Kelly and Gordon Begg. Two insurance detectives work with the police to identify and bring down a crime kingpin. One is murdered, but his partner and his daughter continue. Edited by David Lean. Disc Two KILL HER GENTLY (1957) 70 mins. A Hitchcockian British thriller, directed by Charles Saunders. Cast: Griffith Jones, Maureen Connell, Marc Lawrence, George Mikell, Shay Gorman, Marianne Brauns. Two escaped convicts are picked up by a motorist who recognises the men from descriptions heard on the radio. Instead of turning them in, he decides to hire them to murder his wife. SMOKESCREEN (1964) 71mins. A crime drama, directed by Jim O’Connolly. Cast: Peter Vaughan, John Carson, Yvonne Romain, Gerald Flood, Sam Kydd, Deryck Guyler. An insurance investigator travels to Brighton to assess the apparent death of a businessman, after his burning car was seen crashing over a cliff into the sea. The car is recovered and no body is found, – accident, insurance fraud or murder? 2 You will receive everything on both pages Disc Two continued POLICE DOG (1955) 70 mins. NEW EXCLUSIVE A crime drama, directed by Derek Twist. Cast: Joan Rice, Tim Turner, Sandra Dorne, Charles Victor, RENOWN 3 DVD SET Nora Gordon, Cecil Brock, John Le Mesurier, James Gilbert, Ian Fleming, Rex III, (as The Dog), and Christopher Lee. When his colleague is shot dead by a CRIME COLLECTION burglar, PC Frank Mason vows to serve justice. He is placed in Volume 6 charge of a stray Alsatian dog now being used for police work. Meanwhile his partner’s killer decides to break into a safe. JUST £20 Will Turner and his dog find the man and bring him to justice? WITH FREE UK POSTAGE ONE MAN ONE DOG (1971) 13 mins. Filmed at Scotland Yard. An insightful film on police dogs and Call Us Now On Freephone their handlers revealing the state of crime in London and the surrounding areas in the 1970s. 0808 178 8212 Disc Three THE 20 QUESTIONS MURDER MYSTERY (1950) 89 mins. Or 01923 290555 A crime film directed by Paul L. Stein. A murderer sends a question in to the BBC Twenty Questions programme prior to committing a crime. There are four clues to solve which are read out on air and heard by two reporters. Cast: Robert Beatty, Rona Anderson, Clifford Evans, Edward Lexy, Olga Lindo, Frederick Leister, Harold Scott, Wally Patch, Meadows White, Kynaston Reeves. Regular panellists on the programme, played themselves. (AKA Murder on the Air) THE HI-JACKERS (1963) 77 mins. A British crime thriller, written and directed by Jim O’Connolly. Cast: Anthony Booth, Terry McKinley, Jacqueline Ellis, Derek Francis, Patrick Cargill, Glynn Edwards, David Gregory, Harold Goodwin, Tony Wager, Arthur English, Michael Beint, Tommy Eytle. A lorry driver meets a young girl at a café and offers her a lift. His truck which is carrying valuable whisky is later hi-jacked. An action-packed plot line, with good location photography.
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