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Film Club Sky 328 Newsletter Freesat 306 DEC/JAN 2020 Virgin 445 Freeview 81 Film Club Sky 328 newsletter Freesat 306 DEC/JAN 2020 Virgin 445 You can always call us V 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 Dear Supporters of Film and TV History,BAH HUMBUG!!! Can you believe that Christmas is almost upon us?! It’s been a tough year for so many but I do hope we’ve brought you some comfort in such difficult times. Christmas might be a bit ‘Bah Humbug!’ for us all this year, but we have lots to keep you entertained and there is room for you all in our cinema! Sad news this month as we say goodbye to John Fraser a fine actor who can be seen on the channel in Doctor in Clover and El Cid. Good news for Old Mother Riley fans in the New Year: Noel has managed to license the ‘lost’ films to air on Talking Pictures TV. More on this in the next newsletter. This month we have a new crime release for you, our new Crime Collection Volume 7! This enthralling box set features a fantastic selection of films, includingDevil’s Bait with Jane Hylton, Geoffrey Keen and Gordon Jackson as a policeman, long before his butlering days! Warren Mitchell also features in a superb performance as a magician, in Where Has Poor Mickey Gone; a rarely seen thriller, The Black Abbot and a gripping yarn about two boys on the hunt for a stolen painting, The Secret Tunnel – plus many more! If you are struggling for gift ideas this year, please don’t forget we have gift vouchers available – they never expire and can be used on anything we sell. Please call us to order some to be posted to you. We also have a new self-cling window stickers design – we are offering a FREE sticker with every order made from this newsletter, just remember to tick the box on the order form. Display them with pride, it will help to spread the word about your favourite channel! There are some wonderful gems on your screens this Christmas, including a previously LOST Matt Monro concert, discovered in the family garage by his daughter after 40 years, the only known film of Britain’s greatest singer performing live. Also a previously lost programme of Christmas Carols from the Albert Hall with Sir Michael Hordern CBE reading from the bible; Ten Little Indians with Shirley Eaton, Scrooge with Alastair Sim CBE (of course!); Please Sir with John Alderton (before his chauffeuring days!), Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren in El Cid and the hilarious Without a Clue with Sir Michael Caine CBE and Sir Ben Kingsley, among many others. There are also some wonderful special offers for you all this month, including two NEW books, firstly, TPTV regular faceGuy Standeven, who has been in just about everything, from Man from Tangier to Public Eye. Secondly, a director whose work is often on the channel, John Guillerman, edited by his lovely wife Mary – “Very few critical studies of film directors are also a love story. This one is’. Please remember our offers don’t hang around – we can’t keep huge amounts of stock as all the spare space in the ‘office’ is taken up by reels of film and film cans – so if there’s something you are interested in get on the ‘Telling Bone’ quick! And finally, a special thanks from us here – to you, for all your support in a tough year – please keep on spreading the word, take care, stay safe and Merry Christmas, Sarah, Noel, Neill and young Archie! 1 You can always call us V 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 RENOWN PICTURES NEW DVD RELEASE CRIME COLLECTION VOLUME 7 Exclusive! 3-DVD Box Set. A collection of intriguing crime films from the 1930s to the 1960s. With optional subtitles PRICE Can you solve the crimes before the sleuths? . EXCLUSIVE Devil’s Bait (1959) Jane Hylton JUST The Black Abbot (1934) and Geoffrey Keen give riveting £20.00 Rarely seen British crime thriller performances as a husband-and- WITH FREE UK POSTAGE directed by George A. Cooper. wife bakery team who accidentally FOR ALL THREE DISCS! A gang of crooks use the legend of bake rat poison into a batch of a ghost haunting an old mansion to bread after a rat-catcher leaves Call: 0808 178 8212 kidnap a rich man. Stars: some in their bakery. John Stuart, Judy Kelly, Edgar Norfolk, Richard Gordon Jackson plays the sergeant called in to Cooper, Drusilla Wills, Farren Soutar & Cyril Smith. lead the search. Directed by Peter Graham Scott. The Secret Tunnel (1948) Family thriller, set in Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964) East Anglia. Two boys try to foil a gang of art Warren Mitchell is superb as a thieves. Director: William C. Hammond. Stars: fairground magician, subjected to Tony Wager, Ivor Bowyer, Murray Matheson, torment by a group of young rowdies. Gerald Pring, Thelma Rea, Frank Henderson. Stars: Warren Mitchell, John Malcolm, Circumstantial Evidence Ray Armstrong, John Challis, (1952) Rona Anderson plays an Christopher Robbie, Karol Hagar, unhappily married woman who Joseph Cook and Vincent Shaw. falls for another man and seeks Murder in Eden (1961) British mystery grounds for divorce. Events are film directed by Max Varnel. Scotland complicated by murder and blackmail. Yard sends in Inspector Sharkey when an Director: Daniel Birt. Cast: Patrick Holt, art critic is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Stars: John Arnatt & John Warwick. Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller, Yvonne Buckingham. Night Was Our Friend (1951) Mystery of the Wentworth Castle (1940) Director: Michael Anderson. Stars Boris Karloff as detective Mr. James Lee Wong, sent to Stars: Elizabeth Sellars, investigate a shipping magnate’s murder, aided by an eager Michael Gough, Ronald Howard reporter played by Marjorie Reynolds and Grant Withers as and Marie Ney. Moving story of a hard-nosed policeman. murder, madness and loyalty. Bash and Grab (1965) The Devil’s Jest (1954) Valentine Dyall narrates this public Sinister events at a remote castle information film on crime. owned by a widow, whose son is suspected of spying for Danger By My Side (1963) With the the Nazis. Stars: Mara Russell-Tavernan, Ivan Craig, help of the Met police a girl attempts to Call Now On Freephone Valentine Dyall, Derek Aylward & Julian Sherrier. track down the killers of her detective The Shakedown (1960) Terence Morgan plays brother. Stars: Anthony Oliver, 0808 178 8212 ‘Augie,’ just out of prison and intent on getting his blackmail Maureen Connell, Alan Tilvern, racket back from ‘Gollar’, (Harry H. Corbett). Donald Bill Nagy and Sonya Cordeau. Or 01923 290555 Pleasence, Robert Beatty and Bill Owen also feature. 2 3 MUSIC CD The Holly Rockin’ 58 Tracks on 2 CDs CD & the Ivy Movie CD With Optional Subtitles Soundtracks Director: George O’Ferrall Year: 1952; Black & White OUR PRICE £15.99 Number of discs: 1 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE Running Time approx: 78 minutes Movie soundtracks, soundies & shorts. Cast: Ralph Richardson, 58 rockers and smoochers that go way Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton, back, from Swing It Sister by The Mills Denholm Elliott, John Gregson, Brothers Swing Band in 1934 to sax Hugh Williams, Margaret Halstan, blaster Sam Butera & The Witnesses’ Maureen Delaney, William Hartnell, Twist All Night from 1961.Tracks include Robert Flemyng, Roland Culver, dance floor fillers by Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eddie Cochran, John Barry, Dandy Nichols. Carl Perkins, Ritchie Valens and Bill Haley. Also includes a synopsis of each film. Artists and films listed below: Disc 1 (Mr. Rock and Roll) FLAMINGOS (Rock, Rock, Rock) RITCHIE VALENS (Go, Johnny, Go!) GENE VINCENT AND THE BLUE CAPS (Hot Rod Gang) PEGGY LEE (Pete Kelly’s Blues) SMILEY LEWIS (Baby Doll) JOHNNY OTIS (Juke Box Christmas Eve, Norfolk, 1952. Rhythm) TONY CASANOVA & GROUP (Diary of a High School Bride) LEWIS LYMON & THE TEENCHORDS (Jamboree) The Gregory family arrive at the BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS (Don’t Knock The Rock) EDDIE COCHRAN (The Girl Can’t Help It) CLOVERS (Harlem Variety home of their recently widowed Revue) FIVE STARS (Rock Baby, Rock It) NINO TEMPO (Bop Girl Goes Calypso) HARPTONES (Rockin’ The Blues) ROSCO patriarch who is also the local Parson. GORDON & THE RED TOPS (Rock Baby, Rock It) BIG JOE TURNER (Rhythm & Blues Revue) LOUIS JORDAN (Caldonia) However, family tensions threaten to TOMMY SANDS (Sing, Boy, Sing) SAM BUTERA & THE WITNESSES (Twist All Night) ROY HAMILTON (Let’s Rock) DION & THE DEL SATINS (Twist Around The Clock) BLOCKBUSTERS (Rock All Night) DEL VIKINGS (The Big Beat) BOB LUMAN ruin the holiday, as his three children (Carnival Rock) SUGAR CHILE ROBINSON (No Leave, No Love) MILLS BROTHERS (Strictly Dynamite) JIMMY DALEY BAND battle with personal issues and are (Rock, Pretty Baby) RUTH BROWN (Rock‘n’Roll Revue) unable to confide in their father. Disc 2 LINDA HOPKINS (Rockin’ The Blues) CHUCK BERRY with OTIS SPANN (Rock, Rock, Rock) JO ANN CAMPBELL Director George O’Ferrall had a (Go, Johnny, Go) CARL PERKINS (Jamboree) BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS (Don’t Knock The Rock) PLATTERS (The Girl background in theatre and was the Can’t Help It) LARRY DARNELL (Harlem Variety Revue) JOHNNY CARROLL & THE HOT ROCKS (Rock Baby, Rock It) first ever producer of drama at the TITANS (Bop Girl Goes Calypso) CONNIE CARROLL (Rockin’ The Blues) FRANKIE LYMON & THE TEENAGERS (Rock, Rock, BBC. The Holly and the Ivy perfectly Rock) JACKIE WILSON (Go, Johnny, Go) FRANKIE LYMON & THE TEENAGERS (Mr. Rock & Roll) WANDERERS (Rockin’ The captures an England on the cusp of dramatic social, economic Blues) NORA HAYES (Rock All Night) DANNY & THE JUNIORS (Let’s Rock) BLOCKBUSTERS (Rock All Night) MOONGLOWS and cultural change and examines the generation gap in a family (Rock, Rock, Rock) JERRY LEE LEWIS (Jamboree) FATS DOMINO (Shake, Rattle & Rock) REESE LA RUE (Rockin’ The at odds over faith, family and the future.
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