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David Hyman
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Reading, watching, doing... All views my own.
Fifty-three years ago today, the Night Hair Child and Death Line double-bill opened in North London cinemas… #NightHairChild #DeathLine #RawMeat #1970s #film #films #HorrorMovies #horror #GarySherman #DonaldPleasence #MarkLester #BrittEkland #MarkLester #JamesKelley #AndreaBianchi #WhatThePeeperSaw
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Forty-four years ago today at the Plaza cinema, Faye Dunaway was Joan Crawford… #MommieDearest #1980s #films #film #FayeDunaway #JoanCrawford #FrankPerry #DianaScarwid #biopic
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Acts Of Violence - Edited by William Kozlenko (Pyramid G425, July 1959). Cover Art by Richard Powers. #ActsOfViolence #1950s #books #book #Paperback #cover #coverart #artwork #WilliamKozlenko #RichardPowers #shortstories #PyramidBooks #PyramidBook
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Ten years ago today I met Zach Galligan at The Prince Charles Cinema where he took part in a Q&A following a screening of Gremlins... #ZachGalligan #Gremlins #ThePrinceCharlesCinema
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Forty-three years ago today, the crime thriller Raymond Chandler never wrote opened in London cinemas… #DeadMenDontWearPlaid #1980s #film #films #SteveMartin #RachelWard #CarlReiner #comedy #spoof
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The Illustrated Love Magazine (Volume 2, Number 5, November 1930). Cover Art by Bradshaw Crandall. Includes the story ‘Cinderella Magic’ by Cornell Woolrich. #TheIllustratedLoveMagazine #1930s #CornellWoolrich #cover #coverart #artwork #BradshawCrandall #shortstories #romance
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Forty-four years ago today, you couldn’t say no to Goldie and Bo in London cinemas… #Ten #PrivateBenjamin #1970s #1980s #film #films #DudleyMoore #BoDerek #JulieAndrews #BlakeEdwards #comedy #GoldieHawn #HowardZieff
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Forty-six years ago today, this story of a fallen superstar and his struggle back to the top opened in West End cinemas… #YesterdaysHero #1970s #film #films #NeilLeifer #IanMcShane #SuzanneSomers #JackieCollins
November 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Forty-six years ago today, Travolta and Eastwood were together in the West End... #MomentByMoment #TheEigerSanction #JohnTravolta #LilyTomlin #ClintEastwood #1970s #film #films #doublebill #JaneWagner
November 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Forty-five years ago today, London cinema audiences found out why the evil one must not live again… #TheAwakening #1980s #film #films #MikeNewell #CharltonHeston #SusannahYork #BramStoker #TheJewelOfSevenStars #HorrorMovies #horror
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
My favourite actress Gene Tierney was born 105 years ago today and sadly passed away in 1991. Here's some of the paper I own for films in which she starred... #GeneTierney #onthisday #actor #Actress #birthday
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
FIfty-three years ago today, North London cinema audiences gave double praise for this great programme... #Asylum #Duel #1970s #film #films #RoyWardBaker #PeterCushing #BarbaraParkins #StevenSpielberg #DennisWeaver #HorrorMovies #horror #BrittEkland
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Forty-three years ago today, with Burt and Dolly this much fun just couldn't be legal in UK cinemas... #TheBestLittleWhorehouseInTexas #1980s #film #films #ColinHiggins #BurtReynolds #DollyParton #comedy #musical #DomDeLuise #CharlesDurning
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Forty-four years ago today, The End of August opened towards the end of November at the Curzon Mayfair... #TheEndOfAugust #1980s #film #films #BobGraham #SallySharp #LiliaSkala #DavidMarshallGrant
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
November 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Forty-three years ago today, London cinema audiences could enjoy the most fun they'd ever had being scared... #Creepshow #1980s #film #films #stephenking #GeorgeARomero #HalHolbrook #AdrienneBarbeau #LeslieNielsen #TedDanson #HorrorMovies #horror
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Forty-three years ago today, suddenly life was more than french fries, gravy and girls in London cinemas... #Diner #1980s #film #films #BarryLevinson #SteveGuttenberg #MickeyRourke #DanielStern #KevinBacon #TimDaly #EllenBarkin
November 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Some ‘classic’ films playing in London’s Classic cinemas this week fifty-three years ago... #1970s #film #films #ClassicCinemas #ClassicCinema
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Forty-two years ago today, the story of a woman who wanted nothing less than everything that Hollywood could give opened in London cinemas... #TheLonelyLady #1980s #film #films #PeterSasdy #PiaZadora #LloydBochner #JaredMartin #HaroldRobbins
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Black Mask Detective Stories UK (September 1937, Vol. 15 No. 12). Contains the Cornell Woolrich story ‘Nellie From Zelli’s’. #BlackMask #BlackMaskDtectiveStories #CornellWoolrich #1930s #PulpFiction #pulp #cover #coverart #artwork #shortstories #crime #mystery #thriler #detective #NellieFromZellis
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Forty-eight years ago today, this double-bill opened at the Casino Old Compton Street... #TheAmsterdamKill #FistOfFury #1970s #film #films #RobertMitchum #RobertClouse #BruceLee #LoWei
November 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM