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Post by pulphack on Mar 2, 2009 13:17:58 GMT
One Day I'll Forget My Jacket, Lord P?
Oh yes, that bloody series lives in the nightmares of anyone of a certain age who used to watch early evening telly during formative years. Queenie Watts, as it goes, was actually better than that kind of crap - a great jazz singer, she's in Sparrows Can't Sing as a pub landlady - which she was - who also sings a song. Her real life hubby is also behind the bar, and I think it may have been filmed in her boozer (guv). She was nowhere near as old as she looked, either, and was a martyr to poor health (thank you that Simon Sheridan book for these details!).
Thanks for that additional listing, Dem - that was the Goons book I used to have, so that answers my earlier query.
I did a phone-in with Pete Murray once - very odd experience. I was warned on arrival not to worry if he didn't look at me - and he didn't! His eyesight was so poor that he spent the whole half-hour I was in there with his head down, looking at his notes. Which meant I got a full view of that 'lovely head of white hair' (as it was known to LBC listeners back then). He said hello when I got there, shook my hand when I left - and those were the only times he looked up! Very nice, if a little eccentric, perhaps?
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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 3, 2009 20:36:14 GMT
Sleep Murders by Leslie Watkins - sure it had a John Holmes cover and was a true-crime account of murders commited whilst sleep-walking. Just to let everyone know I've found artist John Holmes and will be going up to see him for an extensive interview next Sunday. So Dem - HUGE favour. Can you organise a temporary thread where everyone can put their John Holmes book covers on? Even stuff like the Beatles songbook, Jaws cover, Rolling Stones book - anything and everything they can think of! Really major coup this one!! Also, if anyone has questions they want asked - let me know!
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Post by dem bones on Mar 3, 2009 22:42:59 GMT
Sure i'll do it, mr. horror, but i'm not quite sure i've got you. I take it you mean a John Holmes section? Tell you what, I'll start one directly underneath the 'Paperback Covers Best & Worst' or whatever it's called when i've finished posting this, and you can take it from there.
And of course *cough* , i've never said anything remotely negative about his Fontana Horror covers ....
Gimme five minutes.
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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 3, 2009 22:52:57 GMT
Yep, cheers Dem - thats exactly what I mean, and then just dump every cover we find of his onto there. And there are some odd ones as well. One of the fontanas with screaming woman with spider on face can't remember the number - has Roger Clarke's Blackberries on it - could that be one of his?
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Post by dem bones on Mar 4, 2009 8:45:42 GMT
One of the fontanas with screaming woman with spider on face can't remember the number - has Roger Clarke's Blackberries on it - could that be one of his? It's #16 and .... I'm not sure! I know Justin's a fan, so perhaps he'd like to share his list with us? i don't want to put my foot in it and post a wrong 'un just for a change. I think we're on safe ground with his evil beach-ball and friends from the series, and wasn't the suede-head vampire for Michel's Rivals Of Dracula his, Rivals Of Frankenstein likewise?
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Post by dem bones on May 5, 2009 9:51:44 GMT
Sadly, i've not been able to lay my hands on a copy yet, but yet another essential Everest title to hunt down is (my hand trembles as i type): Tony Blackburn Family Fun Book(1975) While i'm here, this snippet concerning page 3 model and "friend of the Kray twins" Flanagan's Intimate Secrets of an Escort Girl (1974) which, apparently, "was serialised in the magazine Tit-Bits (randomly selected sample cover below to compensate for lack of Tony Blackburn scan) with the blurb “Britain’s most photographed model lays bare the facts of her working life in the sauciest story of the year”. Actually, i fibbed about the "randomly selected" bit. The issue in question, dated 15th March 1973, is worthy of investigation not for the cover story (though i'm sure that's very good too) but an interview with none other than Dennis Wheatley and to say he's on top form throughout is to undersell him something criminal. "THRILLER writer Dennis Wheatley looked at his wall map charting every journey he has made in 40 years of globe-trotting, and said: “There’s a very good reason why I’ve never been to Russia. During the war I was on the Joint Planning Staff of the War Cabinet, at Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s underground HQ, working on top level Intelligence reports. And I was very much in the know. I’ve had nothing to do with Strategic Planning since then, and I’m completely out of touch with it all now - but the Russians aren’t to know that. They undoubtedly keep dossiers on people who have been engaged in Intelligence work-and they’ve probably got one on me. It would be very easy nowadays for somebody to slip something incriminating into my luggage and give the Russians an excuse to pull me in for questioning ......" "Mr. Wheatley - his clubs are Pratt’s, St. James’ and Paternosters-deplores the decline of gentlemanly conduct, but defends violence in his books as being an integral part of the thriller novel. “My heroes are put in situations in which they must defend themselves or be killed,” he said. “I don’t put violence in my books for its own sake, nor do I write about fetishes, sadism, homosexuality or perversions of that sort. But when Roger or Gregory get into a fight, I spin it out for five or six pages. You have to keep the suspense going, y’see. That’s the art of the game. But all this violence today is an alarming and unhealthy trend.” Thanks, as ever, to the late Bob Rothwell for providing a transcript.
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Post by Steve on Jul 24, 2009 19:19:59 GMT
Queen Kong - never got a release because of Dino DeLaurentiis suing, or so i've read. not sure if it was that or just because it was crap. certainly the book is - typical of Moffatt at his worst (think Etienne St Aubin goes sex comedy), and a real struggle to wade through. BUT... it did have photos in the middle, which is about all i've ever seen of the movie (are their copies out there? did it get a release or a dodgy collector's version?), and to be honest it actually looks like it might be very stupid fun. reminiscent of Carry On Kong/Up The Jungle, with Askwith as Terry Scott. Queen Kong by James Moffat, Everest, 1977 'Queen of a Lost World The legend travelled far: from an unknown tropical island all the way to the heart of London. It told of a great beast, 50 feet high, ruling a jungle where time stood still. It told of a bizarre native sect of monster-worshippers. It told of savage rites and human sacrifice. The team of explorers set out to film the mythical giant. They found that the truth was even stranger than the legend. For the beast was an ape. A lady ape... QUEEN KONG' "Chained up by men and imprisoned by her own emotions, she came to symbolize women everywhere. And when she snapped her bonds and ran amok, the women of the world followed suit..." OK, it's not a great book, more of a cultural document I suppose, but to be fair it's not the worst James Moffat book you'll ever read - and to be even fairer the material he had to work with was probably piss-poor in the first place ("Lazanga where they do the Conga"?). That said, would I happily pay good money to see the film? Well, I bought the book, didn't I? So let's have a look at a couple of those photos - most of them are a man (?) in a Queen Kong suit rampaging around London, as represented by not entirely convincing (but certainly no worse than your average Godzilla film) modelwork. It's the 'Carry On Kong' bits, as pulphack says, that look like they'd have been - if not actually funny - at least the most fun; "The High Priestess is dwarfed by Queen Kong's breakfast table"
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Post by allthingshorror on Jul 28, 2009 7:17:15 GMT
Everest (1973)A BOMB IN THE COMMONS
Imagine another Hitler in our midst.
A Hitler with money, brains and frightening influence in high places.
A power-crazed madman obsessively following through a plan he believes to be his destiny...
A plan to overthrow the Government with his Nazi henchmen and become the feared Fuehrer of Berlin.
Ten years of evil scheming are about to pay off. The 'second Hitler' has ensnared more and more top people into his vicious Nazi net - from Whitehall to the Secret Service; from Scotland Yard to Fleet Street. Everyone, it seems, who should be beyond reproach is plotting with 'the other side'.
Into such a far-reaching web of perilous intrigue marches Martyn Cale. His occupation; secret agent. His mission: to trace the maniacal Nazi leader and smash his vile network before Britain sinks beneath the shadow of the swastika.
Like the German Nazis before them, these British imitators were ruthless. But then Cale was no softie.
The action whips along with the ferocity of a Luger bullet. And as the terrifying enormity of The Plan unfolds, Cale battles against all the odds to protect his country from the savage, crushing power of the jackboots.
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Post by Steve on Aug 14, 2009 0:00:05 GMT
Adam and Eve 2020 A.D.Paul Blackden, Everest Books, 1974. Adam and Eve 2100 AD, SF cack with a cover even Five Star would have dismissed as amateurish. Oh, I don't know. I think it's got something. Not sure what... a sense of adventure? Anyway, here - for the sake of completeness if nothing else - is the blurb; Young Terry couldn't explain the ominous whispering in the sky. Or the terror in his father and mother. Then comes the televised panic in New York. In London. In old York. All over. Followed by black devastation. And yet he survives. So does Jackie, the new-age girl. Together they face the Great Machine and the Evil People. Just He and She. They trust in destiny. And luck. They seek to avoid their future being destroyed in an ash-smothered farewell to the world we know. Together. The new Adam and Eve.I think I prefer Terry and Jackie. He Terry, She Jackie. "Old York"? That'd be York then... You know, the more I look at it... that really is one hell of a cover.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 14, 2009 9:01:36 GMT
You know, the more I look at it... that really is one hell of a cover. i agree although you'll probably find that ph*t*obucket don't see things quite the same way. Perhaps if they were both holding cheeseburgers .... The covers on this page are terrific!
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Post by Steve on Aug 14, 2009 18:59:38 GMT
You know, the more I look at it... that really is one hell of a cover. i agree although you'll probably find that ph*t*obucket don't see things quite the same way. You're not wrong, dem. That picture again; Hosted by ImageShack - for all your image hosting needs
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stavner
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Post by stavner on Aug 14, 2009 23:33:03 GMT
Photobucket hates butts, apparently.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 15, 2009 8:36:06 GMT
It's a fair bet they're using anti-porn software to sweep the accounts - can't really blame 'em for that given the terms & conditions of use - but if that's the case, it's been set too high, and the results are hit and miss to put it mildly. (Johnny's nipple-flashing Heil Britannia escape the chop but the back cover of Vampirella: On Alien Wings got unceremoniously clobbered) I wouldn't know how advanced programes like Snitch are these days, but PC Utilities test-ran a porn-killer on their computers a few years back and it was identifying stretches of sandy beach as obscene. If you want a decent alternative to Ph*t*b*cket, you might like to try Ripway. Been using it since we started and it's not given me any grief as yet.
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Post by Steve on Oct 16, 2009 0:46:27 GMT
Keep It Up Downstairs by Elton Hawke, Everest Books 1976 'Good Morning, Milady,' the butler said respectfully. Lady Cockshute opened her eyes and stretched. 'Good Morning, Hampton. Ah, breakfast. I really feel like it this morning.' 'A beautiful day, Milady. The sun is in the sky... and Lord Cockshute is in his bath. Would Milady care for a roll?' 'Exactly, Hampton. The usual, please.' 'My pleasure to serve, Milady,' said Hampton as he pulled back the covers and climbed into bed...Proof that long before the likes of Lulu, iUniverse and PublishAmerica (allegedly), there were publishers that would publish absolutely anything - Everest's tie-in novelisation of the wildly funny 1976 British sex comedy Keep It Up Downstairs starring Willie Rushton and Diana Dors. It seems Elton Hawke was a pseudonym used by Hazel ( Virgin Witch and Crossroads) Adair, who also wrote the original screenplay so there's not even anyone else to share the blame. Lord and Lady Cockshute, Hampton the butler, Rogers the groom, Mellons the gamekeeper... you just know you're in safe comedy hands with a cast of characters like that. And rounding out the stellar cast; Carmen ( 'Allo 'Allo!) Silvera as Lady Bottomley and the French woman from Mind Your Language as Mimi, the saucy French maid. Throw in an actress and a bishop and the stage is all set for a cavalcade of arse-slapping mirth. Much like Queen Kong and Everest's other dodgy Brit movie tie-ins, by far the most fun to be had here is perusing the several generous pages of black & white stills.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 16, 2009 14:21:29 GMT
Lord and Lady Cockshute, Hampton the butler, Rogers the groom, Mellons the gamekeeper... you just know you're in safe comedy hands with a cast of characters like that. And rounding out the stellar cast; Carmen ( 'Allo 'Allo!) Silvera as Lady Bottomley and the French woman from Mind Your Language as Mimi, the saucy French maid. Throw in an actress and a bishop and the stage is all set for a cavalcade of arse-slapping mirth. There's just no substitute for class, is there? My opinion of Everest was pretty stratospheric to begin with, but it's gone up notch after notch with each successive post. This thread is lovely!
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