Showing posts with label 1970s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1970s. Show all posts

Tuesday 8 September 2020

Albion! Albion! - Dick Morland

'Makes "Clockwork Orange" seem a gentle fantasy'. 

-Time Out



NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY 30156
FIRST NEL EDITION NOVEMBER 1976
LONDON, UK
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY FABER AND FABER 1974

'IT MAY ALL ONE DAY COME TRUE.'

1982. Two coach-loads of Spurs supporters are burned alive by Villa fans. Football is banned.

So the supporters seize the grounds and turn them into arenas where howling mobs hurl Molotov cocktails and spray acid at one another.

Parliament is dissolved, the police go on strike.

One man comes to fight the fascist terror of the omnipotent fans.

Monday 25 March 2019

Super Fly


SUPER FLY
NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM Nr. 6351
AUSTRIA 1973

Never a dude like this one! He's got a plan to stick it to The Man!

Starring  Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee and Sheila Frazier
Directed by Gordon Parks Jr.
Soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield
Sig Shore Productions
U.S.A. 1972

Monday 4 February 2019

Cleopatra Jones


CLEOPATRA JONES
aka EIN FALL FÜR CLEOPATRA JONES
NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM Nr. 6559
AUSTRIA 1974

"If you haven't seen Cleo, you haven't seen the chick who tops 'em all...She's 6'2" of Dynamite!"

Starring Tamara Dobson, Shelley Winters, Bernie Casey and Brenda Sykes 
Directed by Jack Starrett
Soundtrack by Joe Simon and Millie Jackson
Warner Bros / William Tennant Productions
U.S.A. 1973

Tuesday 29 January 2019

The Untapped Generation - David & Don Wilkerson


OLIPHANTS 055100259X
FIRST EDITION 1972
LONDON, UK
HARDBACK

David and Don Wilkerson examine the hidden problems and potential of a generation that has lost its way. During the past ten years the work of Teen Challenge as described in The Cross And The Switchblade has brought these two dedicated brothers into personal contact with hundreds of young people.
"The Untapped Generation"-alcoholics, drug addicts, homosexuals, runaways and drop-outs-can find purpose in life, and this book helps by discussing:

1. How a counsellor can prepare to help "The Untapped Generation"-qualifications, relationships and motives are dealt with.

2. What has created the problem situations, how those needing help can be guided towards a solution-involving the church in the "scene" which has, for too long, been considered unchangeable.

3. What happens when effective counselling is offered to "The Untapped Generation".

Thursday 27 December 2018

The Wanderers


THE WANDERERS
NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM Nr. 7457 
AUSTRIA 1979

"It was The Wanderers against the world... and the world never had a chance!"
 
Starring Ken Wahl, Karen Allen and John Friedrich
Directed by Philip Kaufman
Based on the novel by Richard Price
Film Finance Group / Orion Pictures / Polyc International BV
U.S.A. 1979

Sunday 28 October 2018

Cannabis


CANNABIS - ENGEL DER GEWALT
aka CANNABIS
aka FRENCH INTRIGUE
NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM No. 5816
AUSTRIA 1970

"He's the best hit man in the business His target - THE GODFATHER... His price - one million dollars."

Starring Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Paul Nicholas and Curd Jürgens
Directed by Pierre Koralnik
Based on the novel "Et puis s'en vont..." by F.S. Gilbert
Music by Serge Gainsbourg
Les Films Océanic / Euro-France Films / Capitole Films / Roxy Film / Produzioni Cinematografiche Europee 
France / Italy / West Germany / USA 1970

Wednesday 10 October 2018

Hell's Angels '70


HELL'S ANGELS '70
aka HELL'S ANGELS '69
NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM NO. 5847
AUSTRIA 1970

"The Original Hell's Angels led by Sonny Barger and Terry the Tramp shake up Las Vegas!"

Starring Tom Stern, Jeremy Slate, Sonny Barger, Terry The Tramp, The Oakland Hell's Angels and Conny Van Dyke
Produced by Lee Madden
Tracom Productions
USA 1969 

Misprint with details of the film Eifersucht Auf Italienisch printed on the inside.

Wednesday 3 October 2018

The Warriors


DIE WARRIORS
AKA THE WARRIORS
NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM NR. 7445
AUSTRIA 1979

"These are the Armies of The Night. They are 60,000 strong. They outnumber the cops three to one. They could run New York City. Tonight they're all out to get the Warriors."

Starring Michael Beck, James Remar and Dorsey Wright 
Directed by Walter Hill
Music by Barry De Vorzon
Based on the Book by Sol Yurick
Paramount Pictures
USA 1979

Wednesday 26 September 2018

Black Belt Jones


FREIE FAHRT INS JENSEITS
AKA BLACK BELT JONES
NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM NR. 6615
AUSTRIA 1974

" He clobbers the mob."

Starring Jim Kelly, Gloria Hendry and Scatman Crothers 
Directed by  Robert Clouse
Music by Luchi De Jesus
Sequoin Films
USA 1974

Sunday 23 September 2018

Quadrophenia


QUADROPHENIA
NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM NR. 7490
AUSTRIA 1979

"The Year Was 1964, and The Battle Was Just Beginning!"

Starring Phil Daniels, Sting, Leslie Ash and Toyah Wilcox
Directed by Franc Roddam
Music by The Who
The Who Films / Polytel
UK 1979

Wednesday 12 September 2018

Run, Angel, Run!


RUN, ANGEL, RUN!
NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM No. 5897
AUSTRIA 1971

"Look out for the MOTORCYCLE MANIACS!"

Starring William Smith, Valerie Starrett and Dan Kemp
Directed by Jack Starrett
Fanfare Films
USA 1969

Sunday 3 December 2017

Rogue Angels - Peter Cave


NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY 25225
LONDON, UK
NEW EDITION MARCH 1975 • 3RD PRINTING

RUN FOR YOUR LIFE - SUEDEHEADS ARE CLASHING WITH ROGUE ANGELS

The Suedeheads have taken to buying up old American cars and riding them tooled-up and mob-handed. To the English Hell's Angels, that means war.

Against the background of a murderous personal vendetta, the conflict intensifies. Death comes to some in the mid-day heat of open battle. To others it comes in the night and alone.

Then the Glasgow Angels decide to move South. And, all Hell breaks loose!!

Sunday 12 November 2017

The Cellar Boys - Howard Baker

They lived for kicks - maniacal tearaways who though they could beat the law


FIVE STAR 
1ST PRINTING 1973
MANCHESTER, UK
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS 'ESPRESSO JUNGLE' 1959
& 'THE CELLAR BOYS' 1965

THE CELLAR BOYS

FATSO...crack driver, expert at a quick getaway

SMILER...sadist and flick-knife artist

MARTY...confirmed 'purper', always at war with everyone

CHI-ANN...maniac-depressive tearaway, the leader

MISTER BIG...the faceless one whom nobody knew but whose orders were carried out without question

They thought they were invincible...until one night they picked on Ricky Castain...

Tuesday 11 July 2017

Go Ask Alice - Anonymous

'No one can read this book without crying for the young who find the world we have built too much to bear.' Sunday Mirror


CORGI BOOKS 0 552 09332 7
2ND PRINTING 1974 (1973)
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY EYRE METHUEN 1972

YOU CAN'T ASK ALICE ANYTHING ANYMORE.

BUT YOU CAN DO SOMETHING-READ HER DIARY. STRONG, PAINFULLY HONEST, CANDID. THE ACTUAL STORY OF A DESPERATE GIRL ON DRUGS AND ON THE RUN WHO ALMOST MADE IT.

"Go Ask Alice is a very frightening book-not because it is a story of how drugs can kill, but because it offers an insight, of remarkable naive force, into a style of life...because it is one person's story...because Alice was a born writer, with a natural gift of language and observation. It's not an enjoyable book but it is short and powerful-and dangerous-not for children."
Ray Gosling, The Times

"It shows the complexity of modern life, the awful pressures which plague even the 15-year-old who needs all her energies to cope with growing, it shows the realities of the much-discussed generation gap, the isolation of one who wanders off the track and, alone, finds it impossible to fight her way back."
The Guardian

"Everyone who reads it must ask that most agonising of all questions: 'Can it be that love is not enough?'"
Sunday Mirror

Sunday 2 July 2017

Together Brothers - Jim Robinson

Some mother killed their main man MR. KOOL and all at once they're Together Brothers


AWARD BOOKS 426
1ST PRINTING 1974
NEW YORK, USA
MOVIE TIE-IN

A WANTON MURDER
A MUTILATED BODY
A STALKING KILLER

"Mr. Kool? Why hit him?" the cop asked.

"Why?" His partner shrugged. "Because he was a black cop in a jungle...he just got too close to the animals."

Mr. Kool may have been the "fuzz"-"no better than any other jive-ass cop"-to most of the inhabitants of the ghetto. But to H.J., A.P., Monk, Gri'Gri' and Mau Mau he was a friend, a man who tried to understand young blacks and their problems. His death at the hands of a vengeful ex-con plunged the gang into a chilling manhunt-a race against time and terror in which five black kids pit their street know-how and motherwit against the steel cunning of a crazed killer...

Thursday 29 June 2017

Post-Prison Writings And Speeches - Eldridge Cleaver



PANTHER BOOKS 586 03555 9
SECOND PRINTING 1972 (1971)
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY JONATHAN CAPE 1969
COVER ART BY PAUL MAY

'It may be that not only in America but elsewhere in the world the lines of a new and terrible war are being traced - a racial war in which there will be a holocaust of innocents. At least, after reading Cleaver, we cannot say we do not know what the struggle is about.'
Stuart Hood SPECTATOR

'An essential addendum to Soul On Ice...this new book contains as powerfully seductive a prose as any being written now anywhere in the world...the results are piercing, brilliantly oratorical, poisonously funny, and quotable until the cows come home.'
Clive James NEW SOCIETY

'I plan to be around for quite a while'
Eldridge Cleaver

Saturday 10 June 2017

A Sweet Sweet Summer - Jane Gaskell



SPHERE BOOKS 37850
1ST PRINTING 1971
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HODDER & STOUGHTON 1969

The public execution of Ringo Starr

is the first demonstration of power by the aliens whose spacecraft hangs over Britain and seals off the country from the outside world. Out of the chaos the aliens have created emerges a new social order, dominated by mob rule drug farms, and gang warfare.

The hero is a teenage ponce, running a house which is part brothel and part headquarters for a group of Neo Nazi thugs. He operates in a derelict pop world, a savage parody of the permissive society, in which people make love and carve each other up with equal carelessness.

Tuesday 30 May 2017

Monkey Off My Back - Jack Brown

An ex-convict and drug addict relates his discovery of personal freedom


LAKELAND BOOKS 230
1ST PRINTING 1972
LONDON, UK

The former 'con man' was always finding the easy way to make money for his expensive drug habit...yet the trail of shady tricks and crime always led Jack to the same place - stone walls, iron bars and guards.

Having served more than seventeen years in prison Jack Brown tells an almost incredible story - beatings, fights, riots, murders, immorality of every sort. He talks about people he met: the Birdman of Alcatraz - Machine-gun Kelly - Al Capone and other legendary figures of the underworld.

Most of Jack's life has been spent in various institutions: attempts to cure his criminal habits and his drug addiction failed repeatedly. But outside prison walls waited his devoted wife and family who prayed and encouraged Jack to take God seriously.

There is no 'happy ever after' routine at the end of his story - just the miracle that God changed the depraved drug addict convict, gave Jack the determination that Jesus shall control his life - and he can't keep it a secret!

*Apparently Jack Brown is the person that Johnny Cash wrote Cocaine Blues about.

Wednesday 24 May 2017

Eff Off - Sandy Hutson



PAN BOOKS 0 330 02613 5
1ST PRINTING 1971
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ARLINGTON BOOKS 1969

An explosive, irreverent and brilliantly-characterized first novel by Sandy Hutson

eff off

Describes in sizzling style the problems of a young teacher thrust into the chaotic world of a 'special school' for violent and disturbed children.

Sends TO SIR, WITH LOVE back to the kindergarten! - 'The dialogue scenes are splendidly handled; noisy, witty and obscene.'
NEW STATESMAN

eff off

'Don't do any such thing. Read it-for its fierce pity of the neglected and maladjusted child.'
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

Friday 12 May 2017

Wheelie! - Stuart Hall

Bikies on a rampage of sex, sin & destruction


SCRIPTS 14
1ST PRINTING 1973
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

"What do you chicks want?" demanded Onley.

"What do you think?" asked Jane, looking pointedly at Holmes' groin, than across at the joint Tait was smoking. "a little bit of fun and maybe some grass?" "I haven't got much left!" snapped Tait, not looking at the scared Sondra standing near him. "So you can forget about that for a start!"
"Now there's no need to be like that," soothed Jane. "Tell you what! You take little Sondra there and have a little sleep with her in one of the rooms upstairs, and maybe you'll think otherwise later on." Tait swung his eyes slowly towards Sondra, noting her short-cut mousy-coloured hair, and the attractiveness of the young girl. "Is she old enough?" he asked quietly.
"They're never too young," grinned Frances, moving closer to Onley. "They've all got to learn some day." "You mean she's a virgin?" asked Tait, interest in his eyes. "Well, she's never had a man," said Jane cryptically, then looked at Holmes. "Now, big boy, how about you and me?"