Saturday 12 September 2020

The Wild Rebels


DIE ENGEL DES SATANS
aka THE WILD REBELS
NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM Nr. 4916
AUSTRIA 1968

"THEY LIVE FOR KICKS...LOVE FOR KICKS...KILL FOR KICKS!"

Starring Steve Alaimo, Willie Pastrano, John Vella and The Birdwatchers
Directed by William Grefé
Comet / Crown International Pictures
USA 1967

Friday 11 September 2020

The Unholy Wife

 


LIVSFARLIG BLONDINE
aka THE UNHOLY WIFE
DENMARK 1960

"HALF-ANGEL......HALF-DEVIL, she made him HALF-A-MAN! ...she flaunted his hopes, taunted his dreams, turned his peaceful valley into a volcano of seething passions that even murder could not stem!"

Starring Diana Dors, Rod Steiger and Tom Tryon
Directed by John Farrow
RKO Radio Picture / Treasure Productions
USA 1957

Thursday 10 September 2020

Clockwork Orange

CLOCKWORK ORANGE
aka UHRWERK ORANGE
NEUER FILM-PROGRAMM Nr. 70/71
AUSTRIA 1972

"Being the adventures of a young man ... who couldn't resist pretty girls ... or a bit of the old ultra-violence ... went to jail, was re-conditioned ... and came out a different young man ... or was he?"

Starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates and Warren Clarke
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Based on the novel "Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
Warner Bros, Polaris Productions and Hawk Films 
UK / U.S.A. 1971

Wednesday 9 September 2020

Super Fly


SUPER FLY
CROATIA FILM • YUGOSLAVIA
CINEMA PROGRAMME
1970s

"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

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.

Sunday 6 September 2020

The Delinquents - Anthony Bloomfield

 

ICON BOOKS F7
FIRST PRINTING 1962
LONDON, U.K.
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HOGARTH PRESS 1958

Juvenile (and adult) delinquents in a seedy seaside town. The delinquents include not only two young girls, Penny and Belle, but their evil and amoral mothers- and, most deeply involved of all, a local magistrate.

"A study in the fascinations of corruption." 
-The Times

"Mr. Bloomfield produces great tension; he is a genuine storyteller." 
-Daily Telegraph

"...few writers can make the every day and the seedy so real, so strange, so menacing." 
-V.S. Naipaul

Friday 4 September 2020

Brighton Belle - Arthur Le Bern

 The sensational novel of a vicious back street world of pimps, prostitutes and racketeers


Digit Books R831
First Printing 1964
London, UK
Originally published in hardback by W.H. Allen & Co, 1963

BRIGHTON BELLE

ANOTHER BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY

Set in the twilight world of racecourse tipsters and small-time gangsters, BRIGHTON BELLE is a searing, dramatic story of what happens to a group of oddly assorted people on a day in summer.

It is a chilling story about shady characters mixed up, for a violent period, with the law-abiding and the innocent, by an author who is master of suspense and evocation. Mr. LaBern's first novel IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY was hailed by James Agate as "the most exciting thing of its kind since Somerset Maugham wrote "LIZA OF LAMBETH", and was filmed successfully by Ealing Studios.

A DIGIT BOOK