Hammer Films & Their Posters
I am going re-start this discussion that had started here - I have been in touch with Ari Richards, perhaps one of the most pre-eminent collectors of Hammer Daybills around and also probably one of the more knowledgeable people when it comes to Hammer films. He is lost in Canada somewhere but has agreed to share his poster collection with us to discuss, dissect and then burn at the stake.
So thanks Ari!
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Great display of images including some I have never sighted before..
There is a one sheet image of the 1957 film High Flight included in this Hammer exhibition. The film was made by Warwick Film Productions which was formed in the 1950's by Irving Allen and Albert R. Broccoli and they went on to make 22 films and I am not aware of any connection with Hammer Films. If someone would kindly explain to me the reason it was included as a Hammer Film it would be appreciated as I am always interested in learning something new.
Hondo
There is a lot of information here about banned Hammer films here ....
http://www.refused-classification.com/default.html
Message for Ari.
High Flight was distributed by Columbia not Exclusive as the other Warwick films were at that time.
Without a thorough search happening ,other than the Hammer images that have been posted on this thread, the other Australian Hammer images I have sighted are ---
On eMovieposter.com Auction History site -
Break In The Circle
Mask Of Dust
Life With The Lyons
On John's Moviemem site in the Hammer Exhibition Gallery.
A Weekend With Lulu
Fear In The Night
Life With The Lyons ( 2 images )
The Valiant ( BHP who also made The Shadow Of The Cat )
Yesterday's Enemy ( the full colour original daybill )
A note about Hammer Films Australian posters availability and lack of availability. . This fall into 3 groupings.
- Group A
Films released in Australia at the time of original release from uncut to censored material removed. Australian film posters available.
Group B
Banned at the time of original release but reclassified and released at later date and in some cases a decade later. Australian film posters available.
Group C
Some titles possibly never released theatrically either because in the case of some earlier films they were very minor independent films that never gained an Australian distributor. In the case of horror films some titles from the 1960s were banned but for whatever reason were either resubmitted before 1971 in reconstructed versions and banned a second time or never resubmitted after 1971 and their first release ended up being on DVD in Australia in the later part of last century.This is a blow for any serious Hammer Films collectors and in particular collectors of Hammer horror titles because there are a few that fall into this area. A blow to any collectors who have set out to collect Australian posters on all of the 1960's Hammer horror titles .Of course no Australian film posters printed and so far it also appears if the films were released in New Zealand,( and this hasn't been established yet ), no paper has surfaced to date. At least a daybill printed for New Zealand, if only a daybill, surely would be better than nothing at all.
Hondo
It appears the poster artist who designed the daybill image of Dick Turpin Highwayman for the 1956 Hammer 26 minute short film, has copied directly from the earlier Australian Columbia daybill design of Dick Turpin's Ride ( aka The Lady And The Bandit.) from 1951. The Hammer film starred Philip Friend as Dick Turpin but the daybill poster has the Louis Hayward image likeness copied from the original with no attempt to change the likeness of the star.If the two films were distributed by the same company it would make more sense. Being a short film perhaps BEF had little or no overseas material to work on and their only option available was to copy the earlier artwork. The printers also are different. One would love to know the story behind this.
Hondo
Dick's happy he is getting to ride again.
Hondo
The period from the mid 1950s right through to 1970 covering about 15 years was indeed when Australian film censorship was at it's most repressive . There were approximately well over 50 plus films banned for horror reasons alone, without taking into account other titles banned for violence, sex and other grounds. Some were resubmitted at the time and passed with cuts and in a lot of cases given only a Not Suitable For Children rating.
A great number were passed only when the heavy censorship hand began to loosen around 1969 and the floodgates did open in late 1971 with a great deal of previously banned films resubmitted and passed mainly with the new R or M certificates ratings. There were a few horror film titles banned in the 1960s that never were passed for commercial exhibition on 35mm at all in the 1970s for whatever reason and eventually turned up on DVD as the first Australian release, so if you are searching for Australian posters, particularly with Hammer titles, be prepared to be disappointed as this isn't going to occur ever. There is always going to be an unfilled wish list.
Hondo
A rare Hammer title. The daybill was printed for the New Zealand release only as the film was banned in Australia and not released theatricaly. If you are a Hammer film daybill collector this is the one and only daybill to seek out. The design was printed on the stock ''For Your Entertainment" poster used by both BEF in Australia and International Film Distributors in New Zealand. The ''For Your Entertainment'' daybill was it seems only used from around 1971,when the new classifications were introduced in Australia, and into the early 1970s. . I am not sure when they may have been used in New Zealand but I think it would have been early 1970s also. Most of the daybills I have sighted have designs printed on them by the distributors with varying degrees of quality of the images, but I have sighted one blank daybill with just the film's title and classification printed on poster most likely by the theatre owner. Interesting Hammer Films were involved in the making of Demons Of The Mind but no mention of them on the daybill.
Hondo
Birth Of a Monster Australian daybill , U.S.A. insert with the film titled Enemy From Space there, and a U. K quad poster with the original country of origin title of Quatrernass 11 ( 1957 ).
Made For Laughs is a extremely little known Hammer Films - Exclusive Films U.K. production / release from 1952. The above Australian daybills were produced in the 1950s for an Australian release by IFD. A short film comedy with a 34 minute running time. The daybill is misleading in that it appears that it is a Charlie Chaplin film, when the film is an anthology film and Chaplin is only one of many comedians featured in the film including some little known today British born comedians. More details on www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b73dad85d
This has to be the most unusual film to ever come from Hammer Films.