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- Sat 25 Feb, 2012 14:22:45
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: DW comes to blu ray
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Okay. My DVD is the Hammer Collection edition from Anchor Bay, with the U.S. title only given in small print on the back cover. (I read somewhere that the American distributors were afraid our viewers would think the film was a Western...) The movie plays as The Devil Rides Out , though it has both...
- Fri 24 Feb, 2012 19:27:53
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: DW comes to blu ray
- Replies: 30
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As far as I'm aware, the cutting was on the American release of the film. THE DEVIL'S BRIDE as it was known, had several seconds cut out of the Black Mass sequence. The original British release, with the DEVIL RIDES OUT titles, is the uncut version (although the BBFC probably insisted on cuts before...
- Tue 21 Feb, 2012 19:16:44
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: The Duc at Butlins
- Replies: 2
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- Sat 18 Feb, 2012 22:34:28
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: The Duc at Butlins
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5467
The Duc at Butlins
After reading about Billy Butlin approaching DW to set one of his novels in his holiday camp in the latest installment of the museum, I was reminded of the other authors who were approached with the same request. Leslie Charteris responded in the same way as DW, claiming that The Saint would never s...
- Sun 12 Feb, 2012 12:02:16
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Favourite Reprint Covers
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4367
With a few notable exceptions (such as the ones that you mention), a lot of the paperback covers from the fifties and sixties are rather unmemorable. The seventies did bring those 'out-of-focus naked woman warming herself in front of burning half-skull' which I love for all the wrong reasons, but th...
- Fri 13 Jan, 2012 20:43:42
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Favourite Dustwrappers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8570
I always rather liked the first editions of THE HAUNTING OF TOBY JUGG. The working of the lettering into the picture is very well done, and it's a shame that they didn't try the stylised approach more often. The surreal 1979/80 paperback covers are beautiful; how many were released? The Lymington ed...
- Mon 26 Dec, 2011 20:15:43
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Boxing Day and Bob Rothwell ...
- Replies: 26
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- Mon 26 Dec, 2011 01:04:51
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Seasonal Greetings
- Replies: 18
- Views: 23152
- Sat 24 Dec, 2011 18:32:57
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Seasonal Greetings
- Replies: 18
- Views: 23152
- Mon 26 Sep, 2011 22:57:21
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: The Duke de Reichleau becomes The Duke de Richleau
- Replies: 19
- Views: 31502
Which suggests that the 'Reichleau' spelling was the fault of the original Hutchinson editor. Given the speed at which the book was reprinted, there was obviously no time for the mistake to be corrected. You know, it's entirely possible that neither Wheatley or the Hutchinson team ever noticed the d...
- Sun 28 Aug, 2011 12:35:46
- Forum: To The Devil a Daughter
- Topic: TO THE DEVIL-A DAUGHTER
- Replies: 19
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TO THE DEVIL-A DAUGHTER
Strictly speaking, this should be in a section of its own, but I'm not certain how to introduce a new TTDAD section, so this will have to do for now. Given that it is a title known even to those who have never read DW, it's a little strange that I've not read this until now. I'm rather glad I did wa...
- Sat 27 Aug, 2011 19:27:23
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Books with DW in 'em.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5848
- Sat 27 Aug, 2011 19:17:54
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Saturdays with Bricks
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9477
- Thu 25 Aug, 2011 21:44:32
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: "The best of Dennis Wheatley"
- Replies: 54
- Views: 66582
- Thu 25 Aug, 2011 21:05:30
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: "The best of Dennis Wheatley"
- Replies: 54
- Views: 66582
I've always had my suspicions that the reason DW wrote GATEWAY TO HELL was in order to cash in on the film version of THE DEVIL RIDES OUT. GATEWAY was published within two years of the film, and you can't help but notice that the most famous scene from the movie (the night in the magic circle) appea...