Forty-five years ago today at the Gala Premiere at the Empire Theatre, Leicester Square, their lives were never the same again... #TheCoalminersDaughter #1980s #film #films #MichaelApted #SissySpacek #TommyLeeJones
Forty-four years ago today at the Odeon Haymarket, growing up wasn’t easy at any age... #OnGoldenPond #1980s #film #films #MarkRydell #HenryFonda #JaneFonda #KatharineHepburn
Forty-four years ago today, London cinema audiences witnessed the kidnap that became a murder, that became a siege, that became a death trap... #Venom #1980s #PiersHaggard #OliverReed #KlausKinski #SusanGeorge #SarahMiles #SterlingHayden #NicolWilliamson
Forty-four years ago today, audiences at the Plaza cinema asked "Whose Life Is It Anyway?"... #WhoseLifeIsItAnyway #1980s #film #films #JohnBadham #RichardDreyfuss #JohnCassavetes #ChristineLahti
Forty-three years ago today, London cinema audiences just had time to scream its name before it tore them apart... #QTheWingedSerpent #1980s #film #films #LarryCohen #MichaelMoriarty #DavidCarradine #RichardRoundtree #CandyClark #horror #horrorfilm #monster
Nightwebs by Cornell Woolrich (Equinox/Avon 19521, June 1974). #Nightwebs #CornellWoolrich #1970s #book #books #Paperback #cover #coverart #artwork #shortstories #crime #mystery #thrillers #thriller #thrillerbooks #shortstories #AvonBooks
Forty-six years ago today in Midlands cinemas, when there was no more room in Hell the dead walked the earth (and maybe the supporting film was more terrifying than the main feature!)... #DawnOfTheDead #1970s #film #films #GeorgeARomero #horror #zombies
Forty-seven years ago today, London cinema audiences could escape to a world of all-star fun and adventure... #EscapeToAthena #1970s #film #films #GeorgePCosmatos #RogerMoore #TellySavalas #DavidNiven #StefaniePowers #ClaudiaCardinale #RichardRoundtree
Forty-two years ago today in UK cinemas, Joel's fantasies all came true... #RiskyBusiness #1980s #film #films #PaulBrickman #TomCruise #RebeccaDeMornay
And The Deep Blue Sea by Charles Williams (Signet Q4515, March 1971). Cover Art by Blossom. #AndTheDeepBlueSea #CharlesWilliams #1970s #book #books #Paperback #cover #coverart #artwork #SignetBook #SignetBooks #MYSTERY #ThrillerBooks #thriller #thrillers
Forty-seven years ago today in London cinemas, they couldn’t have celebrated happier anniversaries if they were married to each other... #SameTimeNextYear #1970s #film #films #RobertMulligan #EllenBurstyn #AlanAlda
Black Mask April 1950 (British Edition, Vol. VII, No. 5) (Atlas Publishing And Distributing Co. Ltd.). #BlackMask #1950s #cover #coverart #artwork #shortstories #crime #mystery #Thriller #PulpFiction
Blood On The Ivy by Hal Ellson (Pyramid T2257, 1970). Ghostwritten by Gil Brewer. #BloodOnTheIvy #HalEllson #GilBrewer #1970s #books #book #paperback #cover #coverart #artwork #PyramidBook #PyramidBooks
Call Me Killer! By Max Carter (Avon A542, 1953). #CallMeKiller #MaxCarter #1950s #book #books #Paperback #cover #coverart #artwork #AvonBook #AvonBooks #crime #mystery #thriller #thrillers #thrillerbooks
Fifty-six years ago today, Michelangelo Antonioni took the London premiere audience to Zabriskie Point... #ZabriskiePoint #1970s #film #films #MichelangeloAntonioni #MarkFrechette #DariaHalprin #PaulFix #GDSpradlin
Forty-one years ago today at the Empire Leicester Square, 2010 was the year audiences made contact... #2010 #1980s #PeterHyams #RoyScheider #JohnLithgow #HelenMirren #BobBalaban #KeirDullea #scifi #sciencefiction #ArthurCClarke
Final Score by Emmett Grogan (Eugene Leo Grogan) (Panther, 1978). #FinalScore #EmmettGrogan #1970s #books #book #Paperback #cover #PantherBook #PantherBooks #crime #thrillerbooks #thriller #thrillers
Blade: The Laredo Assignment by Matt Chisholm (Peter Watts) (Hamlyn, 1979). #TheLaredoAssignment #BladeTheLaredoAssignment #1970s #MattChisholm #PeterWatts #Western #book #books #paperback #cover #artwork #coverart
The Frontiers Of Death by James Turner (Cassell & Company Ltd., 1957). #TheFrontiersOfDeath #JamesTurner #1950s #book #books #coverart #cover #artwork #crime #mystery #thriller #Thrillers #ThrillerBooks
Forty-three years ago today, there was Enigma in London cinemas… #Enigma #film #films #1980s #JeannotSzwarc #MartinSheen #SamNeill #BrigitteFossey #DerekJacobi #FrankFinlay #MichaelLonsdale #WarrenClarke
Forty-three years ago today in London cinemas, they were the future and no one could stop them… #ClassOf1984 #film #films #1980s #MarkLLester #PerryKing #MerrieLynnRoss #TimothyVanPatten #RoddyMcDowall #LisaLanglois #MichaelJFox
Fifty years ago today, there was Inserts at the Prince Charles Cinema… #Inserts #1970s #film #films #JohnByrum #RichardDreyfuss #JessicaHarper #BobHoskins #VeronicaCartwright #StephenDavies
One of my favourite authors, David Goodis, was born on this day in 1917, and sadly passed away in 1967... #DavidGoodis #author #writer #OnThisDay #books #Paperback #NOIR #crime #mystery
Forty-eight years ago today, a story of today opened at the Leicester Square Theatre... #TomorrowNeverComes #1970s #film #films #PeterCollinson #SusanGeorge #StephenMcHattie #OliverReed #RaymondBurr #JohnIreland #DonaldPleasence #thriller
Fifty-four years ago today, the man from Shaft was sensational as Shannon at the - appropriately named for the man from Shaft - ABC Shaftesbury Avenue... #Embassy #1970s #film #films #GordonHessler #RichardRoundtree #ChuckConnors #RayMilland #MaxVonSydow
Forty-seven years ago today at the Plaza 1 cinema, with $250 million in gold at stake, hitting a 4 star general came cheap... #BrassTarget #1970s #JohnHough #GeorgeKennedy #JohnCassavetes #sophialoren #RobertVaughn #PatrickMcGoohan #BruceDavison
Forty-two years ago today, London cinema audiences had The Right Stuff... #TheRightStuff #1980s #film #films #PhilipKaufman #TomWolfe #film #films #SamShepard #ScottGlenn #EdHarris #DennisQuaid #FredWard #BarbaraHershey #VeronicaCartwright #KimStanley
Cornered! by James McKimmey (Dell First Edition B157, May 1960). Cover Art by Harry Schaare. #Cornered #1960s #JamesMcKimmey #book #books #Paperback #cover #covers #coverart #artwork #HarrySchaare #crime #mystery #thriller #thrillerbooks #thrillers #DellFirstEdition
The Hunter And The Trapped by Josephine Bell (Doris Bell Collier) (Hodder And Stoughton, 1963). Cover Art by Von Briesen. #TheHunterAndTheTrapped #1960s #book #Books #coverart #COVER #artwork #VonBriesen #HodderAdStoughton #crime #ThrillerBooks #thriller#thrillers #mystery #JosephineBell
Twelve years ago today I was on a discussion panel at Glasgow @frightfest.bsky.social with @nucleusfilms.bsky.social and @alanfrightfest.bsky.social following the premiere of Marc Morris and Jake West's documentary Video Nasties: Draconian Days... #Frightfest #VideoNastiesDraconianDays
