It would be great to see a list of all the IFD / RFD / Regent distribution films. I'm sure I have a lot of images but I would need to cross check against a list.
It would be great to see a list of all the IFD / RFD / Regent distribution films. I'm sure I have a lot of images but I would need to cross check against a list.
Good thinking, but an impossible task to complete, particularly with a large amount of Regent released product from the 1970's onwards being sexploitation films with no recorded release dates or information available. To be honest I have very little interest in this genre of film at all.
There are still a number of Regent released films from the 1960's missing daybill images that were above average in quality over the exploitation product that they usually released during that decade. I will cover these titles here shortly.
Regent also announced in the early 1960's a list of advertised films that included a number of teen themed exploitation titles such as T-Bird Gang and High School Caesar. They were scheduled to be available to be booked as double bill programmes. but this never eventuated in this format style. A few of the advertised films did end up receiving individual bookings though. More regarding this later.
Regent also announced in the early 1960's a list of advertised films that included a number of teen themed exploitation titles such as T-Bird Gang and High School Caesar. They were scheduled to be available to be booked as double bill programmes. but this never eventuated in this format style. A few of the advertised films did end up receiving individual bookings though. More regarding this later.
Wild Youth and Wild Harvest were announced as being part a double feature. programme,
The Wild Ride was also announced with The Girl In Lovers's Lane as being part of a double feature. combination. As mentioned earlier The Girl In Lover's Lane did though receive a very limited release, but not associated with the announced double feature.
Apart from The Girl In Lover's Lane the other listed double bill titles that ended up being booked as single features are Little Shop Of Horrors (daybill available), Ski Troop Attack and Battle Of Blood Island (daybill available}.
Finally one other film that was intended to screen as a double bill with Little Shop Of Horrors was Terror In Tahiti No record of this title ever being released here at all. The film also had numerous other titles as well, including Pagan Hellcat, but nothing found under any of these alternative ones as well.
The following information is to complete my contribution here on Regent Films.
Three final film entries follow below that focus on films with some critical merit that are missing any daybill images. These films only received very limited screenings here in Australia by Regent Films. The following images are the best overseas images that I could locate.
The Naked Night (1953) has the alternative title of Sawdust And Tinsel (1953). An early Ingmar Bergman film that only received a very limited delayed Australian release here ten years later in 1963. I
The Intruder (1962). The film was later re-released as I Hate Your Guts. This Roger Corman film was critically well received, but because of the subject matter failed to attract bookings and audiences.
Saturday Night Out (1964).
Of course if anyone has any of the three films daybills, it would be great to see their images posted here..
Thanks Rick for sharing The Intruder image here. The artwork is well above average and has to be one of Regent's better produced poster presentations.
The purpose of including the Regent Films information here was firstly to share this with any interested people. I was also hopeful to possibly being able to locate any daybill images previously unsighted., This wishful thinking has resulted in The Intruder image being included here, which is a good result.
As John just made a comment on, The Intruder it is indeed a rare poster for this film, especially also when taking into account the world wide poster scarcity of any kind, especially with the original The Intruder title.
The film was a bold attempt in 1962 to cover the subject of civil rights and racism in the deep south of the U.S.A. Problems getting it shot in a southern state make interesting reading.
Although a critically well received film, due though to it's subject matter and the controversy surrounding it and with the lack of bookings for the film Roger Corman went on to continue to steer clear of this sort of message film. He went back to concentrating on his exploitation titles after that.
An additional two Regent Films that were released in Australia that have missing daybill images. I thought that they were of enough interest also to be included here. Two overseas images follow.
The Comedy Of Terrors (1963). Released in Australia in 1968, while Col. March Investigates (1953) had its release here in1961.
Where are the missing re-released in the 1960's Samuel Goldwyn classic films daybill posters?
The Film Week-y Motion Picture Directory 1962-1963 yearbook trade publication had an advertisement placed by Blake Films that advertised their intention to re-release six Goldwyn titles here in Australia.
The following were the announced six titles.
The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty' The Best Years Of our Lives The Kid From Brooklyn Hans Christian Anderson The Bishop's Wife Wonder Man
All the first five listed titles obtained screenings in Australia in the early 1960s, but with the exception of The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty there bookings were very limited. The Wonder Man film though I couldn't locate any screenings for it. This doesn't mean though that it wasn't released here.
The only title that I have located a daybill image of is for The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. As seen following below the Blake Films re-release poster was copied from the original 1940's Australian RKO Radio daybill design that had been designed and printed by Simmons printers.
I am keen to locate the remaining four or five tiltles daybill images as well.
I have just realised that there is a missing Australian daybill image not ever been sighted by me for the 1952 RKO Radio release of Captive Women that may be of enough interest for me to mention it here,
The following U.S.A. insert poster of Captive women would surely indicate what a Simmons printed full bleed Australian RKO daybill would look like.
Being a science fiction film, and although an obscure title it would most likely be in demand if a copy of the daybill ever turned up in the market place.
A silly question perhaps to ask, but does anyone have a copy of the daybill, or has ever sighted the poster in the past?
I am following up on my earlier April 2023 entry here on this thread regarding missing 1950's musical genre daybill poster titles. Located recently is a daybill title that was not listed at the time due to its Italian origin,
The film is Verdi (1953), (aka Verdi King Of Melody and also Giuseppe Verdi) The original version was in Italian, but the version screened in Australia was one that had been dubbed into English.
The following Hit Of The Show (1928) Australian daybill has surfaced and is coming up for auction on Heritage shortly.The film was a part-talkie with English intertitles, and was released in Australia in 1929.
Although showing the film distributor to be an RKO Picture the film was originally released in the U.S,A, by Film Booking Offices Of America, commonly known as FBO, who merged into the new sound company RKO Pictures in 1928. FBO released silent films between 1918 and 1929.
Of the hundreds of films that they released almost all of them, over 450 titles are presumed lost. The changeover from silent to sound films being the apparent reason for the mass destruction of these silent films as they were later deemed to be of no commercial value.
(Trove)
The following four daybills are for silent FBO films that ended up by being released in Australia in circa 1929 for cinemas not yet converted for sound screenings.
Laddie (1926), Her Father Said No! 1927), Hook And Ladder No. 9 (1927) and Tyrant Of Red Gulch (1928).
Is anyone interested in the period in Australia during the late 1920's into the early 1930''s when the changeover from silent to sound films took place?
Please let me know if anyone would like to see some details on this subject. The response that I receive will determine if I will go ahead with this project.
An Australian daybill of New York (1927) and the Kangarilla Temperance Hall in South Australia.
When I first sighted the daybill I did wonder where Kangarilla was situated. I then decided to do some research and found that Kangarilla is a small rural town in South Australia that is 33.1 km south of Adelaide. with a current population of just under a thousand people.
The Temperance Hall pictured above was the venue where the film was originally screened by a touring show operator. Screenings at this venue at this period of time were I am led to believe for only one day weekly screenings at best.
A big thank you to the Best and Amos families who informed me of a lot of additional history regarding the Temperance Hall.
Nabonga 1944 U.S.A. insert poster and an Australian newspaper advertisement from 1946. I would very much like to see an original daybill poster image for this title.
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There are still a number of Regent released films from the 1960's missing daybill images that were above average in quality over the exploitation product that they usually released during that decade. I will cover these titles here shortly.
Regent also announced in the early 1960's a list of advertised films that included a number of teen themed exploitation titles such as T-Bird Gang and High School Caesar. They were scheduled to be available to be booked as double bill programmes. but this never eventuated in this format style. A few of the advertised films did end up receiving individual bookings though. More regarding this later.
Wild Youth and Wild Harvest were announced as being part a double feature. programme,
The Wild Ride was also announced with The Girl In Lovers's Lane as being part of a double feature. combination. As mentioned earlier The Girl In Lover's Lane did though receive a very limited release, but not associated with the announced double feature.
Apart from The Girl In Lover's Lane the other listed double bill titles that ended up being booked as single features are Little Shop Of Horrors (daybill available), Ski Troop Attack and Battle Of Blood Island (daybill available}.
Finally one other film that was intended to screen as a double bill with Little Shop Of Horrors was Terror In Tahiti No record of this title ever being released here at all. The film also had numerous other titles as well, including Pagan Hellcat, but nothing found under any of these alternative ones as well.
Three final film entries follow below that focus on films with some critical merit that are missing any daybill images. These films only received very limited screenings here in Australia by Regent Films. The following images are the best overseas images that I could locate.
The Naked Night (1953) has the alternative title of Sawdust And Tinsel (1953). An early Ingmar Bergman film that only received a very limited delayed Australian release here ten years later in 1963.
I
The Intruder (1962). The film was later re-released as I Hate Your Guts. This Roger Corman film was critically well received, but because of the subject matter failed to attract bookings and audiences.
Saturday Night Out (1964).
Of course if anyone has any of the three films daybills, it would be great to see their images posted here..
The purpose of including the Regent Films information here was firstly to share this with any interested people. I was also hopeful to possibly being able to locate any daybill images previously unsighted., This wishful thinking has resulted in The Intruder image being included here, which is a good result.
As John just made a comment on, The Intruder it is indeed a rare poster for this film, especially also when taking into account the world wide poster scarcity of any kind, especially with the original The Intruder title.
The film was a bold attempt in 1962 to cover the subject of civil rights and racism in the deep south of the U.S.A. Problems getting it shot in a southern state make interesting reading.
Although a critically well received film, due though to it's subject matter and the controversy surrounding it and with the lack of bookings for the film Roger Corman went on to continue to steer clear of this sort of message film. He went back to concentrating on his exploitation titles after that.
An additional two Regent Films that were released in Australia that have missing daybill images. I thought that they were of enough interest also to be included here. Two overseas images follow.
The Comedy Of Terrors (1963). Released in Australia in 1968, while Col. March Investigates (1953) had its release here in1961.
The Film Week-y Motion Picture Directory 1962-1963 yearbook trade publication had an advertisement placed by Blake Films that advertised their intention to re-release six Goldwyn titles here in Australia.
The following were the announced six titles.
The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty'
The Best Years Of our Lives
The Kid From Brooklyn
Hans Christian Anderson
The Bishop's Wife
Wonder Man
All the first five listed titles obtained screenings in Australia in the early 1960s, but with the exception of The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty there bookings were very limited. The Wonder Man film though I couldn't locate any screenings for it. This doesn't mean though that it wasn't released here.
The only title that I have located a daybill image of is for The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. As seen following below the Blake Films re-release poster was copied from the original 1940's Australian RKO Radio daybill design that had been designed and printed by Simmons printers.
I am keen to locate the remaining four or five tiltles daybill images as well.
Any feedback would be most appreciated
Thanks to Rick for providing an image of the previously missing very rare Atlas daybill image. It is very similar to the above U.S.A. insert artwork.
For Regent Films posters the daybill has above average artwork which I don't mind a all.
Hi @HONDO here is a missing daybill on your list. Pity it does not have artwork like the US insert with the gorilla holding the woman
The following U.S.A. insert poster of Captive women would surely indicate what a Simmons printed full bleed Australian RKO daybill would look like.
Being a science fiction film, and although an obscure title it would most likely be in demand if a copy of the daybill ever turned up in the market place.
A silly question perhaps to ask, but does anyone have a copy of the daybill, or has ever sighted the poster in the past?
I am following up on my earlier April 2023 entry here on this thread regarding missing 1950's musical genre daybill poster titles.
Located recently is a daybill title that was not listed at the time due to its Italian origin,
The film is Verdi (1953), (aka Verdi King Of Melody and also Giuseppe Verdi) The original version was in Italian, but the version screened in Australia was one that had been dubbed into English.
Although showing the film distributor to be an RKO Picture the film was originally released in the U.S,A, by Film Booking Offices Of America, commonly known as FBO, who merged into the new sound company RKO Pictures in 1928. FBO released silent films between 1918 and 1929.
Of the hundreds of films that they released almost all of them, over 450 titles are presumed lost. The changeover from silent to sound films being the apparent reason for the mass destruction of these silent films as they were later deemed to be of no commercial value.
The following four daybills are for silent FBO films that ended up by being released in Australia in circa 1929 for cinemas not yet converted for sound screenings.
Laddie (1926), Her Father Said No! 1927), Hook And Ladder No. 9 (1927) and Tyrant Of Red Gulch (1928).
Please let me know if anyone would like to see some details on this subject. The response that I receive will determine if I will go ahead with this project.
Peter
An Australian daybill of New York (1927) and the Kangarilla Temperance Hall in South Australia.
When I first sighted the daybill I did wonder where Kangarilla was situated. I then decided to do some research and found that Kangarilla is a small rural town in South Australia that is 33.1 km south of Adelaide. with a current population of just under a thousand people.
The Temperance Hall pictured above was the venue where the film was originally screened by a touring show operator. Screenings at this venue at this period of time were I am led to believe for only one day weekly screenings at best.
A big thank you to the Best and Amos families who informed me of a lot of additional history regarding the Temperance Hall.
I would very much like to see an original daybill poster image for this title.