Tag Archives: The Playbirds
Mary Millington Reissued!
On Monday 22 August 2022, Mary Millington’s most famous movies – Come Play with Me (1977) and The Playbirds (1978) will be reissued as single discs by Screenbound International Pictures. Packed with special features made by Mary’s biographer, Simon Sheridan, … Continue reading
Mary Millington Returns in High Definition!
On 22 June 2020 The Mary Millington Movie Collection finally receives a luxury release on Blu-ray. This five-disc box-set features beautiful HD remasters of Mary’s most legendary feature films from the late-1970s, including Come Play with Me (1977), The Playbirds … Continue reading
A Very Mary Christmas, 1979
When Mary was busy celebrating Christmas Day in 1978 nobody had any idea what terrible – and entirely preventable – tragedy would befall her just eight months later. But Mary’s memory did not immediately fade from view after her death … Continue reading
Mary Goes to Cannes (again)
In May 1978 Mary visited the world-famous Cannes Film Festival to promote her forthcoming movie The Playbirds. She was also there to have an initial meeting with legendary porn director Gerard Damiano, about his latest project, Love is Beautiful, due … Continue reading
Proto-Playbirds
Last year, on this blog, I wrote about prolific British poster artist Tom Chantrell. Although he might be more revered nowadays for his work for Hammer studios, it’s his ‘X’-rated sexploitation material which I, unsurprisingly, adore the most. Chantrell designed … Continue reading
Girl Guides
Alongside the best-selling monthly Playbirds and Pocket Playbirds magazines, David Sullivan also produced semi-regular Playbirds Erotic Film Guides, designed to publicize his movies, and those he had a hand in distributing during the late-1970s. Issues #1, #2, #5 and #7 … Continue reading
The Cover Girls of ‘Come Play with Me’
I thought it might just be interesting to see a selection of ‘top shelf’ magazine covers – all featuring photographs of the principal female cast of 1977’s Come Play with Me. So here we have Mary Millington gracing the cover of … Continue reading
All About Eve
1978’s The Playbirds was, unquestionably, Mary’s best movie, and perhaps one of the finest British sexploitation films of the entire Seventies. Playing an eager young policewoman, who goes undercover to catch a serial killer, Mary, for once, was afforded the … Continue reading
Keep It Hard Downstairs
In the 1960s and 1970s it was common practice for many British sex films to be shot in an ‘overseas version’. In other words, additional scenes – usually hardcore (but not exclusively) – were slotted into the narrative to make the … Continue reading
Four More Soho Doors
31st October 2014: After my recent blog looking at notable Soho addresses, I’m back knocking on a few more naughty doors… Number 11 Walkers Court. This wide, wooden (and recently varnished) doorway was once the entrance to the most famous ‘adults … Continue reading