Tag Archives: Come Play with Me
A Respectable Première on 7 April
I’m very proud to announce that the world première of Respectable – The Mary Millington Story, will take place on 7 April 2016 at the beautiful Regent Street Cinema in the heart of London’s West End. We are all very excited … Continue reading
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Tagged Come Play with Me, David Sullivan, London, Moulin cinema, Regent Street Cinema, Respectable film, Soho
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Respectable – The Mary Millington Story is coming…
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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
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Tagged Christmas, Come Play with Me, Erotic Inferno, I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight, London, Mary's death, Moulin cinema, Private Pleasures, Queen of the Blues, Soho, The Playbirds
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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
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Tagged cinema posters, Come Play with Me, Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair, locations, Norbury, The Playbirds, Tom Chantrell
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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
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Tagged Come Play with Me, Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair, Playbirds Erotic Film Guide, Playbirds magazine, Pocket Playbirds magazine, Queen of the Blues, Rosemary England, The Playbirds
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The Sex O’clock News
Contrary to what many might think, David Sullivan’s first foray into the world of British newspapers wasn’t the launch of his infamous Sunday Sport in September 1986. 10 years earlier Sullivan published a precursor to his tabloid adventures, namely National … Continue reading
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Tagged Ava Cadell, Charlie Brown, Come Play with Me, Daily Sport, David Sullivan, Mary Millington's World Striptease Extravaganza, Miss Bohrloch, National News, Sunday Sport, Whitehouse Adult News, Whitehouse magazine
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The Fact of Fiction: ‘Come Play with Me’ in Print
From the autumn of 1976 onwards producer David Sullivan took delight in relentless publicising his forthcoming début movie, Come Play with Me. In explicit photo-sets, flowery editorials and often-misleading adverts he promoted the movie as ‘Britain’s first porno feature film!’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Come Play with Me, Derek Aylward, George Harrison Marks, Harry Knights, Irene Handl, Playbirds Erotic Film Guide, Roger Carr, Suzette Sangalo Bond, Suzy Mandel, Weston Manor Hotel
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The Return of ‘Nicola Austine’
In the 1970s, the classic era of British ‘sex comedies’ gave rise to a new breed of cinematic icon. From the worlds of The Sun’s Page 3, Mayfair magazine, 8mm porn and TV’s Benny Hill Show came forth a unique … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Bergman, Come Play with Me, David Sullivan, Nicola Austine, School for Sex
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Return to Bovington Manor
About 18 months ago I visited the Weston Manor Hotel on the outskirts of Oxford – the famous location of Mary Millington’s blockbuster 1977 film, Come Play with Me. The hotel was a regular haunt of director George Harrison Marks … Continue reading
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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
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Tagged Come Play with Me, Emmanuelle in Soho, Francoise Pascal, George Harrison Marks, Keep It Up Downstairs, The Playbirds
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