Forty-four years ago today, enough was enough in London cinemas... #DeathVengeance #1980s #film #films #LewisTeague #TomSkerritt #PattiLuPone #MichaelSarrazin #YaphetKotto #crime #thriller

Sixty-seven years ago today, North-West London cinemagoers took the Ferry To Hong Kong... #FerryToHongKong #1960s #film #films #LewisGilbert #CurtJurgens #OrsonWelles #SylviaSyms

My Life With Charles Manson by Paul Watkins with Guillermo Soledad) (Bantam 12788-8, June 1979). #MyLifeWithCharlesManson #PaulWatkins #GuillermoSoledad #1970s #book #books #paperback #cover #BantamBook #BantamBooks #CharlesManson #crime #truecrime

Forty-nine years ago today, holiday campers were exposed in the funniest take off of the season! #ConfessionsFromAHolidayCamp #1970s #film #films #NormanCohen #RobinAskwith #AnthonyBooth #BillMaynard #DorisHare #comedy #TimothyLea

Forty-nine years ago today, they were free and ready to serve UK audiences on the big screen... #AreYouBeingServed #1970s #film #films #BobKellett #MollieSugden #JohnInman#FrankThornton #TrevorBannister #WendyRichard #ArthurEnglish #comedy #GraceBrothers

The Killing Star by Michael Avallone (Robert Hale Limited, 1969). Cover Art by Eileen Walton. #TheKillingStar #MichaelAvallone #1960s #book #books #RobertHale #RobertHaleLimited #EileenWalton #crime #mystery #thriller #thrillers

Forty-five years ago today, the new hero from the creators of Jaws and Star Wars arrived in UK cinemas... #RaidersOfTheLostArk #1980s #film #films #StevenSpielberg #HarrisonFord #KarenAllen #PaulFreeman #RonaldLacey #JohnRhysDavies #DenholmElliott #IndianaJones #GeorgeLucas

Forty-five years ago today, The Great Muppet Caper began in UK cinemas... #TheGreatMuppetCaper #1980s #film #JimHenson #FrankOz #CharlesGrodin #DianaRigg #JohnCleese #RobertMorley #PeterUstinov #JackWarden #comedy #TheMuppets

Barca by Lou Cameron (Star, 1976). #Barca #LouCameron #1970s #book #books #paperback #cover #StarBooks #StarBook #crime #mystery #thriller #thrillers #thrillerbooks

Forty-four years ago today in UK cinemas, the music and feeling went on forever... #Grease2 #1980s #film #musical #PatriciaBirch #MaxwellCaulfield #MichellePfeiffer #LornaLuft #MayreenTeefy #AdrianZmed

Forty-six years ago at the Royal Charity Premiere at the Plaza Cinema, Lower Regent Street, the meanest bookie in town, a real classy lady and a cute kid made a winning combination for the comedy of the year... #LittleMissMarker #WalterBernstein #1980s #film #WalterMatthau #JulieAndrews #SaraStimson

Ransom by Jon Cleary (Collins, 1973). #Ransom #1970s #JonCleary #book #books #hardback #hardcover #cover #coverart #artwork #crime #thriler #ScobieMalone

Forty-three years ago today in UK cinemas, there were swashbucklers, pirates, public floggings, saucy tarts, beggars, queens and jolly rogers... #Yellowbeard #1980s #film #films #MelDamski #GrahamChapman #PeterBoyle #CheechMarin #TommyChong #PeterCook #MadelineKahn #MartyFeldman #comedy

Forty-nine years ago today in UK cinemas, there was never more excitement, never more thrills when a killer whale and a fisherman clash in a fight to the death... #OrcaKillerWhale #1970s #film #films #MichaelAnderson #RichardHarris #CharlotteRampling #BoDerek #WillSampson

Give The Boys A Great Big Hand by Ed McBain (Salvatore Albert Lombino) (TV Boardman & Company Limited No. 377, 1962). #GiveTheBoysAGreatBigHand #EdMcBain #1960s #book #books #cover #TVBoardman #crime #mystery #thriller #thrillers #thrillerbooks #87thPrecinct

Dealing: or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues by Michael Douglas (Michael Crichton and Douglas Crichton) (Bantam Q6979, 1972). #DealingOrTheBerkeleyToBostonForty-BrickLostBagBlues #1970s #book #book #MichaelDouglas #MichaelCrichton #DouglasCrichton #paperback #cover #BantamBooks

Happy 83rd Birthday, Sir Michael Philip Jagger! #MickJagger #OnThisDay #HappyBirthday #TheRollingStones

Forty-seven years ago today in UK cinemas, Buck Rogers swung back to earth and laid it on the 25th Century... #BuckRogersInThe25thCentury #1970s #film #films #DanielHaller #GilGerard #PamelaHensley #ErinGray #TimOConnor #HenrySilva #scifi #sciencefiction

The Looters by John Reese (Pyramid T-2142) (1970), Subsequently filmed as Charley Varrick. #TheLooters #JohnReese #1970s #book #books #cover #PyramidBook #PyramidBooks #CharleyVarrick #crime #thriller #thrillers

Fifty-two years ago today, this double-bill opened at the Classic Victoria... #TheMonk #AdonisKyrou #1970s #film #films #FrancoNero #NathalieDelon #NicolWilliamson #NadjaTiller #MatthewLewis

Fifty-two years ago today at the London Pavilion, Fritz the Cat had come a long way, baby... #TheNineLIvesOfFritzTheCat #1970s #film #films #RobertCrumb #RobertTaylor

Living High by Stephen Longstreet (Gold Medal UK 611, 1963). #LivingHigh #StephenLongstreet #1960s #book #books #paperback #cover #coverart #artwork #GoldMedalBook #GoldMedalBooks

#RaymondChandler was born on this day 138 years ago. 'What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that.' - The Big Sleep (1939). #OnThisDay

Forty-six years ago today in London cinemas, if they’d really got what it took, it was going to take everything they’d got... #Fame #1980s #film #films #AlanParker #IreneCara #BarryMiller #PaulMcCrane #GeneAnthonyRay #musical

Knock Three-One-Two by Fredric Brown (Bantam A2135, September 1960). Cover Art by Barye Phillips. #KnockThreeOneTwo #FredricBrown #1960s #book #books #paperback #cover #coverart #artwork #BantamBook #BantamBooks #BaryePhillips #crime #mystery #thriller #thrillers #thrillerbooks

Fifty-five years ago today at the Warner Remdezvous, The Devils was not a film for everyone… #TheDevils #1970s #film #films #KenRussell #OliverReed #VanessaRedgrave

Forty-four years ago today in UK cinemas, Rocky faced his greatest challenge… #RockyIII #1980s #film #films #SylvesterStallone #BurgessMeredith #CarlWeathers #TaliaShire #BurtYoung #RockyBalboa #MrT

Forty-seven years ago today, Midlands cinema audiences could hear the music they’d love forever, and see they man they’d never forget… #TheBuddyHollyStory #1970s #film #films #SteveRash #GaryBusey #DonStroud #CharlesMartinSmith #BuddyHolly

Black Mask (August 1933, Vol XVI, No. 6) (Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc.). Cover Art by J. W. Schlaikjer. #BlackMask #1930s #pulp #shortstories #crime #mystery #thriller #thrillers #cover #coverart #artwork #JWSchlaikjer

Forty-two years ago today, she arrived in UK cinemas... #Supergirl #1980s #film #films #JeannotSzwarc #HelenSlater #FayeDunaway #PeterOToole #MiaFarrow #BrendaVaccaro #PeterCook