Hammer Films - A Life In Pictures

[Matt Gemmell]

Friend and Hammer author Wayne Kinsey has a new book ready for Christmas. Excellent timing !!!
I've had a peek at the cover and even that has a picture of Christopher Lee that I have never seen before.


Hammer didn’t just make horror films – they made films in a number of different genres such as war thrillers, gritty dramas, comedies and colourful swashbuckling adventures. Some of these were among their best films; 1959 is a case in point which included such classics as Never Take Sweets from a Stranger, Hell is a City and Yesterday's Enemy, the latter of which earned Hammer BAFTA nominations for best picture, best actor and best supporting actor. Hammer's films also benefited from an expert team of actors and technicians, including big names that on first glance would never have thought to be associated with Hammer including Robert Aldrich, Ken Adam, Joe Losey, Bette Davis, Tallulah Bankhead, Donald Sutherland, Joan Fontaine, Richard Widmark, Ursula Andress and Raquel Welch.

Previously explored in a BFI Southbank exhibition, we now expand this important lesson on Hammer in a new exciting book . Through rare and mostly previously unseen images, many from original Hammer negatives in the BFI National Archive, Hammer Films – A Life in Pictures tells the visual story of Hammer’s output. You will be guided through this wonderful collection of photos by the celebrated author of Hammer Films – the Elstree Studios Years and Hammer Films – the Bray Studios Years. Hammer Films – A Life in Pictures explores the wider and fascinating side of one of the British film industry's greatest success stories, showing once and for all that Hammer was not just a purveyor of cheap horror pictures.

This is a Limited Edition hardcover book that is destined to become a highly sought-after collectors’ item. Don’t miss out – when they are gone, they’re gone!


http://tomahawkpress.com/tomahawk.html

[Matt Gemmell]

A nice review here from Robert Simpsons excellent website.

Review : HAMMER FILMS: A LIFE IN PICTURES (2008): The Unofficial Hammer Films Site: House of Horror / House of Hammer

[Helen Dyer]

Matt, It is a nice article;Thank You for sharing.


Cheers,
Helen

[Stephen Welbourn]

Many thanks for this information. I have already ordered this book and I am looking forward to receiving it. There is a £10 REDUCTION FOR ORDERS PLACED BEFORE 23 December.