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FRANNY	Double Features question.	Lead	[-]
Apr 29 12 4:16 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Can someone please answer me this? Those Hammer double-features, what order were the films' meaning which was screened first? This may sound sad, but want to start viewing my Hammer films on a regular basis and would be good view as they were presented. Maybe popcorn as well!
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Hamicus		#1	[-]
Apr 29 12 5:10 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	If you're talking about features such as Dracula Prince Of Darkness & Plague Of The Zombies then Dracula was the main feature but if you look at doubles like Twins Of Evil & Hands Of The Ripper, I haven't a clue. I don't think they would have had a set order.
DonM435		#2	[-]
Apr 29 12 11:26 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'd usually get to the theater whenever it was convenient, watch part of one film, all of the other, the parts I'd missed from the first one, and then leave. Part of the challange was reconstructing the stuff you'd missed, then seeing if you were correct. You usually were. (Which is why I'm amused when someone cries "Spoilers!") I think that everyone did that. The theaters didn't publish start times in the adverts, and I don't know anybody who bothered to check.
Here 4 help		#3	[-]
Apr 29 12 2:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Can someone please answer me this? Those Hammer double-features, what order were the films' meaning which was screened first? This may sound sad, but want to start viewing my Hammer films on a regular basis and would be good view as they were presented. Maybe popcorn as well! Might be better to view them in the order they were made - otherwise (assuming you live in US) you'd end up seeing, for example, the Oliver Reed films Paranoiac (made in 1962 but released in 1963) before The Damned/These are the Damned (made in 1961 but not released until late 1965 in the US).
Stephen Pickard		#4	[-]
Apr 30 12 6:24 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	If you look at the original artwork, for most of these 50/50 double bills, the title to the left is usually treated as the main feature. In the UK, at least, this is the way I recall how it happened. This would be my guide. I think the original UK artwork must be available somewhere online.
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daveandsam		#5	[-]
May 1 12 1:53 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Stephen is right, main feature in the UK was on the left, although "Twins of Evil"/"Hands of the Ripper" is kinda like a double A side single. Ray Harryhausen was unhappy because "Mysterious Island " went out as a support feature for "Pirates of Blood River". Take a look at my site and you get the idea. http://hammerhorrorposters.com/hammer3.html
kochillt		#6	[-]
May 1 12 11:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	THE CURSE OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB and THE MUMMY'S SHROUD were obvious second features, others less so.
FRANNY		#7	[-]
May 2 12 12:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Which played first then' the main feature or support. That's the question. Not answered yet.
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