Dr Karswell

BBC4 recently showed a documentary on the British B films of the 1930's. Many of these were so bad that they were absolute classics!

The Documentary was entitled: Truly, Madly, Cheaply and featured film historian Matthew Sweet who presented a documentary reappraising over half a century of British B movies, from John Mills on the wrong end of a whipping in The Lash through to the giant gorilla Konga running amok in Croydon.


Unfortunately as far as I am aware many of these have never been seen since. I have some of them, for example The Ghost Camera (1933), The Shadow (1933) and Murder By Rope (1936) and a few others, but was wondering whether any of the films featured in the documentary, for example The Lash (1930) and Shot in The Dark (1933) are available on either VHS or DVD?

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Some of them are, but not many. If you trawl the various internet online sellers (amazon UK/Germany/France et al) you can sometimes find them. E-bay is also a good place to start searching.

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