The Great Dictator Spike Milligan Customers were a little perplexed

Customers were a little perplexed at this free gift and didn't quite know what to say - this all changed when returning the film and understanding the joke

a futuristic city and an advert for the Sphere paperback book sporting part of the artwork

Oliver Reed plays the doctor who experiments causing unexplained bodily changes in this genuinely frightening horror film from director David Cronenberg

Nice authentic lobby card from 1948 with Western illustration of cowboys panning for gold to the lower left

It must be noted that there is a charming letter on a small portion of the reverse of the poster from the cinema owner to a friend encouraging "guests to see this programme 'Hatari' - perhaps one of the best films so far

The Great Dictator Spike Milligan Customers were a little perplexedHistory reminds us that Charles Chaplin bravely made this film in 1940 during the Second World War. Chaplin ridicules Hitler and the anti semitic Nazi regime adopting the dual role of a Jewish barber and a dictator. Writing, directing and providing the music, Charles Chaplin said that at the time obviously he didn't know the full horror of the Nazis and if he had have done the film would have been even different still. This superb still from the film