Welcome to ExclusiveFilms.co.uk
This site will be launching
shortly as part of a research project into the history
of British film production and distribution company
Exclusive Films. Exclusive Films Limited was
incorporated in May 1935 and is perhaps best known as
the sister company to
Hammer Films, a company which survives to this day.
In the early days Hammer would often make the films and
Exclusive would distribute the product, and so
maximising profit for the company. Exclusive has been
largely ignored by critics and scholars of Hammer Films
and of the British film industry in general.
This site will build up to
include a complete and comprehensive database of the
various films that Exclusive distributed over its
existence, and of the films that it produced in
association with Hammer Films. This is a complex area
involving hundreds of titles. It is hoped that by
shedding new light on the Exclusive period of Hammer's
development, we will come to a greater understanding of
the reasons behind Hammer's development and success.
With
Hammer having recently made inroads into inexpensive
distribution once more with the online release of their
2008 serial Beyond the Rave it seems the time is
right to look once more at this fertile period in
Hammer/Exclusive history.
Entries will include full
release details as known, synopsis, availability and
where possible contemporaneous clippings, articles,
posters and stills. I would encourage anyone who has any
relevant material to submit it to the site. This is an
historical research project that will build into a
database for scholars around the world to use, and one
which I hope will educate and entertain.
Robert J.E.
Simpson
September 2008
exclusivefilms@avalard.com
