Betrayed 1982 Video Release

Ultra-rare VHS release of Betrayed, released by John Lindsay on his Taboo video label in 1982. This turned up on ebay in 2005 and went for something in the region of £300 if not more (I believe a private bid won it in the end) no other copies have surfaced since. 

Photo on the VHS is from the same shoot as the front cover of the ‘Amazing Mary Millington’ autobiography

The Playbirds 1979 Video Release

The first video release of The Playbirds, issued by Hokushin in 1979.  Credit to original uploader.

Rapier magazine – add ons

Here are a couple more of the early MM photos published in Rapier magazine after her death (the rest are here http://marymillington.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/rapier-early-pictures.html) Thanks for ‘ffucs’ for these scans

Betrayed Revisited

Incredibly someone (not me) has managed to trace the location used for the exterior scenes of the early MM film ‘Betrayed’. Goodness knows how, given that you see it only fleetingly in the film and the location has changed quite a bit since then. It is in Amsterdam, and when John Lindsay made the film was obviously some kind of a pub or bistro (as in the context of the film it is where the men go to down a few pints) but is now ‘San Jovany’ an Italian restaurant. Although all these years later they still have a sign plugging Heineken beer outside!! It you want to look it up on Google earth the street address is “San Jovany, Westermarkt 23, Amsterdam, Nederland”.

Ad-break card from ‘Sex and Fame’

Ad-break card from the 1996 C4 documentary

Mary visits the set of Alien

The nostromo model gets an extra lick of paint on the set of ‘Alien’
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these photos recently resurfaced at www.prometheusforum.net courtesy of Alien crew member Dennis Lowe, who posted

“Mary Millington came to do a photoshoot at Bray Studios one day, she did the shoot in the studio car park and when she heard of the sci fi film she couldn't resist on doing a piece for it. You can imagine the disruption this had on all those young innocents, they had to force themselves to stay in the very same space as that temptress...........anyhow here she is helping us out with the wiggeting....and that's not anything to do with sex....”

The Mary Millington/Cliff Twemlow connection

This is the DeWolfe track heard in the party scene in Mary Millington’s True Blue Confessions (1980), while they only used the instrumental part of it in the film, here you can hear the vocals as well. Composer ‘Peter Reno’ is actually the late Cliff Twemlow, a real working class renaissance man whose career encompassed everything from stints as a nightclub bouncer, a library music composer, a horror paperback writer and actor- he’s probably best known for the semi-autobiographical film GBH (1983). Even before I’d discovered the track’s identity I’d always considered it a little out of date sounding for a 1980 film, so it is no real surprise to discover that Cliff actually knocked this one out for the DeWolfe library music company in 1969, in collaboration with someone by the name of Hermann Bender of whom I know nothing other than the fact that he had a name more befitting of a stereotypical gay character in a 1970s sex comedy than an actual person. This ditty does though provide a slight, but amusing connection between the legends that are ‘Cliff from Manchester’ and ‘Mary from Dorking’.