Howard (aka Howard The Duck)

George Lucas' awful disaster of a film (apart from Star Wars I to III). It bombed in the US, so they removed 'The Duck' from the title and the actual image of the duck from the poster in the hope that might help. It didn't.

cut from the Sun Newspaper Dec 1986

Raiders Of The Lost Ark

One of the best adventure films ever. Action, adventure, comedy, a really cool flying wing and the best actor from Star Wars.

The Sun newspaper July 1982

 On the back of the clipping:

Return Of The Jedi

I hate to admit it, but Return Of The Jedi just didn't have the same magic of the previous two Star Wars films. I still loved it, but something was missing. Perhaps I'd just outgrown it. Or perhaps it was the Ewoks. Yes, it was the Ewoks.

October 28 1983

The back of the clipping:

Star Wars

My newspaper movie clipping collection began with Star Wars back in 1977. Actually this one is from 1978 (imagine a film lasting that long at the cinema these days!) as my original October 1977 Sun newspaper clipping disappeared at some point over the years.

From The Herald (Melbourne, Australia) September 1978

This is the back of the clipping. Note the ad for the very crappy 1970

version of Spiderman and the fun mix of ads for family entertainment and exotic dancers.