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unusual facts about John Gilling


John Gilling

Gilling began screenwriting with Black Memory in 1947, and made his directing debut with a Bulldog Drummond film The Challenge in 1948.


No. 1 of the Secret Service

The international success of the film led to producer Ward and Tom Adams reprising Charles Vine in two sequels; Where the Bullets Fly (1966) directed by John Gilling and presented by Levine and the 1967 made in Spain film Somebody’s Stolen Our Russian Spy/O.K. Yevtushenko that languished in a vault until a release in the mid 1970s.

The Scarlet Blade

The Scarlet Blade (US: The Crimson Blade) is a 1963 British adventure film directed by John Gilling for Hammer Film Productions.


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