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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Personally, the majority of the films shown in this long narrow cinema, definitely seemed to belong to the second and third rate category, when compared to the Empire's entertainment value in the main. Only one film stands out clearly in the mind and even then i can't remember its name, but its theme tune still stirs the memory - 'Hold my hand, i'm a stranger in Paradise'. But even this, halfway through began to irk. It was about a group of Astronauts landing on a Planet were a nutty professor and his Daughter live. The Astronauts invisible lazer defense field was constantly being attacked at night by a giant lion, or similar. If it hadn't been for the Prof's Daughter, i'd have joined in the attack too. Anything just to have speeded the film along. Does anyone remember this 'better quality' film? The end of the Cozy's entertainment value for me, came in 1957, when they had the actual audacity to raise the entrance fee/price from 1/3 (6p today) to 1/6 (7 and a half). I never graced its halls again. It wasn't so much the price i objected to, but the recent, absolute crap, which they had been showing in recent months, forcing me and others to actually having walked/run out after 15 minutes of the 'film's' beginning. This was to save further embarrassment to ourselves for having actually been there in the first place. Two of these laughables, were called 'The Cat People', where all the characters raced about in badly 'no joint concealed', ill fitting masks shaking and wobbling on their shoulders and the tremendously advertised 'The Alligator People'. What a pure load of mind-numbing JUNK. You could even see the so-called 'hidden' snorkles popping up and down in the water and then, after that episode of Sods Law, they even hiked the price up threepence (1 and a quarter new pence). I tried to find out who actually ran the long narrow, mental torture chamber, so i could complain. I never did, but i have a suspicion it was actually one of the 'Cat' people, or even one of each, or even one combined. Now i would have gone and seen that film - 'The Categator People' - but only when i felt 'down', or 'off' it. THANKFULLY, the Cozy Cinema was finally closed in 1961, having inflicted so much mind-dazing on the surviving population of Heanor, since its doors first squeaked/squealed/creaked/groaned open in 1922. For all i know, those different categories of 'People' are still up there, in the top rooms of the old Cozy........... slavering for that next price hike. Azzabuv.:([/quote]
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Azzabuv

This message was updated on 3/28/2005 1:18:40 PM by Azzabuv

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replied on: 3/28/2005 1:09:17 PM

Personally, the majority of the films shown in this long narrow cinema, definitely seemed to belong to the second and third rate category, when compared to the Empire's entertainment value in the main.

Only one film stands out clearly in the mind and even then i can't remember its name, but its theme tune still stirs the memory - 'Hold my hand, i'm a stranger in Paradise'. But even this, halfway through began to irk. It was about a group of Astronauts landing on a Planet were a nutty professor and his Daughter live. The Astronauts invisible lazer defense field was constantly being attacked at night by a giant lion, or similar. If it hadn't been for the Prof's Daughter, i'd have joined in the attack too. Anything just to have speeded the film along.
Does anyone remember this 'better quality' film?

The end of the Cozy's entertainment value for me, came in 1957, when they had the actual audacity to raise the entrance fee/price from 1/3 (6p today) to 1/6 (7 and a half). I never graced its halls again. It wasn't so much the price i objected to, but the recent, absolute crap, which they had been showing in recent months, forcing me and others to actually having walked/run out after 15 minutes of the 'film's' beginning. This was to save further embarrassment to ourselves for having actually been there in the first place.
Two of these laughables, were called 'The Cat People', where all the characters raced about in badly 'no joint concealed', ill fitting masks shaking and wobbling on their shoulders and the tremendously advertised 'The Alligator People'. What a pure load of mind-numbing JUNK. You could even see the so-called 'hidden' snorkles popping up and down in the water and then, after that episode of Sods Law, they even hiked the price up threepence (1 and a quarter new pence).
I tried to find out who actually ran the long narrow, mental torture chamber, so i could complain. I never did, but i have a suspicion it was actually one of the 'Cat' people, or even one of each, or even one combined. Now i would have gone and seen that film - 'The Categator People' - but only when i felt 'down', or 'off' it.

THANKFULLY, the Cozy Cinema was finally closed in 1961, having inflicted so much mind-dazing on the surviving population of Heanor, since its doors first squeaked/squealed/creaked/groaned open in 1922.
For all i know, those different categories of 'People' are still up there, in the top rooms of the old Cozy........... slavering for that next price hike.
Azzabuv.

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