Tonight Brother came over and,(at a distance in the film room) for the first time in a few months, we watched a movie together. His choice was the excellent feature film, (slightly abridged), Witchfinder General.
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Witchfinder General. 2 x 800ft Colour Sound

My Brother still likes to keep telling me all the way through what is true and what is inaccurate. The film is based on a true story and does very well to include the time of The Battle of Naseby and an appearance of Cromwell even down to the fact that Cromwell had many facial warts. Details are very good, but for fun here are the inaccuracies, during the opening scene you see barbed wire. There wasn't any at that time. While the ending to this movie is very exciting, Hopkins met his death by hanging as ordered due to the fact the man was a nutter, he hanged so many many accusing them of witchcraft that in the end the law had to step in. While he was given his orders by Parliament he simply went too far.
A top release by Walton, such a shame the abridged every release, an even bigger shame that Derann didn't this one on and re-release it as a full feature.

I quite agree Tom a F/L print would have been nice, but you've got to remember when this was first issued (mid 1970's), well before VHS, and the copyright owners were very reluctant to let anything come out on 8mm, let alone a feature length edition, Walton had to work within a specified condition in there contract, that a minimum of 20% was edited out of every feature length edition on the majority of there titles, it was either release films that way, or not at all! So at least we got something out from some great films, the ntrouble is we got spoiled when complete F/L prints started coming out, but considering the limitations put on the likes of Walton & Derann in the mid 1970's, there were still some excellent titles released.