Issue 1 : January 1978
Issue No. 1 — January 1978
Hi members and welcome to issue one of Forty Four Magnum, your own C.E.A.S. newsletter.
As we stated in the application forms you were sent, we intend this to be 100% about Clint for 100% Clint fans—namely YOU! So any questions you have about Clint we may be able to answer, please send them along to our address and we’ll do our utmost to answer them here in the pages of 44.
As this is the first edition we’ll begin by giving you an idea of what we hope to present each month in the newsletter. First of course current news on Clint regarding his plans for future films and other projects that may be of interest to us fans. Secondly, your questions and answers section, so get those pens to paper and send them in for the next edition (which incidentally, we hope to have out by 20th Feb.). In producing 44, towards the middle of the month we hope to catch any last minute info we can get from the British movie mags which also are published during the middle of the months.
Please readers, any pieces of information you see in your local papers, national press, magazines etc. that you don’t hear of in 44, please send them or copies of them to us so we may pass them on to other members. We do have most film mags British and American and contacts for most papers and mags, but if we do miss any it would be of great assistance for members to pass them along to us for publication in future 44s.
Thirdly, we intend to do a review each month of Clint’s films in order of appearance on the cinema circuit. However, we shall start this month’s review simply with Magnum Force, as after all that is our group title also and our personal favourite here at 44. From February’s issue though, we will start with the first Dollar film and subsequent months continue in order from there.
Finally of course there will be the ads, exchange, wants, and for sale page which as this is the first issue of course, is rather limited. Any items you want on Clint that may be available from other fans for sale or exchange, just send your request into us and we shall see what results if any can be obtained.
May I make it quite clear that the C.E.A.S. wishes only to act as arbiter for all Clint fans to “keep” form of bond between fans and thus keep Clint’s support steadfast loyal and true. We are not a profit making organisation and our production sources are both expensive and at times difficult to gain access to. However, we plan to keep this fan service as long as support is forthcoming and at a minimal administration cost.
I hope therefore those of you who are present members will promote our cause and thus form our ranks to swell. Maybe one day 44 will be a glossy colour magazine. Maybe it will disappear into oblivion, we certainly hope its not the latter, but its success or failure will depend entirely on member continued support. O.K.
“Do yer feel lucky?”
Cheers for now, Dave Turner, Secretary.
Doing the rounds.
At present of course Clint’s latest production The Gauntlet, is doing great business at the box office. It must be the first Clint film to do well at the box office I’ve not yet seen a bad review by critics for. True, many of them claim some of the films escapades a little unbelievable, but on the whole every review I’ve so far read has been in praise and recommendation of The Gauntlet. A Warner Bros/Malpaso production starring Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke. As for me, well if you haven’t seen it yet get a move on.
Warner Bros I believe also plan to send a double Clint bill around later in the year of Dirty Harry and The Enforcer. Can’t be bad—keep a look out. Also High Plains Drifter and The Eiger Sanction are still around. Let me know where showing on the Clint scene in your area and we’ll try a round up of the Country of Clint films.