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Why isn't this movie listed in Leonard Maltin movie guide?


For some reason this movie is not listed at all in Leonard Maltin's movie guide. Anyone know why not? Maltin's guide is pretty comprehensive. I've never failed to find any movie in the guide, as long as it was a theatrical release in the US. Why not this one? I don't see anything on the IMDB site to indicate that this movie was ever known by any other name.

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Maltin lists tv movies and videos, but this film falls between the cracks -it did not receive a "real" theatrical release. It apparently got some token bookings but you will see no boxoffice figures (even opening weekend) in IMDb, an indication of how limited was its exposure.

"Three quarters of what is said here can be completely discounted as the raving of imbeciles" - Donald Wolfit in Blood of the Vampire (1958)

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Thanks. I wondered if something like that might be the reason.

Actually, there is another movie I've watched that does not appear in the Maltin guide and is not so hard to find in video outlets. It's "Kiss the Sky". Very interesting movie, with some well known actors (William Petersen, Gary Cole). But it's not in the guide either. Same reason as Spin I guess.

I look in the Maltin guide all the time, out of curiosity as to what he (or his staff) though of a film.
I feel sort of special having found two exclusions!

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