Suffer Little Children – the Video Business timeline

 

Courtesy of Paul Higson, here is the timeline history of Suffer Little Children (1983), as played out within the pages of trade magazine ‘Video Business’, depicting the rise and fall of the film and its distributor Films Galore.  New info here includes aborted plans for a charity single of the film’s theme tune, and the identity of the ‘original’ Elizabeth, 7 year old Dion Battersby who was pulled from the film by her parents (Battersby was the cast member who was photographed on Freddie Starr’s lap).  Her more ‘mature’ replacement, Nicola Diana –or Nicola Antionette Diana, to give her full title- was born in 1974, making her either 9 or 10 at the time of filming.  Relations between the magazine and Films Galore begin relatively cordially, but end with the magazine accusing Films Galore m.d. George Goody of making an obscene phone call to Video Business’ office “it couldn’t possibly have been gentleman George, could it?”

6^th August 1984

14^th January 1985 

  

4^th February 1985

25^th February 1985

25^th February 1985

1^st April 1985

8^th April 1985

15^th April 1985

15^th April 1985

12^th November 1985

16^th December 1986