The first Endless Summer was partially a surfing documentary and partially a travelog, but it was organized around the quest for the perfect beach, which the intrepid boardsmen finally found at the film's end.

'Your fucking Jocky ancestors were forming a football team in Glasgow around that time,' he said. 'God bless them. They were bog Irish like my own, with hardly a kilo of potatoes between the lot of them.'.

Cult Britsploitation flicks Terror and Prey were released at the fag-end of the 70s and have all the elements you’d expect for that period: lesbian butchery, sinister parties, deranged parrots, heartless aliens, curb-crawlers and lovingly inventive, drawn-out death sequences.

Famine and peſtilence, her firſt-born ſon, / Attend to finiſh vvhat the ſvvord begun, / And ecchoing praiſes ſuch as fiends might earn, / And folly pays, reſound at your return.