Star Wars reviews: As the force awakens, we look back at the first 1977 review

Updated December 17 2015 - 11:55am, first published 11:00am

WHEN the late film and theatre critic Allan Watkins reviewed Star Wars in The Newcastle Morning Herald in 1977, he hailed the much-anticipated science-fiction movie as "derring-do from take-off to touch-down".

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