Rank Film Distributors
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Dangerous Exile
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Read more: Dangerous ExileThis historical drama features a host of British stars, including Belinda Lee, Keith Michell, Anne Heywood and Finlay Currie to name just a few, but its main star is Louis Jourdan who would really hit stardom the following year in his next film, ‘Gigi’. There’s also a 13 year old Richard O’Sullivan who would become…
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The Chiltern Hundreds
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Read more: The Chiltern HundredsThis light comedy was one of the titles we picked up from Rank Film Distrbutors for our first contract. Directed by ‘Paddy’ Cartairs it revolved around Tony Pym, who’s out to impress and marry wealthy American June Farrell and decides to run as Parlimentary candidate, only to discover unexpected competition from the family butler, who…
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The History of Mr. Polly
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Read more: The History of Mr. PollyReleased in 1949 (which makes it just one year younger than myself), this is a light hearted affair with John Mills as the quiet and ‘lost’ Alfred Polly, as he tries to find his place in the busy and harsh world. One of the titles from our first contract with Rank Film Distributors and based…
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Trouble in Store
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Read more: Trouble in StoreThis Norman Wisdom comedy was as popular with our customers in 1976, as it was with the cinema going public in 1954, when it was Britain’s second most popular film at the box office. Derek’s soft spot for Norman and this film in particular, meant that it was top of his list of titles when…
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Look at Life (Generic label)
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Read more: Look at Life (Generic label)We released the first 6 Look at Life shorts almost at the same time as the first batch of Pathe Pictorials with the rights purchased from Rank Film Distributors along with a number of features. The title were: ‘The Black Arrows’, ‘The Cinema Steps Out’, ‘For the Record’, ‘Music By The Mile’, ‘Goodbye Piccadilly’ and…
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Long John Silver
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Read more: Long John SilverThis 1954 Australian made swashbuckler, is a sequel of sorts to Walt Disney’s first live action movie “Treasure Island”, released four years earlier in 1950. Robert Newton’s performance as Long John Silver is so iconic that it is thought by many to be the origin of today’s stereotypical “Arrrrr”-laced pirate and he would continue in…
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Rank: The Later Years
Read more: Rank: The Later YearsA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 33 Following the first three successful contracts with Rank Film Distributors, the powers that be virtually gave us their blessing to issue almost any of their product on Super 8 with…
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The United Artists First Contract: #2
Read more: The United Artists First Contract: #2A look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 19 The first part of this U.A. post, oiled the cogs in my ‘brain’ and I can now add the following to the first entry in the series. My suggestion that…
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The 3rd Rank Contract
Read more: The 3rd Rank ContractA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers. Contracts & Rights Chapter 16 Things were moving fast and business was even brisker, but every thing was beginning to feel the effect of VHS & Betamax video. We no longer took all the titles…
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Rank Film Distributors… The Second Contract
Read more: Rank Film Distributors… The Second ContractA look at some of the numerous meetings that we undertook in order to issue 8mm films to our customers, or obtain 16mm for our library. Contracts & Rights Chapter 11 The ‘royalty returns’ following our first deal with Rank must have hit the right note at their offices, because in less than six…