RKO
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Mountain Films
Read more: Mountain FilmsMuch of this story is just a hazy memory. Suspicion was Alfred Hitchcock’s first film on which he was both producer and director, it was also one of very few to be distributed by RKO Pictures. In the film, a shy spinster runs off with a charming playboy, who turns out to be penniless, a…
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The Edgar Kennedy Comedies
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Read more: The Edgar Kennedy ComediesI wasn’t familiar with the name of Edgar Kennedy and his ‘slow burning anger’ comedy when Derek decided to issue a number of the many comedy shorts he’d made for RKO. What I do recall is that Derek was able to use 16mm lavender prints as the master material and that the quality was first…