The year that things turned sexy. As discussed in our previous piece in this series, the year 1960 saw the film production and distribution division of Rank return to profitability
The head of MGM-British in the early 1960s
The “two Bobs” who ran MGM in the 1960s – Robert Weitman and Robert O’Brien. Few movie studios had better-known executives than Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) – the tyrannical, sobbing, brutal Canadian
The sixth and final chapter in our series on the 1950s producing career of Lee Robinson and Chips Rafferty. It focuses on the production of The Restless and the Damned,
In 2020, the world stood still, but I didn't. I was in Melbourne, writing what started as a stylish gangster scene and quickly evolved into something far more personal. The
More than 70 keen local film practitioners descended on Perth’s screening venue The Backlot and independent studio space Raz Studios last week for a series of workshops designed to introduce
One of Australia's leading postproduction houses, Cutting Edge Post, with offices in Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, have shut shop, laying off staff and appointing liquidator Robson Cotter Insolvency
As mentioned in our previous piece in this series, the year of 1958 saw the Rank Organisation’s film department hit with severe financial losses, the sacking of over 300 people,
A little-known 1938 adventure movie.
For context read our earlier pieces on British Film-Makers (1951-53), Group Film Productions (1953-56) and Rank in 1956. The Rank Organisation began 1957 with a degree of optimism. It was