We recently did a long series on the Rank Organisation, arguing that studio displayed a consistent trend of identifying young female talent, rushing them into movies, failing to exploit them,
When things really started to wobble. The year of 1958 was a tricky one for the Rank Organisation – as discussed in an earlier piece, it started off with the company
A history of the production arm of Rank Organisation This piece is a sequel to British Film-Makers (BFM). Like BFM, Group Film Productions was a short-lived company that operated as
Our series on people who almost, but not quite, became movie stars examines British actor Anne Heywood who, it seemed, was up for anything (on camera, at least). Anne Heywood
Our series on British film moguls discusses perhaps the most hated of them all, John Davis. It’s kind of cheating to include John Davis in this series because if you
The life and times of Peter Reynolds, a star of 1950s British B movies who met an untimely end in Australia. Peter Reynolds isn’t a particularly well-remembered actor; even in