A future Aussie who ran Virgin Films for Richard Branson in the 1980s
Masters of “a giggle, a girl and a few innuendos” cinema
The series on the Rank Organisation reaches its final chapter
The brief revival in the late 1970s
The “lost decade”
As discussed in our previous piece in this series, the cinematic output of the Rank Organisation declined in the 1960s. However, in 1964 it was decided that the increasing profits
When the sixties started to swing in England
We have discussed in previous pieces for this series how the Rank Organisation contracted its filmmaking division in the early 1960s – there were less big “international” productions, and a
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
As mentioned in our previous piece in this series, October 1959 saw the Rank Organisation’s Film and Distribution Division record a large loss for the second year in a row.