The head of Thorn-EMI
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,
Terence Stamp died on 17 August 2025, leaving behind a rich legacy of films, books and anecdotes from the swinging sixties. We thought we’d take a parochial look at the
The head of MGM Europe who greenlit Get Carter
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
In early 1969, Associated British was taken over by a bigger entertainment conglomerate EMI, run by Bernard Delfont. Since Associated British half-owned Cohen’s company, this meant that Cohen was now
Stephen Vagg’s series on forgotten British movie moguls looks at the third part of Nat Cohen’s career In early 1962, 50% of Anglo-Amalgamated was bought by the British film and