The great Hammer-star-that-wasn’t-quite
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,
A billionaire who blew her family fortune in style
The series on the Rank Organisation reaches its final chapter
Shirley Eaton is best remembered for one role – image, rather: lying dead, painted in gold, for Goldfinger (1964), in one of the most iconic images in the history of
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
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