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.
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
Our exploration into the world of Britain’s Rank Organisation looks at its output from 1956. This article is a sequel to our earlier pieces on the companies British Film-Makers and
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
A studio that worked out of the Rank Organisation in the 1950s, and which could serve as an inspiration for a resuscitated Australian film industry today! We became aware of
Our series on actors who never quite became movie stars looks at ‘50s British starlet Maureen Swanson. Legendary cricket player Greg Chappell had a philosophy that underpinned his mediocre reign
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
Our series on forgotten British film executives looks at the American head of production at the Rank Organisation. Most of us who grew up on Rank movies of the 1950s
A spin off from our series on movie star cold streaks, we examine actors who never quite became movie stars. The recent piece on the 1957 Robbery Under Arms prompted
The release of Snow White, and its accompanying controversy over the lack of genuine little people in the cast, has prompted us to look back on a forgotten British film