A 1946 soapie The Australian film industry has had a variety of false dawns over the years, but few as cruel as 1946. After years of war, and barely any
The head of MGM-British in the early 1960s
A 1937 pearl-sploitation drama by Ken G Hall It’s possibly unfair to include Lovers and Luggers in a series on forgotten Australian movies as it was a big deal in
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.
The “two Bobs” who ran MGM in the 1960s – Robert Weitman and Robert O’Brien. Few movie studios had better-known executives than Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) – the tyrannical, sobbing, brutal Canadian
The sixth and final chapter in our series on the 1950s producing career of Lee Robinson and Chips Rafferty. It focuses on the production of The Restless and the Damned,
As mentioned in our previous piece in this series, the year of 1958 saw the Rank Organisation’s film department hit with severe financial losses, the sacking of over 300 people,
A little-known 1938 adventure movie.
Things went from bad to worse for Australia’s leading film producers of the 1950s, as they made the South Seas melodrama, The Stowaway. As mentioned in Part Three of this
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