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Rank Organisation Film Productions
Rank Organisation Film Productions was a British film production company that made movies for the Rank Organisation. It followed on from Group Film Productions and was established in 1955.
In February 1956, Davis announced Rank would make 20 films at over £3 million. He said "great care will be taken to ensure that, while retaining essentially British characteristics the films will have the widest international appeal. This is part of an intensified drive to secure ever widening showing in overseas markets which already return more than half the revenue earned by Pinewood films." That year, Rank announced it would set up distribution in the United States (see below).
In 1956 Rank released a series of dramas such as Eyewitness, The Black Tent, House of Secrets, Tiger in the Smoke and Checkpoint. The most popular were The Spanish Gardener with Dirk Bogarde and Up in the World with Norman Wisdom. The studio also co financed the hugely popular Reach for the Sky. That year the studio made less comedies than Group Film Productions had, and more thrillers.
In October 1956, Davis listed the Rank actors he thought could become international stars: Dirk Bogarde, Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Jeannie Carson, Virginia McKenna, Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Tony Wright, Maureen Swanson and Kenneth More.
In October 1957, at the 21st birthday for Pinewood Studios, Davis said Rank would make 18 films that year and 20 the next, with the latter costing £5 million.
In January 1958 John Davis announced in Variety they would make 20 films:
20 top-line productions tailored for the international market. These are big pictures, pictures to be reckoned with. Their stories come from best- selling books, top plays and the best of original screenplays; their casts include _ world - popular names; their producers and directors have earned high acclaim in every continent for their brilliantly no specialized selling to a limited market.
However the very same month Rank announced it would be stopping four films and sacking over 300 workers in an economy measure to do an overall fall in cinema attendances. (The company had four films in production at the time - A Night to Remember, Nor the Moon by Night, The Wind Cannot Read and Innocent Sinners - which cost £1.1 million in total).
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Rank Organisation Film Productions
Rank Organisation Film Productions was a British film production company that made movies for the Rank Organisation. It followed on from Group Film Productions and was established in 1955.
In February 1956, Davis announced Rank would make 20 films at over £3 million. He said "great care will be taken to ensure that, while retaining essentially British characteristics the films will have the widest international appeal. This is part of an intensified drive to secure ever widening showing in overseas markets which already return more than half the revenue earned by Pinewood films." That year, Rank announced it would set up distribution in the United States (see below).
In 1956 Rank released a series of dramas such as Eyewitness, The Black Tent, House of Secrets, Tiger in the Smoke and Checkpoint. The most popular were The Spanish Gardener with Dirk Bogarde and Up in the World with Norman Wisdom. The studio also co financed the hugely popular Reach for the Sky. That year the studio made less comedies than Group Film Productions had, and more thrillers.
In October 1956, Davis listed the Rank actors he thought could become international stars: Dirk Bogarde, Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Jeannie Carson, Virginia McKenna, Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Tony Wright, Maureen Swanson and Kenneth More.
In October 1957, at the 21st birthday for Pinewood Studios, Davis said Rank would make 18 films that year and 20 the next, with the latter costing £5 million.
In January 1958 John Davis announced in Variety they would make 20 films:
20 top-line productions tailored for the international market. These are big pictures, pictures to be reckoned with. Their stories come from best- selling books, top plays and the best of original screenplays; their casts include _ world - popular names; their producers and directors have earned high acclaim in every continent for their brilliantly no specialized selling to a limited market.
However the very same month Rank announced it would be stopping four films and sacking over 300 workers in an economy measure to do an overall fall in cinema attendances. (The company had four films in production at the time - A Night to Remember, Nor the Moon by Night, The Wind Cannot Read and Innocent Sinners - which cost £1.1 million in total).