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Anglo-Amalgamated Productions was a British film production company, run by Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy, which operated from 1945 until roughly 1971 (after which it was absorbed into EMI Films). Low-budget and second features, often produced at Merton Park Studios, formed much of its output. It was the UK distributor of many films by American International Pictures.
It is widely remembered for the first 12 Carry On films (all of which were produced at Pinewood Studios) and B-movie series such as The Scales of Justice, Scotland Yard and Edgar Wallace Mysteries; it did, however, produce the Michael Powell film Peeping Tom.
Its film distribution subsidiary was Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd.
In 1962, Associated British Picture Corporation purchased 50% of the shares of Anglo Amalgamated. In 1967 they took over 74%.
At its peak Anglo Amalgamated made £3 million a year.
Its library is now owned by StudioCanal.
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(1965)Filmography of Anglo-Amalgamated (90 films)
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Carry On Screaming! (1966)
, 1h37Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Harry H. Corbett, Jim Dale, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Fenella Fielding, Joan Sims
The film opens in Edwardian times in Hocombe Woods, where Doris Mann (Angela Douglas) and Albert Potter (Jim Dale) are courting. When Albert searches the woods for a Peeping Tom, Doris is abducted by a monster named Oddbod (Tom Clegg), which leaves a finger behind. Albert, finding the finger, rushes to the police station and reports the matter to Detective Constable Slobotham (Peter Butterworth), who in turn tells his superior, the henpecked Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung (Harry H. Corbett), who has been investigating similar disappearances in the same woods.
Carry On Cowboy (1965)
, 1h33Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Sid James, Jim Dale, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Angela Douglas
Outlaw Johnny Finger, better known as The Rumpo Kid (Sid James), rides into the frontier-town of Stodge City, and immediately guns down three complete strangers, orders alcohol at the saloon - horrifying Judge Burke (Kenneth Williams), the teetotal Mayor of Stodge City - and kills the town's sheriff, Albert Earp (Jon Pertwee). Rumpo then takes over the saloon, courting its former owner, the sharp-shooting Belle (Joan Sims), and turns the town into a base for thieves and cattle-rustlers.
Catch Us If You Can (1965)
, 1h31Directed by John Boorman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Barbara Ferris, Clive Swift, David Lodge, Yootha Joyce, David de Keyser, Ronald Lacey
During the filming of a TV commercial for a "Meat For Go" campaign set in London's Smithfield Market, Steve (Dave Clark), disillusioned by the inanity of his job, absconds in an E-type Jaguar (one of the props) with a young actress/model, Dinah (played by Barbara Ferris). After a visit to an open-air swimming-pool in central London and a memorable scene in and around the Great Conservatory in the grounds of Syon House, they make their way across a wintry southern England towards an island (Burgh Island) off the coast of Devon, which Dinah is contemplating buying (presumably to escape the pressures of her celebrity as the "Butcher Girl" on the back of the TV meat advertising campaign). This act of rebellion is cynically exploited by the advertising executive behind the campaign, Leon Zissell (played by David de Keyser), who deputes two of his henchmen to pursue the fleeing couple.
Carry On Spying (1964)
, 1h27Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Spy
Themes Films set in Africa, Spy films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Williams, Bernard Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey, Eric Barker, Dilys Laye
A top secret chemical formula has been stolen by STENCH (the Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans). Fearful of what would happen if that formula fell into the wrong hands, the Chief of the Secret Service reluctantly sends the only agent he has left, the bumbling and snide Agent Desmond Simpkins, (Kenneth Williams), and his three trainees, Agent Harold Crump, (Bernard Cribbins), Agent Daphne Honeybutt, (Barbara Windsor), and Agent Charlie Bind (Charles Hawtrey), to find the formula.
Konga (1961)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Films about apes, Giant monster films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Disaster films
Actors Michael Gough, Austin Trevor, Jack Watson, George Pastell, Vanda Godsell, Grace Arnold
British botanist Dr. Charles Decker (Michael Gough) goes insane after he discovers a serum that turns his chimpanzee subject Konga into a ferocious gorilla-sized ape. To further his hideous experiments, Dr. Charles Decker mesmerizes the chimp and sends it to London to kill all his former enemies. Among his targets is Dean Foster (Austin Trevor) Professor Tagore (George Pastell) and Bob Kenton (Jess Conrad), the lover of Sandra Banks (Claire Gordon), the woman the doctor wants for himself.
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
, 1h35Directed by Arthur Crabtree
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Actors Michael Gough, Shirley Anne Field, Geoffrey Keen, Beatrice Varley, Austin Trevor, W. Howard Greene
Frustrated thriller writer Edmond Bancroft (Michael Gough) owns a private "black museum" of torture instruments. He hypnotises his assistant Rick (Graham Curnow) to commit increasingly horrific crimes for Bancroft to write about.
Carry On (série de films) (1958)
Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Joan Sims, Peter Butterworth, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor
The Dark Stairway (1954)
, 32minutesDirected by Ken Hughes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Russell Napier, Vincent Ball, Edwin Richfield
A blind man, George Benson, witnesses the murder of Harry Carpenter by Joe Lloyd. Benson finds himself accused of the murder. Inspector Jack Hammond finds the murder weapon and discovers Carpenter was murdered because he betrayed Lloyd to the police. Benson manages to identify Lloyd by his rin, voice and aftershave smell.
Street of Shadows (1953)
, 1h24Directed by Richard Vernon
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Cesar Romero, Kate Kendall, Bill Travers, Kay Kendall, Simone Silva, Edward Underdown
Luigi, the owner of a Soho saloon, is romancing an unhappily married socialite, Barbara Gale. He finds himself accused for the murder of ex-girl friend, Angela, who was found stabbed in his apartment. He evades the police and asks his friend Limpy for help. It turns out Limpy was the real killer of Angela.
Assassin for Hire (1951)
, 1h7Directed by Michael McCarthy
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Sydney Tafler, Ronald Howard, John Hewer, Samuel John Kydd, Martin Benson, Ewen Solon
Antonio Riccardi, a young British criminal of Italian heritage, works as a professional contract killer in order to pay for his gifted younger brother's violin lessons so that he can escape from a life of poverty and crime. A series of mistakes lead him to wrongly believe he has killed his brother, and he confesses his crimes to the police.
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Take Me High (1973)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Cliff Richard, Deborah Watling, Hugh Griffith, George Cole, Anthony Andrews, Richard Wattis
Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970)
, 1h34Directed by Douglas Hickox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery, Alan Webb
Murder, homosexuality, nymphomania, and sadism are among the themes of this black comedy focusing on a brother and sister who become involved with a young, sexy, amoral drifter with a mysterious past.
Shalako (1968)
, 1h53Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors Brigitte Bardot, Sean Connery, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Honor Blackman, Peter van Eyck
In 1880 in New Mexico, guide Bosky Fulton leads a hunting party composed of European aristocrats into Apache territory. When a French countess, Irina Lazaar, wanders off alone, she is confronted by Apache men on horseback. She is rescued by Shalako, a former cavalry officer in the American Civil War, sent by the Army to guide the party off Indian land.
Eve (1968)
, 1h34Directed by Robert Lynn
Genres Thriller, Adventure
Actors Celeste Yarnall, Robert Walker Jr., Herbert Lom, Christopher Lee, Fred Clark, Maria Rohm
An explorer looking for a priceless missing Inca treasure in the Amazon jungle runs across a lost young woman named Eve, who is worshipped as a goddess by jungle natives. Eve is also being pursued by a showman who wants her for his freak show; by the natives who now want to kill her for helping a white man; and by an explorer, Eve's grandfather, who wants to silence her.
Poor Cow (1967)
, 1h41Directed by Ken Loach
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Terence Stamp, Neve McIntosh, Carol White (actrice anglaise), John Bindon, Queenie Watts, Kate Williams
18-year-old Joy starts her catalogue of bad choices by running away from home with Tom. They marry and have a son, Johnny. When Tom, a thief who mentally and physically abuses Joy, is jailed for four years after attempting a big robbery, she is left on her own with their son.