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Anglo-Amalgamated

Anglo-Amalgamated
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Foundation date 1 january 1942
Creator Nat Cohen

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.

Best films

Darling
Darling
(1965)
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Filmography of Anglo-Amalgamated (90 films)

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The Headless Ghost
The Headless Ghost (1959)

Directed by Peter Graham Scott
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Clive Revill, Jack Allen, Mary Barclay, Janina Faye, Fred Haggerty

Some teenagers - two American exchange students and a Danish girl - visit an old English castle. They discover a ghost.
Violent Moment
Violent Moment (1959)
, 1h1
Directed by Sidney Hayers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Lyndon Brook, Jane Hylton, Rupert Davies, John Paul, Moira Redmond, Bruce Seton

A deserter from the British Army kills his wife during a fight. Although he becomes a successful businessman, his past eventually catches up with him.
Carry On Sergeant
Carry On Sergeant (1958)
, 1h24
Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy, Historical
Themes Military humor in film, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films based on plays
Actors William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker, Dora Bryan, Bill Owen

Newly married Mary Sage (Shirley Eaton) is distraught when her husband Charlie (Bob Monkhouse) receives his call-up papers during their wedding breakfast. He travels to Heathercrest National Service Depot, meeting fellow recruit Horace Strong (Kenneth Connor), a terminal hypochondriac who is devastated at having been passed as fit.
Man with a Gun
Man with a Gun (1958)
, 1h
Directed by Montgomery Tully
Genres Crime
Actors Lee Patterson, Rona Anderson, John Le Mesurier, Cyril Chamberlain, Marne Maitland

Insurance investigator Mike Davies looks into a suspicious fire that burned down a nightclub. He Initially suspects the club's manager, Harry Drayson, but when Davies meets Drayson's niece Stella, she helps him uncover a mob protection scheme responsible for the arson.
Escapement
Escapement (1958)

Directed by Montgomery Tully
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Crime
Actors Rod Cameron, Mary Murphy, Meredith Edwards, Peter Illing, Carl Jaffe, Kay Callard

Inquiring into the mysterious death of a Hollywood star, insurance investigator Jeff Keenan uncovers an exclusive psychiatric clinic on the French Riviera. Here, patients who want to escape the stresses of life are hypnotized, then laid out in morgue like drawers and left to dream for several weeks. It turns out that Dr. Zakon, the clinic's ex-Nazi owner, is using a "dream machine" to alter the sleepers dreams, and to impose his will on theirs.
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
, 1h14
Directed by Herbert L. Strock
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Cyberpunk films
Actors Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Gary Conway, Robert Burton, Claudia Bryar

Professor Frankenstein (Whit Bissell), a guest lecturer from England, talks Dr. Karlton (Robert Burton) into becoming an unwilling accomplice in his secret plan to actually assemble a human being from the parts of different cadavers. After recovering a body from a catastrophic automobile wreck, Professor Frankenstein takes the body to his laboratory-morgue, where in various drawers he keeps spare parts of human beings. The Professor also enlists the aid of Margaret (Phyllis Coates), as his secretary, to keep all callers away from the laboratory.
The Tommy Steele Story
The Tommy Steele Story (1957)
, 1h10
Directed by Gerard Bryant
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Tommy Steele, Tommy Eytle, Hilda Fenemore, Cyril Chamberlain, Bryan Coleman, Lisa Daniely

Tommy Steele lives with his mother and father in their London home. He works with a bellboy until he injures his spine doing judo. In hospital he is given a guitar to help with his therapy and he starts to play to entertain patients and staff. He works on an ocean liner, performing in his spare time, and gets a job playing in a coffee bar. He is popular with audiences and gets a recording contract.
Cat Girl
Cat Girl (1957)
, 1h16
Directed by Alfred Shaughnessy
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, Kay Callard, Jack May, John Lee, Martin Boddey

A woman returns to her ancestral home and is told she will inherit money but also that there is a family curse: being possessed by the spirit of a leopard.
Johnny, You're Wanted
Johnny, You're Wanted (1956)
, 1h10
Directed by Vernon Sewell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors John Slater, Alfred Marks, Garry Marsh, John Stuart, Frank Thornton, Ann Lynn

Johnny (Slater) is a long-distance lorry driver returning to London from a provincial delivery, after having taken in a show by Joan Rhodes on the way. Late at night he stops to give a lift to an attractive female hitchhiker whose car has broken down and who is in a hurry to get to back to London. Later, Johnny pulls in to a transport café to make a telephone call and buy a coffee. When he returns to his truck, the woman is gone. Assuming that in her hurry she has picked up a lift with another driver, he goes on his way, and a few miles down the road is flagged down by another driver to help with a woman who has been found laid at the roadside. It turns out that the woman is Johnny's hitchhiker, and that she is dead.