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[…] 30 feature films. He worked mainly at Two Cities and Rank and then had a spell in Hollywood in the […]

[…] mm, Lab bosses in fact had come up through the ranks? Right through, yes. Yes. [OI] And wasn’t it... The […]

[…] It was Beaconsfield, I thought, because they were working for Rank. Kay Mander: No, they were working for Alex Korda […]

[…] of the Red Cross and I think you'11 see Arthur Rank in the picture. He was asked if he'd go […]

[…] started. We had Bill Vickers the engineer who came from Rank, we had Phil Woodhouse, the lens expert, who came […]

[…] had honed in the forties while working for J Arthur Rank on films such as Brighton Rock. Interview number 575 […]

[…] to come up with ideas. Then there were the ‘other ranks’ who sorted out the technicalities. Many of the directors […]

[…]xactly it was the time of of of the Rock Around the Clock and and it was, it was not a happy time. So I was desperate to get out of there. I told the Rank Organisation that that was enough. I retired. I resigned. I took a temporary job in in in Worcestershire, picking apples and and I reply, I asked[…]

[…] of Pact who wholly owned central casting, they didn't really see anybody else. And that's how I got into it. But before that, I worked for a year at rank video centre in Wardour street, and I absolutely loved it, and I knew that was the place I wanted to be for my working life, the excitement and t[…]

[…]ntually a computerised database. So, I was entirely unqualified. However, I did get an interview. I don't know quite how- I didn't get the job - but Franklin invited me, Noble Frankland, who was the director at the time wrote me a letter afterwards because everything went through the Civil Service C[…]