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[…] Night Out and it had Renee Houston and Claude Hulbert. And the vamp, they had things called vamps in those days, was none other than the future Mrs Frankovich, in other words Binnie Barnes. And [laughs] the director was a very nice character but not exactly a dynamic director, called Harry Hughes. […]
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[…] Army Film Unit, Crown Film Unit, MGM -Borehamewood, Shepperton and Rank Film Labs . Born in 1921 in Doncaster, son […]
[…] 300 films, including the majority of the output of the Rank Organisation, as well as later major international productions such […]
[…] the 1950s and 60s as a regional area manager for Rank, based variously in Birmingham, Newcastle and Edinburgh. SUMMARY: In […]
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