FILM INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 105, 30 October 1935, Page 3

FILM INDUSTRY

BRITAIN MOVES AHEAD

r> A./emarkable forward move by the British motion picture industry has c purred which Mr. R. L. Grant, gener?! manager in New Zealand for Assosw;£. S^ ibuto Tr? Limited, and British Empire Films Limited, and personal representative for British International P'^ures, revealed to a "Post" reporter Returning yesterday by the Maunganm following a hasty trip across the ! Tasman to, confer with Mr. Stuart F Doyle, managing director of the above companies, Mr. Grant advises as folTo grasp some idea of the magnitude fiiJ? .^amalgamation in the British I +w ln, d"stry one has to gauge the fact, w? 1 alt£ou^ ff. Great Britain, British ria&M 0?!?- 1 Pl£ ures Limited, Associated Talking Pictures Limited, and General Film Distributors all handle their own product individually, in New I l« a a re d 4a erig e Villbehandle^^ ™1 Approximatejy sixty-five ■ world productions will be distributed, thus bringing into line the fol-1 lowing compames:-British International Pictures, Associated Talking Picft reSTb General Film Distributors: Toeplitz Productions. Herbert Wilcox Productions Capitol Films. Radius Films City Films. Garrett Klement Product! {ions, CecU Films, Franco British Films, I S mer TFll-ms> Phoenix Productions ' w!vni y u£ lno, Pr°ductions.; Stanley Hollo-way Productions, Leslie Fuller Productions, Ginesound Productions To give some idea of what this ac- I & y *roeanS' a"ow me to mention a! few of the better-known stars who will be. appearing under this new banner " said Mr Grant. "These include Robert Donat, Tom Walls Jack Buchanan, Ann tT^j?; Arthur Tracey, Frances Day, Ruddy Rogers. C. Aubrey Smith. Irene punne; Greta Nissen. Bela Lugosi. Marlene Dietrich, Ralph Lynn, Clive Brook, nl she v H°ward Anna Sten. Maurice r^Z ahr r' J°el McCrea. EUssa Landi. Gene Gerrard, Noah Beery, Clifford Molhson. Anna Neagle. Richard Tauber Helen Vinson, Fay Wray, Henry Wilcoxon, Gr*cie Fields, Nils Asther.. Gitta Alnar, Lilian Harvey, Yvonne Arnaud and John Loder. ■ "Each subject will be of international aopeal, produced on the most lavish lines pt costs of from £80 000 to £150,000, and featuring the greatest galaxy of stars and directors ever before assembled. No less than approximately £3.500.000 will be expended"