The Rank Organisation (founded as the J. Arthur Rank Organisation) is a British entertainment conglomerate founded by industrialist J. Arthur Rank in April...

financed by J. Arthur Rank and The Rank Organisation Rock-a-Doodle (1991, UK distribution only) Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) The Stupids (1996) 8 Heads...

Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank (22/23 December 1888 – 29 March 1972) was an English industrialist who was head and founder of the Rank Organisation. Rank was...

picture industry until 2006, and continues to use the Gongman logo originally used by the Rank Organisation's film distribution subsidiary General Film Distributors...

50% Rank Organisation, but this changed after a few years to a 60/40 split. Later, Xerox bought a further share making the split 80/20, and in the late...

The Gongman (also known as the "man-with-the-gong") is a company trademark for the J. Arthur Rank Organisation. It was used as the introduction to all...

stand-in during screen tests, McGoohan was signed to a contract with the Rank Organisation. They gave him mostly villainous parts in various movies: High Tide...

and 1996, and from 1937 it was part of the Rank Organisation. General Film Distributors was created in 1935 by the British film distributor C. M. Woolf...

Top Rank Suite was the name given to a chain of nightclubs in the United Kingdom owned by the Rank Organisation. They were sometimes known as Top Rank Ballrooms...

in police organisations. The rank system defines authority and responsibility in a police organisation, and affects the culture within the police force...

J. Arthur Rank (by then Lord Rank) retired as chairman in 1962 and was succeeded by John Davis, who had begun to move the Rank Organisation away from...

released by the British distribution company General Film Distributors. GFD was part of the Rank Organisation, and handled films produced by the various companies...

and Beau Bridges. The film was produced, written and directed by David Wickes. It was the last film to be made by the Rank Organisation. Nick Freeman (David...

with the local release of The Shop at Sly Corner. At the age of 15, Dors signed a contract with the Rank Organisation, and joined J. Arthur Rank's "Charm...

Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art house films, evolving from "heartthrob...

She signed to The Rank Organisation at the age of 17 and had small roles in the British films Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) and The Woman's Angle (1952)...

of the Rank Organisation who continued their ownership of the circuit for a further sixty years. Through a number of sales and acquisitions in the early...

Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd produced 12 films (1958–1966), and the Rank Organisation made 18 (1966–1978), while United International Pictures produced...

production for The Rank Organisation at Pinewood Studios from 1950 to 1964, and was credited as executive producer on 131 films. He was known as the "Earl of...

Dramatic Art. She had a small part in the comedy Find the Lady (1956). Heywood was signed to the Rank Organisation, who changed her name to Anne Heywood...

loosely based on the 1951 novel of the same name by John Wyndham. The film was released in the UK by the Rank Organisation and in the US by Allied Artists...

feature made by the Rank Organisation. Local baker Joe Frisby calls the Town Hall to make another complaint about rats eating his flour. The council rat catchers...

McGoohan. It was written by Endfield and John Kruse, and produced by the Rank Organisation and Aqua Film Productions. A recently released convict takes a driver's...

Granger's hair. The disappointment added to his dissatisfaction with the Rank Organisation, and his thoughts turned to Hollywood. According to Alan Wood, historian...

Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v The Rank Organisation Ltd. [1985] BCLC 11 is a UK company law case dealing with "oppression" (or unfair prejudice)...

my brother said, and he asked me to work for him. He was running an organisation that made training and recruitment films. I went along as a general dogsbody...

The film was distributed in the United Kingdom by the Rank Organisation, one of the last films to be released by the company. The plot mirrors the real-life...

Doctor The film was one of the series of movies greenlit by Tony Williams at the Rank Organisation, who were increasing their production output. Rank made...

with a Dream released in the same year. Wisdom made a series of low-budget star-vehicle comedies for the Rank Organisation, beginning with Trouble in...

profile for the British Film Institute's Screenonline website asserts: "of all the Rank Organisation's starlets, Belinda Lee stands out as the most notorious...