The Monarch Film Corporation was a British film distribution company active during the 1940s and 1950s. It specialised in supplying second features to British cinemas. The company handled a mixture of British and American films, as well as the Australian film Strong Is the Seed. [1] It involved itself in production at times, and produced several more ambitious features including Hindle Wakes (1952) and A Yank in Ermine (1956). It had an arrangement with ACT Films under John Croydon to handle films made at Walton Studios. [2] The 1952 adventure film Men Against the Sun (1952) was, unusually for the second feature market, a costume adventure film despite its running time. [3]
It should not be confused with John R. Freuler's American company of the same name active during the early 1930s.
Selected filmography
British
- A Gunman Has Escaped (1948)
- The Case of Charles Peace (1949)
- The Girl Who Couldn't Quite (1950)
- Lilli Marlene (1950)
- Night Was Our Friend (1951)
- Hindle Wakes (1952)
- Circumstantial Evidence (1952)
- Private Information (1952)
- Men Against the Sun (1952)
- House of Blackmail (1953)
- The Blue Parrot (1953)
- The Wedding of Lilli Marlene (1953)
- Profile (1954)
- Burnt Evidence (1954)
- Devil's Point (1954)
- Final Appointment (1954)
- Dangerous Cargo (1954)
- The Delavine Affair (1955)
- Room in the House (1955)
- A Yank in Ermine (1956)
- That Woman Opposite (1957)
- And the Same to You (1960)
- The Party's Over (1965)
- Just like a Woman (1967)
- The Violent Enemy (1968)
American
- Adventure in Music (1949)
- Springtime in Texas (1949)
- Partners in Time (1951)
- The Hoodlum (1951)
- Mom and Dad (1952)
- Charade (1953)
- A Life at Stake (1955)
- Silent Fear (1956)
- Wetbacks (1956)
References
Bibliography
- Chibnall, Steve & McFarlane, Brian. The British 'B' Film. Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.
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