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The Films of Carol Reed the actors at LFC, however, were plucked from the West End stage; Henry Ainley, Mary Brough and Sir Cyril Maude were the headliners. With an exceptionally comfortable bankroll of £40 000, LFC could afford to refashion an estate as its studio, Twickenham (opened in 1913), thus becoming one of the initiators of the trend towards mansion-type facilities. The company made an impressive debut with the expensive and skilfully produced The House of Temperlev (1913), Harold Shaw's adaptation of a Conan Doyle novel. After this encouraging start, though, Dr JupP tried to play it safe with each new film, relying on tasteful, enervated screen versions of popular fiction (e.g. The Prisoner of Zenda, 1914). The public was bored and, in 1915, after a number of flops, production ceased at Twickenham. In general, the smaller, feistier firms of this period compiled healthier profit and loss sheets than LFC because they assessed the desires of their audiences more precisely. Like most film companies in this era, they had started as renters and then decided to manufacture their own wares. Such was the origin of I. B. Davidson, which began producing pictures just prior to the Fi

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Author

Robert F. Moss (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333374498

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities