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What did they do in PnP films?
J. Arthur Rank was the backer of films such as :-
- The Silver Fleet (1943)
- A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
- The Red Shoes (1948)
- Battle of the River Plate (1956)
- Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)
- Miracle in Soho (1957)
It was due to Rank (and Korda before him) that P&P had the unique freedom to be (in the words of Martin Scorsese) "Experimental film-makers working inside a totally commercial system".
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