15 Facts About Warwick Films

Warwick Films was a film company founded by film producers Irving Allen and Albert R Broccoli in London in 1951.

Reason for the creation of Warwick Films was a combination of several economic factors in the 1950s.

Originally Warwick Films arranged to do a two-picture deal with RKO, but that fell through and the company signed with Columbia.

At this stage, Warwick Films's budgets were around $1 million a film with $200,000 allocated to the American star.

In 1956, Warwick negotiated producing nine films in three years for a cost of £6 million for Columbia Pictures.

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Warwick Films's first non-action film was a science fiction story, The Gamma People, but it still starred an American and was shot on location.

Warwick Films's biggest budgeted movie to date was Fire Down Below, a war tale starring Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon, directed by Robert Parrish.

Warwick Films made its first comedy, the low budget How to Murder a Rich Uncle, starring and directed by Nigel Patrick.

In February 1957 Warwick Films announced their relationship with Columbia would finish at the end of the year.

In October 1957 Warwick Films announced they would shift from continuous production to a per-picture basis and let go many of their permanent staff.

Warwick Films said Zarak was profitable but Fire Down Below grossed $750,000 short of the amount to break even.

Towards the end of 1959 Warwick Films announced they were reducing production to one film a year.

In 1962, Warwick Films announced they would make two films with Joan Littlewood but this did not transpire.

Director of the initial Warwick Films was Terence Young who not only directed several more films for the company but acted as an uncredited story editor for Warwick.

Later, Warwick used Victor Mature, Bonar Colleano, Anne Aubrey and Anthony Newley in several films.