J. Arthur Rank but continued to handle all distribution for the Rank organisation until 1955, when it was renamed J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors. In 1939 Rank consolidated his film production interests in both the Pinewood Film Studios and the Denham Film Studios. In 1938 Rank bought the Odeon Cinemas chain. and the Amalgamated Studios in Elstree, although the latter were never used as film studios by Rank. In 1941, it absorbed the Gaumont British, which owned 251 cinemas, and the Lime Grove Studios, (later owned by the BBC) and bought the Paramount Cinemas chain, so that by 1942 the Rank Organisation owned
The Walking Dead (1936 film) to Universal's "Frankenstein" is most obvious when Edmund Gwenn's character revives Karloff; including the dramatic change in music, the pulsating lab equipment, off-kilter camera angles, and finally when Gwenn says, "He's alive". "The Walking Dead" was filmed at Griffith Park, California and Warner Bros. Studios between November 23 and December 1935. "The Walking Dead" premiered on February 29, 1936. Writing in the March 4, 1936 issue of "Variety", the reviewer "Odec" said that the film would provide "limited satisfaction" for film patrons with "a yen for shockers." The reviewer wrote that "The director and the supporting cast try hard to