MGM-British Studios Meanwhile, Amalgamated Studios Ltd constructed a large studio on the north side of Elstree Way between 1935 and 1937. A January 1937 deal for eight films to be made for the American studio Columbia Pictures soon collapsed. The company was unable to meet the cost of building work, and sold the facility to the Rank Organisation, which was not interested in using the studios itself, but wanted to stop John Maxwell's rival British International Pictures (BIP) from being able to compete more effectively with its own new Pinewood Studios. During the war, the studios were leased from Rank by the
The Crimson Circle (1936 film) of 'omicide, remembering, if you know your Edgar Wallace, that a dozen murders is about Parr for the course." The Crimson Circle (1936 film) The Crimson Circle is a 1936 British crime film directed by Reginald Denham and starring Hugh Wakefield, Alfred Drayton, and Niall MacGinnis. It is based on the 1922 novel "The Crimson Circle" by Edgar Wallace. It was made by the independent producer Richard Wainwright at Shepperton and Welwyn Studios. Detectives at Scotland Yard try to track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers. There was a British silent version in 1922; and a previous