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 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