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
Which Lie Did I Tell? Some of these snippets offer an insight into Goldman's background that was not in the first book—such as his relationship with his parents, his university life and time in the military—the book thereby shading into autobiography. The chapters on "The Princess Bride", "Misery", "Maverick" and "The Ghost and the Darkness" originally appeared in his books "Four Screenplays" and "Five Screenplays" and in the published shooting script for "The Ghost and the Darkness". Michael Sragow describes "Which Lie Did I Tell? (More Adventures in the Screen Trade)": "In addition to brief descriptions of topics like "spitballing" (brainstorming story notions) and expansions