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 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