J. Arthur Rank made a movie at another studio, Rank, Lady Yule and John Corfield began talking to Charles Boot who had recently bought the estate of Heatherden Hall at Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, for the purpose of turning it into a movie studio that would rival those in Hollywood, California. In 1935 the trio became owner-operators of Pinewood Film Studios. Lady Yule later sold her shares to Rank while John Corfield resigned from its board of directors. The problems encountered in the distribution of "Turn of the Tide" were addressed when Rank discovered that the people who controlled the British film industry had
Southall Studios "Kill Me Tomorrow" at Southall during the 1950s, with the feature film "The Crawling Eye", based on "The Trollenberg Terror" TV series, being the last film released with the Southall name. Southall Studios Southall Studios was a film studio located in Southall, Middlesex in west London which operated between 1924 and 1958. The studio was constructed on the site of a former aircraft hangar by the silent film director and producer G.B. Samuelson. The original buildings were destroyed in a fire in 1936, but the studio was subsequently rebuilt. Following the First World War, a number of feature films were