Coronado Productions was a short lived film production company based in Britain in the 1950s. It was under the control of American David E. Rose and the films were originally distributed by RKO.[1]
All its films in the 1950s had American directors. Many of its films involved an American visiting Europe or North Africa to solve a mystery from World War Two.[2]
Select films
edit- Your Witness (1950) - RKO, directed by Robert Montgomery, produced by Joan Harrison
- Circle of Danger (1951) - RKO, directed by Jacques Tourneur
- Saturday Island (1952) - RKO
- Sea Devils (1953) - RKO
- The End of the Affair (1955)
- Port Afrique (1956) - Columbia, directed by Rudolph Mate
- The Safecracker (1958) - MGM, directed by Ray Milland
- The House of the Seven Hawks (1959) - MGM
- Danger Tomorrow (1960)
- On the Fiddle (1961)
- Play It Cool (1962)
References
edit- ^ "Rose finalizing new Brit pic co". Variety. 9 March 1949. p. 15.
- ^ Harper, Sue; Porter, Vincent (2003). British cinema of the 1950s : the decline of deference. Oxford University Press. p. 122-123.