Anglo-Amalgamated Productions was a British film production company run by Nat Cohen

Nat Cohen

Nat Cohen was a British film producer whose career started in the 1930s. He was the producer of several extremely controversial films including Peeping Tom and The Criminal...

 and Stuart Levy that operated from 1945 to the 1970s. Much of the output was low budget and often second features, many produced at Merton Park Studios

Merton Park Studios

Merton Park Studios was a British film production studio in South Wimbledon, London. In the 1940s, it was owned by the Film Producers Guild.Opened in 1930, many second features were produced there, and for a time was home to Radio Luxembourg...

. It is best known for the first twelve Carry on films

Carry On films

The Carry On films are a series of low-budget British comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. They are an energetic mix of parody, farce, slapstick and double entendres....

 and many B-movie

B-movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....

 series such as The Scales of Justice

The Scales of Justice

The Scales of Justice was a series of thirteen British B-movies produced between 1962 and 1967 for Anglo-Amalgamated at Merton Park Studios in London.They were based on actual criminal cases and each film was introduced by crime writer Edgar Lustgarten...

, Scotland Yard and Edgar Wallace Mysteries

Edgar Wallace Mysteries

The Edgar Wallace Mysteries was a low-budget film series made as second features.They were produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated between 1960 and 1965...

, but the company did produce the Michael Powell

Michael Powell (director)

Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger...

 film Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom (film)

Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological thriller directed by Michael Powell and written by the World War II cryptographer and polymath Leo Marks. The title derives from the slang expression 'peeping Tom' describing a voyeur...

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They also had a film distribution arm, Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd.

The library is now owned by StudioCanal

StudioCanal

StudioCanal is a French-based production and distribution company that owns the third-largest film library in the world...

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External links

• Anglo-Amalgamated at screenonline
  Screenonline
  Screenonline is a Web site devoted to the history of British film and television, and to social history as revealed by film and television. The project has been developed by the British Film Institute and funded by a £1.2 million grant from the National Lottery New Opportunities Fund.Reviews...