Allied Film Makers

Allied Film Makers was a short lived British production company formed in November 1959 which produced several films. Producer Sydney Box came up the idea of forming a consortium of filmmakers who would distribute films that the filmmakers made. Box had to drop out of the company owing to illness but four partnerships agreed to join: Basil Dearden and Michael Relph; Jack Hawkins; Richard Attenborough and Bryan Forbes; and Hawkins brother. Guy Green later joined the Forbes-Attenborough group. Each group put up £5,000 and Rank Organisation guaranteed distribution.

Several of Allied's films were financially and critically successful, including Whistle Down the Wind (1961). However there were some financial failures, such as Life for Ruth (1962), and the company was unable to sustain its existence. The total negative cot of their films was £1,042,157, the distributors gross was £1,820,940, giving them a gross profit of £778,783, but the producers of the film had to carry a loss of £142,934.

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