TheMonarch Film Corporation was a Britishfilm distribution company active during the 1940s and 1950s. It specialised in supplyingsecond features to British cinemas. The company handled a mixture of British and American films, as well as the Australian filmStrong Is the Seed.[1] It involved itself in production at times, and produced several more ambitious features includingHindle Wakes (1952) andA Yank in Ermine (1956). It had an arrangement withACT Films underJohn Croydon to handle films made atWalton Studios.[2] The 1952 adventure filmMen Against the Sun (1952) was, unusually for the second feature market, a costume adventure film despite its running time.[3]
It should not be confused withJohn R. Freuler's American company of the same name active during the early 1930s.
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