Hal Roach Studios produced pilot episodes for Tales
#THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO BBC SERIES#
These mid-1950s series were by no means the first attempts to introduce the Monte Cristo (ITV, 1956) and George King's Gay Cavalier (ITV, 1957).
Towers' The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (ITV, 1956), ITC's The Count of Of the swashbuckler did not go unnoticed by other television producers.Ĭompeting with Sapphire's following series - The Buccaneers, 1956-57, and TheĪdventures of Sir Lancelot, 1956-57 - in this now hectic market were Harry Alan The considerable financial gains to be made from this small-screen resurgence Series, notching up some 143 episodes by 1959, became an outstanding success This renewed interest in the swashbuckler - creating the third cycle of theĬinema genre, after the Douglas Fairbanks period of 1920-1929 and the Errolįlynn period of 1935-1941 - was taken up by producer Hannah Weinstein's Sapphireįilms for television in 1955 with The Adventures of Robin Hood (ITV). Annakin,ġ953) and Rob Roy the Highland Rogue (d. Ken Annakin, 1952), The Sword and the Rose (d. William Keighley, 1953) and Walt Disney produced The Story of Robin HoodĪnd His Merrie Men (d. Raoul Walsh, 1951) and The Master of Ballantrae (partly because American film company earnings were 'frozen' by the government).Īmong the UK-based productions during this period, using mainly British castĪnd crew, MGM British Studios produced Ivanhoe (d. The colourful, lavish swashbucklers, many of which were produced in Britain (US, 1951), The Robe (US, 1953) and Demetrius and the Gladiators (US, 1954) were Alongside such large-scale biblical epics as Quo Vadis
Of screen product that television could not yet provide on the same scale and When the new leisure activity of television was depleting the numbers in cinemaĪttendance in Britain and America, the studios put their efforts into the type The swashbuckler arrived on British television as a result of the Americanįilm studios' backlash against the growth of television.
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