Danziger Films

[mysteriesofedgarwallace]

Does anyone have any more info on the Danziger Bros.?

I have found very little info on the web.

Check this link.

http://www.78rpm.co.uk/tvdd.htm

[deckard]

mysteriesofedgarwallace: Does anyone have any more info on the Danziger Bros.? I have found very little info on the web. Check this link. http://www.78rpm.co.uk/tvdd.htm

This site lists 43 Danziger films with some info about them(it's a long address!) www.tvguide.com/movies/database/moviesearch.asp?name=harry+lee+danziger&searchtype =1
I don't if the info's any good ,but I hope it helps! :)

[DB7]

Formed by American brothers Edward and Harry Danziger circa 1950. Built their own studios (New Elstree) and for a decade produced tv shows and cheap budget films. Closed down in the early 60s.

[Wilfried Mueller]

Check http://german.imdb.com/name/nm0200762/
Here are mentioned 72 films.

[Steve Crook]

Wilfried Mueller: Check http://german.imdb.com/name/nm0200762/ Here are mentioned 72 films.

Or, if your German isn't as good as it should be, it's in English at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200762

Steve

[mysteriesofedgarwallace]

Thanks for the info, some useful stuff here.

[Lord Brett]

Two recent-ish film books have a little interesting background on the Danzigers' productions.

Christopher Lee - The Official Screen History by Jonathan Rigby (Reynolds & Hearn) has much detail on those films Christopher Lee starred in, while What Made Thunderbirds Go by Marcus Hearn and Simon Archer (the official Gerry Anderson Biog) has a hilarious anecdote from Gerry's work directing Martin Kane - Private Eye which sheds light on the dubious working conditions on the brothers' low budget TV productions.

[mysteriesofedgarwallace]

Yes, I have heard about the 'working conditions' etc.
I find their productions very amusing, as they make the Merton Park and Butcher's Films stuff look positively Hollywood Blockbuster Big Budget.
eek!

[Lord Brett]

My Mum once appeared in an Army training film shot at Merton Park!

We appear to be kindered spirits – I find Butchers Film Productions endlessly fascinating, but don’t know very much about them.

[Dgreig]

Yes, their productions petered out in the mid-sixties, as DB7 states, and to general relief, I guess. But the brothers used their (ill-gotten?) gains to take part in the tax-break-fuelled hotel building boom of the period to construct a massive hotel in Cromwell Road, London. Would that Harold Baim had had the same idea. But I guess his lucrative deal with United Artists for crap travelogues was more attractive.

[DB7]

Originally Posted by Dgreig Yes, their productions petered out in the mid-sixties, as DB7 states, and to general relief, I guess.

No, I dearly miss those Danziger/Butcher b's that used to frequent late-night ITV.

I'm kinda glad to hear they did well out of the film business. Was it the May Fair Hotel they bought?

[Moor Larkin]

There is at least one dvd regularly appearing on auction sites that has three hours or so of Danziger. One is a 1954 outing with Patrick McGoohan, the other three have lots of other people in them.............

Only one show is really dire, the other three are quite good.

It sells for a straight £6.99 inc PP, so nobody's making money, it's an enthusiast thing.

[silverwhistle]

I'd be interested to know if any episodes of Richard the Lionheart survive, and if so, does anyone here have any?

[Merton Park]

To Dgreig

Are you sure about Cromwell Road? I thought it was Grand Metropolitan that did the massive hotel in Cromwell Road, the Danziger's certainly owned the Mayfair Hotel in Berkeley Street.

[julian_craster]

The autobiographies of Pete Murray and Adam Faith also mention their working for the Danzigers .

Apparently the brothers rarely visited their New Elstree Studios - business and contracts were dealt with from their suite at the Mayfair Hotel in Berkeley Street, which must have impressed actors at the time.....

When the studio was closed, no arrangements were made to save their film archive - the BFI were not interested, anf the Danzigers refused to pay for storage, hence the difficulty of finding prints 50 years on !


More on the Danzigers at SCREENONLINE :
screenonline: Danzigers, The Biography


The BFI database lists 318 DANZIGER film and tv productions !

BFI | Film & TV Database | Danziger Productions Ltd