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RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Pictures is an American film production and distribution company. As Radio Pictures Inc. and then RKO Radio Pictures Inc., it was one of the so-called Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum (KAO) theater chains... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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The Flying Irishman The Flying Irishman is a 1939 biographical drama film produced by RKO Pictures in 1939 about Douglas Corrigan's unofficial transatlantic flight the previous year.

Michael Bergmann In 1995 he made his first feature, Milk and Money, on 35 mm film produced by RKO Pictures, but as early as 1976 he began making narrative films on video from his own scripts.

Carbon Copy (film) This movie is the first feature film produced by RKO Pictures after a break of many years.

Allegheny Uprising Allegheny Uprising is a 1939 film produced by RKO Pictures, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne as pioneers of early American expansion near the forks of the Ohio in Pittsburgh.

The Saint's Double Trouble The Saint's Double Trouble is a 1940 action-adventure film produced by RKO Pictures.

RKO Pictures Hartley and Merrill announced that the new RKO Pictures, which had ceased producing films while under Wesray control, would return to moviemaking full-time.

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Carbon Copy (film) This movie is the first feature film produced by RKO Pictures after a break of many years.

Hamburger Hill Set in May 1969 during the Vietnam War, the movie was produced by RKO Pictures and distributed by Paramount Pictures, which had only theatrical rights to the film, whereas the video rights were owned by Vestron Video, and in later years by Live Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment, and Lions Gate Entertainment (which also recently acquired the UK video rights with distribution by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment).

Shade (film) The movie was produced by RKO Pictures in 2003 and released in the USA on 21 June 2003 at the CineVegas International Film Festival.

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The Saint Meets the Tiger The Saint Meets the Tiger is the title of a crime thriller motion picture produced by RKO Pictures and released in 1943.

The Saint's Vacation The Saint's Vacation is the title of a 1941 action-adventure film produced by RKO Pictures.

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Beauty for the Asking Beauty for the Asking is a 1939 film drama produced by RKO Pictures, and starring Lucille Ball and Patrick Knowles.

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Phillips Lord The book was published to coincide with the release of his 1932 motion picture produced by RKO Radio Pictures Inc. who used the shorter title from the book, Way Back Home.

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RKO Pictures In 2002, RKO produced a stage version of the 1936 Astaire–Rogers vehicle Swing Time, under the title Never Gonna Dance.

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The Saint Meets the Tiger The Saint Meets the Tiger is the title of a crime thriller motion picture produced by RKO Pictures and released in 1943.

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Beauty for the Asking Beauty for the Asking is a 1939 film drama produced by RKO Pictures, and starring Lucille Ball and Patrick Knowles.

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Orson Welles In perhaps another sign of things to come, Welles's first actual experience on a Hollywood film was as narrator for RKO's 1940 production of The Swiss Family Robinson.

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RKO Pictures Fulfilling its obligations, RKO produced two all-Technicolor pictures, The Runaround and Fanny Foley Herself (both 1931), containing no musical sequences.

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The Saint's Double Trouble The Saint's Double Trouble is a 1940 action-adventure film produced by RKO Pictures.

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RKO Pictures Encouraged by its success, RKO produced several costly musicals incorporating Technicolor sequences in 1930, among them Dixiana and Hit the Deck, both scripted and directed, like Rio Rita, by Luther Reed.

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RKO Pictures Fulfilling its obligations, RKO produced two all-Technicolor pictures, The Runaround and Fanny Foley Herself (both 1931), containing no musical sequences.

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RKO Pictures Fulfilling its obligations, RKO produced two all-Technicolor pictures, The Runaround and Fanny Foley Herself (both 1931), containing no musical sequences.

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Allegheny Uprising Allegheny Uprising is a 1939 film produced by RKO Pictures, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne as pioneers of early American expansion near the forks of the Ohio in Pittsburgh.

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Run of the Arrow Originally produced by RKO Pictures, the studio went bankrupt before it was released.

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The Flying Irishman The Flying Irishman is a 1939 biographical drama film produced by RKO Pictures in 1939 about Douglas Corrigan's unofficial transatlantic flight the previous year.

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The Saint's Vacation The Saint's Vacation is the title of a 1941 action-adventure film produced by RKO Pictures.

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Farley Granger Enthusiastic reviews led RKO to finally release the film in the States in late 1949.

Star of Midnight Star of Midnight was an American mystery-comedy film released by RKO Pictures in 1935.

She Was a Lady The film, The Saint Strikes Back, was released by RKO Pictures and was the first film to star George Sanders as Templar.

Dana and Ginger Lamb In 1954 a documentary film of "Quest of the Lost City" was released by RKO Pictures.

Jack and the Beanstalk (1952 film) The film was re-released in 1960 by RKO Pictures.

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The Saint in Palm Springs The Saint in Palm Springs is the name of a crime thriller motion picture released by RKO Pictures in early 1941.

The Saint in New York (film) The Saint in New York, released in 1938 by RKO Pictures was a crime thriller that marked the first screen appearance of sleuth Simon Templar, alias the Saint.

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History of film In 1941, RKO Pictures released Citizen Kane made by Orson Welles.

RKO Pictures That May, RKO released Citizen Kane, coproducing with director Orson Welles's Mercury Productions.

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RKO Pictures Of the thirty-one features released by RKO in 1944, for instance, ten were budgeted below $200,000, twelve were in the $200,000 to $500,000 range, and only nine cost more.

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Star of Midnight Star of Midnight was an American mystery-comedy film released by RKO Pictures in 1935.

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The Saint Takes Over The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a.

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RKO Pictures Rights to the Goldwyn features released by RKO, which had been held by the Samuel Goldwyn Company, are now controlled by MGM.

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Dangerous Mission The movie was produced by Irwin Allen, directed by Louis King and released by RKO Pictures.

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Slaughter Trail Slaughter Trail is a 1951 Cinecolor Western produced and directed by Irving Allen, filmed in Corriganville and released by RKO Pictures.

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Slaughter Trail Slaughter Trail is a 1951 Cinecolor Western produced and directed by Irving Allen, filmed in Corriganville and released by RKO Pictures.

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The Saint in Palm Springs The Saint in Palm Springs is the name of a crime thriller motion picture released by RKO Pictures in early 1941.

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Pioneer Pictures Pioneer was initially affiliated with RKO Pictures, whose production facilities in Culver City, California were used by Pioneer, and who distributed Pioneer's films.

RKO Pictures Schaefer, announcing his philosophy with a new studio slogan, "Quality Pictures at a Premium Price", was keen on signing up independent producers whose films RKO would distribute.

RKO Pictures Some other films distributed by RKO but produced outside the studio, such as the 1948 Joan of Arc, as well as several Samuel Goldwyn productions, featured no RKO logo at all.

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Wagon Master Music was done by Richard Hageman, and the picture was distributed by RKO Pictures.

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Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren) Tom and Jerry were fictional characters that starred in a series of early sound cartoons produced by the Van Beuren Studios, and distributed by RKO Pictures.

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RKO Pictures Exposing many moviegoers to Asian cinema for the first time, RKO distributed Akira Kurosawa's epochal Rashomon in the United States, sixteen months after its original 1950 Japanese release.

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Oklahoma! (film) In its original theatrical releases, the Magna Corporation handled distribution of the Todd-AO 70 mm version, while RKO Pictures distributed the 35 mm anamorphic CinemaScope version.

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Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren) Tom and Jerry were fictional characters that starred in a series of early sound cartoons produced by the Van Beuren Studios, and distributed by RKO Pictures.

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    RKO Pictures

    RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Pictures is an American film production and distribution company. As Radio Pictures Inc. and then RKO Radio Pictures Inc., it was one of the so-called Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.
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    RKO General

    RKO General was the main holding company through 1991 for the noncore businesses of the General Tire and Rubber Company and, after General Tire's reorganization in the 1980s, GenCorp. The business was based around the consolidation of its parent company's broadcasting interests, dating to 1943, and the RKO Pictures movie studio General Tire purchased in 1955.
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    The Fighting Gringo (1939 film)

    The Fighting Gringo is a 1939 Western film directed by David Howard and featuring William Royle , George O'Brien and Lupita Tovar. It was produced under the RKO Pictures banner.
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    Star of Midnight

    Star of Midnight was an American mystery-comedy film released by RKO Pictures in 1935.
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    List of film production companies

    This is a list of film production companies by the type of studio. ... RKO Pictures
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    The First Traveling Saleslady

    The First Traveling Saleslady was a 1956 American film starring Ginger Rogers, Carol Channing, James Arness, and a young Clint Eastwood (as Channing's boyfriend). Commercially unsuccessful, it was among the films that helped to close RKO Pictures.
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    RKO Forty Acres

    Forty Acres was a film studio backlot that belonged to RKO Pictures and later Desilu Productions, located in Culver City, California. Best known as Forty Acres, or "the back forty", it had other names such as "Desilu Culver", the "RKO backlot" and "Pathé 40 Acre Ranch" depending on which studio owned the property at the time.
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    List of Columbia Pictures films

    This is a list of films produced and/or released by Columbia Pictures. ... Are We Done Yet? (distribution only, produced by Revolution Studios and RKO Pictures)
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    List of newsreels by country

    Associated Screen News of Canada ... RKO-Pathé (RKO Pictures/Pathé)
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    Mel Berns

    Mel Berns (born on September 27, 1897 in Illinois) was an American make-up artist. He created the makeup for Katharine Hepburn's screentest at RKO Pictures.

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