National General Pictures
National General Pictures was a film distribution and production company which was active between 1967 and 1973. NGP produced nine motion pictures in-house and was the distributor of 80 films.
In 1967 the American CBS television network decided to produce their own films for cinema release through their production unit Cinema Center Films, releasing films through the National General Corporation, a film distribution network. The American ABC television network had done the same thing with Cinerama.[1] When the company failed to acquire Warner Bros. (then a subsidiary of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts) in 1969 the unit eventually closed, distributing films until 1973.
Today, the in-house productions are in the hands of Warner Bros., while the Cinema Center Films productions are now with CBS, with Paramount Pictures handling theatrical distribution on CBS' behalf, and Paramount Home Entertainment/CBS DVD handling home video rights.
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[edit] Partial list of film titles
Titles in bold text were produced by Cinema Center Films.
- The April Fools
- Big Jake
- A Boy Named Charlie Brown
- The Boys in the Band
- Charro!
- El Condor
- Divorce American Style
- Executive Action
- The Flamingo Affair
- The Getaway
- Le Mans
- Little Big Man
- A Man Called Horse
- Maurie A sports-bio film depicting the friendship of former NBA forwards Jack Twyman who cared for the late Maurice Stokes, who became paralyzed after a seizure hours after a 1958 playoff game
- Me, Natalie
- Monte Walsh
- Prime Cut
- Robert Kennedy Remembered
- The Reivers
- Rio Lobo
- Scrooge
- Snoopy Come Home
- Something for Everyone
- Treasure Island
- The War Between Men and Women
- Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
- With Six You Get Eggroll
[edit] Television shows
- Tarzan (produced by Banner Productions, a division of the company)
- The Trouble with Tracy (co-produced with CTV Television Network)
- The Storefront Lawyers
[edit] Recordings
National General had their own record label, National General.[2]
[edit] References
- Notes
- ^ p.331 Cook, David A. Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam 1970 2002 University of California Press
- ^ http://www.bsnpubs.com/buddah/nationalgeneral.html
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