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RKO Pictures (also known as RKO Productions, Radio Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, and RKO Teleradio Pictures) is an American film production and distribution company. The original company produced films from 1929 through 1957, with releases extending until its dissolution in 1959.
RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, was an American film production and distribution company, one of the "Big Five" film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chain and Joseph P. Kennedy's Film Booking Offices of America studio were brought together ...
The film was the biggest and most expensive RKO production of 1929 as well as the studio's biggest box office hit until King Kong (1933). [3] Its finale was photographed in two-color Technicolor . Rio Rita was chosen as one of the 10 best films of 1929 by Film Daily .
Born to Kill (released in the U.K. as Lady of Deceit and in Australia as Deadlier Than the Male) is a 1947 RKO Pictures American film noir starring Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor and Walter Slezak with Esther Howard, Elisha Cook Jr., and Audrey Long in supporting roles.
RKO 281 is a 1999 American historical drama television film directed by Benjamin Ross, written by John Logan, and starring Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Roy Scheider, and Liam Cunningham. The film depicts the troubled production behind the 1941 film Citizen Kane.
RKO Forty Acres was a film studio backlot in the United States, owned by RKO Pictures (and later Desilu Productions), located in Culver City, California. Best known as Forty Acres and "the back forty," [ 1 ] it was also called "Desilu Culver," [ 2 ] the "RKO backlot," and "Pathé 40 Acre Ranch," depending on which studio owned the property at ...
RKO asked Stanley Kramer, the producer of Champion, to reshoot a similar scene, but Kramer denied any similarities and refused to alter Champion. RKO alleged that Mark Robson , the director of Champion , had access to material from The Set-Up because he was working as a director for the studio when the film was produced, although he did not ...
Val Lewton (May 7, 1904 – March 14, 1951) was a Ukrainian-American novelist, film producer and screenwriter best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s.