Group W Films is a film production company which was an offshoot of
Westinghouse Broadcasting Corporation.
Richard Pack was president from 1968 to 1972.
In December 1968 the company signed a contract with Australia's
NLT Films to make two movies a year for five years, starting with ''Squeeze a Flower'' and ''Wake in Fright''. They only made those two films with NLT.
Select filmography
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The Violent Enemy
''The Violent Enemy'' is a 1968 film directed by Don Sharp and starring Tom Bell, Susan Hampshire, Ed Begley, and Noel Purcell. The plot concerns an IRA plot to blow up a British power station.
Premise
IRA bomb expert Sean Rogan escapes from p ...
'' (1967)
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The Man Outside'' (1967)
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Amsterdam Affair
''Amsterdam Affair'' is a 1968 British crime film directed by Gerry O'Hara and starring Wolfgang Kieling, William Marlowe, Catherine Schell and Pamela Ann Davy. The plot is about Dutch policeman Van Der Valk, who investigates a novelist who is a ...
'' (1968)
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The Limbo Line
''The Limbo Line'' is a 1968 British spy thriller film directed by Samuel Gallu and starring Craig Stevens, Kate O'Mara and Eugene Deckers. It is based on the 1963 novel of the same title by Victor Canning. It was made as part of a 1960s boom in ...
'' (1967)
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Madigan's Millions'' (1968)
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The Ravine
''The Ravine'' ( it, La cattura) is a 1969 Italian-Yugoslav-American war drama film written and directed by Paolo Cavara and starring David McCallum, Nicoletta Machiavelli and John Crawford.
Plot
The story takes place in winter, during World ...
'' (1969)
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Taste of Excitement
''Taste of Excitement'' is a 1970 British mystery thriller film directed by Don Sharp and starring Eva Renzi, David Buck and Peter Vaughan. It was shot during 1968 on location around Nice on the French Riviera, but not given a general release ...
'' (1969)
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Squeeze a Flower
''Squeeze a Flower'' is a 1970 Australian comedy film directed by Marc Daniels and starring Walter Chiari.
Plot
Brother George is the only monk at the Italian Monastery who knows the secret recipe of the popular liqueur that is the sole source of ...
'' (1970)
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'' (1970)
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Wake in Fright
''Wake in Fright'' (initially released as ''Outback'' outside Australia) is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thomps ...
'' (1971)
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Eagle in a Cage
''Eagle in a Cage'' is an Anglo-American historical drama film, produced in 1972.
Plot summary
After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo and surrender to the British Empire, Napoleon Bonaparte is delivered into exile and imprisonment on St. Hele ...
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Baxter!
''Baxter!'' is a 1973 British-American drama film directed by Lionel Jeffries and starring Patricia Neal, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Britt Ekland. The film follows a young boy called Roger Baxter who struggles to overcome his speech problem (rhotac ...
'' (1973)
References
External links
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Group W Filmsat
IMDb
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Film production companies of Australia
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