Quota quickies : the birth of the British 'B' film
David Lean, John Mills, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and a host of other famous names from British film surprisingly began their screen careers on 'Quota Quickies'. These low-budget second features of the 1930s have become notorious as the films that American distributors used to bring British cinema into disrepute and ruin its prospects of international expansion. But is this sorry reputation really deserved?
Print Book, English, 2007
BFI Pub., London, 2007