Rank Organisation's Bombardier Billy Wells was a boxer at the Elms pub, Leigh
FOR cinemagoers of a certain age, and for anyone with an interest in the movie history, the image of the Rank Organisation’s gong man will be imprinted in their memories. The gong man was the logo of the Rank Organisation, the largest production and distribution house in the history of British cinema and the only film company in the English-speaking world ever to rival the giant Hollywood studios in size and output. Rank’s films always announced themselves with the same image. A muscular, bare-torsoed man slowly strikes a vast gong, twice. As an iconic logo, it easily stood out ...
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