Show Business: Rise of the House of Hammer

In the high-rolling film business, seven of every ten releases are box office flops. Financing is drying up, and most studios have cut back to a handful of new productions a year. What would Hollywood make, then, of a brash little outfit called Hammer Films on a second floor in London's Soho district? Hammer is riding a streak of nearly 100 straight moneymaking movies. Last month it began shooting its tenth new production of 1971. So successful has it become at exporting its wares that it is a winner of the Queen's Award for...

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