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A Study in Terror was a co production between Sir Nigel Films and Britain's Compton Group, and American producer Herman Cohen. Sir Nigel were entitled to fifty percent of the profits. In 1966 Sir Nigel had plans for five movies and a television series. Production Development
The British exploitation-oriented company Compton-Tekli wanted something more mainstream, so the pair came up with the psychological horror film Repulsion. That hit launched Polanski's commercial career.
The distributors were Compton-Tekli, an exploitation outfit previously responsible for pictures like The Yellow Teddy Bears and The Black Torment. The young director's reputation from Knife in the Water attracted an unusual mix of top talent.
Jun 22, 2011 · Following the opening of the Compton Cinema Club in 1961, Tenser and Klinger created Compton Films, a distribution company that supplied a steady stream of "product for the special market of so-called specialized cinemas catering for a public with a taste for continental films" ("Count on Compton").
Premiere Information. Waco, Texas, opening: 20 Apr 1966. Production Company. Compton--Tekli Film Productions; Planet Film Productions; Sir Nigel Films. Distribution Company. Columbia Pictures. Country. United Kingdom. Screenplay Information. Based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Technical Specs. Duration. 1h 35m.
Show full synopsis. It's common for independent production companies to seek to move upmarket after founding a reputation on the back of soft porn, but few made the move quite as dramatically as Compton-Tekli.
In October 1960, they set up Compton Films which owned the Compton Cinema Club (that showed, to anyone over twenty-one, nudist and other uncertificated, often foreign, films) and Compton Film Distributors which started out with a modest slate of salacious imported films (e.g. Tower of Lust) and a series of imaginative publicity stunts.
