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'''Availability:''' Much more common than the General Film Distributors Ltd. logo. | '''Availability:''' Much more common than the General Film Distributors Ltd. logo. | ||
* When The Rank Organisation's film library was sold to [[Carlton Television]] in 1997, Carlton originally deleted the logo from many of its prints | * When The Rank Organisation's film library was sold to [[Carlton Television]] in 1997, Carlton originally deleted the logo from many of its prints and replacing it with the 1999 [[Carlton International]] logo as they had a nasty habit of removing/plastering logos. However, after Carlton merged with the [[Granada Media Group]] to form ITV plc, this has since become less common with ITV's restoration and remastering of the Rank film archive keeping the logos intact. | ||
** | ** Films that have not yet been restored by ITV, such as ''The Naked Truth'' (1957) and ''The Plank'' (1967), still have the 1999 [[Carlton International]] logo. | ||
* Among the films containing this logo are well-known classics such as ''Henry V'', ''Hamlet'', ''The Red Shoes'', ''Ladykillers'', and ''The Ipcress File''. | * Among the films containing this logo are well-known classics such as ''Henry V'', ''Hamlet'', ''The Red Shoes'', ''Ladykillers'', and ''The Ipcress File''. | ||
* The logo was not seen at all on ''Bad Timing'', as Rank's management was appalled by the film's gruesome content, with one executive even going as far as to describe it as "a sick film made by sick people for sick people". | * The logo was not seen at all on ''Bad Timing'', as Rank's management was appalled by the film's gruesome content, with one executive even going as far as to describe it as "a sick film made by sick people for sick people". | ||