National General Pictures

National General Pictures was a Distribution and Film production company which was active between 1967 and 1973. NGP produced nine motion pictures inhouse and was the distributor of eighty films.

In 1967 the American CBS television network decided to produce their own films for cinema release with a production unit called Cinema Center Films, releasing films through the National General Corporation, a film distribution network. The American ABC television network had done the same thing with Cinerama.^[1] When the company failed to acquire Warner Bros. in 1969 the unit eventually closed, distributing films until 1973.

Today, the in-house productions are at the hands of Warner Bros., while the Cinema Center Films productions are now with CBS (with Paramount Pictures handling theatrical distribution on CBS' behalf, and Paramount Home Entertainment/CBS DVD handling home video rights).

Partial list of film titles

Titles in bold text were produced by Cinema Center Films.

• The April Fools
• Big Jake
• A Boy Named Charlie Brown
• The Boys in the Band
• Charro!
• El Condor
• Executive Action The "da Vinci Code" explanation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy
• The Flamingo Affair
• The Getaway
• Le Mans
• Little Big Man
• Maurie A sports-bio film depicting the friendship of former NBA forwards Jack Twyman who cared for the late Maurice Stokes, who became paralyzed after a seizure hours after a 1958 playoff game
• Me, Natalie
• Monte Walsh
• Robert Kennedy Remembered
• The Reivers
• Rio Lobo
• Scrooge
• Snoopy Come Home
• Something for Everyone
• Treasure Island
• The War Between Men and Women
• Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
• With Six You Get Eggroll

Television Shows

• Tarzan (produced by Banner Productions, a division of the company)
• The Trouble with Tracy (co-produced with CTV Television Network)
• The Storefront Lawyers

Records

National General had their own record label National General.^[2]

Notes

1. ^ p.331 Cook, David A. Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam 1970 2002 University of California Press
2. ^ http://www.bsnpubs.com/buddah/nationalgeneral.html

External links

• National General Pictures at the Internet Movie Database