Goodtimes Enterprises

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Goodtimes Enterprises was a British film production company, run by David Puttnam and Sanford Lieberson.^[1] Their films include Performance, Melody, That'll Be The Day, Stardust, Mahler, Lisztomania and Bugsy Malone.^[2] The company was formed by Lieberson in 1968 with Performance, and Puttnam joined the company as a partner in 1970. They also owned a small independent British film distribution company called Visual Programme Systems, (or VPS),^[3] which would sometimes produce and release documentaries such as Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?^[4]

Selected filmography[]

• Performance (1970)
• Melody (1971)
• Dougal and the Blue Cat (1972)
• (1972)
• The Pied Piper (1972)
• That'll Be the Day (1973)
• The Final Programme (1973)
• Mahler (1974)
• Stardust (1974)
• Slade in Flame (1975)
• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) (film)
• Lisztomania (1975)
• Bugsy Malone (1976)
• James Dean: The First American Teenager (1976) (TV)

References[]

Further reading[]

• Sian Barber, The British Film Industry in the 1970s: Capital, Culture and Creativity, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

External links[]

• Goodtimes Enterprises at IMDb
• "Goodtimes Enterprises", TV Cream, 27 July 2009.

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