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Among their first clients were Sam Spiegel and John Huston, whose " Horizon Productions " gave UA one major hit, The African Queen ( 1951 ) and one slightly less successful one, Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), based on the life of Toulouse-Lautrec.

Others followed, among them Stanley Kramer, Otto Preminger, Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions, and a number of actors, newly freed from studio contracts and anxious to produce or direct their own films.