During the 1920s Kane oversaw the Astoria Studios for Paramount Pictures, the company's base on the East Coast.

In 1930 Paramount put Kane in charge of the Joinville Studios in Paris where the company made multiple-language versions in various different languages.

Joinville produced hundreds of films in a two-year period, before dubbing became more widespread.

In 1937 he produced Wings of the Morning, the first technicolor film to be made in the British Isles.

He returned to the United States following the outbreak of the Second World War, where he worked on the bullfighting drama Blood and Sand starring Tyrone Power.