The name was taken from the Warwick Hotel in New York City where Broccoli and his wife were staying at the time of the final negotiations for the company's creation.
Originally Warwick arranged to do a two-picture deal with RKO, but that fell through and the company signed with Columbia.
Broccoli was a former agent who knew that Alan Ladd had left Paramount Pictures over monetary disputes.
[1] The Red Beret was economically filmed with Parachute Regiment extras at their installations in England and Wales, under the direction of Terence Young.
We're trying to Americanize the actors' speech in order to make the Englishman understood down in Texas and Oklahoma – in other words, break down a natural resistance and get our pictures out of the art houses and into the regular theatres.
Furthermore, we'll soon be shooting all over the world, bringing to the public the beauty and scope of the outdoors in new mediums – real backgrounds, but always with an American star.
All followed the template of the first three films – action stories with American stars – with the additional element of being shot on location.
[7] A Prize of Gold (1955) was a thriller starring Richard Widmark and directed by Mark Robson, partly shot in Berlin.
After Safari he made Zarak (1956), a British Empire tale shot in Morocco, directed by Terence Young with Michael Wilding and Anita Ekberg.
[10] Warwick's first non-action film was a science fiction story, The Gamma People (1956), but it still starred an American (Paul Douglas) and was shot on location (Austria).
The first of this was Interpol (1957), an action thriller shot in Europe, which reunited Mature with Anita Ekberg, and co-starred Trevor Howard; John Gilling directed.
The shoot was difficult, being plagued by problems with its mercurial star Rita Hayworth, and led to a temporary strain in their relationship with Columbia Pictures.
[12] Warwick made its first comedy, the low budget How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957), starring and directed by Nigel Patrick.
High Flight (1957) was more traditional: an air force movie starring Ray Milland, directed by Gilling.
[14] In October 1957 Warwick announced they would shift from continuous production to a per-picture basis and let go many of their permanent staff.
Newley also had support roles in two more traditional Warwick movies: The Bandit of Zhobe (1959), starring Victor Mature, directed by Gilling, using footage from Zarak; and Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959) directed by Richard Thorpe, starring Robert Taylor.
Later, Warwick used Victor Mature, Bonar Colleano, Anne Aubrey and Anthony Newley in several films.