1931 biography Clive of India. He also wrote Carve Her Name with Pride (1956) about the brave secret agent Violette Szabo, who was posthumously awarded the George Cross, and which was later turned into a successful film starring Virginia McKenna. Another of his non-fiction works was I Shall Fear No Evil, a harrowing but inspiring account of Dr Alina Brewda, who survived Auschwitz concentration camp and The Holocaust, which was published in 1966. W. P. Lipscomb was co-author of Clive of India in 1933, which was first produced for the stage by the village players of Great Hucklow in Derbyshire. It ran for over a year in London, and was made into a film by 20th Century Fox. Minney was hired to write the screenplay for this 1935 adaptation by producer Darryl F. Zanuck; however, he did not settle in Hollywood, and returned to Britain. With Sir Osbert Sitwell, he wrote Gentle Caesar, a biography of Tsar Nicholas II, which was first produced at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham in 1943, and Red Horizon. With Juliet Rhys-Williams, They Had His Number was first produced at the Hippodrome in Bolton in 1942, and Minney's own play, The Voice of the People, was first produced in Southend in 1950. From 1942, he became a leading figure in the Gainsborough Pictures production team, and with producer Ted Edward Black, they produced a series of costume melodramas, which dominated the market from 1942–46. He produced films including The Wicked Lady (1945), which showed that British films could compete with Hollywood, Madonna of the Seven Moons, The Magic Bow and Osbert Sitwell's A Place of One's Own, with settings designed by Rex Whistler. He also produced a film of Terence Rattigan's The Final Test. These films helped boost the careers of new stars including Stewart Granger, James Mason, Patricia Roc and Margaret Lockwood. However, he resigned from the Rank Organisation on 23 January 1947, unhappy with the direction of the company. He was Hon. President of the London School of Economics Film Society (1948–49), a member of the Executive and General Council at the Association of Cine Technicians (1953–1956), Vice Chairman of ACT Films Ltd (1951–1968) and Chairman of the same company from 1968. Minney was also politically active, and was twice a candidate for the Labour Party at UK general elections. His first attempt was for the newly created Southend East in 1950, when