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Everyone knew about
Maxwell Communications, all the bombast Maxwell
brought to that and Mirror Group Newspapers,
which had just floated. But behind that was this web
of 800 private companies. And I knew I had to get
the numbers right, mapping and then re-mapping
all these companies and then adding up the debt. ♪♪ But what became clear
very quickly was that I was looking
at numbers that implied
the real possibility that the whole lot
was going to go down
Maxwell Communications, all the bombast Maxwell
brought to that and Mirror Group Newspapers,
which had just floated. But behind that was this web
of 800 private companies. And I knew I had to get
the numbers right, mapping and then re-mapping
all these companies and then adding up the debt. ♪♪ But what became clear
very quickly was that I was looking
at numbers that implied
the real possibility that the whole lot
was going to go down
Full Transcript
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Everyone knew about
Maxwell Communications,
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all the bombast Maxwell
brought to that
00:00:05.206 --> 00:00:07.896
and Mirror Group Newspapers,
which had just floated.
00:00:07.896 --> 00:00:11.379
But behind that was this web
of 800 private companies.
00:00:11.379 --> 00:00:13.724
And I knew I had to get
the numbers right,
00:00:13.724 --> 00:00:17.000
mapping and then re-mapping
all these companies
00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:19.999
and then adding up the debt.
00:00:19.999 --> 00:00:24.758
♪♪
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But what became clear
very quickly
00:00:27.379 --> 00:00:29.413
was that I was looking
at numbers
00:00:29.413 --> 00:00:31.827
that implied
the real possibility
00:00:31.827 --> 00:00:34.413
that the whole lot
was going to go down.
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Movie Summary
One family, fifty years of scandal. The rise and fall of a media mogul and the unravelling of his deeply troubled family. A staggering tale of money, sex, privacy and power.