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One of the larger Hollywood production conglomerates of Poverty Row of the late 30s-mid 40s (along with Republic Pictures and Monogram Pictures and smaller outfits) PRC, as it was commonly known, intentionally made mostly small-budget B-movies. The productions were often so cheap (and, according to critics, often so bad) that the Hollywood community took to claiming that PRC stood for "Pretty Rotten Crap". Still, the company was substantial enough to not only produce but also to distribute its own product and some imports from the UK, and operated its own studio facility. Image File history File links PRC.JPG Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) logo This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted film, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by the studio which produced the film, and possibly also by any actors appearing in the screenshot. ... Image File history File links PRC.JPG Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) logo This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted film, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by the studio which produced the film, and possibly also by any actors appearing in the screenshot. ... Poverty Row is a slang term used in Hollywood from the late silent period through the mid-fifties to refer to a variety of mostly short-lived small studios, many clustered in the area of Los Angeles, USA known as Gower Gulch, near the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower... Republic Pictures Corporation (aka Republic Entertainment) is an independent film, television, and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, best known for its specialization in quality B pictures, westerns and movie serials. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ... Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue...

The company loosely evolved from the earlier Producers Distributing Corp. (PDC) of Ben Judell, which had hired brothers Sigmund Neufeld and Sam Newfield to make its films. After the collapse of PDC, the brothers established and ran PRC, which was later bought up by Pathe Industries Inc., though the only noticeable change was of the name of the company's production arm to P.R.C. Pictures Inc.. The company otherwise continued to flourish within its own element until after WWII. The distribution arm of the company was absorbed in the formation of Eagle-Lion Films Inc. in 1947, and the production arm (and, therewith, the entire company) followed shortly thereafter. Sam Newfield (December 6, 1889 - November 10, 1964) was an American motion picture director, with over 250 titles to his credit. ... Eagle Lion Films was a British film company that merged with PRC Pictures in the 1940s. ...

Most of the movies made were westerns or action melodramas, plus an occasional horror movie, and took a week or less to shoot. German director Edgar G. Ulmer began working for the studio in 1942 and directed three films noir there - Bluebeard (1944), Strange Illusion (1945) and Detour (1945) - which have been recognized more recently as minor artistic achievements. Another of their productions, Hitler's Madmen, was picked up by MGM for distribution, and one of their regular music composers, Leo Erdody, was nominated for an Academy Award for his musical score for PRC's Minstrel Man in 1944. Broncho Billy Anderson, from The Great Train Robbery The Western movie is one of the classic American film genres. ... Poster for The Perils of Pauline (1914). ... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... Edgar G. Ulmer - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ... Bluebeard is the title character in a famous fairy tale about a violent nobleman and his all too curious wife. ... Detour is a 1945 film noir film about a young man who takes the identity of a dead gambler, and plunges into danger. ... Leo the Lion in the MGM logo used since 1924, although the version here (with web address) has been in use since 2001. ... Academy Awards The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ...

External Link

The History of PRC on (re)Search my Trash