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Producers Releasing Corporation

American company
Also known as: PRC, Poverty Row studio

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B-films

  • In B-film

    …studios were collectively known as Poverty Row, Gower Gulch, or the B-Hive.

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role of Ulmer

  • Detour
    In Detour

    Although Detour was made by Producers Releasing Corporation, one of several studios that specialized in cheaply made B-films, and thus was a “poverty row” movie, it has the distinction of being the first such film to be preserved in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Shot in…

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  • Detour
    In Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour

    …1942 Ulmer began working for Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), a so-called Poverty Row studio that specialized in cheaply made B-films. His first film for PRC was the hour-long drama Tomorrow We Live, with Jean Parker and Ricardo Cortez. Ulmer was particularly busy in 1943, directing the comedy My Son, the…

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