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Producers Releasing Corporation

Index Producers Releasing Corporation

Producers Releasing Corporation was one of the less prestigious film studios of Hollywood which all-together made what was referred to as 'Poverty Row', and lasted from 1939–47. [1]

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A Yank in Libya

A Yank in Libya is a 1942 American film directed by Albert Herman.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Ann Corio

Ann Corio (November 29, 1909 – March 1, 1999) was a prominent American burlesque ecdysiast and actress.

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Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong (born Wong Liu Tsong, January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) was an American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition.

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Arthur Dreifuss

Arthur Dreifuss (sometimes credited as Dreyfuss; 1908–1993) was a German-born American film director, and occasional producer and screenwriter.

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B movie

A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial movie, but not an arthouse film.

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Baby Face Morgan

Baby Face Morgan is a 1942 American comedy of errors crime film directed by Arthur Dreifuss.

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Bela Lugosi

Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian-American actor famous for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films.

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Benny Fields

Benny (Bennie) Fields (born: Benjamin Geisenfeld) (June 14, 1894 – August 16, 1959) was a popular singer of the early 20th century, best known as one-half of the Blossom Seeley-Benny Fields vaudeville team.

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Billy the Kid (film series)

The Billy the Kid series of 42 western films was produced between 1940 and 1946, and released by Poverty Row studio Producers Releasing Corporation.

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Bluebeard (1944 film)

Bluebeard is a 1944 film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring John Carradine in the title role.

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Bombs Over Burma

Bombs Over Burma (AKA The Devil's Sister), based on a story by Milton Raison, is a 1942 American war film.

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Buster Crabbe

Clarence Linden Crabbe II (February 7, 1908As with many Hollywood stars there is a conflict between the birth date given in his official documents, and the one used in his Hollywood publicity biographies. His birth certificate and his Social Security application both use the birthdate of February 7, 1908. See also: Age fabrication – April 23, 1983), commonly known by his stage name Buster Crabbe, was an American two-time Olympic swimmer and movie actor.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Chick Chandler

Fehmer Christy "Chick" Chandler (January 18, 1905 – September 30, 1988) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 130 films from 1925 through the mid-1950s.

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Cinecolor

Cinecolor was an early subtractive color-model two color motion picture process, based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor system of the late 1920s and 1930s.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Corregidor (1943 film)

Corregidor is a 1943 American war film directed by William Nigh and starring Otto Kruger, Donald Woods and Elissa Landi.

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Detour (1945 film)

Detour is a 1945 American film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage.

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Devil Bat's Daughter

Devil Bat's Daughter is a 1946 American horror film directed by Frank Wisbar.

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Double feature

The double feature, also known as a double bill, was a motion picture industry phenomenon in which theatre managers would exhibit two films for the price of one, supplanting an earlier format in which one feature film and various short subject reels would be shown.

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Douglas Sirk

Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987) was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s.

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Eagle-Lion Films

Eagle-Lion Films was a British film production company owned by J. Arthur Rank intended to release British productions in the United States.

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East Side Kids

The East Side Kids were characters in a series of films released by Monogram Pictures from 1940 through 1945.

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Eddie Dean (singer)

Eddie Dean (–) was an American western singer and actor whom Roy Rogers and Gene Autry termed the best cowboy singer of all time.

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Edgar G. Ulmer

Edgar Georg Ulmer (September 17, 1904 – September 30, 1972) was a Jewish-Moravian, Austrian-American film director who mainly worked on Hollywood B movies and other low-budget productions.

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El Brendel

Elmer Goodfellow "El" Brendel (March 25, 1890 – April 9, 1964) was an American vaudeville comedian turned movie star, best remembered for his dialect routine as a Swedish immigrant.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those which emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

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Film series

A film series, film franchise, movie series, or movie franchise is a collection of related films in succession that share the same fictional universe, or are marketed as a series.

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Film studio

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Frances Langford

Julia Frances Langford (April 4, 1913 – July 11, 2005) was an American singer and entertainer who was popular during the Golden Age of Radio and also made film appearances over two decades.

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Frank Albertson

Frank Albertson (February 2, 1909 – February 29, 1964) was an American character actor who made his debut in a minor part in Hollywood at age thirteen.

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Frank Buck (animal collector)

Frank Howard Buck (March 17, 1884 – March 25, 1950) was an American hunter, animal collector, and author, as well as a film actor, director, and producer.

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Freddie Bartholomew

Frederick Cecil Bartholomew (March 28, 1924 – January 23, 1992), known for his acting work as Freddie Bartholomew, was an English-American child actor.

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Gas House Kids

Gas House Kids is a 1946 American comedy-drama film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Robert Lowery, Billy Halop and Teala Loring.

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Gladys George

Gladys George (September 13, 1904 – December 8, 1954) was an American actress of stage and screen..

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Grand National Films Inc.

Grand National Films, Inc (or Grand National Pictures, Grand National Productions and Grand National Film Distributing Co.) was an American Poverty Row motion picture production-distribution company in operation from 1936 to 1939.

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Harry Langdon

Harry Philmore Langdon (June 15, 1884 – December 22, 1944) was an American comedian who appeared in vaudeville, silent films (where he had his greatest fame), and talkies.

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Hitler's Madman

Hitler's Madman is a 1943 World War II film about the assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich and the Lidice massacre revenge taken by the Germans.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Horror film

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences.

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Hugh Beaumont

Eugene Hugh Beaumont (February 16, 1909 – May 14, 1982) was an American actor and television director.

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James Flood

James Joseph Flood (1895-1953) was an American film director.

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Julie London

Julie London (née Peck; September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress, whose career spanned more than 40 years.

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Jungle Man (film)

Jungle Man is a 1941 American film directed by Harry L. Fraser and starring Buster Crabbe in his first of many films for Producers Releasing Corporation.

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Lady from Chungking

Lady from Chungking is a 1942 American war film.

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Lee Tracy

William Lee Tracy (April 14, 1898 – October 18, 1968) was an American actor.

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Leo Erdody

Leo Erdody (December 17, 1888 – April 5, 1949) was an American film composer of Hungarian descent.

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List of Producers Releasing Corporation films

This is a partial listing of films produced and/or distributed by film company Producers Releasing Corporation, or PRC for short.

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Lyle Talbot

Lyle Talbot (born Lisle Henderson, February 8, 1902 – March 2, 1996) was an American actor on stage and screen, known for his career in film from 1931 to 1960 and for his appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Mary Carlisle

Mary Carlisle (born February 3, 1914) is a retired American actress, singer, and dancer.

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Melodrama

A melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes precedence over detailed characterization.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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MGM Holdings

MGM Holdings, Inc. is a Delaware-registered pure holding company and the parent company of the American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.

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Michael Shayne

Michael "Mike" Shayne is a fictional private detective character created during the late 1930s by writer Brett Halliday, a pseudonym of Davis Dresser.

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Minstrel Man (1944 film)

Minstrel Man is a 1944 American film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and produced by Producers Releasing Corporation.

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Misbehaving Husbands

Misbehaving Husbands is a 1940 American comedy of errors film directed by William Beaudine for Producers Releasing Corporation.

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Miss America

Miss America is a competition that is held annually and is open to women from the United States between the ages of 17 and 25.

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Nabonga

Nabonga is a 1944 PRC film starring Buster Crabbe and Julie London (in her film debut).

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Neighborhood theatre

Predating multiplex movie theatres, neighborhood theatres were the colloquial name given to smaller movie theatres located in local neighborhoods, as opposed to the large movie palaces located in downtown areas.

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Neil Hamilton (actor)

James Neil Hamilton (September 9, 1899 – September 24, 1984) was an American stage, film and television actor, probably best known today for his role as Commissioner Gordon on the Batman TV series of the 1960s.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Pathé

Pathé or Pathé Frères (styled as PATHÉ!) is the name of various French businesses that were founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France starting in 1896.

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Patsy Kelly

Patsy Kelly (January 12, 1910 – September 24, 1981) was an American stage, radio, film and television actress.

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Philo Vance

Philo Vance is a fictional character featured in 12 crime novels written by S. S. Van Dine (the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright), published in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Poverty Row

Poverty Row was a slang term used in Hollywood from the late 1920s through the mid-1950s to refer to a variety of small (and mostly short-lived) B movie studios.

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Public domain

The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Ralph Morgan

Ralph Morgan (born Raphael Kuhner Wuppermann; July 6, 1883 – June 11, 1956) was a Hollywood stage and film character actor, and an older brother of Frank Morgan.

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Richard Cromwell (actor)

Richard Cromwell, born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh (–), was an American actor.

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Robert Armstrong (actor)

Robert Armstrong (November 20, 1890 – April 20, 1973) was an American film actor remembered for his role as Carl Denham in the 1933 version of King Kong by RKO Pictures.

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Robert R. Young

Robert Ralph Young (February 14, 1897 – January 25, 1958) was a United States financier and industrialist.

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Rosemary LaPlanche

Rosemary E. LaPlanche (October 11, 1923 – May 6, 1979) was an American beauty queen and actress.

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Sam Newfield

Sam Newfield, born Samuel Neufeld, (December 6, 1899 - November 10, 1964), also known as Sherman Scott or Peter Stewart, was an American B-movie director, one of the most prolific in American film history—he is credited with directing over 250 feature films in a career which began during the silent era and ended in 1958.

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Sigmund Neufeld

Sigmund Neufeld (May 3, 1896 – March 21, 1979) was an American B movie producer.

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Singing cowboy

A singing cowboy was a subtype of the archetypal cowboy hero of early Western films, popularized by many of the B-movies of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Strange Illusion

Strange Illusion is a 1945 film noir crime film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Jimmy Lydon, Warren William and Sally Eilers.

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Strangler of the Swamp

Strangler of the Swamp is a 1946 American horror film, produced and distributed by Producers Releasing Corporation.

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The Big Fix (1947 film)

The Big Fix is a 1947 film, directed by James Flood.

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The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat is a 1940 black-and-white American horror film produced by Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) and directed by Jean Yarborough.

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The Enchanted Forest (film)

The Enchanted Forest is a 1945 family film starring Edmund Lowe and Brenda Joyce, also featuring Harry Davenport as a hermit who finds and raises a young boy in a forest.

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The Yanks Are Coming (1942 film)

The Yanks Are Coming is a 1942 American patriotic musical film from Poverty Row studio Producers Releasing Corporation directed by Alexis Thurn-Taxis.

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They Raid by Night

They Raid by Night is a 1942 American low-budget World War II film from Producers Releasing Corporation, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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Wallace Ford

Wallace Ford (12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966), born as Samuel Jones Grundy, was an English-born naturalized American vaudevillian, stage, film and television actor.

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War film

War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Producers_Releasing_Corporation

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