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Producers Releasing Corporation

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Foundation date 1 january 1939

For the Cecil B. DeMille film studio (1925-1927), see Producers Distributing Corporation.

Producers Releasing Corporation was one of the less prestigious Hollywood film studios that comprised what became known as Poverty Row, and lasted from 1939-47. PRC, as it was commonly known, made low-budget B-movies for the lower half of a double bill or the upper half of a neighborhood cinema showing second-run films. The company was substantial enough to not only produce but distribute its own product and some imports from the UK, and operated its own studio facility, first at 1440 N. Gower Street (on the lot that eventually became Columbia Pictures) from 1936-43, then the complex used by the defunct Grand National Films Inc. from 1943-46. The studio was located at 7324 Santa Monica Blvd. The address is now a shopping plaza.

PRC produced 179 feature films and never spent over $100,000 on any of them. Most of its films actually cost considerably less than that.
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Filmography of Producers Releasing Corporation (73 films)

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Hollywood and Vine
Hollywood and Vine (1945)

Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors James Ellison, Wanda McKay, Ralph Morgan, June Clyde, Franklin Pangborn, Emmett Lynn

Martha Manning is on her way to imagined fame and fortune in Hollywood and stops off at Pop Barkley's hamburger stand thirty miles from the city of her dreams. A stray dog enters as does Larry Winters who thinks the dog belongs to Martha. Feeding the dog his hamburger Larry notices the dog dancing to The Emperor's Waltz on Pop's jukebox and thinks the dog belongs to Martha. Martha feels Larry is a wolf and leaves the cafe with Larry vowing to track her down in Hollywood to return her dog who he has named "Emperor".
The Lady Confesses
The Lady Confesses (1945)
, 1h4
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Mary Beth Hughes, Hugh Beaumont, Claudia Drake, Emmett Vogan, Barbara Slater, Dewey Robinson

While on the verge of being divorced, Norma Craig disappears. Seven years later, when her husband, Larry Craig, plans to marry a girl Vicki McGuire, Norma returns and tells Vicki that she nor anybody else can marry Larry. Soon both the girl and her fiance find themselves mixed up with a crooked nightclub owner, gangsters and murder
Navajo Kid
Navajo Kid (1945)
, 59minutes
Directed by Harry L. Fraser
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Bob Steele, Syd Saylor, Caren Marsh Doll, Stanley Blystone, I. Stanford Jolley, Bud Osborne

Tom Kirk, the "Navajo Kid", (Bob Steele) is determined to find his adoptive father's (George Morrel) murderer. When he finds Honest John Grogan (I. Stanford Jolly) with his father's ring, he immediately arrests him. While Honest John was indeed part of the gang which killed Joe Kirk, the gang-leader was Matt Crandall (Stanley Blystone). As Tom begins hunting for Matt, he soon discovers who his true biological father is.
The Phantom of 42nd Street
The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945)
, 58minutes
Directed by Albert Herman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Dave O'Brien, Jack Mulhall, Kay Aldridge, Alan Mowbray, Frank Jenks, Stanley Price

An actor is killed during the performance of a play while critic Tony Woolrich (Dave O'Brien) is attending. Initially Woolrich is reluctant to investigate, even though he's encouraged to by his friend Romeo(Frank Jenks), who is also the taxi driver who brought him to the show, and acts as a sort of sidekick throughout the story. Later Tony is chewed out by his editor for not investigating when he happened to be at the scene of the crime, and so he takes an initially reluctant interest. Tony becomes more involved in the investigation when there is another murder, and when Claudia Moore (Kay Aldridge, in her last movie role), the girl he loves, is suspected, and is also possibly threatened by the killer.
Strange Illusion
Strange Illusion (1945)
, 1h27
Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Jimmy Lydon, Warren William, Sally Eilers, Regis Toomey, Charles Arnt, George Reed

An adolescent believes that his widowed mother's suitor may have murdered his father.
Apology for Murder
Apology for Murder (1945)
, 1h7
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Ann Savage, Hugh Beaumont, Russell Hicks, Pierre Watkin, Sarah Padden, Eva Novak

Tough reporter Kenny Blake (Beaumont) falls in love with sultry Toni Kirkland (Savage) who is married to a much older man (Hicks). She seduces him to murder her husband. City editor Ward McKee (Brown), Kenny's boss and best friend, begins to pursue the tangled threads of the crime relentlessly and gradually closes the net on Kenny. In the end Tony and Kenny shoot each other. As he dies, Kenny types out his confession to the crime.
Dangerous Intruder
Dangerous Intruder (1945)
, 1h5
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Charles Arnt, Veda Ann Borg, Tom Keene, Fay Helm, Forrest Taylor, Lloyd Ingraham

New-York-bound hitchhiker Jenny (Borg) is accidentally struck by a car. The driver, art dealer Max Ducane (Arnt), offers to take her into his home until she can resume traveling. Later, Ducane's wife is murdered and Jenny determines to find the killer. With the aid of detective Curtis (Powers), she discovers that Ducane is the murderer, having killed his wife in order to have the funds to finance his antique collection. When she tries to get away the murderer is killed in a car crash when trying to run her down.
Club Havana
Club Havana (1945)
, 1h2
Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Margaret Lindsay, Donald Douglas, Tom Neal, Marc Lawrence, Renie Riano, Pedro de Cordoba

Rosalind (Margaret Lindsay) returns to her Miami home following a divorce to see her boyfriend Johnny Norton (Don Douglas). They visit nightclub Club Havana, where Johnny tells Rosalind that he has fallen in love with another woman. Saddened, Rosalind tries to kill herself, but Bill Porter (Tom Neal) prevents her from doing so. Meanwhile, Jimmy (Eric Sinclair) has discovered that Joe Reed (Marc Lawrence), who murdered club performer Julia Dumont, has been released as the police believe there is not enough evidence that Joe killed her. Although Jimmy witnessed the killing, he is afraid to see police, fearing that Joe will go after his girlfriend Isabelita (Lita Baron). Jimmy instead decides to phone the police, but Myrtle (Sonia Sorel) listens in on the phone call and informs Joe of Jimmy's actions. Joe gets a hired killer to murder Jimmy, but the killer accidentally shoots Myrtle while Jimmy ends up hitting the gunman in his car. As Jimmy goes to the police station to testify, Johnny and Rosalind decide to get back together and go home.
I Was a Criminal
I Was a Criminal (1945)
, 1h11
Directed by Richard Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Albert Bassermann, Mary Brian, Eric Blore, Herman Bing, George Chandler, Luis Alberni

Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt is released from prison after many years of hard labor. His freedom is new to him and, as he tries to navigate this strange new world, he promptly finds himself in the midst of a Prussian catch-22: To get a residence permit (passport), he must have a job, but he can only get a job if he has a residence permit. No one in the Prussian-German bureaucracy feels compelled to help him, everything must go by the book. To escape this vicious circle, out of desperation Voigt breaks into a police station to forge the much needed permit.
I Accuse My Parents
I Accuse My Parents (1944)
, 1h8
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Mary Beth Hughes, George Meeker, John Miljan, Vivienne Osborne, Edward Earle, George Lloyd

Mild-mannered teen James "Jimmy" Wilson (Robert Lowell) appears before a judge on charges of manslaughter. When asked to speak in his own defense, he pauses and reflects to say, "I accuse my parents" for not giving him the home life he should have had.
Lady in the Death House
Lady in the Death House (1944)
, 56minutes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Jean Parker, Lionel Atwill, Douglas Fowley, Marcia Mae Jones, Robert Middlemass, Cy Kendall

Mary Kirk Logan is led from her cell to the electric chair, to be "killed by the hand of the man I love."
Machine Gun Mama
Machine Gun Mama (1944)
, 1h1
Directed by Harold Young
Origin USA
Genres Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Armida, El Brendel, Wallace Ford, Jack La Rue, Luis Alberni, Julian Rivero

Two truck drivers from Brooklyn travel to Mexico to deliver an elephant named "Bunny", but they have lost the address of where Bunny is to be delivered to. Adopting the elephant as their own, the two stumble into a traveling carnival headed by Alberto Cordoba and his daughter Nita. The carnival is destitute and menaced by loan sharks. The two Americans sell Bunny to the carnival to replace their recently departed flea circus but agree not to accept their payment until the carnival regains its fortune thanks to Bunny and Brooklyn "ballyhoo". The loan sharks attempt a variety of dirty tricks against the gringos.
The Monster Maker
The Monster Maker (1944)
, 1h2
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell, Wanda McKay, Glenn Strange, Sam Flint

Dr. Markoff (J. Carrol Naish) has concocted a formula that spreads a hideous disease named acromegaly - which extends bones and distorts facial features. Markoff has no moral dilemma in experimenting on unsuspecting human subjects. His amoral behavior assumes monstrous dimensions when famed concert pianist Lawrence (Ralph Morgan) is injected with the doctor's disease-inducing serum. In return for an antidote, Markoff intends to exact more than his pound of flesh by extorting a fortune from Lawrence and demanding the hand of the musician's pretty daughter Patricia (Wanda McKay).