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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.
Filmography of Producers Releasing Corporation (73 films)
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The Yanks Are Coming (1942)
, 1h5Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Political films
Actors Mary Healy, Dorothy Dare, Jane Novak, Dave O'Brien, Forrest Taylor
During World War II singer Bob Reynolds leaves his band to enlist in the US Army. His band soon follows him where the Army uses the group to put on a show for the troops.
Bombs Over Burma (1942)
, 1h5Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Anna May Wong, Noel Madison, Nedrick Young, Dan Seymour, Frank Lackteen, Teala Loring
In 1942, Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during World War II are helping to build a road. During the construction of a military supply road like the Burma Road and Ledo Road, the project is sabotaged by an English nobleman who is a German agent.
Suspected Person (1942)
, 1h18Directed by Lawrence Huntington
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Clifford Evans, Patricia Roc, David Farrar, Robert Beatty, Anne Firth, Eric Clavering
Gangs Inc. (1941)
, 1h12Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Joan Woodbury, Alan Ladd, Jack La Rue, Gavin Gordon, Bryant Washburn, John Archer
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Mr. Celebrity (1941)
, 1h7Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors James Seay, Gavin Gordon, Frank Hagney, Francis X. Bushman, John Ince, Clara Kimball Young
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice (1940)
, 57minutesDirected by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Bob Steele, Al St. John, Louise Currie, Carleton Young, Charles King, Rex Lease
Billy the Kid (Bob Steele) and his friends Jeff (Carleton Young) and Fuzzy (Al St. John) are ambushed in a cabin. When Jeff is wounded during their getaway, they decide to hide out at Jeff's uncle's ranch in Little Bend Valley. While traveling to the ranch, they see henchmen Ed (Charles King) and Buck (Rex Lease) accosting Ann Roberts (Louise Currie) and throwing her goods from her wagon. After Billy chases them off, Ann tells him that she and her father Tom (Forrest Taylor) had recently purchased a ranch and that someone is trying to run them off their land. Traveling with Ann to protect her, they learn that the ranch she and her father had purchased was the one owned by Jeff's uncle, but that they failed to purchase the water rights. Discovering that other ranchers in the area had also purchased lands without water rights, Billy also learns that land baron Cobb Allen (Al Ferguson) had maliciously dammed the only free water stream in the area in order to force the group of ranchers to purchase water rights, or default on their loans. Billy and Jeff fight Allen's henchmen at the barricade, and after subduing them they return the water flow to its original channel.
The Devil Bat (1940)
, 1h8Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror, Crime
Actors Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien, Yolande Donlan, Guy Usher, Arthur Q. Bryan
The story involves a small town cosmetic company chemist (Lugosi) who is upset at his wealthy employers, because he feels they have denied him his due share of company success. To get revenge, he breeds giant bats. He then conditions them to kill those wearing a special after-shave lotion he has concocted. He cleverly distributes the lotion to his enemies as a "test" product.
Hold That Woman! (1940)
, 1h7Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors James Dunn, Frances Gifford, Rita La Roy, Eddie Fetherston, Martin Spellman, Guy Usher
Bill Lannigan (John Dilson), boss of Skip Tracers Ltd. - a debt collecting company, gives his repossession agent Jimmy Parker (James Dunn) an ultimatum: he has thirty days to become as successful as his competitor, Miles Hanover (Dave O'Brien), or he will be fired.
I Take This Oath (1940)
, 1h4Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Gordon Jones, Joyce Compton, Craig Reynolds, J. Farrell MacDonald, Veda Ann Borg, Mary Gordon
Police officer Mike Hanagan (Robert Homans) attempts to expose a fraudulent official who works with a gang of racketeers, but the official has Hanagan murdered. Hanagan's son Steve (Gordon Jones) decides to avenge his father, and at the suggestion of his girlfriend Betty Casey (Joyce Compton) he joins the police force.
Marked Men (1940)
, 1h6Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Warren Hull, Isabel Jewell, John Dilson, Charles Williams, Walter McGrail, Budd Buster
Bill Carver (Warren Hull) is a man who was wrongfully sentenced to prison after being framed by gangster Joe Mallon (Paul Bryar). In prison he is involuntarily involved in a jailbreak, also arranged by Mallon, who is also serving in the same facility.
Misbehaving Husbands (1940)
, 1h5Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Harry Langdon, Betty Blythe, Ralph Byrd, Esther Muir, Gayne Whitman, Byron Barr
Absent-minded department store owner Henry Butler (Harry Langdon), forgetting his wedding anniversary ends up working late and missing the surprise anniversary party thrown by his wife, Effie, Betty Blythe. Trying to get away from work, he ends up being seen with a mannequin, which he is trying to get repaired. A friend of his wife who sees it, think it’s a blonde girl Henry is having an affair with. Others call the police, reporting a murdered woman.
Riders of Black Mountain (1940)
, 56minutesDirected by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tim McCoy, Rex Lease, Julian Rivero, Edward Peil Sr., Ted Adams, Jack Rutherford
U.S. Marshal Tim Donovan is framed of being the leader of several stagecoach robberies.
Hitler: Beast of Berlin (1939)
, 1h27Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Roland Drew, Steffi Duna, Vernon Dent, Alan Ladd, Lucien Prival, George Rosener
A man and his wife lead a German anti-Nazi propaganda literature movement. After an inadvertent betrayal, the husband is thrown into a concentration camp, from which he escapes to Switzerland.