Day 12 of The Daily Dish: Poor, Poor Noir

Pull up a chair and have a heaping helping of today’s featured Daily Dish: Favorite Poverty Row Noir. (Poverty Row consisted of those smaller, low-budget Hollywood film studios that produced inexpensive films, often on tight schedules and with limited resources.) This choice wasn’t quite as hard as yesterday’s favorite RKO noir, but it was pretty painful (in a good way) nonetheless. For my favorite Poverty Row noir, I’m giving the nod to Detour, a 1945 product of the Producers Releasing Corp, better known as PRC. This studio operated from 1939 to 1947; all told, approximately 179 features were produced by the company, usually with budgets of less than $100,000. The studio became so notorious for its cost-cutting measures that insiders called PRC “Pretty Rotten Crap.” In 1947, PRC was absorbed by Eagle-Lion Films, which would go on to produce noirs like Raw Deal (1948) and He Walked By Night (1948), and non-noirs including The Red Shoes (1948) and Hamlet (1948). Al Roberts. “Luck” was…

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