Producers Releasing Corporation

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

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…

…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…