Producers Releasing Corporation: A Comprehensive Filmography and History

by Wheeler Winston Dixon

Producers Releasing Corporation was a Hollywood film studios that existed between 1939-47. PRC, as it was commonly known, 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. PRC produced 179 feature films, and this volume discusses the rise, boom period, and eventual collapse of the studio, including a complete filmography of every film produced by PRC during its brief lifetime, along with biographies of key personnel, and other historical documents connected with the studio.

166 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Wheeler Winston Dixon is an American filmmaker, scholar and author, and an expert on film history, theory and criticism.

His scholarship has particular emphasis on François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, American experimental cinema and horror films. He has written extensively on numerous aspects of film, including his books A Short History of Film and A History of Horror. From 1999 through the end of 2014, he was co-editor of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He is regarded as a top reviewer of films. In addition, he is notable as an experimental American filmmaker with films made over several decades, and the Museum of Modern Art exhibited his works in 2003. He has taught at a number of schools of higher learning.