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And yet Poverty Row produced Detour, one of the best noirs ever made. The intentions aren’t the only thing that matter here; the art does. Further, it’s not pu
by BryantD 4y ago
And yet Poverty Row produced Detour, one of the best noirs ever made. The intentions aren’t the only thing that matter here; the art does.
Further, it’s not purely about entertainment value. I recently watched Les Vampires, a 1916 serial from France. It’s true that the theatrical conventions aren’t the ones we know today, but it was fascinating watching Louis Feuillade figure out how to make a thriller on the fly, and some of the ideas he came up with created our current theatrical conventions. That historical understanding is important.
- Aloha 4y agoThats the most part - and to be honest, in my opinion, most of the best Film Noir was probably produced by Poverty Row - even Poverty Row's output post 1939 became much more relevant for modern audiences - like on average even a Poverty Row picture in the post war era had better production values (on whole) than an A picture from a major in 1933 - simply because the state of the art had moved so dramatically forward. Incidentally one of my favorite Noir's is He Walked by Night featuring a very very young Jack Webb. I'll check out Detour though.