Month: May 2020

Originally posted on Chicago FEEDBACK Film Festival:
“In early 1940s Hollywood,” writes Robert Guffey, “you had to go out of your way to descend any lower than Monogram Studios.”¹ Monogram was one of the small Hollywood studios – collectively known as Poverty Row – that produced low-budget “B” films. Monogram specialized in action and adventure;…

Originally posted on Chicago FEEDBACK Film Festival:
A real trick in filmmaking, we think, is to develop an utterly ridiculous premise and make a decent film of it. Take the 1951 film Rhubarb, a comedy about a baseball team owned by a cat. Yes, we know. There’s no way a baseball team would be owned…