b-movie


Was this a B-movie, or is it just low-budget/not particularly high-budget?

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It was quite an A-list prestige picture, produced by a major studio and with two big-name stars in Powell and Trevor.

This was a fairly well budgeted production for it's era, from a wartime Hollywood where the big studios were always looking for economical, cost-cutting ways to get scenes in the can; even on A-list productions. It was 1944, the war was still raging across the world, and available funds were far below the Hollywood pre-war heyday. Budgets and limited resourses had to be shared out economically at each studio. Nevertheless, this isn't at all a tacky or cheap looking movie by the standards of that year. It's rather stylish and atmospheric visually, especially if seen in a good restored print.

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