The Filmakers Inc.
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| Industry | Film |
| Founded 📆 | 1948 |
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| Defunct | 1955 |
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| Products 📟 | Film production |
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The Filmakers Inc. [sic] was an independent company created by actress, director, and producer Ida Lupino, her then-husband producer and writer Collier Young, and screenwriter Malvin Wald, to produce, direct, and write low-budget, issue-oriented films.[1] It was formed in 1948 with Young as president, Lupino as vice-president, and Wald as treasurer,[2] and ceased operations in 1955. The Filmakers produced 12 feature films, six of which Lupino directed or co-directed, five of which she wrote or co-wrote, three of which she acted in, and one of which she co-produced.[3]
In short, low-budget pictures, Lupino explored virtually taboo subjects[4] such as rape in 1950's Outrage and 1953's self-explanatory The Bigamist.[3] Her best known directorial effort, The Hitch-Hiker, a 1953 RKO release, is the only film noir from the genre's classic period directed by a woman.[5][6]
The Filmakers were careful low-budget film makers, reusing sets from other studio productions. Lupino and Young used what is now called product placement for remuneration, placing Coke, United Airlines and Cadillac, and other brands in their films, such as The Bigamist. Lupino was acutely conscious of budget considerations, planned scenes in pre-production to avoid technical mistakes and retakes, and shot in public places such as MacArthur Park and Chinatown to avoid set-rental costs.[2]
Select Filmography[edit]
- Never Fear (1949)
- Outrage (1950)
- Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951)
- Beware, My Lovely (1952)
- The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
- The Bigamist (1953)
- Private Hell 36 (1954)
- Mad at the World (1955)
References[edit]
- ↑ Acker, Alley (1991). Reel Women – Pioneers of the Cinema, pp. 74-78. The Continuum Publishing Company, New York, NY. ISBN 0-8264-0499-5 Search this book on
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Donati, William (1996). Ida Lupino A Biography, University press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-1895-6 Search this book on .
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hurd, Mary (2007). Women Directors & Their Films, pp. 9–13. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. ISBN 0-275-98578-4 Search this book on .
- ↑ Huber, Christoph. "Mother of All of Us: Ida Lupino, The Filmaker". Cinema Scope.
- ↑ Muller, Eddie (1998). Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir. New York: St. Martin's. p. 176. ISBN 0-312-18076-4. Search this book on
- ↑ Cousins, Mark (2004). The Story of Film. New York: Thunder's Mouth. ISBN 1-56025-612-5. Search this book on
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