Category: Decoy

  • It Came from Poverty Row: Hollywood’s B-Movie Factories Mined Noir Gold

    It Came from Poverty Row: Hollywood’s B-Movie Factories Mined Noir Gold

    Ann Savage, Tom Neal, “Detour” (1945). Hitchhiking on the road to hell. So many westerns were filmed at the small, independently owned studios near the intersection of Sunset Blvd. and Gower St. in Hollywood that people began calling it Gower Gulch. From the 1930s to the ’50s it was the epicenter of low-rent film production and the gaggle of…