The 1939 production was one of Twentieth Century Fox's more ambitious efforts, filmed in Technicolor ; the other two were low-budget affairs made by B-movie studios.

This meant that Corman's B-movie business model would be permanently changed and he would not be able to produce low-budget movies in the same way.

It is a low-budget B-movie similar to the Police Academy series of movies.

He occasionally took " civilian " roles in feature films ( he's the boxing referee in Abbott and Costello's Buck Privates ), but the biggest part of Tyler's screen career was spent making low-budget B-movie westerns for modest salaries.

The low-budget B-movie was to be released straight to home video when it was finished.

Sex, Lies, and Videotape was followed by a series of low-budget box-office disappointments: Kafka, a biopic mixing fact and Kafka's own fiction ( notably The Castle and The Trial ), written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka ; King of the Hill ( 1993 ), a critically acclaimed Depression-era drama ; The Underneath ( 1995 ), a remake of Robert Siodmak's 1949 film noir Criss Cross ; and Schizopolis ( 1996 ), a comedy which he starred in, wrote, composed, and shot as well as directed.

In 1958 Morey appeared in the low-budget film Machine-Gun Kelly with Charles Bronson and did a notable dramatic turn in the 1960 noir classic Murder, Inc. as Catskill nightclub owner Walter Sage, the first victim ( according to the film ) of the newly minted Murder, Incorporated.

In 1992, Poelvoorde, Delvaux and Bonzel directed together their first long feature C ' est arrivé près de chez vous ( Man Bites Dog internationally ) originally a low-budget school graduation project ( 1992 ) and a kind of cynical " noir " movie, inspired from the famous Belgian series " Strip-Tease " which went on to become a critically acclaimed cult movie.

His PRC thriller Detour ( 1945 ) has won considerable acclaim as a prime example of low-budget film noir, and it was selected by the Library of Congress among the first group of 100 American films worthy of special preservation efforts.

She has also appeared in the low-budget film noir When Darkness Falls ( 2005 ) directed by Australian documentary filmmaker Rohan Spong.

In that year, Carlson was cast in two low-budget film noir releases, Behind Locked Doors and The Amazing Mr. X.

Most recently, film critic Dennis Schwartz also wrote a favorable review: " Byron Haskin's low-budget film noir makes good use of its Los Angeles locale and its lady bluebeard is fun to watch as she does her nasty gun thing with her nice guy hubby and rotten poison thing with her boyfriend ( she took care of her first hubby off camera, so we're not sure how he got it!

Hans J. Wollstein, writing for Allmovie, calls the film a " low-budget but highly engrossing film noir ," and Dennis Schwartz, at Ozus ' World Movie Reviews writes, " In the end everything was done in such a flat manner, that it was hard to care that straight-shooter McGraw lost his integrity and life for an icy broad who ironically would have loved him the way he was.

If Chins Could Kill ... was published in 2002 and follows Campbell's career to date as an actor in low-budget films and television, providing his insight into " Blue-Collar Hollywood ".

Dolores Agnes Fuller ( born Dolores Eble ; March 10, 1923 – May 9, 2011 ) was an American actress and songwriter best known as the one-time girlfriend of the low-budget film director Edward D. Wood, Jr. She played the protagonist's girlfriend in Glen or Glenda, co-starred in Wood's Jail Bait, and had a minor role in Bride of the Monster.

A significant example is Sam Raimi's Evil Dead movies, which were low-budget gorefests but had a very original plotline which was later praised by critics.

A minimalist approach which was equal parts Val Lewton's theory of " less is more " ( usually employing the low-budget techniques utilized on The Blair Witch Project, 1999 ) has been evident, particularly in the emergence of Asian horror movies which have been remade into successful Americanized versions, such as The Ring ( 2002 ), and The Grudge ( 2004 ).

Finally with the arrival of Paranormal Activity ( 2009 ), which was well received by critics and an excellent reception at the box office, minimal thought started by The Blair Witch Project was reaffirmed and is expected to be continued successfully in other low-budget productions.

The studio was famous for its socially-realistic, urban, low-budget action pictures ; the play seemed like the perfect property for it, especially since the public was entranced by real-life criminals like John Dillinger ( whom Bogart resembled ) and Dutch Schultz.

The band's first experience in the recording studio was recording the music to Riff Raff, a low-budget stage musical on which Sneddon had worked.

The film, originally intended for the Spanish-language low-budget home-video market, was " cleaned up " with several hundred thousand dollars before being distributed by Columbia Pictures in the United States, still being promoted as " the movie made for $ 7, 000 ".

By most accounts, the low-budget film shot on location in Arizona was a learning process for Peckinpah, who feuded with Fitzsimons ( brother of the film's star Maureen O ' Hara ) over the screenplay and staging of the scenes.

Almost immediately, Peckinpah realized he was working on a low-budget production, as he had to sink $ 90, 000 of his own money to hire experienced crew members.

By the 1990s, Hauer was as well known for his humorous appearances in Guinness commercials as for his screen roles, which had increasingly involved low-budget films, including Split Second, which was set in a flooded London after global warming ; Omega Doom, another post-apocalyptic story in which he plays a soldier-robot ; and New World Disorder, opposite Tara FitzGerald.

As a result, when the time came to make his solo directorial debut with The Colossus of Rhodes ( Il Colosso di Rodi, 1961 ), Leone was well-equipped to produce low-budget films which looked like larger budget Hollywood movies.

In 2006, Aniston appeared in the low-budget drama Friends with Money, which was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival and received a limited release.

Two years later, Altman was hired to direct the low-budget space travel feature Countdown, but was fired within days of the project's conclusion because he had refused to edit the film to a manageable length.

Weir's first full-length feature film was the underground cult classic, The Cars That Ate Paris ( 1975 ), a low-budget black comedy about the inhabitants of a small country town who deliberately cause fatal car crashes and live off the proceeds.

The low-budget production was completed in seventeen days of filming, mostly in one claustrophobic jury room.

The term was also in widespread use in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and early 1990s, featuring in many low-budget TV productions and plays throughout the country.

Viewed from London, buccaneering was a low-budget way to wage war on England's rival, Spain.

Carpenter's next film was Assault on Precinct 13 ( 1976 ), a low-budget thriller influenced by the films of Howard Hawks, particularly Rio Bravo.

Aardman was founded in 1972 as a low-budget project by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, who wanted to realise their dream of producing an animated motion picture.

Many of these films are low-budget affairs, shot in locations ( for example, the Spanish desert region of Almería ) chosen for their inexpensive crew and production costs as well as their similarity to landscapes of the Southwestern United States.

It is also the home town of Rob Ray co-founder of Aurora Digital Films, which shot a low-budget independent film in 1999 titled " Cramweek.

's debut album, Stipe participated in a low-budget, forty-five-minute Super-8 film called Just Like a Movie, shot in Athens by New York Rocker magazine photographer Laura Levine, who was a friend of the band.

In 1999, Haim shot a troubled low-budget independent film called Universal Groove in Montreal, using then-emerging digital technology.

Tierney's first starring role in a film was in a low-budget, independently-produced film called Dead Women in Lingerie, shot in 24 days.

The opening scenes of the 1981 horror film " Wolfen " starring Albert Finney were shot in St. George, and the area has served as a stand-in for many nameless small towns, as was the case in the low-budget 1984 film " Death Mask " starring Farley Granger as a medical examiner who becomes obsessed with finding out the ID of a young boy found dead.

He began appearing in low-budget movies shot all over the world: In Egypt ( You Can Do a Lot with 7 Women ( 1971 ), with the Shaw Brothers in Hong Kong starring in the title role of Marco Polo ( 1975 ) and playing the German commander Von Waldensee in The Boxer Rebellion ( 1976 ).

Many modern documentaries and low-budget films are shot on videotape or other digital video media, instead of film stock, and completed as digital video.

Late in his career, he appeared in two low-budget horror films shot in the South, Alien Outlaw and The Dark Power.

This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films.

When that film failed to find an audience in California's nisei communities or Japan, Howe shot the low-budget feature Today for no salary.

The low-budget film was shot on digital and later transferred to 35 mm.

The video for " Sex Is Not the Enemy " was filmed on April 20 and April 21 and was a low-budget video shot by Sophie Muller.

Over the decade, he appeared in countless low-budget Filipino features and some Italian productions shot in the archipelago, often cast as a military officer or a policeman, in parts very similar to Richard Crenna in First Blood.

Since the early 1980s, Nicholson has appeared in both big-budget Hollywood productions shot in the archipelago and low-budget, Filipino action movies.

Despite being a quickly shot, low-budget 1950s feature, Invaders also uses occasional camera angles set lower or higher than usual to enhance the dramatic and visual impact of certain key scenes.