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A B movie, or B film, is a type of cheap, low budget commercial motion picture. Originally, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, this term specifically referred to films meant to be shown as the lesser-known second half of a double feature, somewhat similar to B-sides in recorded music. However, the production of such films as "second features ...
The B movie, whose roots trace to the silent film era, was a significant contributor to Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s. As the Hollywood studios made the transition to sound film in the late 1920s, many independent exhibitors began adopting a new programming format: the double feature.
B-Movie performing at Electrowerkz in London, 2015 B-Movie performing at Electrowerkz in London, 2015. Studio albums. Forever Running (1985, Sire Records) The Age of Illusion (2013, No Emb Blanc) Climate of Fear (2016, No Emb Blanc) Singles and EPs. Take Three 7-inch EP (1980, Dead Good Records) Nowhere Girl 12-inch EP (1980, Dead Good Records)
The 1960s and 1970s marked the rise of exploitation-style independent B movies; films which were mostly made without the support of Hollywood's major film studios.As censorship pressures lifted in the early 1960s, the low-budget end of the American motion picture industry increasingly incorporated the sort of sexual and violent elements long associated with so-called ‘exploitation’ films.
The age of the hour-long feature film was now past; at 69 minutes, Two Guns and a Badge was about as short as Hollywood features ran. In sum, the Golden Age–style second feature was dying. B movie, however, continued to be used in a broader sense, referring to any low-budget genre film featuring relatively unheralded performers ("B actors ...
Cinematic exhibition of the B movie, defined as a relatively low-cost genre film, has declined substantially from the early 1980s to the present.Spurred by the historic success of several big-budget movies with B-style themes beginning in the mid-1970s, the major Hollywood studios moved progressively into the production of A-grade films in genres that had long been low-budget territory.
This is an alphabetical list of film articles (or sections within articles about films). ... Bar-B-Que Movie (1988) Bar Hopping (2002) Bar Boys (2017) Bar Girls (1994)
Movie with a B Rating, a film rating of the National Legion of Decency Bee Movie , a 2007 animated film produced by, co-written and starring Jerry Seinfeld B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979–1989 , a 2015 film about the life of Mark Reeder