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Harry M. Popkin and Leo C. Popkin’s Million Dollar Productions, the company that produced Reform School, is notable for having consistently worked closely with Black community members to make race films that reflected social issues such as criminalization, justice denied, fugitivity, and Black-on-Black crime. [1]
Million Dollar Productions was a movie studio in the United States active from 1937 until 1940. It was established to produce films with African American casts. It was a partnership between Harry M. Popkin, Leo C. Popkin and Ralph Cooper.
Feb 4, 2024 · Harry Popkin Productions. Publication date. 1949. Topics. feature film, crime drama, colorized, film noir. Language. English. Item Size. 823.0M. A unfaithful wife (Helen Walker) plots with her lover to kill her husband (Brian Donlevy), but the lover is accidentally killed instead.
- 111 min
- 3.2K
- George Fergus
In 1937, the white Los Angeles theater owner Harry M. Popkin and his movie-producer brother Leo C. Popkin ("D.O.A.," 1950) teamed up with the black actor Ralph Cooper ("Dark Manhattan," 1937) to form Million Dollar Productions.
Nov 6, 2023 · Harry Popkin Productions. Publication date. 1949. Topics. feature film, crime, colorized. Language. English. Item Size. 514.0M. A small-town accountant goes to San Francisco to have one last binge before settling down with fiancée Paula. After a night on the town, he wakes up with more than just a hangover.
- 83 min
- 1728
- George Fergus
Harry Popkin Productions. Item Size. 857.9M. Title: Champagne for Caesar. Summary: In order to get even with the pompous president of a soap company, an eccentric genius goes on his quiz show in order to bankrupt his company. Directed by: Richard Whorf. Actors: Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price.
Leo C. Popkin produced D.O.A. for his short-lived Cardinal Pictures. Due to a filing error, the copyright to the film was not renewed on time, [3] causing it to fall into the public domain: it was subsequently remade as Color Me Dead (1969), D.O.A. (1988), Dead On Arrival (2017), and D.O.A. (2022).
