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| | HERMENAUT: The Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1939 |
 | | Their directors all perfected their craft in the silent era, when the cinema relied solely on the expressive potential of the image, and by 1939, they had all established unique styles and sensitivities. |
 | | In Hollywood in 1939, directors had to answer to powerful producers like David O. Selznick and Darryl F. Zanuck; in the Soviet Union, they had to answer to Stalin. |
 | | People throw around the term "B movie" pretty carelessly nowadays, but these are the real thing: cheap, violent crime films or twisted exotica, made by Paramount to play with their bigger-budgeted films, each running under 75 minutes. |
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