Republic Pictures was an American independent film production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, operating from 1935 through 1959, and was best known for specializing in westerns, movie serials and B films emphasizing mystery and action.
The studio was also responsible for financing and distributing one Shakespeare film, Orson Welles' Macbeth (1948) and several of the films of John Ford during the 1940s and early 1950s, and for developing the careers of John Wayne, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.
Read more about Republic Pictures: Corporate History, Types of Films, In The Television Era, Aftermath
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