Republic Pictures was (and still is, in-name-only) an independent film production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, operating from 1934 through 1959 and best known for its specialization in quality westerns, movie serials and B films emphasizing mystery and action.
They were also responsible for financing one Shakespeare film, Orson Welles's Macbeth, and several of the films of John Ford during the 1940s and early 1950s, and for de...
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Republic Pictures was (and still is, in-name-only) an independent film production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, operating from 1934 through 1959 and best known for its specialization in quality westerns, movie serials and B films emphasizing mystery and action.
They were also responsible for financing one Shakespeare film, Orson Welles's Macbeth, and several of the films of John Ford during the 1940s and early 1950s, and for developing the careers and star-status of John Wayne and Gene Autry.
Created in 1935 by Herbert J. Yates, a longtime investor in film and music properties and founder and president of Consolidated Film Industries, Republic was the result of a union of six smaller Poverty Row studios.
In the depths of the 1930s depression, Yates's laboratory was servicing many poverty-row studios. In 1935 Yates saw a chance to become a production head himself. Six established poverty-row companies (Monogram, Mascot, Liberty, Majestic, Chesterfield, and Invincible...
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