Filming on location? Not quite in Cold War B-movies

For JSTOR Daily, H.M.A. Leow wrote about Cold War B-movies and how they often used “geographical misdirection” to trick audiences into thinking that they were filmed on location: Whether low-budget films or all-star productions, some American producers didn’t particularly care where their ostensibly Southeast Asian movies were set, as [Adam] Knee notices. But why the carelessness in their treatment of locales?

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