Sam Katzman Overview:

Producer, Sam Katzman, was born on Jul 7, 1901 in New York City, NY. Katzman died at the age of 72 on Aug 4, 1973 in Hollywood, CA .

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COLD WAR CREATURES: FOUR FILMS FROM On Blu-ray From Arrow

By Dan Day, Jr. on Sep 18, 2021 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

Arrow Video does it again with another amazing Blu-ray box set to warm the hearts of cult movie geeks. COLD WAR CREATURES: FOUR FILMS FROM features a quartet of low-budget genre films produced by B-movie maven for Columbia Pictures in the mid 1950s. The movies are CREATURE WI... Read full article


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Cinematographer Richard H. Kline talks extensively about Katzman, for whom he worked in the 1950s, in the book "A Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde" (McFarland & Co., 2010) by Tom Weaver.

Katzman is credited with coming up with the word "beatnik." Supposedly, he was at a recording studio as the score for one of his teen musicals was being put together. He heard two musicians talking, and one of them asked why a third musician they both knew didn't show up for the session. The other musician said, "That cat was just beat, Nick." Katzman misunderstood "beat, Nick" for "beatnik" (as in Sputnik), liked the sound of it, and started using it in his movies and in his everyday life to describe the younger generation he worked with. It caught on and made its way into the language.

Was a regular poker buddy of veteran character actor James Flavin, with whom he maintained a close friendship for nearly 50 years.

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