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Seven Things to Know About Roger Corman
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Aug 23, 2021
1. Roger Corman produced Martin Scorsese's second feature-length film Boxcar Bertha (1972). In Corman and Jim Jerome's book How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, Scorsese recalled: "He once said, 'Martin, what you have to get is a very good first reel because read more
Tower of London (1962, Roger Corman)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 15, 2019
Tower of London almost makes it. The film gets through the low budget, which has a static picture of a model Tower of London instead of a picture of the real Tower for establishing shots, obvious backdrops, not great makeup to age or deform its cast, and the occasional reused footage. Director Corm read more
Tower of London (1962, Roger Corman)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 15, 2019
Tower of London almost makes it. The film gets through the low budget, which has a static picture of a model Tower of London instead of a picture of the real Tower for establishing shots, obvious backdrops, not great makeup to age or deform its cast, and the occasional reused footage. Director Corm read more
Tower of London (1962, Roger Corman)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 15, 2019
Tower of London almost makes it. The film gets through the low budget, which has a static picture of a model Tower of London instead of a picture of the real Tower for establishing shots, obvious backdrops, not great makeup to age or deform its cast, and the occasional reused footage. Director Corm read more
Tower of London (1962, Roger Corman)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 15, 2019
Tower of London almost makes it. The film gets through the low budget, which has a static picture of a model Tower of London instead of a picture of the real Tower for establishing shots, obvious backdrops, not great makeup to age or deform its cast, and the occasional reused footage. Director Corm read more
Roger Corman Month Quick Picks and Pans
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Jul 29, 2019
The Haunted Palace (1963)
Although the title is based on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, it isn’t really a
part of Corman’s Poe Cycle, but an adaptation (by Charles Beaumont) of H.P.
Lovecraft’s “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.” This slow-moving, atmospheric movie
features read more
[BASP] The Little Shop of Horrors (1960, Roger Corman) / Please Don&’t Eat My Mother (1973, Carl Monson)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 9, 2016
The Best of An Alan Smithee Podcast: Episode Twenty-two The Little Shop of Horrors (1960, Roger Corman) / Please Don&’t Eat My Mother (1973, Carl Monson) Originally posted: January 3, 2013 Subscribe via iTunes. read more
Unusual Suspects Week 3: William Shatner in Roger Corman’s The Intruder (1962)
Serendipitous Anachronisms Posted by Summer Reeves on Aug 27, 2015
Unusual Suspects Week 3: William Shatner in Roger Corman’s The Intruder (1962)
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Tags1960s, Creepy True Story, Crime, Drama, Politics, Rac read more
The Terror (1963, Roger Corman)
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 20, 2013
It might be too easy just to call The Terror terrible or to go into the various puns one could make with “terrible” and the title. It’s not a surprisingly bad film at all. It’s an expectedly bad film, given it opens with a pointless scare attempt. Boris Karloff shows up in t read more
A Bucket of Blood (1959, Roger Corman)
The Stop Button Posted by on Nov 6, 2013
Until the unfortunate deus ex machina finish, A Bucket of Blood is a small wonder. Even with the finish, the film manages to succeed; the performances are just too strong. Dick Miller plays a simple, well-meaning bus boy–who also takes drink orders, apparently for no tips–at an art café read more
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967, Roger Corman)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 6, 2013
Director Corman and–probably more so–writer Howard Browne construct The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre as a docudrama. Paul Frees narrates the entire film, introducing characters, providing their backstories–Corman sometimes mutes the film’s dialogue (during boring parts read more
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960, Roger Corman)
The Stop Button Posted by on Aug 28, 2013
The filmmaking economy in The Little Shop of Horrors is astounding. Most of the film takes place in one set–the titular shop–and Charles B. Griffith’s script works hard to imply the world outside that set. My favorite bit in the script is probably when leading man Jonathan Haze is read more
Ski Troop Attack (1960, Roger Corman)
The Stop Button Posted by on Jul 10, 2013
The best thing in Ski Troop Attack is a forty or fifty second conversation between two characters about mortality. Writer Charles B. Griffith has a few other good observations in the dialogue, but they don’t resonate. Nothing in Ski resonates except that one conversation. And the acting isn&# read more