The Secret Invasion (1964) | |
| Director(s) | Roger Corman |
| Producer(s) | Gene Corman |
| Top Genres | Action, Drama, Historical, War |
| Top Topics | World War II |
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The Secret Invasion (1964) was a Action - Drama Film directed by Roger Corman and produced by Gene Corman.
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Roger Corman directed this movie in between making Poe films (i.e. filmed adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe horror stories) The Masque of the Red Death and The Tomb of Ligeia, the latter of which was the last of his Poe adaptions.
Director Roger Corman has commented on the script changes of this movie: "Initially, the prisoner being held was an atomic scientist, the only man knowing the missing key ingredient in the equations to make an atomic bomb. So by freeing him, the five criminals help unleash atomic warfare. And UA studio United Artists said they liked the idea but not that man. So I changed him to an Italian general who would lead the resistance against the Nazis and thereby facilitate an Allied invasion of Italy. UA wanted them to be full-out heroes with less subtlety than I might have sought. I had wanted them to unwittingly and ironically do something bad on their way to being heroes. But this was the majors and with a half-million of their dollars at stake, I had a feeling these characters might lack nuance. I knew this was one of the drawbacks to working with the studios - story by committee."
Director Roger Corman once said of this film: "The odd thing about this movie is that it had a very similar plot to an old western of mine, Five Guns West. It also came out before The Dirty Dozen. I've heard stories that the producers of 'The Dirty Dozen' actually postponed production of their film an entire year because they realized that our story-lines were so similar."
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Director Roger Corman has commented on the script changes of this movie: "Initially, the prisoner being held was an atomic scientist, the only man knowing the missing key ingredient in the equations to make an atomic bomb. So by freeing him, the five criminals help unleash atomic warfare. And UA studio United Artists said they liked the idea but not that man. So I changed him to an Italian general who would lead the resistance against the Nazis and thereby facilitate an Allied invasion of Italy. UA wanted them to be full-out heroes with less subtlety than I might have sought. I had wanted them to unwittingly and ironically do something bad on their way to being heroes. But this was the majors and with a half-million of their dollars at stake, I had a feeling these characters might lack nuance. I knew this was one of the drawbacks to working with the studios - story by committee."
Director Roger Corman once said of this film: "The odd thing about this movie is that it had a very similar plot to an old western of mine, Five Guns West. It also came out before The Dirty Dozen. I've heard stories that the producers of 'The Dirty Dozen' actually postponed production of their film an entire year because they realized that our story-lines were so similar."
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