Posted on 10/22/2022 7:25:29 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Roger William Corman was born April 5, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan. Initially following in his father's footsteps, Corman studied engineering at Stanford University but while in school, he began to lose interest in the profession and developed a growing passion for film. Upon graduation, he worked a total of three days as an engineer at US Electrical Motors, which cemented his growing realization that engineering wasn't for him. He quit and took a job as a messenger for 20th Century Fox, eventually rising to the position of story analyst.
After a term spent studying modern English literature at England's Oxford University and a year spent bopping around Europe, Corman returned to the US, intent on becoming a screenwriter/producer. He sold his first script in 1953, "The House in the Sea," which was eventually filmed and released as Highway Dragnet (1954
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The king of making movies fast and cheap and still made money. A lot of really famous hollyweirdos made their start on roger corman productions.
Freegards
“It Conquered the World. Peter Graves, Kee Van Cleef. Don’t get no better than this.”
Oh yes . I’ve watched it countless times . Not Of The Earth was the first of the goodies to come to mind .
Thanks a million. I went and found it online after reading your post. Just finished it. It was a lot of fun. Kind of creepy but Garland was chipper as can be! Time well spent.
Wow. I found that by accident last year on YT. I liked it. 👍
Excellent. I do the same thing every year in October. The Fall weather in Michigan also adds its own atmosphere.👍🎃
Glad you enjoyed it . Think I’ll watch it again tonight ! Best from Japan .
A little frost on the pumpkin sure adds to the fun of the season.
Bales of straw and weird gourds are my main decorations - they can stay until Thanksgiving.
“Corman gave a lot of directors their start in the movie business.”
One time one of his directors wasn’t satisfied with the small salary he was being paid and asked Corman for a raise. Corman’s response was, “I get the money, you get the experience.”
Bfl
The little bat-creatures freaked me out as a six-year old when I first saw the movie.
It’s criminal what they did to that franchise.
Ok ..... we need cheese.
Harvey made a career out of such mixups. "It's Hedley! Hedley!"
Thanks. Attack of the Crab Monsters is a classic. Scared me to death when I was a little kid.
The question is how I would have watched it. It came out when I was five. My parents would never have taken me. My best guess harkens back to the golden era of early tv. I remember life without tv; the idiot box had been invented, but you didn’t have to be too far out of the big city to be out of range. One of my earliest memories is of my dad taking me to see what he claimed was the first tv in town. I suppose ranges had increased to the point that a really determined viewer could get enough static to pretend he was actually watching something.
Eventually an independent station opened 20 miles away and we got decent reception as long as the weather was good. In those early years, channel 4 used to show a monster movie every day about the time kids were getting home from school. This was early independent tv; they showed the same movie every day for a week, then rotated in another one.
This is how I learned that radiation causes gigantism. For some reason, I found the giant crabs particularly scary. It might have been because the crabs liked to bite off heads, which is how they developed their superior mental capacities. This might stand as Roger Corman’s greatest contribution to the canon.
Roger Corman was the US equivalent of Hammer studios from England. His movies, although low budget were Rod Serling or David Lynch type productions in their abstract creativity and always seemed outside of the box. I wouldn’t call him the King of B movie horror productions, maybe king of the B+ horror movie productions.
Yeah...not sure what the attraction was with “Little Shop Of Horrors”. I did watch the entire thing. However, there seems to be a following...sort of like “Ricky Horror Picture Show”. Occasionally, you’ll come upon a meme from Little Shop...and you’ll recognize it right away. The wife and I even went to see a high school Little Shop play production that included one of our nieces. We were being kind.
Two reasons I’m glad I watched Prometheus ...
1)...to see the Queen Bwitch (played by Charlize Theron) get squashed by the alien space ship.
2)...Noomi Rapace just because Noomi Rapace.
I’ve never heard of either of them.
Gourds. No doubt.I grow them in my garden the last 25 years.
After Sunday Football think ill watch myself. Best from Memphis, TN :)
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