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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“I’ve never heard of either of them.”
That’s not a bad thing. I could do with a whole lot less TV.
Corman’s best sci-fi film in my opinion , and made on a $ 100,000 budget in 1957 . Grossed a million at the box office !
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