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Post by teleadm on Apr 1, 2017 22:39:46 GMT
He wasn't a great director, but what he was: a great showman, and also in that sense a producer who knew
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Post by politicidal on Apr 1, 2017 22:55:50 GMT
He wasn't a great director, but what he was: a great showman, and also in that sense a producer who knew this. The new P.T. Barnum if you will. |
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 2, 2017 0:44:51 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 2, 2017 1:00:35 GMT
My first memories of a Roger Corman film go back to the md sixties when I was just a young boy, from a movie shown on TV down here in Australia.
My mother who is Yugoslavian was most interested in The Secret Invasion (1964). I still vividly remember a harrowing scene involving a new born baby.
I re-watched this oft forgotten Corman film recently and thought it a great little film, a World War II mission where convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely dangerous operation behind enemy lines.
A standout feature is the location shooting in Dubrovnik and other parts of Yugoslavia in the summer of 1963.
Corman's typically short shooting schedule was only 36 days, and was slotted in between other productions that he was working on at the time.
Made with the assistance of the Yugoslavian government, a large number of military personnel and equipment were offered, but an untimely earthquake interfered with production, the troops were re-deployed to help in the relief effort.
The film was a well-financed studio production with a budget of $600,000 more than twice more the funds Corman had for his earlier independently funded features.
Brassey's Guide to War Films noted ..."the production exemplified Corman's ability to create something out of nothing." and that it was a precursor of The Dirty Dozen (1967)
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 2, 2017 11:38:20 GMT
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Post by marianne48 on Apr 2, 2017 15:59:20 GMT
The Intruder is a wonderful film, and it deserves to be on any list about the best films ever made about racism and the civil rights struggle in the U.S. in the 1960s. Unfortunately, it's unfairly overlooked, while mediocrities such as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner are continually praised to the skies.
Instead of the self-congratulatory knee-jerk liberalism of that film, The Intruder includes, as one of its main characters, a white newspaper editor
who personally believes in school segregation, yet ultimately decides to support integration in the interests of fairness. Sadly, the film was pretty much a bomb after its release, and Corman, who showed in this film just how good he could be, returned to making more profitable schlock films. If only he had more opportunities with material such as this, he might today be regarded with much more respect as a director, than merely as the guy who made all those
gorefest "midnight movies."
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Post by outrider127 on Apr 2, 2017 16:56:57 GMT
I liked some of the Vincent Price films he did in the early 1960's
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Post by fangirl1975 on Apr 2, 2017 17:00:45 GMT
His Poe adaptations are my favorites of his works.
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 2, 2017 21:37:23 GMT
Masque or the Red Death was Corman's masterpiece....!!!!!!! Loved all of his films...!!!!!!
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 2, 2017 22:39:09 GMT
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 2, 2017 23:07:18 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Apr 3, 2017 4:39:31 GMT
An amazing director honestly as well.
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 3, 2017 17:54:53 GMT
...great films!!! I love The Masque of the Red Death with Vincent Price!!!
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 3, 2017 20:01:34 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 5, 2017 1:10:38 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 7, 2017 1:14:29 GMT
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Post by gunshotwound on Apr 8, 2017 2:58:01 GMT
I am a huge fan of Roger Corman. Petrolino I love your top 30.
If you ever get the chance to see X-The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) do so. It is a very good movie. I saw it when it was first released. Saw it again on TCM about six months ago during their October Halloween festival. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 8, 2017 4:02:02 GMT
Thanks, petrolino ,for another great essay and for labeling the photos. |
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Post by poelzig on Apr 8, 2017 4:17:59 GMT
He produced a lot of entertaining movies and had a great eye for talent. Just as importantly, he always made a profit.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Apr 8, 2017 15:06:02 GMT
His influence has rippled throughout the film industry, inspiring so many and employing some of the greats. We owe him so much, his films are fun, not high-brow, but a good time.
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