Looks at the original Roger Corman film, provides interviews with the actors involved in the project, and looks at the broadway and movie musical versions

The Little Shop of Horrors Book

McCARTY, JOHN

McGee, Mark Thomas

Literature & Fiction

St Martins Pr

In 1984 Mr. McGee wrote ("very well"-Choice) the acclaimed Fast and Furious, a history of American International Pictures. But, as McGee wrote us in his out of the blue offer to do a bigger and better, "Because of my unnatural interest, I've never stopped." The result of his ceaseless efforts can be found in this updated and expanded look at AIP. From the time Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson founded the company, they dominated the low-budget film market with such teen-oriented movies as Beach Party, The Wild Angels and I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Their movies were frowned on by critics not because they were terrible (which they mostly were) but because they were so shameless in their intent-to make money. This new work includes the most comprehensive AIP filmography ever assembled, as well as many new photographs not included in the earlier work.

Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

McFarland Publishing

McGee covers each of Corman''s films in depth . In addition, he includes a biography of Corman, and biogra phies of his stock players. '

Roger Corman: The Best of the Cheap Acts (McFarland Classics)

Beyond Ballyhoo: Motion Picture Promotion and Gimmicks

William Castle, for instance, was a master promoter. In one scheme involving The Tingler, Vincent Price warns in the movie that "the only way to stop the monster is to scream. That's the signal to the projectionist to throw the switch. Under ten or twelve seats were some electric motors, war surplus things that Castle got a bargain on. The motors vibrated the seat, in the hope of scaring a scream out of someone. Just in case it didn't Castle planted someone in the audience to get the screams rolling." This book is about flamboyant promotion, the con artist side of the movie world--everything the ballyhoo boys did to separate the customer from the price of a movie ticket--Emergo, HypnoVista, 3-D, Wide Screen, Cinemagic, Duo-Vision, Dynamation, Smell-O-Vision, plenty more. Supporting the text are 107 photos and illustrations, some never-before-published, and a filmography.

Business & Money

Industries

McFarland

Book by McGee, Mark Thomas, Robertson, R.J.

The J.D. films: Juvenile delinquency in the movies

Robertson, R. J.

Fast and Furious: The Story of American International Pictures

Roger Corman: The Best of the Cheap Acts

Reference

William Castle, for instance, was a master promoter. In one scheme involving The Tingler, Vincent Price warns in the movie that "the only way to stop the monster is to scream. That's the signal to the projectionist to throw the switch. Under ten or twelve seats were some electric motors, war surplus things that Castle got a bargain on. The motors vibrated the seat, in the hope of scaring a scream out of someone. Just in case it didn't Castle planted someone in the audience to get the screams rolling." This book is about flamboyant promotion, the con artist side of the movie world-everything the ballyhoo boys did to separate the customer from the price of a movie ticket-Emergo, HypnoVista, 3-D, Wide Screen, Cinemagic, Duo-Vision, Dynamation, Smell-O-Vision, plenty more. Supporting the text are 107 photos and illustrations, some never-before-published, and a filmography.

The Rock and Roll Movie Encyclopedia of the 1950s

Since the first one in 1956, there have been many films made about rock and roll music. This book offers the reader the opportunity to see through the eyes of the people who made and acted in them.

Mark McGee, the author of You Won’t Believe Your Eyes! once again takes the reader back to the 1950s, this time to explore the careers of three pioneers in bargain basement entertainment —Sam Katzman, James Nicholson and Roger Corman, the first filmmakers to recognize that the kids were the ones who bought most of the movie tickets. While the major studios continued to lose money every year on fi lms that were aimed at an audience that was home watching television, Katzman, Nicholson and Corman were making movies that appealed to the young people. Rock and roll movies. Juvenile delinquent dramas. Science fi ction and horror thrillers. They were hated by the critics and chastised by the guardians of public morality. But the exhibitors loved them. They counted on these three guys to keep them in the black, which they did for almost twenty years. It took the studios decades to finally get wise to themselves and now they’re flooding the market with mega buck versions of the kinds of movies Katzman, Nicholson and Corman made for $1.98. A lot of these films were junk. Some of them were treasures. You be the judge which was which.

Katzman, Nicholson and Corman: Shaping Hollywood's Future

BearManor Media

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Books by McGee, Mark Thomas

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The Little Shop of Horrors Book

Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures

Roger Corman: The Best of the Cheap Acts (McFarland Classics)

Beyond Ballyhoo: Motion Picture Promotion and Gimmicks

The J.D. films: Juvenile delinquency in the movies

Fast and Furious: The Story of American International Pictures

Roger Corman: The Best of the Cheap Acts

Beyond Ballyhoo: Motion Picture Promotion and Gimmicks

The Rock and Roll Movie Encyclopedia of the 1950s

Katzman, Nicholson and Corman: Shaping Hollywood's Future