Roger Corman — Actor (40)
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Hot Car Girl (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Hot Car Girl
director: Bernard L. Kowalski actor: Richard Bakalyan / June Kenney …
In this violent drama, a young juvenile delinquent gets into more trouble when he gets involved with a gang that steals auto parts and resells them on the black market to pay for their beer parties. It looks as if he might actually turn his life around after he meets a good-hearted woman, when he decides to run a final game of chicken against a juvenile delinquent girl who gets killed in the ensuing crash. The terrified boy then takes his girlfriend and splits. He is later shot-down by the police. Later the authorities learn that the boy was set upon his crooked path by policemen who beat him when he was younger.
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The Dark Side of Hollywood (1998) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Dark Side of Hollywood
director: Odette Springer actor: Maria Ford / Jon Kalina …
Behind the scenes of Hollywood's low-budget movie industry. It is a powerful portrait of the fragility of fame and the cost of stardom. B-pictures have long been the spawning ground of today's and tomorrow's stars. They started the careers of Jack Nicholson and Sylvester Stallone among many others, as well as now super star directors Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Ron Howard and James Cameron. The film examines the evolution of starry-eyed newcomers arriving in Hollywood and discovering the harsh reality of getting into pictures.
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The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters (1994) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
director: Mel Bucklin actor: Eli Wallach / Roger Corman …
This documentary celebrates the work of illustrator Reynold Brown, whose colorful and compelling art graced over 300 movie posters during the 1950s and '60s, ranging from star-studded westerns and studio epics to sensational creature features and low-budget B-movies. Art historians, writers, and movie producers discuss Brown's art within the context of the post-war social climate and an ever-changing movie industry.
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Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi (2020) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
director: Danny Wolf actor: Joe Dante / Kevin Pollak …
The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the second volume of Time Warp. Includes groundbreaking classics like "Night of the Living Dead," and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and sci-fi gems such as "Blade Runner," and "A Clockwork Orange."
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Hollywood Boulevard II (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Hollywood Boulevard II
director: Steve Barnett actor: Ginger Lynn Allen / Kelly Monteith …
A studio finds itself in the middle of a bizarre murder mystery when an exploding teddy bear kills the latest star. Soon more actresses get violently eliminated as the desperate search for the killer begins.
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The Young Racers (1963) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Young Racers
director: Roger Corman actor: Mark Damon / William Campbell …
other title: I diavoli del Grand Prix / Schnelle Autos und Affären …
A former race car driver-turned-writer attempts to expose a ruthless, womanizing Grand Prix racer. A film constructed around footage shot of actual Grand Prix races in Europe.
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Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
director: Thomas Hamilton actor: Boris Karloff / Sara Karloff …
Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores the life and legacy of a cinema legend, presenting a perceptive history of the genre he personified. Karloff's films were long derided as hokum and attacked by censors, but his phenomenal popularity and pervasive influence endures, inspiring some of our greatest actors and directors into the 21st Century – among them Guillermo Del Toro, Ron Perlman, Roger Corman, and John Landis, all of whom and many more contribute their personal insights and anecdotes.
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Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
director: Mark Hartley actor: Roger Corman / Colleen Camp …
other title: Hollywood Se Déchaine À Manille / ¡Doncellas del machete desatadas!
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased. It was a country with extremely lax labor regulations and a very permissive attitude towards cultural expression. As a result, it became a hotbed for the production of cheapie movies. Their history and the genre itself are detailed in this breezy, nostalgic documentary.
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Corman's World (2011) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Corman's World
director: Alex Stapleton actor: Roger Corman / Gary J. Tunnicliffe …
other title: Ufos, Sex und Monster - Das wilde Kino des Roger Corman / Le Monde de Corman …
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new talent.
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Battle of Blood Island (1960) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Battle of Blood Island
director: Joel Rapp actor: Ron Gans / Richard Devon …
Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other, find try to put aside their differences in order to evade the Japanese and survive.
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War of the Satellites (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
War of the Satellites
director: Roger Corman actor: Dick Miller / Susan Cabot …
other title: Guerra dei satelliti / Planet der toten Seelen …
An "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere.