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Roger Corman
Probably one of the most important American producers of the 50s-70s Roger Corman made an unprecedented amount of genre films, not immediately distinguishable from other B-picture drive-in fare. He proved himself in the horror genre and launched the 'hippy picture'. His most important contribution to film was his nurturing of talent. He started (and helped) the careers of Jack Nicholson, Monte Hellman, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola and Jonathan Demme, all of whom would become luminaries of 70s New Hollywood.
He was renowned for record breaking shooting schedules (Little Shop of Horrors) and miniscule budgets.
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Corman, Poe and Price; what a refreshing combination! 21 December 2004
review by A customer from Swindon, England
The Raven 7 July 2004
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A bad trip 4 August 2004
Roger Corman - filmography
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A Galaxy Far Far Away
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Tariq Jalil, Roger Corman, James Duval
Director: Tariq Jalil
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A Galaxy Far Far Away features interviews with hundreds of fans, movie executives and high profile celebrities shedding new light on the film trilogy that has captivated generations of moviegoers. It takes us to Star Wars conventions, to nationwide premieres, into the homes of devoted fans showing ..read more »
 
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Searchers 2.0
(2007)
Starring: Del Zamora, Jaclyn Jonet, Ed Pansullo
Director: Alex Cox
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From the director of "Repo Man" and "Sid & Nancy" comes Searchers 2.0. As child actors, Mel and Fred were beaten and whipped by an imperious screenwriter, Fritz Frobisher. Now the elderly Fritz is to appear at a tee-shirt signing ceremony in Monument Valley, AZ, where his great films were made. ..read more »
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Not available for rental
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Bloody Mama
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Robert DeNiro
Director: Roger Corman
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Director Roger Corman pulls no punches in this sordid (and true) saga of Kate "Ma" Barker and her sons, brutal criminals who terrorized America in the 1920s and '30s. At Ma's command they rob and murder, but when they kidnap a local politician (Pat Hingle), he turns into the father figure they ..read more »
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The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
(1967)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, ason Robards, George Segal
Director: Roger Corman
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Schlockmeister Roger Corman produced this graphically violent chronicle of the Chicago gangster wars of the 1920s and the events that lead to the bloody title showdown between rival mobsters Al Capone (Jason Robards) and Bugs Moran (Ralph Meeker) that marked a brutal end to a terrifying era. Fred ..read more »
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from 206 members
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The Trip
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
Director: Roger Corman
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Peter Fonda stars in this joyously psychedelic freak-out from legendary low-budget director Roger Corman. It's a lysergic time capsule set in swinging 1967 Los Angeles, as Paul (Fonda), a commercial director in the midst of a divorce, takes time out to have his first LSD experience. Bruce Dern is ..read more »
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The Tomb Of Ligeia
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd
Director: Roger Corman
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Once again Vincent Price stars for director Roger Corman in The Tomb of Ligeia, the last of Corman's eight Edgar Allen Poe adaptations, a film graced by a script by Robert Towne and moody cinematography by Nicolas Roeg. Price has the creepy lead role of Verden Fell. In 1821, when Verden's wife ..read more »
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The Raven
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
Director: Roger Corman
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Although Roger Corman narrowly managed to avoid self-mockery in his pulpy, flamboyant adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales, it appears that the director chose this opportunity to let loose with outright parody; the result is a wonderfully entertaining romp with tongue planted firmly in cheek. The ..read more »
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The Haunting
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight
Director: Roger Corman
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A lieutenant in Napoleon's army (Jack Nicholson) traces a mysterious woman to a castle on the Baltic coast and finds himself trapped by a mad baron (Boris Karloff). Atmospheric, low-budget horror from the great Roger Corman, also reportedly directed at points by future talents Francis Ford Coppola ..read more »
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The Terror
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight
Director: Roger Corman
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This horror collection features three films presented by Roger Corman: THE TERROR, DEMENTIA 13, and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.THE TERROR: Horror legend Boris Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson team up in this disjointed but enjoyable Roger Corman quickie. Nicholson plays Lieutenant Andre Duvalier, an ..read more »
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The Intruder
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford
Director: Roger Corman
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The Intruder was not only Roger Corman's most daring and unusual film, but a unique movie in the history of cinema, as one of the few theatrical feature films to deal with school desegregation in the South. William Shatner gives the performance of a lifetime as Adam Cramer, a sly, rabble-rousing ..read more »
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Creature from the Haunted Sea
(1961)
Starring: Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne
Director: Roger Corman
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When a revolution breaks out on a Caribbean island, Sparks Moran concocts a plan to increase his riches whereby he rescues and then kills loyalists, blaming their deaths on a mysterious sea monster. His plans are thwarted, however, when a real sea monster materialises...
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from 71 members
Currently unavailable
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The Pit And The Pendulum
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele
Director: Roger Corman
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In 16th-century Spain, Francis Bonnard (John Kerr) visits the gloomy castle of his late sister's husband, Nicholas (Vincent Price), in order to discern the reason for her death. It seems Nicholas is terrified that wife Elizabeth (Barbara Steele) is not really dead and that her spirit wanders the ..read more »
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The Little Shop Of Horrors
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Dick Miller, Jonathan Haze
Director: Roger Corman
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King of the B's director Roger Corman shot this crazy beat-era classic in a mere two days, but it packs plenty of inspired lunacy and clever bits in its 70-minute running time. Jonathan Haze stars as clumsy assistant florist Seymour, who saves his job in Mr. Mushnik's skid-row flower shop when he ..read more »
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Ski Troop Attack
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Michael Forest, Frank Wolff, Wally Campo
Director: Roger Corman
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An American ski patrol schusses their way across the border into Germany to try and blow up an important railroad bridge in this WW II drama. They are lead by a tough old sergeant and an untried lieutenant. Along the way, they are given shelter by a pretty but treacherous German lass who tries to ..read more »
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She Gods Of Shark Reef
(1958)
Starring: Bill Cord, Don Durant, Lisa Montell
Director: Roger Corman
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In this fantasy adventure, an escaped convict and his brother find themselves shipwrecked on a paradisiacal island filled with luscious native women who spend their days enacting bizarre rituals and diving for pearls. One of the women is selected by the others to be a sacrifice to the sharks, but ..read more »
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Not Of This Earth
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones
Director: Roger Corman
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Nurse Nadine Story is hired by a mysterious stranger who requires continual medical care. When his requests for blood transfusions become more and more frequent, his horrible secret is revealed...he is, in fact, a space vampire!
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The Undead
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Pamela Duncan, Rachel Garley, Alison Hayes
Director: Roger Corman
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A shady hypnotist (Richard Garland) regresses the memory of a fallen woman (Pamela Duncan) so that she actually goes back in time to reexperience past lives. Things go wrong when she helps a medieval version of herself named Helene escape being executed as a witch, thereby throwing the whole course ..read more »
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Attack of the Crab Monsters
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Pamela Duncan, Richard Garland, Russell Johnson
Director: Roger Corman
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A group of scientists arrive on a remote Pacific island to investigate what became of the previous team, which was sent out there as observers of American hydrogen bomb tests and disappeared without a trace.
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The Day The World Ended
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens
Director: Roger Corman
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After a nuclear holocaust, a rancher and his daughter hole up in a mountain cabin protected from the radioactive fallout. Another group of survivors, including a geologist and a criminal, descend upon the cabin for refuge and cause a series of romantic entanglements with the rancher's comely ..read more »
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Tower Of London
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Basil Rathbone
Director: Roger Corman, Rowland V. Lee
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Basil Rathbone's real-life son, John Rodion, has his head chopped off early on in this historical melodrama often mistakenly referred to as a horror film. Yes, a second-billed Boris Karloff does stomp about on a club-foot as the Duke of Glouchester's chief executioner, Mord, but Karloff's presence ..read more »
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Roger Corman Collection
(6 discs)
on DVD
Starring: John Lund, Dorothy Malone, John Ireland
Director: Roger Corman
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Collection of six films from the acclaimed master of low budget moviemaking, Roger Corman. Includes FIVE GUNS WEST, GUNSLINGER, HAUNTED PALACE, PREMATURE BURIAL, THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH and WILD ANGELS.
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The Wasp Woman
on DVD
Starring: Susan Cabot
Director: Roger Corman
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After much research into the queen wasp Professor Zinthrop concludes that using the wasp's jelly he can create an elixir that will reverse the ageing process. All he needs to complete his research is a volunteer for the practical experiment. Where is he going to find a woman who wants to look ..read more »
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Teenage Caveman
on DVD
Starring: Robert Vaughn
Director: Roger Corman
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The inquisitive son of a tribe leader wants to explore more of the world than the tribal rituals and the territory that surrounds him. But will the cost be to high for the tribes unity and safety? And is he risking all to the ferocious jaws of the beast that lives beyond the mountains?
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Roger Corman facts
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...The first of Roger Corman's adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe stories stars Vincent Price as the head of the Usher house; Roderick Usher. Roderick Usher believes that there is...
