Before production of the film began, Coppola went to his mentor Roger Corman for advice about shooting in the Philippines, since Corman had filmed several pictures there.

The film was later remade by Roger Corman in 1962, starring Vincent Price as Richard ( Price had played Clarence in the earlier version ).

Fonda had secured funding in the neighborhood of $ 360, 000-( largely based on the fact he knew that was the budget Roger Corman needed to make The Wild Angels ), and the film was released in 1969 to international success.

The film stars Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles and Dick Miller, all of whom had worked for Corman on previous films.

The Little Shop of Horrors was developed when director Roger Corman was given temporary access to sets that had been left standing from A Bucket of Blood.

According to Mel Welles, Corman was not impressed by the box office performance of A Bucket of Blood, and had to be persuaded to direct another comedy.

Griffith states that Corman agreed to make a film about a man-eating plant, after the two had become intoxicated.

The film was partially cast with stock actors that Corman had used in previous films.

It had been rumored that the film's shooting schedule was based on a bet that Corman could not complete a film within that time.

Welles states that Corman " had two camera crews on the set — that's why the picture, from a filmic standpoint, really is not very well done.

At the time of shooting, Jack Nicholson had only appeared in two film roles, and had only worked with Roger Corman once, as the lead in The Cry Baby Killer.

Because Corman did not believe that The Little Shop of Horrors had much financial prospect after its initial theatrical run, he did not bother to copyright it, resulting in the film falling into the public domain.

In 1951, Corman began Origin in response to the failure of a magazine that Creeley had planned.

By this time, Corman had published a number of small books, but his Italian experiences were to provide the materials for his first major work, Sun Rock Man ( 1962 ).

Niedecker had died in 1970, shortly after Corman had visited her.

As he told friends and admirers during the 2003 gathering, Corman had not returned to the Black Hawk Island haunts of Niedecker since that first ( and only ) visit with Niedecker.

In the low-budget Roger Corman film from 1960, known in the United States as House of Usher starring Vincent Price as Roderick Usher, the narrator is Philip Winthrop ( Mark Damon ), who had fallen in love with the sickly Madeline ( Myrna Fahey ) during her brief residence in Boston and become engaged to her, much to Roderick's horror.

Billy's brother-in-law, Isaac Corman, had been briefly captured by the Americans, but was released after he convinced them ( truthfully ) that he was the cousin of American General William Henry Harrison.

At some point, Monte Hellman, who had been directing films for Roger Corman read Wurlitzer's novel Nog and approached him about writing the screenplay for Two-Lane Blacktop.

Roger Corman hired James Cameron as a model maker in his studio, and after the original art director for the film had been fired, Cameron became responsible for the special effects in Battle Beyond the Stars, or, as Cameron later put it, " production design and art direction.

One instance occurred in Clarence, Pennsylvania in May 2012 after the STB granted R. J. Corman Railroad Company permission to reclaim 20 miles of track abandoned by Conrail in 1990, 10 miles which had been converted into the Snow Shoe Rails to Trails.

Their initial recording was a soundtrack for The Trip, a movie about an LSD experience by Peter Fonda, written by Jack Nicholson, and directed by Roger Corman.

The film was enormously popular, earning $ 12 million in rentals during its initial release, and becoming the most popular movie made at New World Pictures under Roger Corman.

The distribution of such films was for Corman to disassociate New World as an exhibitor for exploitation films.

Attack of the Crab Monsters is a 1957 American black-and-white science fiction film, written by Charles B. Griffith and produced and directed by Roger Corman via Los Altos Productions, on contract for distribution by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.

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His first job for Corman was to dub and re-edit a Russian science fiction film Nebo zovyot, which he turned into a sex-and-violence monster movie entitled Battle Beyond the Sun, released in 1962.

Impressed by Coppola's perseverance and dedication, Corman hired him as dialogue director on Tower of London ( 1962 ), sound man for The Young Racers ( 1963 ) and associate producer of The Terror ( 1963 ).

While on location in Ireland for The Young Racers in 1963, Corman, ever alert for an opportunity to produce a decent movie on a shoestring budget, persuaded Coppola to make a low-budget horror movie with funds left over from that movie.

Demme broke into feature film working for exploitation film producer Roger Corman from 1971 to 1976, co-writing and producing Angels Hard as They Come and The Hot Box.

The two struck up a conversation when Corman mentioned he liked a cinema piece Bogdanovich wrote for Esquire.

This came after cutting a deal with Roger Corman, wherein Corman would let Howard direct a film in exchange for Howard starring in Eat My Dust !, with Christopher Norris.

In the 1960s, Karloff appeared in several films for American International Pictures, including The Comedy of Terrors, The Raven, and The Terror, the latter two directed by Roger Corman, and Die, Monster, Die!

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Since that time, the short line was taken over ( and is now owned ) by the Western Ohio division of the R. J. Corman Railroad Group which moved the terminus back to Elgin in May of 2010 with the section between Elgin and Glenmore abandoned and the trackage sold for scrap.

Monthly auditions were held in the U. S until January 1985, and Jane Krakowski, Yasmine Bleeth, Sarah Jessica Parker, Marisa Tomei, Laura Dern, Ally Sheedy, Maddie Corman and Mia Sara all auditioned for the role.

According to Mark Thomas McGee, author of Roger Corman: The Best of the Cheap Acts, each time Katz was called upon to write music for Corman, Katz sold the same score as if it were new music.

" According to Corman, the total budget for the production was $ 30, 000.

His work was also well-known to the Black Mountain poets, especially Robert Creeley and Cid Corman, whose Origin journal and press were to serve as valuable publishing outlets for the older poet.

Corman studied for his Master's degree at the University of Michigan, where he won the Hopwood poetry award, but dropped out when two credits short of completion.

" As Corman indicated in conversation, this name change -- similar to Whitman's assumption of Walt over Walter -- signaled his beginnings as a poet for the common man.

In 1954, Corman won a Fulbright Fellowship grant ( with an endorsement from Marianne Moore ) and moved to France, where he studied for a time at the Sorbonne.