How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood

ISBN: 0306808749

Author: Corman, .

Condition: Used

In these pages Roger Corman, the most successful independent filmmaker in Hollywood relates his experiences as the director and/or producer of such low-budget classics Attack of the Crab Monsters, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Raven, The Man with the X-ray Eyes, The Wild Angels, The Trip, Night Call Nurses, Bloody Mama, Piranha, and many others. He also discusses his distribution of the Bergman, Fellini, and Truffaut movies that later won Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category. Corman alumniJohn Sayles, Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, Vincent Price, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Fonda, Joe Dante, and Jonathan Demme, among otherscontribute their recollections to give added perspective to Corman's often hilarious, always informative autobiography.

• Roger Corman, undisputed King of Hollywood B movies, self portrait | What made Roger Corman successful, instructive and entertaining | Riotous tales of the world of Hollywood | Some of today's contemporary actors got their break in Roger Corman B movies | Film history in tasty detail