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From: upstill@ucbvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Suburbia/Roger Corman
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Date: Tue, 15-May-84 13:20:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 15 13:20:15 1984
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     Roger Corman is the "King of the B's", an exploitation filmmaker who
started out making drivein fodder (Monster movies, beach-blanket flicks,
Poe adaptations) in the 1950's , and has been on pretty much the same track
ever since.  He stopped directing in 1970 to form New World Pictures, which
he recently sold to some SoCal consortium or other.  He is well-known not
only for flagrant exploitation and doing much (relatively) with nil budgets,
but for giving a number of young filmmakers their start:  Francis Coppola,
Martin Scorcese, Paul ("Eating Raoul") Bartels, Joe ("The Howling", "Gremlins")
Dante, Allan ("Get Crazy") Arkush and many others made their first pictures
with him.
    Besides cheapness and sleaze, Corman made one superb, serious film,
"The Intruder", a 1960's social-consciousness film in which William Shatner
(!?!) plays a racist who comes into a small Southern town to rouse the
rabble against the integration of the local high school.
    The review of Suburbia didn't mention whether Corman had directed or
just produced.  If directed, this is news I'd like to hear.

Steve Upstill