How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood And Never Lost A Dime (1990) by Roger Corman.pdf

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How
I
Made
a
Hundred
Movies
in
Hollywood
and
Never
tosf
a
Dime
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"Amazing...
a
significant
contribution
to
the
history
of
American
movies."
—Publishers
Weekly
What
do
Martin
Scorsese,
Peter
Fonda,
in
Francis
Ford
Coppola,
Jonathan
and
Jack
Nicholson
have
They,
along
with
so
Demme,
common?
many
other
Holly-
wood
stars,
had
their
starts
with
Roger
Corman,
one
of
the
film
world's
most
suc-
cessful
directors
and
entrepreneurs.
Though
he
graduated
from
Stanford
with
a
degree
in
engineering,
Roger
Cor-
man
long
knew
he
wanted
to
be
in
pic-
tures.
And
with
such
memorable
titles
as
The
Little
Shop
of
Horrors,
Attack
of
the
Crab
Monsters,
Viking
Women,
and
The
Beast
with
1,
000,
000
Eyes,
Corman
carved
a
special
niche
for
himself
in
the
history
of
Hollywood
cinema.
How
I
Made
a
Hundred
Movies
in
Holly-
wood
and
Never
Lost
a
Dime
details
Cor-
man's
rise
from
Twentieth
Century-Fox
messenger
to
antistudio
maverick
and
leading
producer
of
low-budget
"exploita-
tion"
films.
His
success
began
in
the
early
1950s
film,
when
he
produced
his
first
The
Monster
from
the
Ocean
Floor,
for
$12,000.
Like
so
many
of
his
other
movies
that
followed,
he
shot
it
in
under
a
week,
got
excellent
production
values
for
the
money,
and
profit.
still
earned
a
substantial
The
trick:
ruthless
efficiency,
propriety-be-damned
resourcefulness,
a
sense
of
humor,
and
the
best
young
(and
hungriest)
talent
Hollywood
could
offer.
A
specific
Corman
style
emerged,
making
him
the
darling
graduates,
foreign
critics,
of
film
school
and
American
audiences
just
out
for
a
good
time.
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continued
on
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