CineSavant Column

Saturday May 18, 2024

 

Hello!

At his DVD Classics Corner on the Air podcast page, Dick Dinman’s new show is titled Warner Archive Westerns.

‘Dick Dinman and George Feltenstein Go West’ is the sub-heading for their discussion of the 2 versions of Three Godfathers (John Wayne or Chester Morris) and Anthony Mann’s Devil’s Doorway (Robert Taylor). Dick shares with CineSavant a keen desire to promote George’s good work over at the WAC.

 


 

This seemed like a worthwhile little project: there is so much good will out there for the movie producer, filmic artist and brilliant businessman Roger Corman, we thought it would be fun to assemble all of the DVD Savant and CineSavant review links for his films in one compact resource. We were never at a loss to think of something good to say about a Corman picture — those that he directed always rewarded multiple viewings.

Some of these reviews go back twenty-five years. I’ve listed the newest coverage for titles reviewed more than once. A number are reviewed by Charlie Largent. In one way or another, Corman also produced everything he directed. And he partly directed some of the titles he officially or unofficially produced (listed in red). Let’s see what we come up with …

1954
Highway Dragnet   Co-Producer
Monster from the Ocean Floor   Producer

1955
Five Guns West
The Beast with a Million Eyes   Uncredited producer
Day the World Ended

 

 

1957
Attack of the Crab Monsters
Not of this Earth
Teenage Doll
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent

1958
War of the Satellites
The Brain Eaters   Uncredited producer
Teenage Cave Man
Night of the Blood Beast   Uncredited producer

 

 

1959
Beast from Haunted Cave   Uncredited producer
The Wasp Woman
A Bucket of Blood

1960
Ski Troop Attack
House of Usher
Last Woman on Earth
Little Shop of Horrors

 

 

1961
Creature from the Haunted Sea
The Pit and the Pendulum

1962
Battle Beyond the Sun   Uncredited producer
The Premature Burial
The Intruder
Tales of Terror
Tower of London

 

 

1963
The Raven
The Terror
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Dementia 13   Producer
The Haunted Palace

1964
The Masque of the Red Death
The Secret Invasion
The Tomb of Ligeia

 

 

1966
Blood Bath   Uncredited producer
Queen of Blood   Uncredited producer
The Shooting   Uncredited producer
The Wild Angels
Ride in the Whirlwind   Uncredited producer

1967
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
The Trip

 

 

1968
Targets   Uncredited producer

1969
Pit Stop   Uncredited producer

1970
The Dunwich Horror   Producer
Bloody Mama
Gas-S-S-S – Or – It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It

 

 

1971
Lady Frankenstein   Producer
Von Richthofen and Brown

1972
Boxcar Bertha   Producer

1975
Capone   Producer

 

 

1978
Piranha   Producer

1979
The Lady in Red   Uncredited producer

2008
Cyclops   Producer

2010
Sharktopus   Producer

 

Roger Corman movies we wish were available on quality discs:

The Fast and the Furious,  Apache Woman,  Gunslinger,  The Oklahoma Woman,  It Conquered the World,  Not of This Earth,  The Undead,  Rock all Night,  Carnival Rock,  Sorority Girl,  Machine-Gun Kelly,  The Cry-Baby Killer,  I Mobster,  Last Woman on Earth,  Atlas,  The Intruder. So there.

 

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson