Katzman, Nicholson and Corman - Shaping Hollywood’s Future (hardback)

This is the HARDBACK version. Mark McGee, the author of You Won’t Believe Your Eyes! once again takesthe reader back to the 1950s, this time to explore the careers of threepioneers in bargain basement entertainment -Sam Katzman, JamesNicholson and Roger Corman, the first filmmakers to recognize thatthe kids were the ones who bought most of the movie tickets. Whilethe major studios continued to lose money every year on films thatwere aimed at an audience that was home watching television, Katzman,Nicholson and Corman were making movies that appealed to the youngpeople. Rock and roll movies. Juvenile delinquent dramas. Science fictionand horror thrillers. They were hated by the critics and chastisedby the guardians of public morality. But the exhibitors loved them. Theycounted on these three guys to keep them in the black, which they didfor almost twenty years. It took the studios decades to finally get wise tothemselves and now they’re flooding the market with mega buck versionsof the kinds of movies Katzman, Nicholson and Corman made for $1.98.A lot of these films were junk. Some of them were treasures. You be thejudge which was which.