Word: corman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene? For the first time since The Wild One (1954), Hollywood has moved in for a closeup of the big barbaric motorcycle gangs of Southern California. Directed by Laslo Benedek, The Wild One was a sociological shocker that in the main effectively described a sick subculture. Directed by Roger Corman, a cut-rate master of the macabre who seems to work better with spiders than he does with actors, The Wild Angels is a sleazily synthetic retread that will probably take a long skid through U.S. grind houses. However, the film may well make a mark in Europe...
Tomb of Ligeia. If Producer-Director Roger Corman had anything on his mind more substantial than cobwebs and curdled blood, he might easily extend to others the excitement he creates among a small but thrill-thirsty band of followers who await each Corman film as though it contained fresh plasma. They seldom have to wait long. At 39, Corman has made more than 70 movies. The best-known are his macabre, shimmering little quickies gleaned from the works of Edgar Allan...
...Washington politics. Last summer he and several law students drew up an "ideal" civil rights bill, which seasoned observers ridiculed as utopian. Last month the bulk of that bill sailed through the House without a hitch. Higgs had picked his allies cannily, cultivating the friendship of Democratic Congressman Corman and Congressmen McCulloch and Lindsay...