Word: distributors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WICKED, WICKED is a shopsoiled piece of Guignol tricked up with a split-screen technique the distributor has christened Duo-Vision. The film is as unimaginative as that label. Since there are two separate images on the same screen, the ads promise, "Twice the tension! Twice the terror!" A little elementary multiplication furnishes the melancholy reminder that twice zero is still nothing. Two images only reinforce the suspicion that Writer-Director Richard L. Bare had difficulty filling even one screen, and had to resort to all sorts of scraps off the cutting-room floor. While a maladjusted youth (Randolph Roberts...
...film he had wanted to do for a long time, not a piece of commercial hackwork. The film appears under the American International Pictures label, and though that company is known mainly for its slick promotion of cheap sex, De Palma insists that the choice of a distributor was a business decision unrelated to his artistic intentions...
Sisters is being promoted as a routine shocker of the kind that has made its distributor, American-International, rich and infamous. But it is something more-and more interesting-than that. It is a homage by a gifted, if erratic, young director, Brian de Palma (Hi Mom, Greetings), to one of cinema's genuine masters, Alfred Hitchcock...
Benfield first heard of the pedal car from a magazine in November. By December she owned the first pedal car in New England, according to David H. Leigh, marketing director of People Peddlers Inc., the New England distributor of the pedal...
Larry Miller '73, former director of the Quincy Cinema Guild, maintains that the distributors are aware of the violations, but don't care. "Dan Kelley of Swank [another distributor] knows everybody does it," he says...