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Bunkum is fast-talking James Nicholson, 50; Ballyhoo is fast-talking Samuel Arkoff, 48. They are the president and chairman of American International Pictures. Since 1954, they have reeled out 130 lowbudget, lowbrow features, grossed about $250 million, and built A.I.P. into the nation's largest independent film company...
...electric bowling alleys, shooting galleries, and soda fountains for teenagers. Passengers on the North German Lloyd's Bremen can take warm, hydrotherapeutic baths in the ship's man-made spa. ("The Lloyd line," says one official, "goes in for good clean fun.") American Export Lines are preparing lowbudget, two-week beachcomber cruises to Caribbean ports on the Atlantic, for which the lines will install barbecue pits for outdoor cookouts. There will also be spear fishing in the swimming pools-with rubber fish...
...young hero, Richie Andrusco, who was discovered by the makers of the film while he was riding on the merry-go-round at Coney Island, undoubtedly has the most heart-stirring child's face to appear on the U.S. screen since Jackie Coogan. Even though this lowbudget, Manhattan-made film never takes full advantage of its wonderful material, The Little Fugitive is one of the funniest pictures ever produced in the U.S. outside of Hollywood...
...Narrow Margin (RKO Radio) is the kind of lowbudget, high-quality movie that the trade calls a "sleeper." This particular sleeper accommodates some colorful passengers on a Chicago-Los Angeles train. A jut-jawed detective (Charles Mc-Graw) is escorting a gangster's sloe-eyed widow (Marie Windsor) to be the key witness in a grand jury crime probe. The detective's problem is to evade a couple of cold-blooded syndicate hoods who have rubbed out the detective's partner and are now bent on murdering the widow...
...Lawless. A lowbudget, high-voltage treatment of mob violence in a small U.S. town; with Macdonald Carey and ail Russell (TIME, July...