Word: zugsmith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Racing to get their horror pictures to moviegoers, two producers ran head on into title trouble last week. The opponents: Albert Zugsmith, producer of a forthcoming work called The Great Green Og, and Ivan Tors, producer...
After a bloodcurdling production conference. Producer Zugsmith, green with rage, announced: "I registered my title long before Tors got it into his head. We have priority. Tors was planning a picture called Space Station, U.S.A., and he shot it. After he finished it he started to register a new title, Gog. Naturally, I protested the similarity between Og and Gog. We're trying to be friendly enemies about this thing. I even went to a party with Tors the other night. But my feeling is, if he comes out first with Gog, that ruins our title...
This week in Manhattan, a Motion Picture Association committee was busily trying to unsnarl the whole gog-awful mess. If they fail, according to one Hollywoodian, there are only two courses open. Zugsmith and Tors will be forced to 1) join forces and shoot Og Meets Gog, or 2) forget the monsters altogether, since shooting may be too good for them...
...Great Green Og (Independent, 3-D), says Producer Albert Zugsmith, is a "science-fiction fantasy that takes place on the planet Aphrodite, a fictional planet. The Og is something not quite human, like a Hollywood agent or a movie reviewer. He's twice the size of a man. He has green blood...
Invasion, U.S.A. (Albert Zugsmith-Robert Smith; Columbia) is a shoddy little shocker that combines a futuristic theme with old-hat moviemaking. A quintet of characters in a Manhattan bar hears the news that the U.S.S.R. is atom-bombing the United States. In the ensuing carnage, the quintet-a tractor manufacturer (Robert Bice), a rancher (Erik Blythe), a Congressman (Wade Crosby) a TV reporter (Gerald Mohr) and a beautiful blonde (Peggie Castle)-are killed...