Word: zugsmith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these gentle frauds are in town this week. The cheaper is Arthur Dreifuss's The Young Runaways, produced by Sam Katzman, a second-rate Albert Zugsmith whose films are usually acted by racing cars. Inadvertantly, Runaways does more toward creating a semi-mythic subculture than Alice B. Toklas, in its strict adherence to the plot premise: everybody in The Young Runaways has runaways on their mind. It is as if Chicago, the film's location, were a vast playground given over to hide-and-seek...
...lack of inhibitions has made possible other excellent pictures (Elmer Gantry, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), and some that are at least artistically ambitious (Shadows, The Savage Eye). But these are the exceptions. At the other end of the scale are such lurid Z pictures as Albert Zugsmith's The Beat Generation, and Sexpot Goes to College. The point is that these are no longer drastically different from many quality productions...
...Writer Rod Serling recalls: "Zugsmith called me into his office once and told me that he wanted me to help him bring M-G-M back to the top of the heap with quality pictures. Then he gave me my first assignment. It was something called Rape, Baby." Local Off-Color. Working in much the same vein is Jerry Wald, who recently announced that Peyton Place was going to be a grandfather. So successful was P.P.'s first sequel, Return to Peyton Place, that it will have a sequel of its own, Peyton Place Revisited. Like its predecessors...
...Angeles County Courthouse at times seemed like a Hollywood set. Recruited to provide reportorial bylines and sidelights on the murder trial of Dr. R. Bernard Finch and his well-molded mistress, Carole Tregoff, both accused of slaying Finch's wife, were portly Producer Al (High School Confidential) Zugsmith, Novelist-Scenarist Irving (I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf) Shulman, Actresses Pamela (The Upturned Glass) Mason and Terry (Mighty Joe Young) Moore. Explained Terry Moore: "I'm doing it in preparation for a role in Girl on Death Row-and by the way, the girl is innocent." Against such amateurs...