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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...
...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...
...shot a full-length feature (Son of the Renegade) in 5½ days for $18,200; Boris Petroff, who buys up stock shots (i.e., background film), then fills in the stories with inexpensive actors; Herman Cohen, who frankly makes cheapies for the No. 2 spot on double bills; Albert Zugsmith, who arrived in Hollywood two years ago to make TV films, now has four cheapies ready for theater release; William F. Broidy, who put out such pictures as Steel Fist and Sea Tiger for less than $100,000 apiece; Writer Arch Oboler, who has just finished The Twonky, a fantasy...