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Sam Katzman (July 7, 1901 – August 4, 1973) was an American film producer and director. Katzman's specialty was producing low-budget genre films, including serials, which had disproportionately high returns for the studios and his financial backers.
Sam Katzman. Producer: Amateur Crook. New York-born Sam Katzman entered the film industry as a prop boy at age 13, and worked his way up the ladder, learning virtually every facet of film production before becoming a producer himself.
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Sam Katzman. Producer: Amateur Crook. New York-born Sam Katzman entered the film industry as a prop boy at age 13, and worked his way up the ladder, learning virtually every facet of film production before becoming a producer himself.
- July 7, 1901
- August 4, 1973
Oct 28, 2021 · Arrow Video's new Blu-ray box set Cold War Creatures: Four Films from Sam Katzman perfectly embodies this, and the films included run the gamut in terms of quality. On one end of the spectrum is the exceptional 1956 noir-esque The Werewolf , brimming with tension, tragedy, and pathos.
- CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN. RUNNING TIME: 69 mins. Gangster Jim Hennesy and District Attorney McGraw are brutally murdered by a super-strong man who’s impervious to bullets, before returning to his controllers, crime lord Frank Buchanan and scientist Wilhelm Steigg.
- THE WEREWOLF [1956] RUNNING TIME: 80 mins. In Mountaincrest, a stranger who’s lost his memory has a drink in a bar then turns into a wolf to kill local thug Joe Mitchell who tried to rob him as well as wounding Deputy Ben Clovey.
- ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU [1957] RUNNING TIME: 69 mins. Jan Peters returns to the home of her grandmother on the African island of Mora Tau. At the same time, a salvage expedition led by tycoon George Harrison, his wife, Mona, and deep-sea diver Jeff Clark arrives to recover a cache of diamonds that was sunken offshore aboard the Susan B sixty years ago.
- THE GIANT CLAW [1957] RUNNING TIME: 70 mins. Civil aeronautical engineer Mitch MacAfee, while engaged in a radar test flight near the North Pole, spots an unidentified flying object.
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The legendary “Jungle Sam” Katzman died August 4, 1973, at 72. At the end of Ch. 12 of “Hop Harrigan”, young Buzz Henry, flying out of a deep canyon, hits the edge of the mountain with the plane’s wings and dramatically cartwheels the plane!
