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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. Starting out producing action/adventure serials (where he got the nickname "Jungle Sam"), Katzman's output encompassed virtually every genre imaginable. In the ...
- July 7, 1901
- August 4, 1973
- 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.
Oct 28, 2021 · Bissette's presentation, Sam Katzman: Before and Beyond the Cold War Creatures is akin to a convention panel or powerpoint presentation, and finds the historian sharing tons of lobby cards, production photos, poster images, and behind-the-scenes photographs as he navigates the fascinating and fruitful career of Katzman as a producer, covering ...
Jan 13, 2022 · Arrow’s Cold War Creatures limited edition box set unleashes four Sam Katzman movies that perfectly summarise all that’s great about b movie entertainment onto boutique collectors. Katzman, a producer / director with an eye for the absurd, churned out so many schlock masterpieces that Arrow could release 23 box sets and still not scratch the surface of his output.
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Sep 11, 2021 · Cold War Creatures – Four Films From Sam Katzman (Part One) Yes, sometimes a producer could earn ‘auteur’ status making B pictures. A name that’s never going to be uttered in the same breath as Val Lewton is Sam Katzman, who for the 1950s settled into a profitable tenure making Columbia program pictures. They pretty much stayed in the ...
