How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood by Roger Corman

All but Premature Burial starred Vincent Price. These claims are disputed by others who worked on the film, who have called it part of Corman's own myth-building.Ĭorman is probably best known for his filmings of various Edgar Allan Poe stories at American International Pictures, mostly in collaboration with Richard Matheson as screenplay writer including House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Premature Burial (1962), Tales of Terror (1962) The Raven (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), and The Tomb of Ligeia (1964). Another version of the story claims that he had a set rented for a month, and finished using it with three days to spare, thus pushing him to use the set to make a new film. Supposedly, he had made a bet that he could shoot an entire feature film in less than three days. His fastest film was perhaps The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), which was reputedly shot in two days and one night. Until his so-called 'retirement' as a director in 1971 (he continued to produce films even after this date) he would produce up to seven movies a year. He began his career in 1953 as a producer and screenwriter, and began directing in 1955.

He received an Industrial engineering degree from Stanford University. Corman was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Anne and William Corman, an engineer.

How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood by Roger Corman