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15 unusual facts about B movie


Arthur H. Vinal

Globe Theater (burlesque and later B movie house), later known as the Center and the Pagoda, 690 Washington Street, Boston (1903, French Renaissance)

Bug Buster

Despite having a reputation as being a poorly made film, it has nonetheless has achieved small B movie cult status.

Emil Newman

Between 1950 and 1965, Newman was the composer on 23 films, most of which were lower-budget B movies.

Emilio Miraglia

He began working in film as a director's assistant and technician, and worked on many B movies, where he developed his technique.

Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage

"Borrows a heap of corniness from the B movie Westerns and mixes a few pieces of horror in this hilarious, rip snortin' and effusively bloody play." - Playbill.com.

Jalal Merhi

He has produced and acted in numerous action films that can be considered martial arts B movies.

Kenne Duncan

Kenne Duncan (February 17, 1903 – February 5, 1972) was a Canadian-born B-movie character actor.

Mohan Bhakri

Mohan Bhakri was a popular B movie producer and director in the 1980s.

Panna Rittikrai

Before Ong-Bak, Panna had toiled for decades as an actor, stuntman, and director of B movie action flicks in Thailand.

Richard E. Cunha

Cunha wrote and directed only a handful of films, with his four best-known ones all being low-budget, sci fi-horror B-movies released in 1958 by Astor Pictures -- Giant from the Unknown, She Demons, Missile to the Moon, and Frankenstein's Daughter.

Shakeela

Her popular B-Grade films were dubbed and released in almost all Indian languages.

Shakeela (born 19 November 1973) is an Indian actress who has appeared mostly in softcore and B movies.

Shutter Island

Lehane has said he sought to write a novel that would be an homage to Gothic settings, B movies, and pulp.

Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama

Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (also known as The Imp) is a 1988 sci-fi/horror B movie directed by David DeCoteau, loosely-based on the classic short story The Monkey's Paw.

USA Up All Night

The movies aired ranged from cult classics, to B movies, to other fare not appearing on television frequently.


Apology for Murder

Much acclaimed B movie director Edgar G. Ulmer, who was working at PRC at the time Apology for Murder was made, claimed during an interview in 1970 that he wrote the original Single Indemnity script for producer Sigmund Neufeld.

Harvey B. Dunn

Dunn was best known for his appearances in several 1950s B movies including three Ed Wood films, Bride of the Monster (1955), Night of the Ghouls (1959), and The Sinister Urge (1961).

Midlife crisis

Similarly, The Kinks' songs, "Shangri-La" and "Clichés of the World (B Movie)", also appear to describe someone going through a midlife crisis.

Never Too Young to Die

Never Too Young To Die is a 1986 B movie, starring John Stamos as Lance Stargrove, a young man who, with the help of secret-agent Danja Deering (Vanity a.k.a. Denise Matthews) must avenge the death of his secret-agent father (George Lazenby) at the hands of the evil hermaphrodite Velvet Von Ragner (Gene Simmons).

Tommy Noonan

Noonan appeared in a few B movies including Promises! Promises! (1963) with Jayne Mansfield and Three Nuts in Search of a Bolt (1964) with Mamie Van Doren, which he also directed, wrote and produced.