Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks: Conversations with 24 Actors, Writers, Producers, and Directors from the Golden Age
- ISBN-10
- 0786405643
- ISBN-13
- 9780786405640
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Pages
- 351
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Author
- Tom Weaver
Description
As a 12-year-old, Richard Eyer costarred with Robby the Robot. In Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Paul Mantees costar was a monkey named Barney who received billing as "Mona, the Woolly Monkey." Actress Randy Stuart played the wife of The Incredible Shrinking Man. Alan Caillou wrote the original pilot outline for televisions The Six Million Dollar Man. Asked to look over the final script six months later, he noticed that exactly one of his lines was being used (and that out of context) and that 27 writers were being given writing credit! Tom Weaver--author of Attack of the Monster Movie Makers, Science Fiction Stars and Horror Heroes, They Fought in the Creature Features, and Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers--returns with a new collection of interviews that go behind the scenes of Golden Age science fiction, horror and fantasy filmmaking. Among the interviewed are Casey Adams, John Badham, Antony Carbone, Robert Clarke, Sidney Hayers, Lewis Allen, Gene Evans, Alex Gordon, Jackie Joseph, Ken Miller, John Moxey, Arthur Ross, Ariann Ulmer, Debra Paget and Edward Dmytryk.
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