Double Feature Creature Attack: A Monster Merger of Two More Volumes of Classic Interviews

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McFarland, Feb 19, 2003 - Performing Arts - 728 pages
This whopping big McFarland Classic brings together 43 interviews with horror and science fiction movie writers, producers, directors and the men and women who saved the planet from aliens, behemoths, robots, zombies, and other sinister, stumbling threats--in the movies, at least. The interviewees reminisce about some of their great (and not so great!) films and tell their stories. This classic volume represents the union of two previous volumes: 1994's Attack of the Monster Movie Makers ("anecdotes are frank and revealing"--Video Watchdog); and 1995's They Fought in the Creature Features ("a fun book for all SF film enthusiasts"--Interzone). Together at last, this combined collection of interviews offers a candid and delightful perspective on the movies that still make audiences howl and squeal (though fear has long been replaced with sweet nostalgia).
 

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Merry Anders
1
Charles Bennett
17
Herman Cohen
45
Val Guest
99
Susan Hart
127
Candace Hilligoss
145
Rose Hobart
157
Betsy JonesMoreland
175
Richard Anderson
25
John Archer
37
Jeanne Bates
51
Billy Benedict
61
Turhan Bey
73
Lloyd Bridges
85
Ricou Browning
97
Robert Cornthwaite
111

Jacques Marquette
195
Cameron Mitchell
209
Ed Nelson
229
William Phipps
249
Vincent Price
267
Ann Robinson
289
Herbert Rudley
309
Harry Spalding
319
Kenneth Tobey
339
Lupita Tovar
357
Index
367
Acknowledgments
Preface
Julie Adams
1
John Agar
13
Louise Currie
131
Richard Denning
145
Anne Francis
161
Mark Goddard
173
June Lockhart
187
Eugene Lourie
201
Jeff Morrow
211
Lori Nelson
221
Rex Reason
233
William Schallert
245
Don Taylor
263
George Wallace
277
Jane Wyatt
289
Index
303
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About the author (2003)

Tom Weaver lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and has been interviewing moviemakers since the early 1980s. The New York Times called him one of the leading scholars in the horror field and USA Today has described him as the king of the monster hunters. Classic Images called him "the best interviewer we have today." He is a frequent contributor to numerous film magazines and has been featured in the prestigious Best American Movie Writing. A frequent DVD audio commentator, he is the author of numerous reference and other nonfiction books about American popular culture.

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