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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Page 284 - To the self-same spot ; And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. But see, amid the mimic rout A crawling shape intrude : A blood-red thing that writhes from out The scenic solitude ! It writhes — it writhes ! with mortal pangs The mimes become its food, And seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued. Out — out are the lights — out all...
Page 18 - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Land of the Giants; amidst these assignments he also penned the horror classic Curse of the Demon, based on Montague James' short story Casting the Runes.
Page 273 - ... a delight to hear him interpreting the degree of affection implied in a wife's reference to her husband as " my dear little black piggie." No man was more apt in discussing the psychology of sex. In one case he showed, by a wealth of refined analysis and historical allusion, how, while it was quite possible for a man to be in love with two women at the same time...
Page 96 - Artists, 1949) Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (Universal, 1949) Trapped (Eagle-Lion, 1949) Colt .45 (Thundercloud) (Warner Bros., 1950) Rocketship XM (Lippert, 1950) The White Tower (RKO, 1950) The Sound of Fury (Try and Get Me) (United Artists, 1950) Little Big Horn (Lippert, 1951) Three Steps North (United Artists, 1951) The Whistle at Eaton Falls (Columbia, 1951) High Noon (United Artists, 1952) Plymouth Adventure (MGM, 1952) Last of the Comanches (Columbia, 1952) The Tall Texan (Lippert, 1953) City...
Page 275 - The Human Comedy (MGM, 1943) Girl Crazy (MGM, 1943) Thousands Cheer (MGM, 1943...

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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