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May 12, 2024 · He sold his first script, The House in the Sea, in 1953 and it was filmed as Highway Dragnet the following year with Corman being credited as co-producer.
May 14, 2024 · Disappointed with "Highway Dragnet," Corman would eventually make his own movie from start to finish his way, raising $10,000 and borrowing a one-man...
May 12, 2024 · The script became “Highway Dragnet,” a low-budget 1954 crime picture starring Richard Conte and Joan Bennett.
2 days ago · A screenwriter in his spare time, Corman sold the script that would become Highway Dragnet, and used the money to finance his first feature as a producer. Monster From the Ocean Floor put Corman on the map as an independent producer, and this trend continued with 1955’s The Fast and the Furious.
May 12, 2024 · Corman’s boss at the literary agency sold the story to a small studio called Allied Artists for $4,000, and it was produced under the name “Highway Dragnet” (1954).
May 14, 2024 · In 1954, he wrote and sold his first screenplay, Highway Dragnet, and used the money to produce his first feature, Monster from the Ocean Floor. He plowed his earnings into The Fast and the Furious, the first film to be distributed by Sam Arkoff and James H. Nicholson’s newly founded American Releasing Corporation, which later became American ...
May 10, 2024 · In 1932, Frank Wiecek (Richard Conte) is convicted of the murder of a Chicago policeman in a mob-connected speakeasy. Eleven years later, his mother, Tillie (Kasia Orzazewski), takes out a newspaper classified ad asking for information about the crime.
