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Katzman worked as an assistant to Norman Taurog and got married on the set of The Diplomats in 1928 at Fox. In October 1927 he signed with comic Joe Russo to make a series of two-reel comedies. Screencraft Pictures. Katzman was a production supervisor at Showmen's Pictures in the early 1930s, and Screencraft Productions in July 1935.
Katzman would hang around with his cane and beat the floor when things weren’t going well. Maybe sometimes he’d even try to beat you! (Laughs) (On the East Side Kids pictures) Sam and (series lead) Leo Gorcey couldn’t get along, so Leo and his agent, Jan Grippo, made a deal together and started producing the pictures themselves.
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Language. English. Angel, Angel, Down We Go, also known as Cult of the Damned, is a 1969 American film directed by playwright and screenwriter Robert Thom, his sole directorial credit. Thom based his screenplay on an unproduced stage play of the same title that he had written several years earlier as a vehicle for his wife, actress Janice Rule.
Sam Katzman. Producer: Amateur Crook. New York-born Sam Katzman entered the film industry as a prop boy at age 13, and worked his way up the ladder, learning virtually every facet of film production before becoming a producer himself. Starting out producing action/adventure serials (where he got the nickname "Jungle Sam"), Katzman's output encompassed virtually every genre imaginable. In the ...
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Producer: Amateur Crook. New York-born Sam Katzman entered the film industry as a prop boy at age 13, and worked his way up the ladder, learning virtually every facet of film production before becoming a producer himself. Starting out producing action/adventure serials (where he got the nickname "Jungle Sam"), Katzman's output encompassed ...
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Dec 9, 2015 · There in the ’50s he produced a lot of rock’n’roll movies, including Rock Around the Clock (1956), directed by Fred F. Sears, whose next feature (also produced by Katzman) was Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), the best of the early Ray Harryhausen science fiction movies. Two of the movies in the Icons set were also directed by Sears.
Sam Katzman is known as an Producer, Executive Producer, Director, Production Manager, Second Unit Director, Production Supervisor, and Writer. Some of his work includes Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, It Came from Beneath the Sea, The Giant Claw, The Corpse Vanishes, The Werewolf, Invisible Ghost, Voodoo Man, and The Ape Man.
