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classicfilmfan64 · 4 years ago

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1976. I have heard of this, it was made for next to nothing. It is maybe the ultimate B movie, for drive-ins. This was a different idea, for a film. I own a personally signed picture from B movie character actor, Dick Miller, via mail.

I love the tag line, 'shamelessly loaded with sex and violence' 😂Starring a few familiar B Movie actors. 'Hollywood Boulevard is a 1976 film directed by Allan Arkush and Joe Dante. It is the feature film directorial debut of both directors. This film stars Candice Rialson as an aspiring actress who has just arrived in Los Angeles, and was made as a result of a bet between Jon Davison, and Roger Corman to make the cheapest ever film for New World Pictures.

This was accomplished by extensive use of footage from other New World films. The movie features a number of in-jokes: Paul Bartel plays Eric Von Leppe, the name of the Boris Karloff character in The Terror (1963)

Dick Miller plays Walter Paisley, the name of the character Miller played in A Bucket of Blood (1959).

John Kramer plays Duke Mantee, the name of the Humphrey Bogart character in The Petrified Forest (1936).

Jeffrey Kramer plays Patrick Hobby, the name of the hero of a series of stories by F Scott Fitzgerald (this name was also used as a pseudonym for writer Danny Opatoshu because it was a non-union movie).

Tara Strohmeier plays Jill McBain, the name of the Claudia Cardinale character in Once Upon a Time in the West (1969).

Dick Miller watches himself in a scene from The Terror (1963).

Machete Maidens of Mora Tau is a homage to the film Zombies of Mora Tau (1957).

Cameos from directors Charles B. Griffith, Jonathan Kaplan, Joe Dante, Danny Opatoshu and Lewis Teague; along with Forrest J. Ackerman, editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland; film writers Todd McCarthy and Joseph McBride; and Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet (1956).

Battle Beyond the Sun (1962) – film seen at drive in

The Terror (1963) – film seen at drive in

The Big Bird Cage (1972) – battle sequence

Night of the Cobra Woman (1972) – shot of a cobra

The Hot Box (1972) – battle sequence

Night Call Nurses (1972) – the opening sky diving sequence

Unholy Rollers (1972) – a rollerderby sequence

Savage! (1973) – battle sequence

Caged Heat (1974) – shot of a police car drifting

Big Bad Mama (1974) – a movie stunt performed by Candy

Crazy Mama (1975) – the bank robbery sequence involving the red car at the beginning

Death Race 2000 (1975) – car chase film sequence'

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webbergirl · 4 years ago

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Arnold Spielberg, Father of Steven Spielberg, Dies at 103

Arnold Spielberg, the father of filmmaker Steven Spielberg, died on Tuesday of natural causes, Variety has learned. He was 103.

Steven was with his father on the night of his death, according to a statement, telling him, “You are our hearth. You are our home.” He also said of his father, who was an engineer at General Electric, “When I see a PlayStation, when I look at a cell phone — from the smallest calculator to an iPad — I look at my dad and I say, ‘My dad and a team of geniuses started that.’”

In addition to Steven, he had three daughters, Anne, Nancy and Sue. In a joint statement, Spielberg’s children said their father taught them to “love to research, expand their mind, keep their feet on the ground, but reach for the stars [and] look up.”

“Thank you for my life. I love you, Dad, Daddy, Daddelah. And then so then, and then so then, what happens next…” they told him at his bedside.

Spielberg was born on Feb. 6, 1917, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and soon developed a passion for learning and innovation. At age 6, he turned his family’s attic into a makeshift lab and crafted inventions, inviting his friends over to hold onto the electrodes of a shock machine he made out of wiring batteries together. At age 12, he got his first ham radio, which opened the door to a lifetime of sharing stories with strangers over the airwaves.

The love of storytelling was something he passed on to his children. “He made friends over the radio. He heard from people he never knew existed. He connected with strangers and this affability is something he carried over into real life, often befriending another person in line at Starbucks or the table next to him,” his daughter Sue said.

In December of 1941, Spielberg enlisted as a sergeant in the Army, going on to work as a radio operator and chief communications man for the 490th Bomb Squadron, also known as the “Burma Bridge Busters.”

When Spielberg returned from the war in 1945, he married Leah Posner, who was a talented concert pianist, and Steven was born the following year. Their children grew up in an environment that encouraged both logical reasoning and marching to the beat of their own drums. Spielberg returned to school and received a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati.

Upon graduating in 1949, he got a job at RCA in Camden, New Jersey. He worked on RCA’s first commercial and business computer, the RCA BIZMAC, in the early days of computing. In 1956, he joined General Electric and helped design the GE-200 series of mainframe computers.

Spielberg’s career in electronics also brought him to Electronic Arrays, SDS, Burroughs and IBM, taking him all around the world. He also won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer’s Computer Pioneer Award.

In 2012, Spielberg was recognized by the Shoah Foundation Institute of the University of Southern California for his promotion of humanity through technology, his years of mentorship and his cataloguing and organizing of Holocaust testimonials.

Until his final days, Spielberg would take online classes in everything from thermodynamics to history to astronomy. With his children, he would watch movies, listen to classical music and spend time on his patio overlooking the Pacific Palisades.

Spielberg is preceded in death by his brother, Irvin “Buddy” Spielberg, his wife, Bernice Colner Spielberg, and his first wife, Leah Spielberg Adler. He is survived by his children, film director Steven Spielberg (wife, Kate Capshaw); screenwriter Anne Spielberg (husband, Danny Opatoshu); marketing executive Sue Spielberg (husband Jerry Pasternak); and producer Nancy Spielberg (husband Shimon Katz). He is also survived by 4 stepchildren, 11 grandchildren, 8 great grandchildren, and countless adoring cousins, nieces, and nephews.

Due to the circumstances and safety precautions around the ongoing pandemic, a celebration of life will be held at a later date, tentatively set for fall of 2021 and aligned with the Jewish tradition of unveiling the headstone. The Spielberg family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans or the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America.

computer, the RCA BIZMAC, in the early days of computing. In 1956, he joined General Electric and helped design the GE-200 series of mainframe computers.

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