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House of Usher (1960) became the first of eight films directed by Corman that were adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and which collectively came to be known as the "Poe Cycle". [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In 1964, Corman became the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque française , [ 7 ] as well as in the British Film ...
It is the fourth in the so-called Corman-Poe cycle of eight films, largely featuring adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories and directed by Corman for AIP. The film was released in 1962 as a double feature with Panic in Year Zero! .
House of Usher (also known as The Fall of the House of Usher) is a 1960 American gothic horror film directed by Roger Corman and written by Richard Matheson from the 1839 short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe.
It was a homecoming of sorts for Corman, who was born in 1926 in Detroit and grew up near 6 Mile. As he told the Free Press in 2015 , his father was a civil engineer who met Henry Ford and ...
Roger Corman, the prolific director of B-movies who gave many prominent filmmakers their start, has died. He was 98. ... Perhaps his best known work was 1960's "The Little Shop of Horrors," a cult ...
The essential films of Roger Corman, who launched the careers of Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Sylvester Stallone and many more.
In 1963, Corman initiated a series of films based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The most notable was “The Raven,” which teamed Nicholson with veteran horror stars Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone. Directed by Corman on a rare three-week schedule, the horror spoof won good reviews, a rarity for his films.
The Haunted Dream (circa 1961) - a biopic of Edgar Allan Poe [8] I Flew a Spy Plane Over Russia (early 1960s) - based on the Francis Gary Powers incident with a script written by Robert Towne that Corman claims was not finished in time [9] a biopic on Robert E. Lee for United Artists (early 1960s) [10]