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Director: Monte Hellman
Stars: Frank Wolff, Sheila Noonan, Michael Forest
Writer: Charles B. Griffith
After pulling off a gold heist, the thieves flee into the snowy wilderness only to be pursued by a horrible, spider-like monster.
Maverick filmmaker Monte Hellman is best remembered for a pair of existential, anti-westerns starring Jack Nicholson, and his rubber burning-road movie “Two-Lane Blacktop,” with singer-songwriter James Taylor and Beach Boy Dennis Wilson. This 1959 Roger Corman Filmgroup release is his directorial debut, which Hellman later described as “Key Largo” with a monster.
Movie Class by PizzaFLIX: Legendary cult filmmaker Roger Corman has directed over 50 films and produced nearly 400 more. In the process, he helped launch the careers of Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Charles Bronson, Sylvester Stallone, Monte Hellman, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Robert Towne, Peter Bogdanovich, and James Cameron!
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Just love the clean crisp black and white photography. Absolutely stunning. A plain nice white winter picture. A solid piece of work. Splendid. 😮
Thanks for sharing. Setting this fillm in the SD mountains at a ski area was brilliant as it leads to making it more mysterious and isolate.
This movie is unique and unironically well made indie heist drama monster film
Another Roger Corman film never lets u down ,the very first RC film I saw was the 1970’s late night horror shows on TV Attack Giant Leaches and The Killer Shrews scared the crap out of me. Then it was the mid 1990’s I became acquainted w more of his films through Gem Video’s adding them to my home video collection.
PROGRAM NOTE: The music score for this Roger Corman classic was provided by no less that Hungarian composer, pianist and color-piano theorist/designer Sándor László.
This was directed by Monte Hellman, not Corman, right?
Yes. Released by The Film Group, Roger Corman’s distribution company and produced by Gene Corman.
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Thank you so much !! Love it love it !!