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Ronald Stein
Ronald Stein (April 12, 1930 – August 15, 1988) was an American film composer. At the height of his career in the 1950s and ‘60s, he was best known for scoring B movies produced by American International Pictures and Roger Corman. Biography Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Stein wrote scores for many low budget horror and exploitation films during the 1950s and 1960s, most of which were released by American International Pictures. These included '' It Conquered the World'', '' Attack of the Crab Monsters'', ''Invasion of the Saucer Men'', '' Attack of the 50 Foot Woman'', ''Hot Rod Gang'', ''The Premature Burial'' and '' The Haunted Palace''. He also provided scores for major studio productions such as Francis Ford Coppola's ''The Rain People'', and Richard Rush's '' Getting Straight''. Stein taught composition at California State University, Northridge. Stein also taught composition, arranging, orchestration and theory at thUniversity of Colorado Denverin the mid to lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Composer
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to enhance the dramatic narrative and the emotional impact of the scene in question. Scores are written by one or more composers under the guidance of or in collaboration with the film's director or producer and are then most often performed by an ensemble of musicians – usually including an orchestra (most likely a symphony orchestra) or band, instrumental soloists, and choir or vocalists – known as playback singers – and recorded by a sound engineer. The term is less frequently applied to music written for media such as live theatre, television and radio programs, and video games, and said music is typically referred to as either the soundtrack or incidental music. Film scores encompass an enormous variety of styles of mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Getting Straight
''Getting Straight'' is a 1970 American satirical and romantic comedy-drama motion picture directed by Richard Rush, released by Columbia Pictures. The story centers upon student politics, protest, and relationships during the height of the counterculture era at a US university amid the turbulent times around the late 1960s, seen through the eyes of non-conformist graduate student Harry Bailey (Elliott Gould). Also featured in the cast were Candice Bergen as Bailey's girlfriend, Jeff Corey as Bailey's professor, Robert F. Lyons as his draft-avoiding friend Nick, and Harrison Ford as a fellow teaching student and his girlfriend's neighbor. ''Getting Straight'' was released during an era of change and unrest in the United States in the late 1960s and early '70s, and was in a long line of films that dealt with these themes. Other films of this period with similar themes were '' Medium Cool'' (1969), '' R. P. M.'' (1970), and '' The Strawberry Statement'' (1970). Plot Harry Bail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Oklahoma Woman
''The Oklahoma Woman'' is a 1956 American Western film directed by Roger Corman. Plot The film involves the return of Steve Ward, a former gunslinger recently released from federal prison, to his hometown to claim a ranch he has inherited. Upon his return, he finds that his hometown is divided along political lines with a group of powerful businessmen on one side and homeowners on the other. Much to his embarrassment, Steve finds that his former girlfriend, Marie "Oklahoma" Saunders, is aligned with the businessmen who are seeking even more power by placing their candidate in the senate. Aiding them is hired gunman Tom Blake. The homeowners are led by Ed Grant whose daughter, Susan, becomes the object of Steve's attention. Meanwhile, Oklahoma, who still has strong feelings for Steve, rejects Tom's advances. Believing that Steve is keeping him from winning Oklahoma, Tom kills Ed Grant and with the help of Oklahoma, who is jealous of Steve's attention to Susan, frames Steve for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunslinger (film)
''Gunslinger'' is a 1956 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Roger Corman and starring John Ireland (actor), John Ireland, Beverly Garland and Allison Hayes. The screenplay was written by Mark Hanna (screenwriter), Mark Hanna and Charles B. Griffith. The film began production in February 1956, as director Corman wanted to shoot one final film in six days before a change in union contracts meant that actors were limited to working only five days a week. Filming of ''Gunslinger'' was marred by several inconveniences; rain caused the filming location to become muddy, and the two lead actresses were both injured on set. Eventually, ''Gunslinger'' was released to mixed reviews, and, in 1993, was featured in a fifth-season episode of the film-mocking comedy television series ''Mystery Science Theater 3000.'' Plot After her husband Scott, the town marshal of Oracle, Texas, is killed by two assailants, Rose Hood shoots one of men and is named temporary marshal until the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Day The World Ended
''Day the World Ended'' is a 1955 American independently made black-and-white post-apocalyptic science fiction film, produced and directed by Roger Corman, that stars Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, Paul Birch and Mike Connors. Chet Huntley of NBC, later of ''The Huntley-Brinkley Report'', served as the film's narrator. It was released by American Releasing Corporation (later American International Pictures) as a double feature with ''The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues''. The film's story centers on a heroic scientist who, with a small band of other survivors, faces off against a radioactive mutation following an atomic war that appears to have destroyed most of human civilization. Plot An atomic war has seemingly destroyed most of human civilization, leaving the Earth contaminated with radioactive fallout. One exception is an isolated box canyon, surrounded by lead-bearing cliffs, in which former U.S. Navy Commander Jim Maddison lives with his daughter Louise in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues
''The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues'' is a 1955 independent film, independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, science-fiction monster film produced by Jack Milner and Dan Milner (who also directed), that stars Kent Taylor and Cathy Downs. The film's December release was as a double feature with ''Day the World Ended'', American Releasing Corporation's first dual venture. ARC thereafter changed its name, becoming American International Pictures. Plot A mysterious, man-sized reptilian monster kills a fisherman at sea. Biologist Ted Baxter (Kent Taylor) and Federal Agent William Grant (Rodney Bell) discover the man's body, washed up on the beach and covered with radiation burns. They decide to investigate the strange death. After two young divers are killed by the monster, Ted and Grant decide to dive in the same location and investigate the area. They discover a glowing radioactive rock and are attacked by the monster, who is guarding it. Grant shoots it with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apache Woman (1955 Film)
''Apache Woman'' is a 1955 American Western directed by Roger Corman and starring Lloyd Bridges. It was Corman's second film as director, following '' Five Guns West''. It was one of four Westerns he made for American International Pictures, the other being '' Five Guns West'', '' The Oklahoma Woman'' (1955) and ''Gunslinger'' (1956). Corman says ''Apache Woman'' and ''Oklahoma Woman'' were from ideas by AIP whereas the others were his ideas. This was the first film from Golden State Productions, a company headed by Alex Gordon.Gary A. Smith, ''The American International Pictures Video Guide'', McFarland 2009 p 14 Plot The Apaches are being rebellious and government agent Rex Moffett is called in to get to the bottom of who is behind it. Possible suspects include half-Apache Anne Libeau and her brother Armand Libeau. Cast * Lloyd Bridges as Rex Moffett * Joan Taylor as Anne LeBeau * Lance Fuller as Armand LeBeau * Morgan Jones as Macy * Paul Birch as Sheriff * Lou Place as Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer arises when cell (biology), cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a Neoplasm, mass. These cancerous cells have the malignant, ability to invade other parts of the body. A number of types of pancreatic cancer are known. The most common, pancreatic adenocarcinoma, accounts for about 90% of cases, and the term "pancreatic cancer" is sometimes used to refer only to that type. These adenocarcinomas start within the part of the pancreas that makes digestive enzymes. Several other types of cancer, which collectively represent the majority of the non-adenocarcinomas, can also arise from these cells. About 1–2% of cases of pancreatic cancer are neuroendocrine tumors, which arise from the hormone-producing neuroendocrine cell, cells of the pancreas. These are generally less aggressive than pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Signs and symptoms of the most-common form of pancreatic cancer may include jaundice, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington University In St
Washington most commonly refers to: * George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States * Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C. Washington may also refer to: Places England * Washington Old Hall, ancestral home of the family of George Washington * Washington, Tyne and Wear, a town in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough * Washington, West Sussex, a village and civil parish Greenland * Cape Washington, Greenland * Washington Land Philippines *New Washington, Aklan, a municipality *Washington, a barangay in Catarman, Northern Samar *Washington, a barangay in Escalante, Negros Occidental *Washington, a barangay in San Jacinto, Masbate *Washington, a barangay in Surigao City United States * Fort Washington (disambiguati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Of Love And Desire
''Of Love and Desire'' is a 1963 film directed by Richard Rush and starring Merle Oberon, Steve Cochran and Curd Jürgens. Plot American engineer Steve Corey moves to Mexico to work at one of the mining projects owned by Katherine Beckman and her half-brother Paul. He finally is introduced to Katherine, and the man that he is taking over for, Bill Maxton, informs him that Katherine is his for the taking: "All you have to do is touch her—she goes off like fireworks. There were plenty of guys before me, and there'll be plenty after me." Steve thinks that Katherine is what he expected but ends up developing a crush on her. As their relationship develops, Paul gets upset and reintroduces her ex-boyfriend Gus Cole to her to lure her away from Steve. Half-siblings Katherine and Paul are carrying some emotional damage from the past which they need to work out. Cast Critical reception From online reviewer website ''Cool Cinema Trash'': Soundtrack References External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Not Of This Earth (1957 Film)
''Not of This Earth'' is an independently made 1957 American black-and-white science fiction film produced and directed by Roger Corman (for his Los Altos Productions), that stars Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones, William Roerick, and Anna Lee Carroll. The film was written by Charles B. Griffith and Mark Hanna and was distributed by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation as a double feature with '' Attack of the Crab Monsters''. Its theatrical release had a running time of 67 minutes, that was expanded to 70 minutes in 1962 for TV syndication. The storyline concerns the attempts by an extraterrestrial humanoid to surreptitiously secure the blood of humans and to test it on himself as a treatment for a fatal blood disorder which is ravaging the population of his home planet, Davanna. Plot A man who is "not of this Earth" has adopted the name "Mr. Johnson" for moving among the populace of Los Angeles. Johnson is from the planet Davanna, where the inhabitants have deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
