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Samuel Z. Arkoff, the low-budget movie mogul who enticed two generations of teenagers into drive-in theaters with movies like I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Wild in the Streets, died on Sunday in Burbank, Calif.
Samuel Z. Arkoff, the low-budget movie mogul who enticed two generations of teenagers into drive-in theaters with movies like ''I Was a Teenage Werewolf'' and ''Wild in the...
Samuel Z. Arkoff. Producer: Dressed to Kill. By the early 1950s, future movie mogul Samuel Z. Arkoff was a brash 30-ish lawyer scratching out a living by representing his in-laws and the Hollywood fringe, which included many of now infamous director/angora-clad transvestite Edward D. Wood Jr.'s social circle.
Sep 18, 2001 · Samuel Z. Arkoff, who in some ways invented modern Hollywood, died Sunday of natural causes in a Burbank hospital. The co-founder of American-International Pictures and the godfather of the beach party and teenage werewolf movies was 83.
The American film producer Samuel Z. Arkoff (1918–2001) was long the primary creator of “B movies,” low-budget films that are rapidly created, with little attention directed to their production values or script. One of Arkoff's most famous titles was I Was a Teenage Werewolf, and many others trafficked in similar shock value.
Samuel Z. Arkoff. Producer: Dressed to Kill. By the early 1950s, future movie mogul Samuel Z. Arkoff was a brash 30-ish lawyer scratching out a living by representing his in-laws and the Hollywood fringe, which included many of now infamous director/angora-clad transvestite Edward D. Wood Jr.'s social circle.
Sep 19, 2001 · Samuel Z. Arkoff, the producer of hundreds of quickie, inexpensive B films, including “I Was a Teenage Werewolf,” “A Bucket of Blood” and “Reform School Girl,” died Sunday. He was 83. Mr....