Biography: Charles B. Griffith |
One of the kings of American B-movies, scriptwriter Charles B. Griffith made his name under the aegis of drive-in godfather Roger Corman, authoring such low-budget classics as A Bucket of Blood (1959), Little Shop of Horrors (1960), and Creature from... more
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Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 2 (1989)
Cast: David Carradine Charles B. Griffith
Tags: Sword-and-Sorcery Adventure Fantasy Family
Length: 80min
When a group of evil, power-hungry people take over a trio of kingdoms, it is up to a young magician to free his lands from their rule. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
Cast: Roger Corman
Length: 85min
Car chases abound in this youthful, comedy action outing that centers on the rivalry between a small-town Southern sheriff and a mischievous, but basically good-hearted kid who bedevils him by joy riding in stolen cars and then destroying them. As...
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980)
Cast: Jackie Coogan Mel Welles Oliver Reed
Tags: Parody/Spoof Satire Comedy
Length: 100min
This is a crazy horror-film spoof in which the enthusiastic leads provide laughs just by the strength of their characterizations alone -- and because they are obviously having fun. Oliver Reed is Dr. Heckyl whose lumpy face is so ugly it has kept...
Cast: James Horner
Tags: Horror Natural Horror
Length: 85min
A group of fishermen and seamen band together to fight a monstrous finny fiend that is terrorizing a resort. They are in humorous competition with hotel guests, who hope to win a prize by killing the beast. In one particularly grisly bit of humor, a...
Cast: Ron Howard
Tags: Thriller Action Americana Adventure Comedy Chase Movie Road Movie
Length: 89min
Charles B. Griffith, author of +Little Shop of Horrors, was the writer/director of the low-budget Eat My Dust!. Ron Howard heads the cast as Hoover Niebold, the hell-raising son of rural sheriff Harry Niebold (Warren Kemmerling). The sheriff is forced...
Cast: Jon Hall John Farrow
Tags: Adventure
Length: 66min
More noted in its day for its underwater photography than for any distinction in its script or characters, this simple crime drama evolves around the retrieval of a priceless emerald from a sunken ship. Stuart Godfrey (John Farrow) is the...
Cast: Jonathan Haze Peter Graves Lee Van Cleef Beverly Garland
Tags: Sci-Fi Horror Science Fiction Creature Film Alien Film Sci-Fi Action
Length: 68min
Though Roger Corman was still new to sci-fi in 1956, he made up for lost time with the above-average quickie It Conquered the World. Peter Graves heads the cast as Paul Nelson, who suspects that his best friend, eccentric genius Tom Anderson (Lee Van...
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