Not technically in the “crummy” category, teen movie The Fast and the Furious is featured tonight (4/25) on Turner Classic Movies (12:30 a.m.). The Fast and the Furious was co-written by low-budget maestro Roger Corman, and is notable as the first release from American International Pictures (AIP). AIP made its fortune by exploiting the teen audience (specifically the nineteen year-old male) beginning in the mid-fifties, and continuing into the late 1970’s. A typical 60’s AIP release – Pajama Party -- is featured earlier at 7:00 p.m.
Corman went on to produce the famous “Poe” cycle of films at AIP (The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, Masque of the Red Death) and countless others, and he helped launch the careers of directors Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. Corman had a cameo as a senator in the congressional investigation sequence in The Godfather 2.
Corman went on to produce the famous “Poe” cycle of films at AIP (The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, Masque of the Red Death) and countless others, and he helped launch the careers of directors Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. Corman had a cameo as a senator in the congressional investigation sequence in The Godfather 2.
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Lang Jr.
FYI, Roger Corman has a cameo as a roadblock patrolman in this picture. You don't see his face, just his back and part of his profile. He gives John Ireland directions to get in the race car lane.
Keep up the GREAT work!
Little Billy Wiggins
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