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Samuel Arkoff: Schlockmeister Extraordinaire |
| Section: THE ARTS / FILM |
| Author: David D'Arcy |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 1,834 Words, 10,764 Characters |
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Depending on how one looks at it, Samuel Z. Arkoff, the cofounder of American International Pictures (AIP), can be seen either as the hero of America's postwar film industry, or the villain who helped create the most terrifying monstrosity to emerge from Hollywood: the blight of trend-marketed teenage pictures that the country has endured for more than three decades.
Even if many of the films fall far below today's or even yesterday's production standards, they did more than simply bring a world of juvenile delinquents, monsters, bikers, and beatniks to the screen that hadn't been there before. AIP's strength was in getting a topical script into the theaters in a matter of months, if not weeks. (Television, which plays that role today, still takes longer and spends for more money doi...
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...ng about them that was different than the more stagnated pictures that were made at the time. And as a consequence, the young people went to see them."
After forty years as an independent, Arkoff is now producing his first movie for a major studio, a remake of the AIP crime thriller, Machine Gun Kelly. The film is budgeted at about $40 million, four hundred times what the original cost.
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