Saw the attack of the 50 foot woman poster. In the early 70s I served with one of script writers of that and several other B movie classics. He was a Marine major, a reservist in a unit I spent some time with when I finished active duty and went to the active reserves for few years.
He said that 50 foot woman was one that he would rather have forgotten. He also wrote scripts for Lash Larue movies. Interesting guy.
If they’d paid him with one-sheet posters for 50 Foot Woman he wouldn’t have such unpleasant memories.
“Saw the attack of the 50 foot woman poster. In the early 70s I served with one of script writers of that and several other B movie classics.”
We were watching and making fun of a movie where there was this mine with blobs falling off the ceiling. After the movie one of the guys announced that movie had been written by his uncle who passed his time writing movie scripts while serving a prison sentence for embezzlement.
I was glad to see “I was a teenager from outer space” made the list. Really a great movie to watch in college while drinking. It ran several times during the year. We would turn off the sound and make up our own dialogue.
After thinking about Jack Lewis, I went looking to see what happened to him. He passed in 2009 but I did find a synopsis of his life. He was the co-publisher of Gun World, I had forgotten about that. Here’s the Wikipedia link to his story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lewis_(screenwriter).
Hell of a nice guy.