Roger Corman, who was born in 1926, was a unique figure in American Cinema. He was a mini-mogul, making commercially viable films on low budgets and, in the process, providing crucial on-the-job experience to literally scores of actors, writers, directors, and producers. For the first sixteen years of his career, he both produced and directed his films. Subsequently, he was primarily a producer. This series focuses on some of those early works, each of which embodies different aspects of Corman’s aesthetic profile. From the black-comedic stylings of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS to the sympathetic lysergic strivings of THE TRIP, Corman’s films gave the people what they wanted and documented a memorably mercurial era in American cultural history.
