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Albert Zugsmith (April 24, 1910 – October 26, 1993) was an American film producer, film director and screenwriter who specialized in low-budget exploitation films through the 1950s and 1960s. With a background in music promotion (Ted Weems, Paul Whitman) public relations (one of his clients in depression era Chicago was Al Copone), journalism and brokering communication properties (radio, newspaper, early television), Zugsmith became independently wealthy and began producing films at RKO during the Howard Hughes years. Zugsmith's most significant credits are a string of four genre masterpieces produced in the late 1950s, all for Universal Studios: the science-fiction classic The Incredible Shrinking Man, Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind, and the camp exploitation films produced for MGM High School Confidential and The Girl in the Kremlin. An archive of some of his shooting scripts and screen plays are housed in the Special Collections department at the University of Iowa.
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20 January 1960
A modern couple dream that they are Adam and Eve.
26 February 1971
A monk-robed Manson-like cult leader who lives in a coffin, is transported around in a black hearse. At times he gets sadistic with his girl followers.
01 January 1973
Previously lost rape and revenge mystery about a swastika-carving masked marauder that brutalizes women in Los Angeles.
26 March 1961
World War II GIs adopt an Italian war orphan.
01 January 1966
Producer/director Albert Zugsmith's acid-therapy "comedy," complete with a tinted trip sequence "in hilarious LSD color.
13 May 1960
At an exclusive military academy on Sabre Island, rich young delinquents think money puts them above the law.
30 March 1958
A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.
01 January 1969
In this steamy morality play, a Hollywood screenwriter lusts after his beautiful 16-year-old daughter -- who reciprocates his feelings -- while his wife finds herself torn between her spouse and her lesbian inclinations.
24 August 1960
Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr.
05 October 1959
Chip is killed accidentally while trying to rape a blonde girl, who runs. Silver becomes the number one suspect even though she has an alibi, but due to previous brushes with the law she's sent to Girls Town, a home for young women in trouble with the law which is run by nuns.
29 August 1968
An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict.
01 September 1957
A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.
22 February 1957
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall.
22 January 1958
Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house.
30 April 1970
The Phantom Gunslinger is set in the town of "Tucca Flats." The peaceful life of the town is disrupted by the arrival of a gang of bandits, including Algernon, Big Sam, Cookie, and some others.
10 December 1952
A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union.
26 August 1960
Sociology professor Steve MacInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the young people.
04 October 1956
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp.
01 March 1956
When his life is saved in a shootout by a fellow gunman whose life he in turn had saved, Alex Longmire promises to give up his way of life.
24 March 1956
A Texan arrives in Oregon and seeks justice for his innocently-hanged brother.
04 March 1959
A POW marries a woman he meets in Mexico. Controversy erupts when people find out that she's one-quarter black.
19 July 1972
A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body.
01 January 1965
Troubled young lass Margaret 'Peggy' Bardot candidly discusses her sexual hang-ups with a psychologist.
13 June 1956
The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown.
25 September 1964
Young, pretty and innocent, Fanny Hill has lost her parents and must find her way in life amidst the perils of turbulent 18th-century London.
14 March 1957
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her dress in rags; murder results.
05 November 2008
The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques.
11 April 1957
In Moscow 1953, four terrified women prisoners are brought before Joseph Stalin, who chooses the beautiful Dasha.
03 July 1959
A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.
21 November 1957
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist.
22 June 1966
A young man lies by a highway with a rifle, shooting people in cars. As the police close in, he kills himself.
30 December 1955
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.
30 May 1958
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.
20 February 1953
An enemy of the Count of Monte Cristo frames his son for a murder in order to exact revenge and steal the family fortune.
12 December 1957
In a modern cow town, the powerful ranch owner’s henchmen kill a ranch hand, prompting the sheriff to investigate despite facing strong opposition.
10 October 1952
In post-apocalyptic New York, three tribes of survivors (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver People) vie for the right to exist.
19 August 1955
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff.
20 June 1962
Vincent Price stars in this early '60s adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's thriller about an opium addict trying to solve a mystery in San Francisco's Chinatown.
01 January 1969
Lisa, a beautiful Hollywood starlet, grows tired of her playboy husband, Charlie, and attempts to seduce her newlywed neighbor's husband.
10 April 1953
A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before.
25 December 1968
A pretty young girl named Sappho is, despite her boyfriend's best efforts, determined to remain a virgin until she marries.
01 August 1959
A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him.
29 April 1980
Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed, like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leander, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman, and many others.
12 December 1963
After a traumatic event leaves a young woman with hysterical blindness and amnesia, "The Blind Hunter" (George Nader) steps in to protect her from a brutal killer.
