Editing Roger Corman (section)

=== The Filmgroup ===
[[File:Barboura Morris & Susan Cabot in The Wasp Woman (1959).jpg|thumb| right|[[Barboura Morris]] and [[Susan Cabot]] in a scene from ''[[The Wasp Woman]]'' (1959)]]
In January 1959, Corman announced he would be moving into distribution.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|url=https://archive.org/details/variety213-1959–01/page/n313/mode/1up/search/%22roger+corman%22?q=%28%22roger+corman%22%29+AND+creator%3A%28variety%29|page=23|title=Roger Corman seeks own distribution|date=January 14, 1959}}</ref>

In 1959, Corman founded [[The Filmgroup]] with his brother Gene, a company producing or releasing low-budget black-and-white films as [[double feature]]s for drive-ins and action houses.<ref>pp. 22–41 Ray, Fred Olen "Filmgroup" in ''The New Poverty Row: Independent Filmmakers as Distributors'' McFarland, 1991</ref> In February 1959, Filmgroup announced they would release 10 films. Their first movies were ''[[High School Big Shot]]'' (1959) and ''[[T-Bird Gang]]'' (1959), produced by Stanley Bickman.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|url=https://archive.org/details/variety213-1959–02/page/n162/mode/1up/search/%22roger+corman%22?q=%28%22roger+corman%22%29+AND+creator%3A%28variety%29|title=Roger Corman Sets 10 to Nourish Filmgroup|date=February 18, 1959|page=3}}</ref>
{{quote box|quote= Roger seemed a driven man. Roger wanted to accomplish a lot, he had to have a lot of drive to do it, and he pushed through. He not only pushed through, he ''punched'' through! With a lot of energy, and a lot of disregard at times... What we did for Roger Corman – I mean, things that you could never do in a real studio, but you did for this guy! Everything seemed unreal with him.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Weaver|first1=Tom|title=Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers: Writers, Producers, Directors, Actors, Moguls and Makeup|url=https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/interviews-with-b-science-fiction-and-horror-movie-makers/|year=1988|page=69|access-date=February 16, 2023|archive-date=February 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230216005921/https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/interviews-with-b-science-fiction-and-horror-movie-makers/|url-status=live}}</ref><br />– [[Susan Cabot]]|width=25%|align=left|style=padding:8px;}}
For AIP, Corman and Griffith made a black comedy, ''[[A Bucket of Blood]]'' (1959). Corman announced he would follow it with a similar comedy, ''The Bloodshot Private Eye''.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Gwen Verdon Will Bring In 'Redhead': City Assured of Star, Play; Acting 'Vacation' to De Sica|author=Scheuer, Philip K.|date=December 18, 1959|work=Los Angeles Times|page=C9}}</ref> It does not seem to have been made. Instead, Griffith reused the same script structure and Corman employed many of the same cast in ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'' (1960). This film was reputedly shot in two days and one night.<ref>{{cite news|author=Simpson, MJ|date=September 23, 1995|title=Interview with Roger Corman|url=http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk/interviews/rogercorman.html|access-date=October 24, 2007|quote="I shot Little Shop of Horrors in two days and a night for about $30,000, and the picture has lasted all these years."|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716073909/http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk/interviews/rogercorman.html|archive-date=July 16, 2011}}</ref>

For Filmgroup, Corman directed ''[[The Wasp Woman]]'' (1959), starring Cabot from a script by Gordon. His brother and he made two films back-to-back in South Dakota: ''[[Ski Troop Attack]]'' (1960), a war movie written by Griffith and directed by Corman, and ''[[Beast from Haunted Cave]]'' (1959), the first film directed by [[Monte Hellman]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gray|first=Tim|date=2021-04-20|title=Monte Hellman, 'Two-Lane Blacktop' Director, Dies at 91|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/obituaries-people-news/monte-hellman-dead-dies-director-two-lane-blacktop-1234956241/|access-date=May 12, 2024|work=Variety|language=en-US|archive-date=April 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421152104/https://variety.com/2021/film/obituaries-people-news/monte-hellman-dead-dies-director-two-lane-blacktop-1234956241/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Corman went to [[Puerto Rico]] and produced another two films back-to-back: ''[[Battle of Blood Island]]'' (1960), directed by [[Joel Rapp]], and ''[[Last Woman on Earth]]'' (1960), directed by Corman from a script by [[Robert Towne]]. Filming on these two films went so quickly and incentivized by the tax breaks on offer for filming in Puerto Rico, Corman commissioned Griffith to write a third, which was shot at the same time: ''[[Creature from the Haunted Sea]]'' (1961).<ref>{{cite book |last=Weaver |first=Tom |title=Double Feature Creature Attack: A Monster Merger of Two More Volumes of Classic Interviews |year=2003 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |isbn=0-7864-1366-2 |pages=189–192}}</ref>

Corman was going to make ''Part Time Mother'' from a script by Griffith<ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|167569403}}|title= Genet's 'deathwatch' to be given locally|date=December 23, 1959|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> but it appears to have never been made.