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Gums (film)
''Gums'' is a 1976 American softcore pornographic film. It was a send up of ''Jaws'' and received a relatively wide theatrical release as a midnight movie The term midnight movie is rooted in the practice that emerged in the 1950s of local television stations around the United States airing low-budget genre films as late-night programming, often with a host delivering ironic asides. As a cinematic .... Premise A killer mermaid is loose in a small town. Cast * Theodore Gottlieb *Terri Hall *Robert Kerman *Paul Styles *Jody Maxwell *Crystal Sync *Ian Morley * Zack Norman Production It was filmed in New York and Florida. Release The movie was released in the cinemas. It made rentals in the US and Canada of $1.2 million. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada Reception The ''Palm Beach Post'' said it was an "embarassingly poor sexploitation parody... horrendous." ''DVD Talk'' said, "Other than sporting a decent conceit, there's little else to recommend this movie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore Gottlieb
Theodore Isidore Gottlieb (November 11, 1906 – April 5, 2001), mostly known as Brother Theodore, was a German-born American actor and comedian known for rambling, stream-of-consciousness monologues which he called "stand-up tragedy". He was described as " Boris Karloff, surrealist Salvador Dalí, Nijinsky and Red Skelton…simultaneously". Biography Early years Gottlieb was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Düsseldorf, in the Rhine Province, where his father was a magazine publisher. He attended the University of Cologne. At age 32, under Nazi rule, he was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp until he signed over his family's fortune for one Reichsmark. After being deported from Switzerland for chess hustling, he went to Austria where Albert Einstein, a family friend, helped him emigrate to the United States. In USA He worked as a janitor at Stanford University, where he demonstrated his prowess at chess by beating 30 professors simultaneously, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight Movie
The term midnight movie is rooted in the practice that emerged in the 1950s of local television stations around the United States airing low-budget genre films as late-night programming, often with a host delivering ironic asides. As a cinematic phenomenon, the midnight screening of offbeat movies began in the early 1970s in a few urban centers, particularly in New York City with screenings of '' El Topo'' at the Elgin Theater, eventually spreading across the country. The screening of non-mainstream pictures at midnight was aimed at building a cult film audience, encouraging repeat viewing and social interaction in what was originally a countercultural setting. The national success of ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show'' and the changing economics of the film exhibition industry altered the nature of the midnight movie phenomenon; as its association with broader trends of cultural and political opposition dwindled in the 1980s, the midnight movie became a more purely camp experience ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zack Norman
Zack Norman (born ''Howard Jerrold Zuker''; May 27, 1940) is an American actor, director, producer, writer, comedian, musician, film financier, painter, art collector and real estate developer. Born in Boston and raised in nearby Revere, Massachusetts, Revere, at the age of 13, he attended the oldest independent boarding school in the United States, The Governor's Academy, and by the age of 25 he was on the board of directors of a Massachusetts bank, though he is best known for his role as Ira in 20th Century Fox's ''Romancing the Stone'' (1984) and as Kaz Naiman in Paramount Classics' ''Festival in Cannes'' (2001). He has also co-starred in films such as ''Ragtime (film), Ragtime'' (1981), ''Cadillac Man'' (1990) and ''Chief Zabu'' (2016), which he also co-wrote, co-produced and co-directed. His latest starring role was in E.N.T.E.R. (2018), which won Best Comedy in October of that year at the first Cutting Room International Short Film Festival in NYC. As a painter, he is known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Films
The year 1976 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1976 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January – Paramount Pictures sets up a separate motion picture division and names David V. Picker as president. *March 22 – Filming begins on George Lucas' ''Star Wars'' science fiction film. In one of the most lucrative business decisions in film history, Lucas declines his directing fee of $500,000 in exchange for complete ownership of merchandising and sequel rights. *April 1 – ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show'' is officially re-released as a midnight movie at the Waverly Theater (Now the IFC Center) in Greenwich Village in New York City, starting through the run and still being shown in there all around the world. *April 9 – Alfred Hitchcock's last film, '' Family Plot'', is released. *August 11 – John Wayne appears in his final film, ''The Shootist''. *August 26 – Alan Ladd Jr. i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
