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Talk's Cheap, Action's Expensive - The Films of Robert L. Lippert (hardback)

Talk's Cheap, Action's Expensive - The Films of Robert L. Lippert (hardback)

McGee, Mark Thomas

Hardcover

DirectorsFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1629330477
ISBN13: 9781629330471
Publisher: Bearmanor Media
Published: Feb 28 2014
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Superman and the Mole-Men (1951) with George Reeves. The Fly (1958) with Vincent Price. The Last Man on Earth (1964). These low-budget films earned big-profit bonanzas, and the man behind the yields was Robert L. Lippert.

When Spyros Skouras was forced to resign as commander in chief of 20th Century Fox, Darryl F. Zanuck was persuaded to return to the studio to take charge. As the studio was on the brink of disaster, Zanuck put the brakes on every project in the works and fired just about everyone on the lot, except for one man, the only one working for the studio who made their bread-and-butter pictures which, at this point in time, was the only kind of movies the studio could afford to make--and he was Robert L. Lippert.

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