American International Pictures

American International Pictures (AIP) was an American film production company founded in 1954 by James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff . AIP produced low-budget films that were mostly aimed at a young audience and were shown in drive-in theaters in particular in the 1950s to 1970s . During its existence the company was the most important and most influential independent studio in the USA.

Producers, directors and writers

Nicholson and Arkoff served as executive producers , while Roger Corman and Alex Gordon always worked as film producers and occasionally as directors . Charles B. Griffith wrote many of the early films, some with Arkoff's brother-in-law Lou Rusoff . Later authors were Ray Russell , Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont .

literature

• Mark Thomas MacGee: Faster and furiouser: the revised and fattened fable of American International Pictures . McFarland, Jefferson, NC (et al.) 1996, ISBN 0-7864-0137-0 .