American International Pictures

Film production company

For the unrelated film production company set up by Samuel Z. Arkoff, see Arkoff International Pictures.

American International Pictures LLC

Current logo used since 2020

Formerly| American Releasing Corporation
(1954–1956)
Company type| Label
Industry| Film
Founded| April 2, 1954; 70 years ago (1954-04-02) (original)
October 7, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-10-07) (relaunch; under the American International Pictures label)
Founders|

* James H. Nicholson
* Samuel Z. Arkoff

Defunct| August 4, 1980; 44 years ago (1980-08-04) (original)
Fate| Acquired by and folded into Filmways (original)
Successor| Filmways Pictures (original)
Headquarters|

Beverly Hills, California

U.S.

Area served

| Worldwide

Key people

| Eric Hohl (president)
Products| Motion pictures
Parent|

* Filmways (1979–1980)
* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (2020–2023)
* Amazon MGM Studios (2023–present)

American International Pictures LLC[1] (AIP or American International Productions) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios. In its original operating period, AIP was an independent film production and distribution company known for producing and releasing films from 1955 until 1980, a year after its acquisition by Filmways in 1979.

It was formed on April 2, 1954, as American Releasing Corporation (ARC) by former Realart Pictures Inc. sales manager James H. Nicholson and entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff[2] and their first release was the 1953 UK documentary film Operation Malaya. It was dedicated to releasing low-budget films packaged as double features, primarily of interest to the teenagers of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

The company eventually became a part of Orion Pictures, which in turn, became a division of Amazon MGM Studios. On October 7, 2020, four decades after the original closure, MGM revived AIP as a label for acquired films for digital and theatrical releases, with MGM overseeing across streaming platforms and United Artists Releasing handling theatrical distribution in North America until 2023 when Amazon MGM Studios took over.

## AIP personnel

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Nicholson and Arkoff served as executive producers while Roger Corman and Alex Gordon were the principal film producers and, sometimes, directors. Writer Charles B. Griffith wrote many of the early films, along with Arkoff's brother-in-law, Lou Rusoff, who later produced many of the films he had written. Other writers included Ray Russell, Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont. Floyd Crosby, A.S.C. famous for his camera work on a number of exotic documentaries and the Oscar winner, High Noon, was chief cinematographer. His innovative use of surreal color and odd lenses and angles gave AIP films a signature look. The early rubber monster suits and miniatures of Paul Blaisdell were used in AIP's science fiction films. The company also hired Les Baxter[3] and Ronald Stein to compose many of its film scores.

In the 1950s, the company had a number of actors under contract, including John Ashley, Fay Spain and Steve Terrell.

## Emphasis on teenagers

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When many of ARC/AIP's first releases failed to earn a profit, Arkoff quizzed film exhibitors who told him of the value of the teenage market as adults were watching television.[4][5] AIP stopped making Westerns with Arkoff explaining: "To compete with television westerns you have to have color, big stars and $2,000,000".[6]: 126

AIP was the first company to use focus groups,[7] polling American teenagers about what they would like to see and using their responses to determine titles, stars, and story content. AIP would question their exhibitors (who often provided 20% of AIP's financing[6]: 35 ) what they thought of the success of a title, then would have a writer create a script for it.[6]: 156 A sequence of tasks in a typical production involved creating a great title, getting an artist such as Albert Kallis who supervised all AIP artwork from 1955 to 1973[8] to create a dynamic, eye-catching poster, then raising the cash, and finally writing and casting the film.

According to Filmink, "AIP ran on basic principles: keep overheads down (i.e. no permanent studio space), keep all costs down, use fading stars (eg Ray Milland) or its own up-and-coming names (eg John Ashley), use cheap directors, go for genre (horror, sci fi, action, peplum), follow the trends, abandon the trends when audience enthusiasm lessens, give audiences something they can’t get from a regular studio picture, build your own franchises."[9]

## The ARKOFF formula

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Samuel Z. Arkoff related his tried-and-true "ARKOFF formula" for producing a successful low-budget movie years later, during a 1980s talk show appearance. His ideas for a movie included:

* Action (exciting, entertaining drama)
* Revolution (novel or controversial themes and ideas)
* Killing (a modicum of violence)
* Oratory (notable dialogue and speeches)
* Fantasy (acted-out fantasies common to the audience)
* Fornication (sex appeal for young adults)

Later, the AIP publicity department devised a strategy called "the Peter Pan Syndrome":

a) a younger child will watch anything an older child will watch;
b) an older child will not watch anything a younger child will watch;
c) a girl will watch anything a boy will watch;
d) a boy will not watch anything a girl will watch;
therefore:
to catch your greatest audience you zero in on the 19-year-old male.[10]

## History

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Roger Corman's The Raven (1963)

### American Releasing Corporation

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AIP began as the American Releasing Corporation, a new distribution company formed in 1954 by James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff.

#### Roger Corman

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They were interested in distributing a car chase movie produced by Roger Corman for his Palo Alto Productions, The Fast and the Furious (1955). Corman had received offers from other companies for the film, but ARC offered to advance money to enable Corman to make two other films. Corman agreed, The Fast and the Furious performed well at the box office and the company was launched.[citation needed]

Corman's next two films for the company were a Western, Five Guns West (1955), which Corman directed, and a science fiction film, The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955). The title from the latter had come from Nicholson.

ARC also distributed the Western Outlaw Treasure (1955) starring Johnny Carpenter.

#### Alex Gordon

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ARC got Corman to direct another Western and science fiction double bill Apache Woman (1955) and Day the World Ended (1955). Both scripts were written by Arkoff's brother-in-law Lou Rusoff, who would become the company's leading writer in its early days. Apache Woman was produced by Alex Gordon, an associate of Arkoff's, Day was produced by Corman. Both were made by Golden State Productions, ARC's production arm.[11][12]

Normally, B movies were made for the second part of a bill and received a flat rate. As television was encroaching on the B movie market, Nicholson and Arkoff felt it would be more profitable to make two low budget films and distribute them together on a double feature. Nicholson came up with a title for a film to support Day the World Ended, The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955), but lacked the money to make both films. They split the costs with Dan and Jack Milner, film editors who wanted to get into production. The resulting double bill was very successful at the box office.[11]

Gordon also produced The Oklahoma Woman (1955), a Western by Corman, made through Sunset Productions. It was put on a double feature with Female Jungle (1955), a film noir.

Other films released under the ARC banner include a British documentary Operation Malaya (1955) and Corman's Gunslinger (1956).

### American International in the 1950s

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Arkoff and Nicholson had always wanted to name their company "American International Pictures", but the name was unavailable. When the name became available, they changed over.

There were three main production arms at AIP in the late 1950s: Roger Corman, Alex Gordon & Lou Rusoff, and Herman Cohen. Arkoff and Nicholson would buy films from other filmmakers as well, and import films from outside America.

#### Roger Corman

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Corman continued to be an important member of AIP (though he also worked for Allied Artists and his own Filmgroup company during this period). He had a big hit for the company with the science fiction film It Conquered the World (1956) from a script by Rusoff that was rewritten by Charles B. Griffith.

His films included Rock All Night (1956); Naked Paradise (1957), in which Arkoff had a small role; The Undead; Sorority Girl; The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957); Machine Gun Kelly with Charles Bronson; and Teenage Caveman (1958), with Robert Vaughn.

AIP also distributed films Corman helped finance, such as Night of the Blood Beast, She Gods of Shark Reef and The Brain Eaters (all released in 1958).

#### Alex Gordon and Lou Rusoff

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The other key producer for AIP was Alex Gordon who mostly made films though his Golden State Productions outfit, usually written by Lou Rusoff. He made Girls in Prison (1956), with director Edward L. Cahn who would become one of AIP's most prolific directors. AIP released it on a double bill with Hot Rod Girl (1956).

Cahn also directed the following for Gordon: The She-Creature (released as a double feature with It Conquered the World); Flesh and the Spur, the last Western made by AIP; Shake, Rattle & Rock!, a rock musical with Mike Connors; Runaway Daughters (1956); Voodoo Woman; Dragstrip Girl (1957), with John Ashley; Motorcycle Gang (1957), again with Ashley; Jet Attack and Submarine Seahawk (1958). Most of these were written by Rusoff and directed by Edward L. Cahn.

Gordon left AIP and Rusoff alone produced Hot Rod Gang (1958) and Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959).

#### Herman Cohen

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Drive-in advertisement for the double feature, I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Invasion of the Saucer Men. AIP double features were popular on the drive-in circuit.[13]

Another key producer for AIP was Herman Cohen, who had a huge hit with I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) starring Michael Landon. He followed it with I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, Blood of Dracula (both also in 1957 as a double feature), How to Make a Monster (1958), The Headless Ghost and Horrors of the Black Museum (both in 1959).

#### Other producers

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Other key collaborators who worked for AIP in the late 1950s included:

* Norman T. Herman: Hot Rod Girl (1956)
* Robert Gurney: Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957; released as a double feature with I Was a Teenage Werewolf), Reform School Girl (1957) and Terror from the Year 5000 (1958)
* Bert I. Gordon: The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), Attack of the Puppet People (1958), War of the Colossal Beast (1958; the sequel to The Amazing Colossal Man) and Earth vs. the Spider (1958)
* Burt Topper: Hell Squad (1958), Tank Commandos (1959) and Diary of a High School Bride (1959)
* Edward Bernds: High School Hellcats (1958).
* Stanley Shpetne: The Bonnie Parker Story (1958) and Paratroop Command (1959).
* Stanley Kallis: Operation Dames (1959) and Roadracers (1959).

#### Pickups

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AIP would flesh out their distribution schedule by buying films made by outside producers. These included The Astounding She-Monster, the documentary Naked Africa, The Screaming Skull (1957), The Cool and the Crazy, Daddy-O, Dragstrip Riot and Tank Battalion (1958).

#### Anglo-Amalgamated

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AIP developed a mutual relationship with Britain's Anglo-Amalgamated who would distribute AIP's product in the UK. In return, AIP would distribute their films in the U.S., such as The Tommy Steele Story (1957) and Cat Girl (1957).[14]

AIP also imported The White Huntress (1954, England), Pulgarcito (1958, Mexico) and The Sky Calls (1959, Russia).

#### Late 1950s crisis

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AIP became a victim of its own success when other companies started copying its double feature strategy. Costs were rising and were not compensated by increased box office grosses. AIP shut down most of their production arms and focused on distributing films from Italy, while they decided what to do next.

In October 1959 AIP announced it had secured finance from Colonial Bank (who had financed three of their films to date) for ten films over the next 12 months. The remaining 14 to 20 projects planned were paid by Pathe Laboratories. The ten films were Diary of a High School Bride, Drag Race, The Haunted House of Usher, End of the World, World Without Women, Bombs Away, Blood Hill,Take Me To Your Leader, She and Eve and the Dragon. Not all of these would be made.[15]

### AIP's 1960s output

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The company moved into rented office space at the former Chaplin Studios.

#### Imports

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In the late 1950s, AIP kept their company afloat by importing films from Italy. These included Sheba and the Gladiator (1959), Goliath and the Barbarians (1959) and Black Sunday (1960); the latter film proved to be one of the company's early successes.

There was also Atomic Agent (1959, France), The Angry Red Planet (1959, Denmark), Tiger of Bengal (1959) and The Indian Tomb (1960) from Fritz Lang in Germany, edited together as Journey to the Lost City, Portrait of a Sinner (1959, West Germany), The Professionals (1960, Great Britain), and Escape to Paradise (1960, the Philippines).

They also bought Why Must I Die? and The Jailbreakers (1960).

#### The Corman-Poe cycle

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In the early 1960s, AIP gained kudos by combining Roger Corman, Vincent Price and the stories of Edgar Allan Poe into a series of horror films, with scripts by Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, Ray Russell, R. Wright Campbell and Robert Towne.

The original idea, usually credited[who?] to Corman and Lou Rusoff, was to take Poe's story "The Fall of the House of Usher", which had both a high name-recognition value and the merit of being in the public domain, and thus royalty-free, and expand it into a feature film. Corman convinced the studio to give him a larger budget than the typical AIP film so he could film the movie in widescreen and color, and use it to create lavish sets as well.[16]

The success of House of Usher led AIP to finance further films based on Poe's stories. The sets and special effects were often reused in subsequent movies (for example, the burning roof of the Usher mansion reappears in most of the other films as stock footage), making the series quite cost-effective. All the films in the series were directed by Roger Corman, and they all starred Price except The Premature Burial, which featured Ray Milland in the lead. It was originally produced for another studio, but AIP acquired the rights to it.[16]

As the series progressed, Corman made attempts to change the formula. Later films added more humor to the stories, especially The Raven, which takes Poe's poem as an inspiration and develops it into an all-out farce starring Price, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre; Karloff had starred in a 1935 film with the same title. Corman also adapted H. P. Lovecraft's short novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward in an attempt to get away from Poe, but AIP changed the title to that of an obscure Poe poem, The Haunted Palace, and marketed it as yet another movie in the series. The last two films in the series, The Masque of the Red Death and The Tomb of Ligeia, were filmed in England with an unusually long schedule for Corman and AIP.

Although Corman and Rusoff are generally credited with coming up with the idea for the Poe series, in an interview on the Anchor Bay DVD of Mario Bava's Black Sabbath, Mark Damon claims that he first suggested the idea to Corman. Damon also says that Corman let him direct The Pit and the Pendulum uncredited. Corman's commentary for Pit mentions nothing of this and all existing production stills of the film show Corman directing.

#### List of Corman-Poe films

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During the early 1960s, AIP produced a series of horror films inspired by the Poe cycle. Of eight films, seven feature stories that are actually based on the works of Poe.

1. House of Usher (1960) – based on the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher"
2. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) – based on the title of the short story of the same name
3. The Premature Burial (1962) – based on the short story of the same name
4. Tales of Terror (1962) – based on the short stories "Morella", "The Black Cat", "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"
5. The Raven (1963) – based on the poem of the same name
6. The Haunted Palace (1963) – plot based on H. P. Lovecraft's novella The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, using the title from Poe's 1839 poem
7. The Masque of the Red Death (1964) – based on the short story of the same name with another Poe short story, "Hop-Frog", used as a subplot
8. The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) – based on the short story "Ligeia"

Seven of the films, with the exception of The Premature Burial, featured Vincent Price as the star. Occasionally, Corman's 1963 film The Terror (produced immediately after The Raven) is recognized as being part of the Corman-Poe cycle, although the film's story and title are not based on any literary work of Poe.

Some Poe films announced by AIP but not made include The Gold Bug, The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade, and The Angel of the Odd.[17]

In 1962, Arkoff said AIP was in a position similar to Columbia Pictures just before they made Submarine and Dirigible:

> Before that they were on poverty row. Our better position will enable us to obtain more important writers, perhaps more important producers as well. We're a privately owned company at the moment but perhaps within two or three years we will become a public company.[18]

#### Beach Party era

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Beginning with 1963's Beach Party, AIP created a new genre of beach party films featuring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon. The original idea and the first script were Rusoff's. The highly successful and often imitated series ended in 1966 with the seventh film, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. Many actors from the beach films also appeared in AIP's spy-spoofs, such as Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) and car racing films like Fireball 500 (1966) and Thunder Alley. During this time, AIP also produced or distributed most of Corman's horror films, such as X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes.

In 1966, the studio released The Wild Angels starring Peter Fonda, based loosely on the real-life exploits of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang. This film ushered in AIP's most successful year and kicked off a subgenre of motorcycle gang films that lasted almost 10 years and included Devil's Angels, The Glory Stompers with Dennis Hopper, and The Born Losers—the film that introduced the Billy Jack character.

Drive-in advertisement for Psych-Out, 1968

In 1968, AIP launched a $22 million film programme.[19] The psychedelic and hippie scenes of the late '60s were also exploited with films like The Trip, also with Fonda, Riot on Sunset Strip, Wild in the Streets, Maryjane, Gas-s-s-s and Psych-Out with Jack Nicholson. These "social protest" films were also highly successful. Horror movies also enjoyed a revival of popularity in the late 60s.[20]

#### International American International

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In the UK, AIP struck up a film making partnership with Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy's Anglo-Amalgamated. Anglo eventually released over 140 AIP-made or owned movies in the UK, mainly on double bills. The arrangement also saw Anglo Amalgamated's British-made films distributed in the US by AIP. AIP's co-productions with Anglo included Cat Girl, Circus of Horrors and The Masque of the Red Death. AIP also had co-production arrangements with Tigon British Film Productions, Hammer Film Productions and Amicus Productions. Amongst the movies made under these arrangements were Witchfinder General, The Vampire Lovers and Scream and Scream Again. AIP maintained a production office in London until 1973 before it was closed down. Nevertheless, the company remained active in making and financing British films, including Hennessy and The People that Time Forgot. They were also, briefly, involved in setting up two Hammer projects- Vampirella and To the Devil a Daughter (AIP distributed the latter on its initial US run.)

On a trip to Italy, Arkoff met Fulvio Lucisano, an Italian screenwriter and producer who eventually headed Italian International Film,[citation needed] which co-produced 25 films in Italy for AIP.[21] Due to importing completed productions from other foreign countries being cheaper and simpler than producing their own in-house studio films in America, AIP had released many giallo, peplum, Eurospy and Macaroni Combat war films featuring many American stars and Italian stars such as the comedy team of Franco and Ciccio. However, AIP released only two Spaghetti Westerns (Massacre Time retitled The Brute and the Beast and God Forgives... I Don't!), perhaps recalling their failure with Westerns in the 1950s. Many of these films were edited, rewritten with different (dubbed English) dialogue, usually by Arkoff's nephew Ted Rusoff, and sometimes re-scored by Les Baxter.

AIP, through Henry G. Saperstein, is known for being the major U.S. distributor for Toho's Godzilla and Daiei's Gamera (kaiju) films of the 1960s and 1970s. AIP also distributed other Japanese science fiction films like Frankenstein Conquers the World, Monster from a Prehistoric Planet, The X from Outer Space and the South Korean production Yongary, Monster from the Deep, as well as two Japanese animated features from Toei Animation, Alakazam the Great and Jack and the Witch.

AIP also released a pair of Japanese spy thrillers re-dubbed as a comedy co-written by Woody Allen called What's Up Tiger Lily?.[22]

The studio also released edited and English-dubbed versions of several Eastern Bloc science fiction films that had the dialogue rewritten for the American market and in some cases had additional scenes filmed with American and British actors. These include the Soviet film Planeta Bur (Planet of Storms) which was released by AIP in two different English-dubbed versions, as Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women and the highly regarded 1963 Czech science fiction film Ikarie XB-1, which was re-titled Voyage to the End of the Universe.

A few years later, AIP backed a British Poe film directed by Gordon Hessler: The Oblong Box (1969) based on the short story of the same name.

#### AIP-TV

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American International TelevisionCompany type| Division

|

Industry|

* Television production
* Television syndication

Founded| 1964; 61 years ago (1964)
Defunct| 1980; 45 years ago (1980)
Fate| Acquired by Filmways and became Filmways Television
Successor|

* Filmways Television
* Library:
Amazon MGM Studios (via Orion Television)

Products| Television shows

In 1964, AIP became one of the last film studios to start its own television production company, American International Productions Television (a.k.a. American-International Television or AIP-TV).[23] AIP-TV at first released many of their 1950s films to American television stations, then filmed unsuccessful television pilots for Beach Party and Sergeant Deadhead. The company then made several color sci-fi/horror television films by Larry Buchanan that were remakes of black-and-white AIP films, and sold packages of many English-dubbed European, Japanese and Mexican films (the last type were produced by K. Gordon Murray) and foreign-made live-action and animated TV series (including Prince Planet). The best known animated series AIP-TV distributed was Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt.

In order to allay the fears of cinema owners who feared current releases would soon end up being shown on television, AIP issued a statement retroactive to 1963 that the company would not release any of their films to television until five years after cinema release, unless the film had not made back its original negative costs.[24] AIP-TV also filmed specials for promotion of AIP films, such as The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot (1965, ABC) and An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (1972, syndication), both with Vincent Price.

In 1978, AIP-TV distributed the pop music series Twiggy's Jukebox. For several years around this time, AIP-TV also distributed several British TV series, including The Avengers, to U.S. stations.

#### AIP Records

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AIP started their own record label, American International Records, in 1959[25] to release music used in their films. There were a number of soundtrack albums as well.[26]

AIP Records was once distributed by MGM Records,[27] the record label owned by AIP's successor-in-interest MGM.

### Going Public and Departure of Nicholson

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In 1969, AIP went public to raise extra capital, issuing 300,000 shares.[28][29]

In 1970, they entered into an agreement with Commonwealth United Entertainment to issue their films.[30] In 1971 they released 31 films, their greatest number to date, and were seen as one of the most stable companies in Hollywood.[31] Despite their exploitation roots, they did not concentrate on R- or X-rated filmmaking during this period.[32]

In 1972, James H. Nicholson resigned from AIP to set up his own production company working out of 20th Century Fox, called Academy Pictures Corporation; its only two releases were The Legend of Hell House and Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.[33][34] AIP bought out over 100,000 of Nicholson's shares.[35] He died shortly thereafter of a cancerous brain tumor.[36]

Around this time Roger Corman stopped making films for AIP, focusing on his company, New World Pictures. According to Filmink "Corman leaving AIP coincided with Nicholson and Arkoff splitting up – they were like two parents who decide to get divorced when their eldest child finally moves out of home."[37]

### Arkoff alone

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Arkoff continued on at AIP as president until the end of the decade. Heads of production during the 1970s included Larry Gordon (from January 1972 until early 1974)[38] and Jere Henshaw (from 1977 until the demise of the company).

By the early 1970s, AIP felt the horror movie cycle was in decline and so switched to other genres, such as kung fu and gangsters.[39] Notably, they produced some of that decade's blaxploitation films, like Blacula and Foxy Brown. In a throwback to the old "studio days", the company is credited with making Pam Grier a household name, as the majority of her early '70s films were made under contract to American International.

In the mid- to late 1970s, AIP began to produce more mainstream films, such as Bunny O'Hare, Cooley High, The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday, The Amityville Horror, Love at First Bite, Meteor, Force 10 from Navarone, Shout at the Devil, The Island of Dr. Moreau and C.H.O.M.P.S.[40] The increased spending on these projects, though they did make some money, contributed to the company's downfall. In the meantime, the studio imported and released its final foreign film, an Australian film, Mad Max, dubbed into American English.

James Nicholson's first wife Sylvia was still a major shareholder of the company. She sued AIP for mismanagement, but this was resolved in 1978 when AIP bought out her shares.[41]

### Merger with Filmways

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By the late 1970s, filmmaking costs continued to rise, AIP's tactic of moving into bigger budgeted quality pictures was not paying off at the box office, and Arkoff began to think of merging the company. "We've been the Woolworths of the movie business but Woolworths is being out priced", said Arkoff.[42] Talks began with Filmways, Incorporated. Negotiations stalled for a while,[43] but resumed a number of months later.[44] In 1979, AIP was sold to Filmways for $30 million and became a subsidiary production unit thereof, renamed Filmways Pictures in 1980.[45][46]

Arkoff was unhappy with the direction of the company and resigned to set up his own production company, receiving a pay out worth $1.4 million.[47][48]

AIP-TV was absorbed as the wholly owned program syndication arm of Filmways Television. Filmways was later bought by Orion Pictures Company in 1982 and Filmways was later renamed Orion Pictures Corporation, but retained the distribution arm. This allowed Orion to establish its own distribution, after utilizing Warner Bros. for distribution. Warner Bros. still has distribution rights to Orion films which were originally distributed by this company. Today, a majority of the AIP library is owned by Amazon MGM Studios (via Orion Pictures). The American International name is still a registered trademark owned by Amazon MGM Studios's Orion Pictures unit.[49][50]

### Relaunch

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On October 7, 2020, it was announced that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer relaunched AIP as a label for films that the studio will acquire for digital and limited theatrical releases. An MGM executive, Eric Hohl, was accepted as a president of the studio. MGM will oversee AIP's new films across all streaming platforms and the theatrical releases of them will be handled by its joint distribution venture United Artists Releasing. The first film from the relaunched AIP was Breaking News in Yuba County, directed by Tate Taylor and starring Allison Janney, which was released on February 12, 2021.[51]

On May 17, 2021, technology company Amazon entered negotiations to acquire MGM and even made a bid for about $9 billion. The negotiations are made with Anchorage Capital Kevin Ulrich.[52][53] On May 26, 2021, it was officially announced that MGM will be acquired by Amazon for $8.45 billion, subject to regulatory approvals and other routine closing conditions; with the studio continuing to operate as a label under the new parent company, which includes AIP and its titles.[citation needed] The merger was finalized on March 17, 2022.[54] On March 4, 2023, Amazon shut down UAR's operations and folded them into MGM.[55] In May 2023, Amazon Studios created Amazon MGM Studios Distribution, an international film and television distribution unit for both MGM and Amazon projects, which will include new projects and acquisitions from AIP.[56]

### Legacy

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In 2005, less than four years after the death of Arkoff, filmmaker and Troublemaker Studios co-founder Robert Rodriguez founded a horror genre film and television company called Rodriguez International Pictures, which is a homage to the company.

## Film library

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### 1950s

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Release date  | Title  | Genre  | Director

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as American Releasing Corporation
1955 | Operation Malaya | Documentary | David MacDonald
February 15, 1955 | The Fast and the Furious | Crime | John Ireland
April 15, 1955 | Five Guns West | Western | Roger Corman
May 15, 1955 | Outlaw Treasure | Western | Oliver Drake
June 15, 1955 | The Beast with a Million Eyes | Sci-fi | David Kramarsky
Lou Place
Uncredited:
Roger Corman
September 15, 1955 | Apache Woman | Western | Roger Corman
December 1955 | Day the World Ended | Sci-fi | Roger Corman
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues | Sci-fi | Dan Milner
June 15, 1956 | The Oklahoma Woman | Western | Roger Corman
Female Jungle | Crime | Bruno VeSota
June 1956 | Gunslinger | Western | Roger Corman
as American International Pictures
July 15, 1956 | It Conquered the World | Sci-fi | Roger Corman
The She-Creature | Horror | Edward L. Cahn
July 1956 | Girls in Prison | Crime | Edward L. Cahn
Hot Rod Girl | Action | Lew Landers
July 15, 1956 | Runaway Daughters | Crime | Edward L. Cahn
Shake, Rattle & Rock! | Musical | Edward L. Cahn
January 1957 | Naked Paradise | Crime | Roger Corman
Flesh and the Spur | Western | Edward L. Cahn
March 1, 1957 | Voodoo Woman | Horror | Edward L. Cahn
The Undead | Horror | Roger Corman
April 24, 1957 | Dragstrip Girl | Action | Edward L. Cahn
Rock All Night | Crime | Roger Corman
June 19, 1957 | I Was a Teenage Werewolf | Horror | Gene Fowler Jr.
Invasion of the Saucer Men | Sci-fi | Edward L. Cahn
August 1957 | Naked Africa | Documentary | Ray Phoenix
The White Huntress | Adventure | George P. Breakston
August 1957 | Reform School Girl | Crime | Edward Bernds
Rock Around the World | Musical | Gerard Bryant
October 22, 1957 | Motorcycle Gang | Outlaw biker | Edward L. Cahn
Sorority Girl | Drama | Roger Corman
October 25, 1957 | The Amazing Colossal Man | Sci-fi | Bert I. Gordon
Cat Girl | Horror | Alfred Shaughnessy
November 23, 1957 | I Was a Teenage Frankenstein | Horror | Herbert L. Strock
Blood of Dracula | Horror | Herbert L. Strock
December 1957 | The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent | Adventure | Roger Corman
The Astounding She-Monster | Sci-fi horror | Ronald V. Ashcroft
January 1958 | The Screaming Skull | Horror | Alex Nicol
Terror from the Year 5000 | Sci-fi | Robert J. Gurney Jr.
February 1958 | Jet Attack | War | Edward L. Cahn
Suicide Battalion | War | Edward L. Cahn
March 1958 | The Cool and the Crazy | Drama | William Witney
Dragstrip Riot | Drama | David Bradley
May 28, 1958 | The Bonnie Parker Story | Crime | William Witney
Machine-Gun Kelly | Action | Roger Corman
June 1958 | High School Hellcats | Crime | Edward Bernds
Hot Rod Gang | Drama | Lew Landers
July 1, 1958 | How to Make a Monster | Horror | Herbert L. Strock
Teenage Caveman | Sci-fi | Roger Corman
July 30, 1958 | War of the Colossal Beast | Sci-fi | Bert I. Gordon
Attack of the Puppet People | Sci-fi | Bert I. Gordon
July 1958 | Hell Squad | War | Burt Topper
Tank Battalion | War | Sherman A. Rose
August 1958 | Night of the Blood Beast | Sci-fi horror | Bernard L. Kowalski
She Gods of Shark Reef | Adventure | Roger Corman
September 1958 | The Brain Eaters | Sci-fi horror | Bruno VeSota
Earth vs. the Spider | Sci-fi | Bert I. Gordon
December 1958 | Submarine Seahawk | War | Spencer Gordon Bennet
Paratroop Command | War | William Witney
March 1959 | Roadracers | Action | Arthur Swerdloff
Daddy-O | Crime | Lou Place
March 1959 | Tank Commandos | War | Burt Topper
Operation Dames | War | Louis Clyde Stoumen
April 29, 1959 | The Headless Ghost | Horror | Peter Graham Scott
Horrors of the Black Museum | Horror | Arthur Crabtree
July 1959 | Diary of a High School Bride | Romance | Burt Topper
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow | Horror | William J. Hole Jr.
September 23, 1959 | Sheba and the Gladiator | Sword-and-sandal | Guido Brignone
Goliath and the Barbarians | Sword-and-sandal | Carlo Campogalliani
October 21, 1959 | A Bucket of Blood | Horror | Roger Corman
Attack of the Giant Leeches | Sci-fi horror | Bernard L. Kowalski

### 1960s

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June 22, 1960 | House of Usher | Horror | Roger Corman
June 1960 | The Jailbreakers | Crime | Alex Grasshoff
Why Must I Die? | Crime | Roy Del Ruth
July 1960 | The Amazing Transparent Man | Sci-fi | Edgar G. Ulmer
Beyond the Time Barrier | Sci-fi | Edgar G. Ulmer
August 31, 1960 | Circus of Horrors | Horror | Sidney Hayers
The Angry Red Planet | Sci-fi | Sidney W. Pink
October 1960 | Journey to the Lost City | combined film of The Indian Tomb and The Tiger of Eschnapur | Fritz Lang
November 1960 | Goliath and the Dragon | Sword-and-sandal | Vittorio Cottafavi
February 15, 1961 | Black Sunday | Horror | Mario Bava
March 22, 1961 | The Hand | Crime | Henry Cass
Beware of Children | Comedy | Gerald Thomas
May 3, 1961 | Konga | Horror | John Lemont
Master of the World | Sci-fi | William Witney
July 14, 1961 | Alakazam the Great | Anime | Taiji Yabushita
Daisaku Shirakawa
August 12, 1961 | The Pit and the Pendulum | Horror | Roger Corman
October 1961 | Jekyll's Inferno | Horror | Terence Fisher
December 6, 1961 | Portrait of a Sinner | Drama | Robert Siodmak
December 12, 1961 | The Continental Twist | Musical | William J. Hole
December 13, 1961 | Assignment Outer Space | Sci-fi | Antonio Margheriti
The Phantom Planet | Sci-fi | William Marshall
December 28, 1961 | Flight of the Lost Balloon | Sci-fi adventure | Nathan Juran
January 1962 | Guns of the Black Witch | Adventure | Domenico Paolella
Lost Battalion | War | Eddie Romero
1962 | Battle Beyond the Sun | Sci-fi | Mikhail Karyukov
Aleksandr Kozyr
Night Tide | Horror | Curtis Harrington
March 7, 1962 | The Premature Burial | Horror | Roger Corman
March 10, 1962 | Journey to the Seventh Planet | Sci-fi | Sidney W. Pink
April 21, 1962 | Duel of Fire | Adventure | Umberto Lenzi
April 25, 1962 | Burn, Witch, Burn | Horror | Sidney Hayers
June 1962 | The Prisoner of the Iron Mask | Adventure | Francesco De Feo
June 6, 1962 | A House of Sand | Drama | Robert Darwin
July 4, 1962 | Tales of Terror | Horror | Roger Corman
Panic in Year Zero! | Nuclear war thriller | Ray Milland
August 10, 1962 | The Brain That Wouldn't Die | Sci-fi | Joseph Green
Invasion of the Star Creatures | Sci-fi comedy | Bruno VeSota
August 1962 | Marco Polo | Adventure | Piero Pierotti
September 1962 | White Slave Ship | Adventure | Silvio Amadio
November 18, 1962 | A Story of David | Biblical | Bob McNaught
December 1962 | Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World | Sword-and-sandal | Riccardo Freda
December 1962 | Warriors Five! | War | Leopoldo Savona
January 20, 1963 | Reptilicus | Sci-fi horror | Sidney W. Pink
January 25, 1963 | The Raven | Horror | Roger Corman
March 3, 1963 | California | Western | Hamil Petroff
March 26, 1963 | Operation Bikini | War | Anthony Carras
April 24, 1963 | Free, White and 21 | Drama | Larry Buchanan
May 1, 1963 | The Mind Benders | Spy | Basil Dearden
June 12, 1963 | Erik the Conqueror | Adventure | Mario Bava
June 17, 1963 | The Terror | Horror | Roger Corman
August 7, 1963 | Beach Party | Beach party | William Asher
August 28, 1963 | The Haunted Palace | Horror | Roger Corman
September 18, 1963 | X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes | Horror | Roger Corman
September 25, 1963 | Dementia 13 | Horror | Francis Coppola
December 18, 1963 | Samson and the Slave Queen | Sword-and-sandal | Umberto Lenzi
December 25, 1963 | Goliath and the Sins of Babylon | Sword-and-sandal | Michele Lupo
1964 | Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon | Sword-and-sandal | Domenico Paolella
January 22, 1964 | The Comedy of Terrors | Comedy horror | Jacques Tourneur
January 22, 1964 | Pyro... The Thing Without a Face | Horror | Julio Coll
March 12, 1964 | Summer Holiday | Beach party | Peter Yates
March 25, 1964 | Muscle Beach Party | Beach party | William Asher
March 1964 | Under Age | Drama | Larry Buchanan
April 1, 1964 | Commando | War | Frank Wisbar
Torpedo Bay | War | Charles Frend
Bruno Vailati
April 1964 | Unearthly Stranger | Sci-fi | John Krish
April 1964 | Goliath and the Vampires | Horror | Sergio Corbucci
Giacomo Gentilomo
May 6, 1964 | Black Sabbath | Horror anthology | Mario Bava
The Last Man on Earth | Horror | Ubaldo Ragona
Sidney Salkow
May 20, 1964 | The Evil Eye | Giallo | Mario Bava
June 24, 1964 | The Masque of the Red Death | Horror | Roger Corman
June 1964 | Some People | Musical | Clive Donner
July 2, 1964 | Swingers' Paradise | Musical | Sidney J. Furie
July 22, 1964 | Bikini Beach | Beach party | William Asher
September 17, 1964 | Godzilla vs. the Thing | Sci-fi | Ishirō Honda
September 1964 | Diary of a Bachelor | Comedy | Sandy Howard
October 29, 1964 | The Time Travelers | Sci-fi | Ib Melchior
November 11, 1964 | Pajama Party | Beach party | Don Weis
November 25, 1964 | Navajo Run | Western | Johnny Seven
November 25, 1964 | Voyage to the End of the Universe | Sci-fi | Jindřich Polák
December 16, 1964 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Drama | Jacques Demy
December 29, 1964 | T.A.M.I. Show | Concert documentary | Steve Binder
1965 | The Eye Creatures | Sci-fi | Larry Buchanan
January 20, 1965 | The Tomb of Ligeia | Horror | Roger Corman
January 27, 1965 | Operation Snafu | War comedy | Cyril Frankel
March 3, 1965 | The Lost World of Sinbad | Adventure | Senkichi Taniguchi
March 11, 1965 | Atragon | J-Horror | Ishirō Honda
March 1965 | Rome Against Rome | Sword-and-sandal | Giuseppe Vari
April 14, 1965 | Beach Blanket Bingo | Beach party | William Asher
April 20, 1965 | The Pawnbroker | Drama | Sidney Lumet
April 28, 1965 | The Fool Killer | Adventure drama | Servando González
April 1965 | Taboos of the World | Shockumentary | Romolo Marcellini
May 19, 1965 | Go Go Mania | Musical | Frederic Goode
May 26, 1965 | War-Gods of the Deep | Horror | Jacques Tourneur
June 30, 1965 | Ski Party | Beach party | Alan Rafkin
July 8, 1966 | Frankenstein Conquers the World | Sci-fi | Ishirō Honda
July 14, 1965 | How to Stuff a Wild Bikini | Beach party | William Asher
August 1, 1965 | Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet | Sci-fi | Curtis Harrington
August 18, 1965 | Sergeant Deadhead | Comedy | Norman Taurog
October 27, 1965 | Die, Monster, Die! | Horror | Daniel Haller
Planet of the Vampires | Sci-fi | Mario Bava
November 6, 1965 | Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine | Comedy | Norman Taurog
November 30, 1965 | King & Country | Drama | Joseph Losey
January 1, 1966 | Nashville Rebel | Comedy | Jay Sheridan
1966 | Zontar, the Thing from Venus | Sci-fi | Larry Buchanan
1966 | Curse of the Swamp Creature | Sci-fi | Larry Buchanan
January 12, 1966 | Secret Agent Fireball | Eurospy | Luciano Martino
Spy in Your Eye | Eurospy | Vittorio Sala
January 1966 | The Big T.N.T. Show | Concert documentary | Larry Peerce
January 1966 | Conquered City | War | Joseph Anthony
March 2, 1966 | Queen of Blood | Sci-fi | Curtis Harrington
Blood Bath | Horror | Jack Hill
April 12, 1966 | The Girl-Getters | Drama | Michael Winner
April 13, 1966 | The Dirty Game | Eurospy anthology | Christian-Jaque
Werner Klingler
Carlo Lizzani
Terence Young
April 1966 | Man from Cocody | Action | Christian-Jaque
April 1966 | What's Up, Tiger Lily? | Spy comedy film | Woody Allen
Senkichi Taniguchi
April 1966 | The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini | Beach party | Don Weis
May 1966 | The Great Spy Chase | Eurospy | Georges Lautner
May 1966 | Our Man in Marrakesh | Action | Don Sharp
June 7, 1966 | Fireball 500 | Car racing film | William Asher
July 1966 | Tarzan and the Valley of Gold | Adventure | Robert Day
July 20, 1966 | The Wild Angels | Outlaw biker | Roger Corman
November 9, 1966 | Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs | Eurospy comedy | Mario Bava
November 1966 | Door to Door Maniac | Crime | Bill Karn
December 28, 1966 | Trunk to Cairo | Spy | Menahem Golan
1967 | Mars Needs Women | Sci-fi | Larry Buchanan
1967 | In the Year 2889 | Sci-fi | Larry Buchanan
1967 | Creature of Destruction | Sci-fi | Larry Buchanan
January 18, 1967 | War Italian Style | War comedy | Luigi Scattini
March 18, 1967 | Riot on Sunset Strip | Drama | Arthur Dreifuss
March 22, 1967 | Thunder Alley | Car racing film | Richard Rush
April 1967 | Devil's Angels | Outlaw biker film | Daniel Haller
May 17, 1967 | The Million Eyes of Sumuru | Action | Lindsay Shonteff
June 1967 | Love Is a Woman | Mystery | Frederic Goode
August 23, 1967 | The Trip | Drama | Roger Corman
November 1967 | The House of 1,000 Dolls | Crime | Jeremy Summers
November 22, 1967 | The Glory Stompers | Outlaw biker | Anthony M. Lanza
1968 | Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women | Sci-fi | Peter Bogdanovich
January 18, 1968 | The Born Losers | Outlaw biker | T. C. Frank
January 24, 1968 | Maryjane | Drama | Maury Dexter
January 24, 1968 | The Wild Racers | Racing car film | Daniel Haller
March 28, 1968 | The Road Hustlers | Action | Larry E. Jackson
May 1968 | The Mini-Skirt Mob | Outlaw biker | Maury Dexter
May 1968 | The Savage Seven | Outlaw biker | Richard Rush
May 15, 1968 | Witchfinder General | Horror | Michael Reeves
May 29, 1968 | Wild in the Streets | Comedy-drama | Barry Shear
September 22, 1968 | Psych-Out | Drama | Richard Rush
October 1968 | The Young Animals | Drama | Maury Dexter
November 1968 | Killers Three | Crime | Bruce Kessler
December 4, 1968 | The Brute and the Beast | Spaghetti Western | Lucio Fulci
December 20, 1968 | Three in the Attic | Comedy-drama | Richard Wilson
1969 | 'It's Alive!' | Horror | Larry Buchanan
March 18, 1969 | The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots | Anime | Kimio Yabuki
April 16, 1969 | Hell's Belles | Outlaw biker | Maury Dexter
May 1969 | God Forgives... I Don't! | Spaghetti Western | Giuseppe Colizzi
May 14, 1969 | The Devil's 8 | Moonshine Action | Burt Topper
May 23, 1969 | Destroy All Monsters | Sci-fi | Ishirō Honda
June 11, 1969 | The Oblong Box | Horror | Gordon Hessler
June 20, 1969 | Carry on Camping | Comedy | Gerald Thomas
July 23, 1969 | Spirits of the Dead | Horror anthology | Roger Vadim
Louis Malle
Federico Fellini
August 19, 1969 | Angel, Angel, Down We Go | Crime | Robert Thom
August 27, 1969 | De Sade | Drama | Cy Endfield
Uncredited:
Roger Corman
Gordon Hessler
September 8, 1969 | The Honeymoon Killers | Crime | Leonard Kastle
September 10, 1969 | Hell's Angels '69 | Outlaw biker | Lee Madden
Conny Van Dyke
October 7, 1969 | Battle of Neretva | War film | Veljko Bulajić

### 1970s

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1970 | Pacific Vibrations | Documentary | John Severson |
January 1970 | The Savage Wild | Documentary | Gordon Eastman
January 1970 | Scream and Scream Again | Sci-fi thriller | Gordon Hessler
January 14, 1970 | The Dunwich Horror | Horror | Daniel Haller
March 24, 1970 | Bloody Mama | Drama | Roger Corman
April 15, 1970 | The Haunted House of Horror | Slasher | Michael Armstrong
April 15, 1970 | The Crimson Cult | Horror | Vernon Sewell
May 8, 1970 | Lola | Romantic comedy-drama | Richard Donner
June 1970 | A Bullet for Pretty Boy | Action | Larry Buchanan
June 10, 1970 | Count Yorga, Vampire | Horror | Bob Kelljan
July 22, 1970 | Cry of the Banshee | Horror | Gordon Hessler
September 2, 1970 | Angel Unchained | Outlaw biker | Lee Madden
September 9, 1970 | Venus in Furs | Erotic thriller | Jesús Franco
October 22, 1970 | The Vampire Lovers | Horror | Roy Ward Baker
November 1970 | Bora Bora | Drama | Ugo Liberatore
February 3, 1971 | Julius Caesar | Drama | Stuart Burge
February 17, 1971 | Gas-s-s-s | Sci-fi comedy-drama | Roger Corman
February 18, 1971 | Wuthering Heights | Romance | Robert Fuest
March 17, 1971 | Blood and Lace | Horror | Philip S. Gilbert
April 22, 1971 | The Hard Ride | Outlaw biker | Burt Topper
April 28, 1971 | The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant | Sci-fi horror | Anthony Lanza
May 18, 1971 | The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Comedy horror | Robert Fuest
August 20, 1971 | Swedish Fly Girls | Drama | Jack O'Connell
September 29, 1971 | Chrome and Hot Leather | Outlaw biker | Lee Frost
October 6, 1971 | Murders in the Rue Morgue | Horror | Gordon Hessler
October 13, 1971 | A Lizard in a Woman's Skin | Giallo | Lucio Fulci
October 18, 1971 | Bunny O'Hare | Comedy | Gerd Oswald
October 27, 1971 | Some of My Best Friends Are... | Drama | Mervyn Nelson
October 1971 | 1000 Convicts and a Woman | Drama | Ray Austin
December 22, 1971 | Kidnapped | Adventure | Delbert Mann
January 19, 1972 | Together | Mockumentary | Sean S. Cunningham
February 2, 1972 | The Return of Count Yorga | Horror | Bob Kelljan
February 1972 | Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster | Kaiju | Yoshimitsu Banno
March 10, 1972 | Frogs | Horror | George McCowan
March 15, 1972 | Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? | Horror | Curtis Harrington
April 1972 | Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde | Sci-fi horror | Roy Ward Baker
May 3, 1972 | A Bay of Blood | Horror | Mario Bava
May 17, 1972 | Blood from the Mummy's Tomb | Horror | Seth Holt
May 1972 | Pickup on 101 | Drama | John Florea
Wild in the Sky | Action comedy | William T. Naud
The Bloody Judge | Horror | Jesús Franco
June 14, 1972 | Boxcar Bertha | Crime | Martin Scorsese
July 19, 1972 | The Thing with Two Heads | Sci-fi | Lee Frost
July 21, 1972 | F.T.A. | Documentary | Francine Parker
July 1972 | Dr. Phibes Rises Again | Horror | Robert Fuest
August 16, 1972 | Slaughter | Blaxploitation | Jack Starrett
August 25, 1972 | Blacula | Blaxploitation | William Crain
August 1972 | Deathmaster | Horror | Ray Danton
The Sandpit Generals | Drama | Hall Bartlett
September 1972 | Tam-Lin | Horror | Roddy McDowall
October 10, 1972 | Baron Blood | Horror | Mario Bava
November 1972 | The Dirt Gang | Action drama | Jerry Jameson
November 10, 1972 | Unholy Rollers | Action comedy | Vernon Zimmerman
November 22, 1972 | Prison Girls | Crime | Thomas De Simone
January 19, 1973 | Black Mama White Mama | Women in prison | Eddie Romero
January 1973 | Manson | Documentary | Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick
February 7, 1973 | Black Caesar | Blaxploitation | Larry Cohen
March 27, 1973 | Sisters | Horror | Brian De Palma
April 1973 | Cannibal Girls | Comedy horror | Ivan Reitman
May 4, 1973 | Deep Thrust | Action | Huang Feng
June 13, 1973 | Coffy | Blaxploitation | Jack Hill
June 27, 1973 | Scream, Blacula, Scream | Blaxploitation | Bob Kelljan
June 1973 | Little Cigars | Crime comedy | Chris Christenberry
July 20, 1973 | Dillinger | Crime | John Milius
August 8, 1973 | Heavy Traffic | Animated comedy-drama | Ralph Bakshi
August 31, 1973 | Slaughter's Big Rip-Off | Blaxploitation | Gordon Douglas
September 1973 | Death Line | Horror | Gary Sherman
October 31, 1973 | The Italian Connection | Action | Fernando di Leo
October 1973 | The Screaming Tiger | Action | Lung Chien
November 21, 1973 | Battle of the Amazons | Sword-and-sandal | Alfonso Brescia
December 1973 | Hell Up in Harlem | Blaxploitation | Larry Cohen
December 31, 1973 | School for Unclaimed Girls | Drama | Robert Hartford-Davis
January 30, 1974 | The Bat People | Horror | Jerry Jameson
February 13, 1974 | Bamboo Gods and Iron Men | Blaxploitation comedy | Cesar Gallardo
February 1974 | Secret Life of a Schoolgirl Wife | Comedy-drama | Leon Capetanos
March 6, 1974 | Deranged | Horror | Alan Ormsby
March 20, 1974 | Sugar Hill | Blaxploitation horror | Paul Maslansky
April 5, 1974 | Foxy Brown | Blaxploitation | Jack Hill
May 15, 1974 | Truck Stop Women | Action | Mark L. Lester
May 24, 1974 | Madhouse | Horror | Jim Clark
June 5, 1974 | Thriller: A Cruel Picture | Rape and revenge | Alex Fridolinski
Dirty O'Neil | Crime thriller | Leon Capetanos
Lewis Teague
June 26, 1974 | The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat | Animated comedy | Robert Taylor
Truck Turner | Blaxploitation | Jonathan Kaplan
July 17, 1974 | Golden Needles | Action | Robert Clouse
July 1974 | Savage Sisters | Women in prison | Eddie Romero
August 8, 1974 | Macon County Line | Action | Richard Compton
August 18, 1974 | Act of Vengeance | Horror | Bob Kelljan
October 1974 | Hangup | Action | Henry Hathaway
November 22, 1974 | Sunday in the Country | Crime thriller | John Trent
December 25, 1974 | Abby | Blaxploitation horror | William Girdler
1975 | Vampira | Comedy horror | Clive Donner
February 1975 | Super Stooges vs. the Wonder Women | Superhero comedy | Alfonso Brescia
March 26, 1975 | Sheba, Baby | Blaxploitation | William Girdler
March 1975 | House of Whipcord | Horror | Pete Walker
War Goddess | Adventure | Terence Young
The Wild Party | Comedy-drama | James Ivory
April 25, 1975 | The Reincarnation of Peter Proud | Mystery horror | J. Lee Thompson
May 21, 1975 | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Drama | Joseph Manduke
The Wild McCullochs | Drama | Max Baer Jr.
May 1975 | What Have You Done to Solange? | Giallo | Massimo Dallamano
June 11, 1975 | Murph the Surf | Biographical crime comedy | Marvin J. Chomsky
June 25, 1975 | Cooley High | Comedy-drama | Michael Schultz | Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2021
July 2, 1975 | Bucktown | Blaxploitation | Arthur Marks
July 31, 1975 | Hennessy | Thriller | Don Sharp
August 13, 1975 | The Land That Time Forgot | Adventure fantasy | Kevin Connor
September 3, 1975 | Return to Macon County | Drama | Richard Compton
September 28, 1975 | Walking Tall Part 2 | Crime | Earl Bellamy
December 17, 1975 | Sixpack Annie | Action comedy | Graydon F. David
December 25, 1975 | Friday Foster | Blaxploitation | Arthur Marks
January 14, 1976 | Killer Force | Thriller | Val Guest
March 1976 | Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw | Crime drama | Mark L. Lester
One Summer Love | Romantic drama | Gilbert Cates
April 21, 1976 | Crime and Passion | Crime | Ivan Passer
May 1976 | Annie | Drama | Massimo Dallamano
June 18, 1976 | The Food of the Gods | Sci-fi thriller | Bert I. Gordon
June 23, 1976 | The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday | Comedy | Don Taylor
I Don't Want to Be Born | Horror | Peter Sasdy
July 9, 1976 | A Small Town in Texas | Crime | Jack Starrett
July 30, 1976 | Squirm | Horror | Jeff Lieberman
July 1976 | At the Earth's Core | Sci-fi fantasy | Kevin Connor
Special Delivery | Crime comedy | Paul Wendkos
August 13, 1976 | Futureworld | Sci-fi thriller | Richard T. Heffron
August 25, 1976 | J.D.'s Revenge | Blaxploitation | Arthur Marks
September 17, 1976 | Street People | Action | Maurizio Lucidi
October 7, 1976 | A Matter of Time | Musical | Vincente Minnelli
October 8, 1976 | Scorchy | Crime | Howard Avedis
November 24, 1976 | Shout at the Devil | War | Peter R. Hunt
December 24, 1976 | The Monkey Hustle | Blaxploitation | Arthur Marks
The Town That Dreaded Sundown | Horror | Charles B. Pierce
December 1976 | Escape from Angola | Adventure | Leslie H. Martinson
January 23, 1977 | The Day That Shook the World | Historical drama | Veljko Bulajić
February 2, 1977 | Chatterbox | Sex comedy | Tom DeSimone
February 11, 1977 | Strange Shadows in an Empty Room | Crime | Alberto De Martino
March 4, 1977 | Death Weekend | Horror | William Fruet
April 1, 1977 | Breaker! Breaker! | Action | Don Hulette
June 15, 1977 | Tentacles | Horror | Ovidio G. Assonitis
June 29, 1977 | Empire of the Ants | Sci-fi horror | Bert I. Gordon
July 6, 1977 | The People That Time Forgot | Adventure fantasy | Kevin Connor
July 13, 1977 | The Island of Dr. Moreau | Sci-fi fantasy horror | Don Taylor
August 10, 1977 | The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane | Mystery thriller | Nicolas Gessner
August 17, 1977 | Joyride | Adventure crime comedy | Joseph Ruben
August 31, 1977 | Walking Tall: Final Chapter | Crime | Jack Starrett
October 14, 1977 | Rolling Thunder | Neo-noir | John Flynn
December 28, 1977 | Grayeagle | Western adventure | Charles B. Pierce
December 1977 | The Incredible Melting Man | Sci-fi horror | William Sachs
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Biographical drama | Larry Cohen
February 1978 | Record City | Comedy | Dennis Steinmetz
March 1978 | Last Cannibal World | Horror | Ruggero Deodato
April 19, 1978 | Holocaust 2000 | Horror | Alberto De Martino
May 13, 1978 | Jennifer | Horror | Brice Mack
May 24, 1978 | Youngblood | Action | Noel Nosseck
May 26, 1978 | Here Come the Tigers | Sports comedy | Sean S. Cunningham
High-Ballin' | Action comedy | Peter Carter
May 1978 | Our Winning Season | Drama | Joseph Ruben
June 6, 1978 | Cracking Up | Comedy | Rowby Goren
Chuck Staley
June 22, 1978 | Matilda | Comedy | Daniel Mann
June 1978 | Who Can Kill a Child? | Spanish horror | Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
July 14, 1978 | Mean Dog Blues | Drama | Mel Stuart
October 5, 1978 | The Norsemen | Adventure | Charles B. Pierce
December 8, 1978 | Force 10 from Navarone | War | Guy Hamilton
April 18, 1979 | The Evictors | Crime horror | Charles B. Pierce
April 27, 1979 | Love at First Bite | Comedy horror | Stan Dragoti
June 1, 1979 | Sunnyside | Action | Timothy Galfas
July 27, 1979 | The Amityville Horror | Horror | Stuart Rosenberg
September 14, 1979 | California Dreaming | Comedy-drama | John D. Hancock
September 1979 | Seven | Action crime | Andy Sidaris
October 5, 1979 | Something Short of Paradise | Romantic comedy | David Helpern
October 19, 1979 | Meteor | Disaster | Ronald Neame
November 1979 | Jaguar Lives! | Action | Ernest Pintoff
December 21, 1979 | C.H.O.M.P.S. | Sci-fi comedy | Don Chaffey

### 1980s

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February 15, 1980 | Mad Max | Action | George Miller | Australian sci-fi dystopian film dubbed in American English
March 14, 1980 | Defiance | Action | John Flynn |
March 14, 1980 | The Visitor | Sci-fi horror | Michael J. Paradise | Initially planned for AIP release, but sold off to independent distributor The International Picture Show; rights to the film would eventually come back full circle to MGM
March 28, 1980 | Nothing Personal | Romantic comedy | George Bloomfield |
May 1, 1980 | Gorp | Sex comedy | Joseph Ruben | Final film released under AIP banner
July 11, 1980 | How to Beat the High Cost of Living | Crime comedy | Robert Scheerer | Released through Filmways Pictures
July 25, 1980 | Dressed to Kill | Horror | Brian De Palma | Released through Filmways Pictures
January 1981 | Underground Aces | Comedy | Robert Butler | Last AIP produced film until its resurrection on October 7, 2020, by MGM; released through Filmways Pictures

### 2020s

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February 12, 2021 | Breaking News in Yuba County | Comedy-crime-drama | Tate Taylor | First film following relaunch
July 20, 2021 | How it Ends | Comedy-drama | Daryl Wein
Zoe Lister-Jones |
August 24, 2021 | Summer Days, Summer Nights | Comedy-drama | Edward Burns |
February 11, 2022 | Minamata | Drama | Andrew Levitas |
September 9, 2022 | About Fate | Romantic comedy | Maryus Vaysberg |
September 22, 2022 | Duetto | Drama | Vicente Amorim | Brazilian film

### Unproduced films

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The following films were announced for production by AIP, but never made:

* an adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's She (1958, dir. Roger Corman)[57]
* Even and the Dragon (1958, dir. Stanley Shpetner)[58]
* Take Me to Your Leader (1958) – a part-animated feature[59]
* Aladdin and the Giant (1959) – produced by Herman Cohen[60]
* In the Year 2889 (1959) – from the novel by Jules Verne[61]
* The Talking Dog (1959) – a comedy[61]
* When the Sleeper Wakes from the novel by H. G. Wells (1960–62)[62] – Vincent Price was announced as a star in 1965[63]
* a color remake of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1961)[64]
* Genghis Khan (1960s, dir. Jacques Tourneur) – a Roadshow production with a $4.5 million budget[65]
* The Great Deluge – story of Noah's Ark[66]
* War of the Planets (1962) – a $2 million sci-fi epic starring Vincent Price and Boris Karloff based on a script by Harlan Ellison[67]
* Off on a Comet (1962) – a filming of Jules Verne's novel advertised in comic books[68]
* Stratofin (1962) based on Jules Verne's Master of the World[69]
* It's Alive (1963) with Peter Lorre, Harvey Lembeck and Elsa Lanchester[70]
* Something in the Walls (1963)[71]
* The Magnificent Leonardi (1963) – with Ray Milland[71]
* Sins of Babylon (1963)[71]
* Rumble (1963) with Avalon and Funicello from a book by Harlan Ellison about New York gangs[70]
* The Graveside Story (1964) – with Price, Karloff, Lorre and Elsa Lanchester[72]
* The Gold Bug (1964) with Price, Lorre and Lanchester[72]
* The Chase (circa 1965) – a silent comedy starring Buster Keaton[73]
* Malibu Madness (1965)[63]
* The Haunted Palace (1965)[63]
* Seven Footprints to Satan (1965)[63]
* The Jet Set or Jet Set Party (1964, dir. William Asher) – with Avalon and Funicello[74]
* Malibu Madness (1965)[75]
* Robin Hood Jones (1966, dir. William Asher) – a musical about Robin Hood starring Price, Avalon, Funicello and Susan Hart[76]
* Cruise Party (1966) – with Avalon and Dwayne Hickman[76][77]
* The Girl in the Glass Bikini (1966, dir. William Asher) – a sci-fi/comedy with Avalon, Funicello and Aron Kincaid[78]
* The Girl in the Glass Castle (1966) – a musical comedy with a $1 million budget[79]
* The Hatfields and the McCoys (1966) – a musical with Avalon and Funicello[80]
* It (1967) – based on Richard Matheson's story "Being"[79]
* The Golem (1967)[79]

### Financial earnings

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* 1970 – $22.7 million[81]
* 1971 – $21.4 million[82]
* 1972 – $24 million
* 1973 – $24.5 million[83] – profit $744,000[84]
* 1974 – $32.5 million – profit of $931,400[39]
* 1975 – $48.2 million[85]
* 1978 – $51.2 million – profit $1.8 million[86]

## Notes

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1. ^ "AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURES LLC". Dun & Bradstreet. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
2. ^ Johnson, John Cheap Tricks and Class Acts, 1996, McFarland, p.265
3. ^ "Artist Interviews » Les Baxter". www.artistinterviews.eu. Retrieved April 21, 2018.
4. ^ Scheuer, Philip K. (September 17, 1958). "Shocker Pioneers Tell How to Make Monsters: Want to Make a Monster? Experts Tell How It's Done". Los Angeles Times. p. E1.
5. ^ Samuel Z Arkoff Biography, Fancast, archived from the original on July 23, 2011.
6. ^ a b c Doherty, Thomas (1988), Teenagers and Teenpics, Unwin-Hyman.
7. ^ Booker, M. Keith (2011). Historical dictionary of American cinema. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 22\. ISBN 978-0-8108-7192-2.
8. ^ Albert Kallis – bio, Learn about movie posters, archived from the original on March 21, 2008.
9. ^ Vagg, Stephen (December 4, 2024). "Beach Party: An Appreciation". Filmink. Retrieved December 11, 2024.
10. ^ Bean, Robin and Austen, David U.S.A. Confidential p. 215 Films and Filming November 1968 quoted in p. 157 Doherty, Thomas Teenagers and Teenpics Unwin-Hyman 1988
11. ^ a b Scheuer, Philip K. (September 21, 1958). "Shocker Pioneers Tell How to Make Monsters: Want to Make a Monster? Experts Tell How It's Done". Los Angeles Times. p. E1.
12. ^ Gordon, Alex (May 1983). "The Pit and the Pen". Fangoria. No. 27\. pp. 34–37.34-37&rft.date=1983-05&rft.aulast=Gordon&rft.aufirst=Alex&rft_id=https://archive.org/details/Fangoria_027/page/n36/mode/1up/search/%22five+guns+west%22?q=%22five+guns+west%22&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:American+International+Pictures" class="Z3988">
13. ^ "Creator/American International Pictures". TV Tropes. Retrieved March 3, 2023.
14. ^ Vagg, Stephen (January 21, 2025). "Forgotten British Moguls: Nat Cohen – Part Three (1962-68)". Filmink. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
15. ^ "Colonial of NY Coin Source For Amer. Int'l Fix". Variety. March 25, 1959. p. 24.
16. ^ a b Corman, Roger; Jerome, Jim (1998). How I Made Over a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime. DaCapo Press.
17. ^ "P as in Poe and Public Domain". Variety. October 3, 1962. p. 30.
18. ^ Alpert, Don (July 15, 1962). "Who Needs High Salaried Stars? Horrors! Film Makers Find Audiences Prefer Action". Los Angeles Times. p. A8.
19. ^ "AIP Reveals Its 1968 Film Program". Los Angeles Times. January 13, 1968. p. b7.
20. ^ VINCENT CANBY (March 2, 1969). "Bye, Bye, Beach Bunnies: Bye, Bye, Beach Bunnies". The New York Times. p. D1.
21. ^ p. 96 + p. 214 Arkoff, Sam and Trubo, Richard Flying Through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants 1990 Carol Publishing
22. ^ "International Secret Police". tokyo street report. April 16, 2009. Archived from the original on July 4, 2010. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
23. ^ "American-International Television (AIP-TV) – IMDbPro". imdb.com. Retrieved April 21, 2018.
24. ^ Heffernan, Kevin Ghouls Gimmicks and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 2004, Duke University Press, p.167
25. ^ "14 More Join Label Parade". Billboard. June 8, 1959. p. 9. Retrieved August 2, 2010 - via Internet Archive. "American International Records"
26. ^ "American International Records – CDs and Vinyl". Discogs. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
27. ^ "Together/AIR Album Discography". Bsnpubs.com. April 12, 2000. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
28. ^ "American International Pictures". The Wall Street Journal. June 3, 1969. p. 29.
29. ^ "American International Pictures". The Wall Street Journal. July 10, 1969. p. 27.
30. ^ "American International Pictures Enters Film Accord". The Wall Street Journal. April 10, 1970. p. 22.
31. ^ Warga, Wayne (January 28, 1971). "30 FEATURES SET: AIP ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR BUSIEST FILM YEAR". Los Angeles Times. p. g11.
32. ^ "X-Rated Movies: On the Downswing?". The Washington Post and Times-Herald. March 31, 1971. p. B4.
33. ^ "Nicholson to Quit American International Pictures Post". The Wall Street Journal. January 17, 1972. p. 18.
34. ^ "Nicholson Plans Own Film Firm". Los Angeles Times. January 22, 1972. p. b6.
35. ^ "California Film Maker Buys Own Stock From Ex-Officer". The Wall Street Journal. September 19, 1972. p. 43.
36. ^ "J.H. Nicholson, Film Maker, Dies of Cancer". Los Angeles Times. December 11, 1972. p. 26.
37. ^ Vagg, Stephen (May 21, 2024). "Top Ten Corman – Part Eight, Corman's Studios". Filmink.
38. ^ Taylor, Clarke (October 8, 1978). "LARRY GORDON ROLLS HIS DICE". Los Angeles Times. p. n35.
39. ^ a b "The dime-store way to make movies-and money by Aljean Harmetz". The New York Times. August 4, 1974. p. 202.
40. ^ "Policy Shift Set by American International Pictures Inc". The Wall Street Journal. May 25, 1972. p. 7.
41. ^ "American International Pictures Buys Shares From Sylvia Nicholson". The Wall Street Journal. April 19, 1978. p. 36.
42. ^ "Filmways Inc. Signs Accord in Principle For Movie Maker". The Wall Street Journal. October 10, 1978. p. 48.
43. ^ "American International Pictures, Filmways Inc. Terminates Merger Plan". The Wall Street Journal. December 11, 1978. p. 20.
44. ^ Jones, John A. (February 12, 1979). "May Revive Merger Talks With Filmways, AIP Says". Los Angeles Times. p. d12.
45. ^ "Filmways Says Assets Were Overstated For American International Pictures Inc". The Wall Street Journal. December 3, 1979. p. 8.
46. ^ "AIP BITES DUST AS FILMWAYS RENAMES STUDIO". Los Angeles Times. March 13, 1980. p. f3.
47. ^ "President of Filmways' American International Pictures Resigns Post". The Wall Street Journal. December 6, 1979. p. 30.
48. ^ "Filmways Inc. Pays Ex-Aide $1.4 Million". The Wall Street Journal. July 8, 1980. p. 8.
49. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 14, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2010.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
50. ^ Welles, Chris (May 15, 1983). "How Accountants Helped Orion Pictures Launch Its Financial Comeback". Los Angeles Times. p. f1.
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59. ^ Smith, p. 99.
60. ^ Smith, p. 114.
61. ^ a b Smith, p. 118.
62. ^ Smith, p. 159.
63. ^ a b c d Smith, p. 249.
64. ^ Smith, p. 161.
65. ^ Smith, p. 188, 230.
66. ^ Smith, p. 188.
67. ^ Smith, p. 192.
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71. ^ a b c Smith, p. 208.
72. ^ a b Scheuer, Philip K. (January 2, 1964). "AIP Millions for Poe, Beach Parties: 'Flowers' Oscar Hopeful; Burton Buys, May Direct". Los Angeles Times. p. C11.
73. ^ "Hollywood To Make A Big Silent Film". The Times. London. March 3, 1965. p. 15 - via The Times Digital Archive.
74. ^ Dorothy Kilgallen (June 11, 1964). "Howard Hughes, Aide Part Company". The Washington Post. p. E22.
75. ^ Smith, p. 262.
76. ^ a b Smith, p. 289.
77. ^ "American Film Executive On Study Visit". South China Morning Post and Hongkong Telegraph. September 15, 1965. p. 7.
78. ^ "MOVIE CALL SHEET: Spiegel to Film 'Swimmer'". Los Angeles Times. March 19, 1965. p. D13.
79. ^ a b c "American International Expanding Operations". Los Angeles Times. May 4, 1966. p. e13.
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81. ^ "American International Pictures' Profit Steady: Company Says Results for Third Fiscal Quarter Were About the Same as for Year-Ago Period". The Wall Street Journal. October 12, 1971. p. 37.
82. ^ "American International Pictures". The Wall Street Journal. May 9, 1973. p. 19.
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84. ^ "Stockholder Meeting Briefs". The Wall Street Journal. June 26, 1973. p. 35.
85. ^ "American International Will Be 'Happy' if Net Matches Fiscal 1975's". The Wall Street Journal. October 27, 1975. p. 18.
86. ^ Bry, Barbara (January 5, 1979). "AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL EPIC: CHINESE BOOK U.S. FILM 'FUTUREWORLD'". Los Angeles Times. p. d16.

## References

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* Mark Thomas McGee (1995). Faster and Furiouser: The Story of American International Pictures'. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-0137-0..
* Gary A. Smith (2013). American International Pictures: The Golden Years. Bear Manor Media.
* Hamilton, John (2022). Witches, B*tches and Banshees: The British Films of American International. Little Shoppe of Horrors. ISBN 979-8416552794.

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