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Sam Katzman (July 7, 1901 – August 4, 1973) was an American film producer and director. Katzman's specialty was producing low-budget genre films, including serials, which had disproportionately high returns for the studios and his financial backers.
Sam Katzman. Producer: Amateur Crook. New York-born Sam Katzman entered the film industry as a prop boy at age 13, and worked his way up the ladder, learning virtually every facet of film production before becoming a producer himself.
Sam Katzman. Producer: Amateur Crook. New York-born Sam Katzman entered the film industry as a prop boy at age 13, and worked his way up the ladder, learning virtually every facet of film production before becoming a producer himself.
The legendary “Jungle Sam” Katzman died August 4, 1973, at 72. At the end of Ch. 12 of “Hop Harrigan”, young Buzz Henry, flying out of a deep canyon, hits the edge of the mountain with the plane’s wings and dramatically cartwheels the plane!
Despite his busy life, Katzman found time to get married. While he and Ronna Warsh have been divorced for more than 30 years, they have maintained a close relationship in order to give their only son Sam a solid upbringing.
Dec 9, 2015 · Sam Katzman started working in movies as an adolescent in the early teens, eventually working his way up to producer at various poverty row companies including Monogram – serials, westerns and jungle pictures – before landing at Columbia in 1945.
Oct 28, 2021 · Arrow Video's new Blu-ray box set Cold War Creatures: Four Films from Sam Katzman perfectly embodies this, and the films included run the gamut in terms of quality. On one end of the spectrum is the exceptional 1956 noir-esque The Werewolf , brimming with tension, tragedy, and pathos.
