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Dwain Atkins Esper (October 7, 1894 – October 18, 1982) was an American director and producer of exploitation films.
Dwain Esper. Producer: The Seventh Commandment. Dwain Esper was probably the most obscure of the 'Hollywood hack' filmmakers of the 1930s alongside Victor Adamson, Robert J. Horner and others whom directed low-budget Westerns feature films and serials.
- Producer, Director, Additional Crew
- October 7, 1893
- Dwain Esper
- October 18, 1982
Jul 23, 2011 · The strange but true story of Dwain Esper - provocateur, showman, con artist and auteur behind some of the 1930's most notorious exploitation films, including Reefer Madness, Marihuana,...
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- Jack Criddle
Maniac (also known as Sex Maniac) is a 1934 American independent black-and-white exploitation horror film directed by Dwain Esper and written by Hildagarde Stadie, Esper's wife, as a loose adaptation of the 1843 Edgar Allan Poe story "The Black Cat", with references to his "Murders in the Rue Morgue".
Maniac: Directed by Dwain Esper. With Bill Woods, Horace B. Carpenter, Ted Edwards, Phyllis Diller. A former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself.
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- Horror, Sci-Fi
- Dwain Esper
- 1934-09-11
Mar 27, 2007 · But opuses like Maniac and Narcotic are, with a little sleuthing, still easy to obtain, thanks to an ironic twist of copyright law: every film created by Dwain Esper, the guy who went into ...
Dwain Esper is known as an Director, Producer, Presenter, Writer, Sound, and Sound Engineer. Some of his work includes Maniac, Marihuana, Sex Madness, Narcotic, How to Undress in Front of Your Husband, Sinister Harvest, How to Take a Bath, and The Seventh Commandment.
