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Sidney Pink, a movie producer who helped pry filmgoers away from their television sets in the early 1950s with the first 3-D feature-length movie, "Bwana Devil," has died.
Pink followed Journey with a score of highly regarded films including The Castilian (1962, with Ceasar Romero), Reptilicus (still playing today on television, and a prestige format screenplay book has just been released with some great never-before-seen pictures), Madigan’s Millions (1968, having the dubious honor of being Dustin Hoffman’s first film work) and The Man from O.R.G.Y. (1970 ...
Sidney W. Pink (1916-2002) was an American film producer and occasional director. [1] He has been called the father of feature-length 3-D movies.He is also noted for producing early Spaghetti Westerns and low-budget science-fiction films, and for his role in actor Dustin Hoffman's transition from stage to screen.
Sidney W. Pink. Producer: Reptilicus. Sidney W. Pink was born on 6 March 1916 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Reptilicus (1961), Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962) and The Angry Red Planet (1959).
- Producer, Writer, Director
- March 6, 1916
- Sidney W. Pink
- October 12, 2002
Budget. $200,000. The Angry Red Planet (also called Invasion of Mars and Journey to Planet Four) is a 1959 American science fiction film directed by Ib Melchior and starring Gerald Mohr. [1][2] Melchior reportedly had an initial production budget of only $200,000 and was given just nine days to film it. [3] Such financial and time constraints ...
Kip Doto's book Reptilicus: The Screenplay (1999) was the first publication to attempt a listing of the main differences between Poul Bang's Danish-language Reptilicus and Sidney Pink's English-language Reptilicus. This was followed by a critical comparison of the two films in Video Watchdog #96, 2003, noting that "almost every time the camera placement and editing differs between the two ...
The Twonky. The Twonky is a 1953 independently made American black-and-white science fiction / comedy film, produced by A.D. Nast, Jr., Arch Oboler, and Sidney Pink, written and directed by Arch Oboler, and starring Hans Conried, Gloria Blondell, Billy Lynn, and Edwin Max. [1] The film was distributed by United Artists.
