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What IMDb tells you, what Wikipedia tells you are the names of the characters, not necessarily what the characters call themselves within the context of the movie.

Even the AIP press book refers to Brett Halsey's character as Burt Morris, but everybody calls him Brad.

So we're calling him Morris throughout this.

Yeah, that's what I wrote down in my notes.

Rhett Halsley, born Charles Oliver Hand, took his stage name from his great-uncle, U.S. Navy Admiral William F. Halsey.

He got his start in acting after meeting Jack Benny and his wife Mary Livingstone while working as a page at CBS Television Studios.

He also appeared in the AIP film Submarine Seahawk and High School Hellcats in 1958 and in Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die in 1968 and Where Does It Hurt in 1972, both originally released by Cinerama and later placed in television packages from American International.

He's still alive today and, according to IMDb, has two projects in development.

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Back with Corman, working on his film Gas, or how it became necessary to destroy the world in order to save it.

After shooting that film and the edit that American International Pictures did to it, that's when Corman said, you know what? I'm starting my own company to help with working for AIP.

And that company, of course, is New World Pictures, which is why we've been doing this podcast for seven years.

His partner in those early days was Larry Woolner, and he actually helped come up with the concept of the Nurses films, as Roger Corman reveals in his book, How I Made 100 Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime.

We've already seen his previous life as an actor playing Robert De Winter in the Hammer film To Have and To Hold, all the way back in 1951.

Now, interestingly, AIP were also roped into the proceedings for The Vampire Lovers, making it the only time Hammer would work with their American competitors.

Although it could be seen as uneven as the other two threesomes Hammer made, the others being Dick Barton and On the Buses, they could all still be watched as separate episodes in a series if you wished.

But thanks to a phrase being coined over five decades ago, the vampire lovers, lust for a vampire and twins of evil will always be the Karnstein trilogy.

Uh, where am I at? Yeah, Michael already talked about that, about the Mad Men.

Development on the Warriors initially began in 1969 as American International Pictures purchased the film rights to the novel, but production stalled.

Lawrence Gordon had discovered the book on which the film was based without a cover at a bookstore.

Hill was very interested in the project, but he felt that no studio would let them make it, so the pair decided to make a western called Last Gun instead.

And then to have to come back and watch this and see her so woefully mistreated, I don't know, it kind of hurt me.

Why don't you surprise me with your review of Something Short of Paradise using our AIP scale where A is awesome, I is intermediate, and P is pathetic.

I don't think I'm going to surprise anybody when I give it my grade, except to say that two weeks ago we had to watch Gorp and we thought that was basically the worst movie we've ever done for this podcast, or at least it's up there with the worst.

And I have to say that so is Something Short of Paradise.

I hated it.

I think it's pathetic, but you think it's just middling.

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It's about two hours and some of that could have been cut, but the music really makes it, I think, and gives it so much more drama.

I also read that when the Italian Gothic films came over here, and it was usually under Roger Corman and American International Pictures, that was his first big studio, they actually had an American filmmaker do a different score.

And that gentleman's name is – let me pull up a quick note because, like I said, I was trying to memorize everything – was Les Baxter.

He was a swing band conductor and arranger in the swing era, and he – He had an easy listening style that they really called exotica.