Miller-Consolidated Pictures
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Miller-Consolidated Pictures was a film production company. Formed by John Miller in 1959, the company specialized in low-budget films. The company also had many known names on its board, including exploitation film
presenter Kroger Babb
, who was in charge of marketing.
Exploitation film
Exploitation film is a type of film that is promoted by "exploiting" often lurid subject matter. The term "exploitation" is common in film marketing, used for all types of films to mean promotion or advertising. These films then need something to exploit, such as a big star, special effects, sex,...
presenter Kroger Babb
Kroger Babb
Howard W. "Kroger" Babb was an American film and television producer and showman. His marketing techniques were similar to a travelling salesman's, with roots in the medicine-show tradition...
, who was in charge of marketing.
Selected filmography
- Date With Death (1959)
- The Amazing Transparent ManThe Amazing Transparent ManThe Amazing Transparent Man is a 1960 science fiction film starring Marguerite Chapman. It is an American B-movie which follows the story of an insane ex-U. S. Army major who uses an escaped criminal to steal materials to improve the invisibility machine his scientist prisoner made. It was one of...
(1960) - Beyond the Time BarrierBeyond the Time BarrierBeyond the Time Barrier is a 1959 Cold War era black and white time travel science fiction film filmed in ten days in Texas. It was produced by and starred Robert Clarke and was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Ulmer's wife Shirley acted as a script editor whilst their daughter Arianne Arden...
(1960)
External links
- Turner Classic Movies: Beyond the Time Barrier.