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  Articles on Al Adamson Murder and Trial
Adamson disappeared in June 1995 and his body was discovered in August of that year buried in a hole from which an indoor Jacuzzi whirlpool had been removed.
Kenneth Adamson was the prosecutionandrsquos first witness in the murder trial of Fulford, 50, who is accused of killing Al Adamson on June 20, 1995, and covering his body with cement.
Adamson testified that the day before Al Adamson was killed, his brother complained Fulford had been running up charges on his credit card without his permission.
gregkrieger.tripod.com /aladamson/adamsontrial.html   (4518 words)

  
 Las Vegas Weekly Departments: Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Al Adamson isn't a household name, but his films were the choice of drive-in theaters around the country in the '60s, '70s and early '80s.
Al Adamson made movies his way with limited budgets and is generally considered a "B" movie director.
Al got so upset that he threw open his window and shouted really loud, "What the fuck are you looking at!" That made them all disappear.
www.lasvegasweekly.com /departments/film/awordkonow.html   (2029 words)

  
 Al Adamson's Cut 'N' Past Chillers, Part One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Al Adamson holds a special affection for fans of cheap and trashy cinema...no matter how low-budget and low-down his films were, they still attract a sizeable fandom.
Albert Victor Adamson was born in 1929- the son of Victor Adamson, AKA- Denver Dixon, a director of B-westerns.
Al Adamson’s first horror film remains his most coherent, in that it was the rare genre picture not to be assembled from various bits and pieces.
www.horror-wood.com /adamson.htm   (6112 words)

  
 Al Adamson's Cut 'N' Paste Chillers, Part Two   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Adamson’s films are customarily padded with blurs, jagged compositions and jump cuts, yet these seeming bloopers actually compliment the frenetic nature of the films.
In 1995, Al Adamson was murdered by his contractor, and his body was encased in concrete in a hot tub in the director’s basement.
Today, Al Adamson’s name is been upheld further with his films being released on DVD, all with informative, generous full-length audio tracks by Sam Sherman who is relighting the mantle for his friend.
www.horror-wood.com /al_adamson.htm   (5640 words)

  
 Blood of Ghastly Horror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Al's '71 celluloid offspring is no less than 4 films patched clumsily together in a feeble attempt at creating an enjoyable motion picture.
Al Adamson made the tight-yet-pointless heist film ECHO OF TERROR (a/k/a TWO TICKETS TO TERROR) in 1964, only to see it chopped up and intermixed with new footage several years later (starring John Carradine as an ethical but mad scientist) and retitled MAN WITH THE SYNTHETIC BRAIN, and sold as a horror cheapie to television.
Director Al Adamson and producer Sam Sherman picked a suitably vague title for their incoherent horror film about jewel thieves, a psychotic Vietnam vet with an electronic brain, and a vengeful killer with a bright blue zombie henchman.
www.findtutorials.com /shop/index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=B000056HPH   (1105 words)

  
 The Unknown Movies - unknownmovies.com
Al's brother Ken and I started a police investigation in June 1995 and that led to the discovery of his buried body on the premises of Al's home in Indio, California.
Al was always for having a good script and actors well prepared - he did not improvise on-set.
Al did talk to me by phone during the shooting of the film and told me Sakata could not be understood and they would have to dub him with another voice.
www.badmovieplanet.com /unknownmovies/reviews/independentinternational.html   (2835 words)

  
 Victor Adamson/Denver Dixon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Albert Victor Adamson (1890-1972) was born in Kansas City, Missouri on January 4, 1890, and he spent time in New Zealand prior to his arrival in Tinseltown.
Adamson, no longer behind the camera, continued working as a henchie and bit player in Hollywood through the 1940s, generally billing himself as Denver Dixon.
Son Al Adamson was murdered in the mid 1990s --- click HERE and HERE for info on Adamson's bizarre death.
www.surfnetinc.com /chuck/barrel3.htm   (1048 words)

  
 Turner Classic Movies - Movie News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Director Al Adamson (1929-1995) was a Hollywood native and the son of Victor Adamson (1890-1972), a silent-era western actor also known as Denver Dixon.
When Adamson's body was discovered under his house, murdered by an independent contractor who had been hired to remodel Adamson's home but instead assumed his identity and stole his credit card, the papers framed the grisly event as an ironic end within the context of Adamson's sensationalistic world.
This background may seem beside the point when discussing Adamson's foray into supposedly sexy and nudie pictures, such as the recent double-feature dvd release of Blazing Stewardesses (1975) and Naughty Stewardesses (1974), but for the uninitiated it may help answer the ultimate question of what his work was about and why it came into being.
tcm.tv /MovieNews/Index/0,,92012,00.html   (827 words)

  
 Al Adamson
Director/producer Al Adamson was famous for making low-budget exploitation and horror films during the 1960s and 1970s.
The son of longtime director Denver Dixon, Adamson made his directing debut in 1964 with Two Tickets to Terror.
The case was solved on August 2, 1995, when investigators discovered Adamson's body in a whirlpool tub beneath a thick layer of tiled-over concrete.
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+79046   (179 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: SCHLOCK-O-RAMA: The Films of Al Adamson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
This biography of schlock director Al Adamson is a friendly introduction to his work, if not a a thorough exploration of it.
Being that this is the only biography on Al Adamson to date, his fans really don't have much to go by.
He was able to meet Al and set his story straight and put it in a good-looking-easy-to-read fashion.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1580650015?v=glance   (1274 words)

  
 Scifilm -- Reviews, DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (1971)
Al Adamson was the undisputed king of the cheap drive-in flick, this much is beyond debate.
Well, it was Al who saw the project through to its end, so he deserves the credit...and the blame.
Al's editing is surely the most atrocious in filmdom except for possibly Andy Milligan.
www.scifilm.org /reviews2/dracvsfrank.html   (1452 words)

  
 Last Drive-In on the Left:Al Adamson
Director Al Adamson had originally filmed a movie called "Echo Of Terror" in 1964.
Al and his partner Sam Sherman had tried to find a distributor for this film but had no luck.
And what a "Horror" it is. An audio commentary by Al Addamson's partner Sam Sherman, that was very informative of Al Addamson and humorous at the same time.
www.lastdriveinontheleft.com /addams.html   (742 words)

  
 Desert Mesa (1935)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It is shown as Al James, and that is Victor Adamson and not Alan James.
Guessing that the name that does appear, Al James, might have been Alan James is not that far-fetched, especially for one who evidently doesn't known that Al James (and even Art James) was just one of the many names Victor Adamson used on several of his films.
The correct credits---Directed by Victor Adamson (as Al James) and written by Victor Adamson (as Van Johnson)---will be submitted again.
www.imdb.com /Title?0174036   (651 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: DVD: Hells Bloody Devils   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Drive-in auteur Al Adamson cobbled Hell's Bloody Devils together in his usual waste not, want not spirit, and even if the result is more incoherent than his other patchwork productions, it's brawling, brainless fun nonetheless.
That said, Adamson was a director who could always substitute energy for logic, so Hell's Bloody Devils is as vigorous as it is nonsensical, with a great music score that buzzes with fuzz guitar and spy-theme clichés.
Along with Volante, the cast is classic Al Adamson stock company, with Robert Dix as a biker named "Cunk," Kent Taylor as Nazi royalty, Broderick Crawford and Scott Brady as the FBI, Greydon Clark and Gary Kent as thugs, plus John Carradine as a bird-shop owner with secret information for the hero.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00076ON5A   (352 words)

  
 Ukirt publications
Hydrocarbon Dust Absorption in Seyfert Galaxies and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies Mason, Wright, Pendleton, Adamson ApJ 613, 770.
The afterglow of the short/intermediate-duration gamma-ray burst GRB 000301C: A jet at z=2.04 Jensen et al.
Astrophys.J. The Onset of Methane in L Dwarfs Noll et al.
www.jach.hawaii.edu /UKIRT/public/research.html   (1958 words)

  
 Oncotic pressures opposing filtration across non-fenestrated rat microvessels -- Adamson et al. 557 (3): 889 -- The ...
The cleft width is the distance between the outer leaflets of the cell membranes of the two facing cells.
Adamson RH, Curry FE, Adamson G, Liu B, Jiang Y, Aktories K, Barth H, Daigeler A, Golenhofen N, Ness W and Drenckhahn D (2002).
Adamson RH, Lenz JF and Curry FE (1994).
jp.physoc.org /cgi/content/full/557/3/889   (9190 words)

  
 Five Bloody Graves (1970) - The Bad Movie Report
The brothers Holcomb, in their late, lamented Webzine Wild Picture (boys, I miss you!), make a good case in their Al Adamson article that the director's films are defined by their "cruel moments", moments meant to shock or outrage the audience.
Cardos is especially good as the half-breed Joe, leading one to wonder why we haven't seen more of him as the years went by (he's also got a very interesting and varied IMDb filmography).
But as adept as he was at zero-budget filmmaking, Adamson as a director was not strong enough to force the script into a more individualistic work; he could not supply the glue to patch together many disparate chunks into an entertaining whole.
www.stomptokyo.com /badmoviereport/reviews/F/5_bloody_graves.html   (2439 words)

  
 Five Bloody Graves DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Adamson struck up a friendship with Richard Dix, who aided Al in creating several of their exploitation epics like HORROR OF THE BLOOD MONSTERS (1970), SATANS SADISTS (1969), and BLOOD OF DRACULA’S CASTLE (1967).
Also in the cast is frequent Al Adamson collaborator John "Bud" Cardos, who went on to direct the superior KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS (1977), THE DARK (19790, and MUTANT (1984).
I have to commend Al Adamson for tackling the Western genre with his own particular no-budget style, but he couldn’t get the job done.
www.dvdcult.com /rev_FiveBG.htm   (899 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970)
In the early 1970s, cult king Al Adamson's Horror of the Blood Monsters was a drive-in staple, and in those days it was enjoyed as the weird, hammy sci-fi exploitation film that it is; a perfect example of the kind of mindless entertainment that populated many big outdoor screens of that time.
It's on this distant planet that Adamson intercuts the footage from Tagani (here tinted an assortment of colors), and shows a number of fights between the good tribe and the bad tribe, who have snakes growing out their necks.
Jennifer Bishop is cavegirl Lian Malian, who is supposed to act as some sort of crossover between the Tagani footage and Adamson's, and the fact that she is wearing a white swimsuit (certainly not standard issue cavegirl fashion) doesn't seem to bother anyone.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=3811   (858 words)

  
 Blood of Ghastly Horror | DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Al Adamson’s classic tale of undead terror comes to DVD with a shocking bang as part of Troma Team Video’s Al Adamson Collection!
As I sit typing this I've concluded that Al Adamson's 1971 Blood of Ghastly Horror reigns as the most convoluted mess of a movie that I've ever seen in my life.
I had seen two movies by Al Adamson before this one, "Dracula vs Frankenstein" and "Vampire Men of the Lost Planet", so needless to say, my expectations weren't very high, but this movie still managed to disappoint me.
office-products.globalgiftshopping.com /blood-of-ghastly-horror,B000056HPH_i.htm   (1374 words)

  
 Interview with Frank Kerr, Director of LAST NIGHT AT EDDIE'S   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Al Adamson was a "white socker." The last guy to get a date for the prom.
Sherman told Al they had to if they wanted to stay in business in the sixties and seventies.
Al's charm was "employment." He knew so little about actual acting that you pretty much got to do what ever came into your head.
www.bijoucafe.com /goods/pyramid_interview2.htm   (656 words)

  
 phorum - Bad Movies - Re: Anybody see Al Adamson's PSYCHO A GO-GO yet?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Actually, from what I heard about the film from critics who saw it during it's brief U.S. theatrical run said it was pretty good (the only thing that ruined it for the critics was the title).
The plotline is a mixture of crime thriller and horror, with go-go dancing and song numbers.
Considering Adamson's later work, PSYCHO A GO-GO might be a decent watch.
www.badmovies.org /bbs/read.php?f=2&t=52654&a=2   (240 words)

  
 Cinefear: Al Adamson Interview
Adamson usually threw everything but the kitchen sink into his films, most of which were made up of horrifying creatures, rough biker gangs, mad scientists, deranged dwarves, scantily clad girls, long-fanged vampires, and whip-yielding feminists.
Note: This is only a small portion of the Al Adamson interview.
Cinefear also carries hard-to-find Al Adamson movies, including Cinderella 2000 and The Murder Gang.
cinefear.com /adamson.html   (749 words)

  
 phorum - Scifilm - DS Movie of the Day: Satan's Sadists (1969)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
I'm going to say from the outset that I really don't have much of a liking for Al Adamson's exercises in incoherent sleaze and sadism, and I was fully prepared to dislike this one intensely.
However, the DVD opens with an introduction by Sam Sherman, and he claims (among other things) that this is Adamson's best film, and quite frankly, I find myself agreeing with him.
Also, given the subject matter and Adamson's cinematic predilections, it shows a certain restraint; it's not as sleazy or as sadistic as I expected it to be.
www.scifilm.org /talk/read.php?f=1&t=41690&a=2   (402 words)

  
 Al Adamson Posters / Allposters Art Prints Posters Movies > People >
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www.aposters.info /movies/c43470-al-adamson-allposters.html   (1548 words)

  
 Re-epithelialization
Angiogenesis, apoptosis and re-epithelialization at the foci of recent injury in usual interstitial pneumonia and bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia
Re-epithelialization of the newly formed connective tissue is supposed to be a crucial event in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis (Adamson
The epithelial-fibroblast control may be mediated by direct contacts of epithelial cells with fibroblasts of surrounding ECM (Adamson 1990), or by prostaglandin E
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 Al Adamson Horror Movies
Cult director Al Adamson brings The kings of horror together in one film - they meet in a fight of fright!
Judith Fontaine (Regina Carrol) is looking for her sister Joanie, who has apparently disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California.
One of cult movie director Al Adamson's most popular films, known for its use of weird color effects by "Spectrum-X," stars horror icon John Carradine as scientist Dr. Rynning, who leads a space journey to a distant planet of blood-sucking vampires intent on contaminating Earth.
www.horrormovies.ca /Al-Adamson.htm   (364 words)

  
 Directory - Arts: Movies: Filmmaking: Directing: Directors: A: Adamson, Al   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Al Adamson directed such films as Dracula vs. Frankenstein and Blood of Dracula's Castle.
The Al Adamson Horror Films Celebration Site  · Site devoted to the horror movies of the director including images, sounds, and information on his films including Dracula vs. Frankenstein and Blood of Dracula's Castle.
Movie Director Al Adamson Murdered  · cached · San Francisco Examiner article reporting his death.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=590241   (87 words)

  
 The Laser's Edge - Psycho A Go-Go / The Raw Hide Terror
Al Adamson, director of such Troma Classics as Dracula Vs. Frankenstein, Satan’s Sadists and I Spit on Your Corpse!
It is the first movie Al Adamson directed and his many fans have requested that it be made available.
Adding to this Double Feature presentation is the 1935 Horror Western THE RAWHIDE TERROR, directed by Bruce M. Mitchell and Jack Nelson and produced by Victor Adamson, Al Adamson’s father.
www.lasersedge.com /item_detail.asp?id=49434   (273 words)

  
 Draze Search Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
An homage to the horror films (and one or two sci-fi films) of Al Adamson.
Find Al Adamson movie information at AOL moviefone, including film credits and release dates.
Director/producer Al Adamson was famous for making low-budget exploitation and horror films...
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