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	Samuel Z. Arkoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samuel Zachary Arkoff (June 12, 1918–September 16, 2001) was an American producer of B-movies.
		Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Arkoff first studied to be a lawyer.
		Arkoff is also credited with starting a few genres, such as the Beach Party and outlaw biker movies, and his company played a substantial part in bringing the horror movie genre to a novel level with successes such as I Was a Teenage Werewolf and The Thing with Two Heads.
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	FRIGHTMEDIA.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, it was Arkoff that carried the drive-in (in one form or another) from the late ‘50s to the early ‘70s (i.e., the beginning of its demise) with a slew of films in a variety of genres — some of which he helped to create.
		Arkoff and Nicholson were well aware of their target audience (i.e., the teenage demographic), and knew exactly how to appeal to it.
		Arkoff was allegedly appalled after the initial screening, due primarily to the singsong accents of the film’s Danish cast.
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		Having worked with the late Samuel Z. Arkoff and his son Lou, Pritz learned his craft firsthand from one of the industry’s legendary producers, empowering him with five decades of filmmaking savvy.
		Beginning in 1955, Samuel Arkoff filled a niche left behind by the declining major studios, for genre and exploitation films that could round out the double-bills of movie theaters and, later on, form the programs for smaller neighborhood theaters and drive-ins.
		Arkoff believed, as did Columbia Pictures founder Harry Cohn, that a picture was too long if his ass got tired.
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		Samuel Z. Arkoff, the low-budget movie mogul who enticed two generations of teenagers into drive-in theaters with movies like "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" and "Wild in the Streets," died on Sunday in Burbank, Calif. He was 83.
		Arkoff's shrewd insight that teenagers would not want to watch television with their parents and on Mr.
		Arkoff moved to Los Angeles to be closer to the movie industry.
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	Samuel Z. Arkoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BURBANK, CA--Samuel Z. Arkoff, the producer who, for decades, turned out hundreds of low-budget-but-profitable B movies, died at the Providence St. Joseph Medical Center here, of natural causes, on September 16, 2001.
		Born in Iowa in 1908, Arkoff was an entertainment attorney when he was hired in 1954 at Nicholson's American International Pictures (AIP), originally American Releasing Corporation, a studio with one director on staff: Roger Corman.
		Arkoff and Nicholson sold AIP in 1979 and Arkoff published his memoirs, " Flying Through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants," in 1992.
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	The Overstuffed World of AIP - Remembering the world's greatest producer of bikini-spy-blaxploitation flicks. By Bill ...
		Arkoff was a finger-in-the-wind filmmaker who never let a trend go by without having his cut at it, whether it was hot-rod pictures, motorcycle pictures, spy pictures, or youth-in-trouble pictures, and he didn't hesitate to move on when the Zeitgeist shifted.
		If Arkoff had a theme as a filmmaker, which is on the face of it a truly silly notion, it was the role of the outsider in an unsympathetic society.
		But it also reflects Arkoff's own status in Hollywood as a producer who came late to the game—he founded AIP in partnership with James H. Nicholson in 1954, when he was 36—and never won the respect of the movie community.
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	FanboyPlanet - Samuel Z Arkoff
		Samuel Z. Arkoff died of natural causes at the age of 83 in Burbank Sunday.
		Arkoff knew that kids wanted an excuse to get out of their parent's houses and into those rolling bedrooms at the drive-ins.
		Arkoff told his own story in the 1992 book Flying Though Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants and the history of AIP was covered in It Conquered Hollywood!
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	Encyclopedia: Samuel Z. Arkoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining.
		The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires.
		American International Pictures was formed in 1956 from American Releasing Corporation by James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff, dedicated to releasing independently produced, low-budget films, primarily of interest to the teenagers of the 1950s.
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	Issue 27: Hollywood Deathwatch by Brad Beshaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One year away from a law degree at the University of Iowa, Arkoff was drafted by the Air Force cryptograph unit, where, along with radio personality Hank McCune, he helped produce variety shows for the troops.
		After the war, in 1947, Arkoff received a call from McCune about producing a comedy program for NBC in the fledgling medium of television.
		Arkoff and Nicholson signed Corman to a four-picture deal, with the former responsible for securing financing and play dates, leaving the latter free to write and direct.
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	How to Make a Monster (2001) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Samuel Z. Arkoff is turning over in his grave.
		One of the producers is Lou Arkoff, son of Samuel Z. Arkoff.
		The movie is dedicated to the memory of Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson, founding fathers of AIP-- it is not a fitting tribute.
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	Baltimore City Paper: ARTS Samuel Z. Arkoff, 1918-2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Arkoff had no agenda, wasn't interested in capital-A art; he was a businessperson.
		Arkoff and Nicholson's genius was to aim AIP product at a then-ignored demographic--the Clearasil set, just coming into the postwar parental largess that would come to be called disposable income.
		Arkoff seemed to forget his own commandment that "Thou shalt not put too much money into any one picture" and rounded out the decade with such relatively high-end fare as the Burt Lancaster-starring The Island of Dr. Moreau and the smash hit The Amityville Horror.
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	Samuel Z Arkoff (obituary)
		SAMUEL Z ARKOFF, who has died aged 83, was the film mogul responsible for producing hundreds of "B" movies with such titles as I Was a Teenage Werewolf and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini.
		Samuel Z Arkoff was born at Fort Dodge, Iowa, on June 12 1918 and trained as a lawyer.
		According to Susan, Arkoff was a lawyer who took care of the business end of the company while Nicholson was the one who made the creative decisions.
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	3B Theater: A Tribute to Sam Arkoff!
		Arkoff convinced the Mormons, and the film lab, that the only chance they’d ever get any money was to allow the movie to be released and get reimbursed with ticket sales.
		The Arkoffs and the Nicholsons were close knit and AIP was a family affair but it was starting to crumble.
		Arkoff didn’t like the way the big studios were run and saw a lot of waste, had no patience for it, and felt it could be done better.)
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	Arkoff Film Libary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The son of Russian and Latvian immigrants Samuel Z Arkoff was born in Iowa in 1918 and spent his childhood dreaming of Hollywood.
		AIP's logo came to symbolise a seal of disapproval, the mark of a film that was guaranteed to captivate a teenager but appal their parents.
		In 1971 James Nicholson left AIP and Samuel Arkoff carried on producing films.
	www.dvddrive-in.com /arkoffpromo.htm (444 words)

	Bureau 42 \| Samuel Arkoff, low-budget Hollywood producer, dies
		Samuel Z. Arkoff, a maverick Hollywood producer who churned out more than 500 low-budget -- and often hugely profitable -- cult movies, died of natural causes Sunday, his son Louis said.
		Arkoff, who said movies were no good unless they titillated audiences, tapped into the youth culture long before the major studios took notice of the lucrative demographic.
		With the late Jim Nicholson, Arkoff co-founded American International Pictures in 1954 and hit pay dirt that year by distributing "The Fast and the Furious," a gritty action film directed by future B-movie king Roger Corman.
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	Samuel Z. Arkoff
		C'est avec grand regret que nous avons appris le décès de Samuel Z. Arkoff, un des plus grands producteurs de film de série B de tous les temps.
		Ironiquement, Arkoff avait également prédit que les studios auraient à faire face à des budgets monstrueux dans les années à venir, prédiction qui s'est avérée plus que vraie.
		Samuel Z. Arkoff (souvent photographié avec un énorme cigare au coin de la bouche) va passer au Panthéon de la Série B et Z de belle manière.
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	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Rouge top for second week
		Samuel Z Arkoff, Hollywood producer of more than 500 cult movies, has died aged 83.
		Arkoff, who said movies were no good unless they titillated audiences, tapped into the youth culture long before the current teen movie trend.
		Among his best-known releases were the Michael Caine thriller Dressed To Kill, The Amityville Horror and I Was A Teenage Werewolf.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/entertainment/newsid_1548000/1548712.stm (483 words)

	Samuel Z. Arkoff
		Iowa-born law school graduate Samuel Z. Arkoff and his late partner James H. Nicholson, although they never directed movies, were among the most important low-budget producers of the late 1950s as founders of American International Pictures (originally known as American Releasing Corporation).
		James H. Nicholson died during the early 1970s, and AIP was sold to Filmways, which evolved into Orion Pictures.
		Arkoff continued producing films sporadically, and in the early 1990s re-released the bulk of the early films that he had personally produced to home video.
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	Samuel Arkoff: Schlockmeister Extraordinaire - David D''Arcy
		No wonder that American independent filmmakers and several generations of European directors, from Jean-Luc Godard to Wim Wenders to Aki Kaurismaki, have taken inspiration from AIP films.
		If John Cassavetes is one of the godfathers of independent film, Sam Arkoff may be another.
		The much-maligned Arkoff method was simple enough: Arkoff and his partner Jim Nicholson would choose a title for the film.
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	BEHIND THE SCENES...
		While Nicholson was the man behind the more creative aspects of filmmaking: advertising and coming up with the titles of the pictures, Arkoff (considered the 'man in the fl car" type to Nicholson"s "man in the white car") took care of the legal and money matters.
		After Nicholson's death in 1972, Arkoff was in charge and finally decided to sell AIP to Orion Pictures.
		For more on Samuel Z. Arkoff, there is an entertaining book called "Flying Through Hollywood By The Seat Of My Pants" by Sam Arkoff and Richard Trubo.
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	Arkoff Film Library
		Samuel Z Arkoff who was the personification of a movie boss, portly with an omnipresent cigar passed away in 2001 leaving behind a plethora of cult b-movies.
		DVD extras include a 50 minute audio interview with Samuel Z. Arkoff, recorded in 1991 at the National Film Theatre which is accompanied by pictures taken at the time, plus nine original Theatrical Film Trailers of movies from the Arkoff Film library.
		Day the World Ended is part of the Arkoff Film Library’s Original Horror Classics being released this year by Direct Video Distribution and will be available on DVD and VHS from 27 May 2003.
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		A group of rebel teenagers are cast from their tribe and are soon discovered by two immortal super-beings.
		The story is about an expedition of scientists to the lost island of caprona which is populated by prehistoric people and gigantic monsters.
		A young American investigating the murder scene where a body was thrown up on a storm-lashed cornish beach catches a glimpse of a hideous sea creature.
	www.homescreen.com.au /search?q=Samuel+Z.+Arkoff&e=Producers&n=12&p=2 (297 words)

	The Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland) : Samuel Arkoff.(Obituary) @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		SAMUEL Z Arkoff, a maverick Hollywood producer who churned out more than 500 low-budget - and often hugely profitable - cult movies, died in Burbank, California, on Sunday.
		Arkoff tapped into the youth culture long before the major studios took notice of this lucrative market.
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	Mario Bava's Black Sunday aka The Mask of Satan
		After subtitling films and creating title and credit sequences for several films, Mario worked as an assistant to some of Italy's finest cinematographers and became a director of photography in 1939.
		Bava prepared an English-language version of the film, originally titled The Mask of Satan, for Samuel Z. Arkoff and James Nicholson's A.I.P. in 1960.
		Arkoff trimmed off a few gore shots to appease the Los Angeles MPAA board, commissioned a new score for the film from Les Baxter and re-titled the film Black Sunday (it was now almost four minutes shorter), before releasing it in the U.S. in 1961.
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		Sam's finally his weight in punching Hollywood; Samuel L. Jackson brushes aside the competition to win the title of the busiest man in Tinseltown.(Features)
		Media: If the face fits, it can be fl; It's an unwritten rule of glossy magazine covers: white faces sell better.
		So has Esquire broken the mould by featuring the film stars Samuel L Jackson and Will Smith?(Features)
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	B-movie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Currently, certain production companies such as Troma specialize in producing large quantities of low quality B-movies.
		One of the classic producers of these films was the U.S. company American International Pictures (AIP), founded in 1956 by James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff.
		Its films include works by Roger Corman, Vincent Price, Herman Cohen and the early efforts of then-unknown figures such as Francis Ford Coppola, Jennifer Aniston, Robert De Niro, and Jack Nicholson.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/B-movie (488 words)

	American International Pictures
		The two were the first to realize the potential ticket buying power of the teenage audience and over the next 30 years bombarded them with action, comedy and horror films.
		We owe a great debt of gratitude to Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson for making the world safe for fun, hip pictures of all genres, but especially horror and science fiction.
		For years there was talk of a third film, possibly "Doctor Phibes in the Holy Land", but AIP and Samuel Arkoff squashed that when they saw
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		When a series of strange murders begins to plague a remote rural town, residents suspect Jennifer Stillman, a big city child psychologist who has recently moved to the area, is to blame.
		When a conniving circus owner stumbles upon a real live mermaid, he secretly steals the creature with dreams of fame and fortune.
		A group of misfit video game designers learn how to make a monster when they are hired to finish work on the hot new title Evilution.
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	CHUD - Cinematic Happenings Under Development
		In a new bit of sad news, legendary producer and B-movie genius Samuel Z Arkoff passed away Sunday at age 83.
		Arkoff almost singlehandedly created the world of B horror and teen movies that has gone on to affect so much of the genre product we love.
		Arkoff last served as producer on Creature Features, a series of five Cinemax films based on AIP classics from the 50s.
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