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NORTH AMERICA'S GREAT APE: the SASQUATCH
A wildlife biologist looks at the continent's most misunderstood large mammal
 

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The Naked Monster

DIRECTOR STATEMENT:

What began as a summer lark became a magnum opus. Whatever the result, we accomplished what we wanted to do: a sci-fi monster movie with the greatest sci-fi stars of the 1950s.

We shot the film in only 21 days by stretching the schedule over 20 years, and brought it in under the estimated budget of $375 million, with state-of-the-art SPFX (circa 1957), presented in Monsterama, a unique new process that makes viewers imagine they are watching a real motion picture.

PRODUCTION NOTES

"Last Hurrah"
The project began as a tribute to directors Jack Arnold and Eugene Lourie, and proved to be the final film of actors Kenneth Tobey, John Agar, Les Tremayne, Robert Clarke, Robert Shayne, John Harmon and Gloria Talbott.

NEWS & REVIEWS

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BIOS

TED NEWSOM directed over 50 documentaries including FLESH & BLOOD, THE HAMMER HERITAGE OF HORROR and ED WOOD, LOOK BACK IN ANGORA, co-wrote the original script for SPIDER-MAN, starred in the indie thriller DEAD SEASON, directed WHISPERS FROM A SHALLOW GRAVE, THE ALIEN WITHIN, and is currently co-starring in a screwball romantic comedy opposite Brinke Stevens.

BRINKE STEVENS, star of The Haunting Fear, Grandmother’s House, Transylvania Twist and Mommy, is a real-life scientist with a Masters degree in Marine Biology. Stevens also wrote the screenplays for Teenage Exorcist and The Sensual Spirit with Ted Newsom, and is currently collaborating with him on a new Sinbad script with movie legend Ray Harryhausen.

KENNETH TOBEY was a familiar face on screen for more than 50 years. After ten years on stage, he made his debut in a small role in Howard Hawks' I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE in 1949. In the 1950s, he starred in Hawks' classic THE THING as well as the sci-fi films IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA, BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS and THE VAMPIRE. Baby-boomers remember his TV series THE WHIRLYBIRDS; he also had a continuing role on I SPY, and co-starred with Sammy Davis, Jr. in Broadway's GOLDEN BOY. Later films as a character actor include RAGE AT DAWN with Randolph Scott, WINGS OF EAGLES with John Wayne, MAC ARTHUR with lifelong friend Gregory Peck, BILLY JACK, STRANGE INVADERS, GREMLINS, and TV guest roles on NIGHT COURT and L.A. LAW.