The Haunted Castle (1897 British film)
The Haunted Castle is a hypothetical lost 1897 British film, attributed in some filmographies to the British film pioneer George Albert Smith, but which may be a misidentification of a French film by Georges Méliès.
Many of Smith's films show an interest in supernatural themes, such as" Photographing a Ghost"( 1898)," The Haunted Picture Gallery"( 1899), and his major short comedy" Mary Jane's Mishap"( 1903); he also filmed a version of the Faust legend.
A film called" The Haunted Castle", supposedly released by Smith in December 1897, was attributed to him in the 1973 edition of" The British Film Catalogue".
However, the film historian John Barnes, in his book- length study of the year 1897 in British film, concluded that the title referred to a Méliès film that had been referenced in England since May of that year.
Méliès's 1897 film" Le Château hanté" was indeed released in Britain as" The Haunted Castle".
( A slightly earlier film of his," Le Manoir du diable", made in the winter of 1896 – 7, is also known as" The Haunted Castle" after its American release title.)
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American director, producer, and actor.
He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film.
Much of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low-budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
Admired by members of the French New Wave and "Cahiers du cinéma", in 1964 Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as in the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art.
He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, a prolific multimedia company that helped to cement Fox as a major American television network, and is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award "for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers."
Corman mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles, and James Cameron, and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Sylvester Stallone, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner.
Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in the films of directors who started with him, including "The Silence of
the LambsThe Godfather Part IIApollo 13The Manchurian Candidate" and "Philadelphia".
A documentary about Corman's life and career entitled , directed by Alex Stapleton, premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011.
The film's TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well-received screening at Sundance.
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Devil's Partner
Devil's Partner is a 1958 American film starring Ed Nelson, directed by Charles R. Rondeau and produced by Hugh Hooker, an actor and stuntman who had previously made the 1958 film" The Littlest Hobo".
However the film was not released until 1961 when it was acquired by Roger and Gene Corman's Filmgroup as a double feature with" Creature from the Haunted Sea"
The film was co-written by actor Stanley Clements and Laura Jean Mathews.
The Haunted Sea
The Haunted Sea is a 1997 American horror film directed by Dan Golden.
It was part of the" Roger Corman Presents" series.
Creature from the Haunted Sea
Creature from the Haunted Sea is a 1961 horror comedy film directed by Roger Corman.
Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a parody of spy, gangster, and monster movies
(mostly "Creature from the Black Lagoon"), concerning a secret agent, XK150 (played by Robert Towne under the pseudonym Edward Wain), who goes under the code name "Sparks Moran" in order to infiltrate a criminal gang led by Renzo Capetto (Antony Carbone), who is trying to transport a colonel, a group of exiled Cuban nationals, and a large portion of the Cuban treasury out of the country.
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 1954 American black- and- white 3 D monster horror film from Universal- International, produced by William Alland, directed by Jack Arnold, that stars Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno and Whit Bissell.
The Creature was played by Ben Chapman on land and by Ricou Browning underwater.
The film premiered in Detroit on February 12 and was released on a regional basis, opening on various dates.
" Creature from the Black Lagoon" was filmed in 3D and originally projected by the polarized light method.
The audience wore viewers with gray polarizing filters, similar to the viewers most commonly used today.
Because the brief 1950s 3 D film fad had peaked in mid-1953 and was fading fast in early 1954, many audiences actually saw the film" flat", in 2D.
Typically, the film was shown in 3D in large downtown theaters and flat in smaller neighborhood theaters.
In 1975" Creature from the Black Lagoon" was re-released to theaters in the inferior red-and- blue- glasses anaglyph 3 D format, which was also used for a 1980 home video release on Beta and VHS videocassettes.
For marketing reasons, a comedic appearance with Abbott and Costello on an episode of" The Colgate Comedy Hour" aired prior to the film's release.
The appearance is commonly known as" Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature from the Black Lagoon".
Ben Chapman reprised his role as the Gill- Man for the program.
" Creature from the Black Lagoon" generated two sequels:" Revenge of the Creature"( 1955), which was also filmed and released in 3D in hopes of reviving the format, and" The Creature Walks Among Us"( 1956), filmed in 2D.
The Creature, also known as the Gill- Man, is usually counted among the classic Universal Monsters.
Ben Chapman (actor)
Benjamin F. Chapman, Jr.( October 29, 1928 – February 21, 2008) was an American actor best known as playing the Gill- man on land in the 1954 horror film" Creature from the Black Lagoon".
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.

Question: What nationality is the director of film Creature From The Haunted Sea?
Answer: American