1. Al Adamson cast his wife, actress and singer Regina Carrol, in many of his films.
22 Facts About Al Adamson
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Al Adamson retired from filmmaking in the early 1980s to pursue a career in real estate.
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Al Adamson's father was silent film star and producer Victor Adamson, known as Art Mix and Denver Dixon, and his mother was actress Dolores Booth.
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Al Adamson was involved in the film industry from an early age, appearing in the low budget 1935 film Desert Mesa, directed by his father.
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Al Adamson's father introduced him to a young aspiring film distributor named Sam Sherman in September 1962, and they worked together on various film projects during the 1960s.
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Victor Adamson introduced Sam Sherman to producer Irwin Pizor, and Pizor, in turn, introduced Sherman to Kane W Lynn and Eddie Romero of Hemisphere Pictures, and working together over the years, they all achieved successful careers in film production and distribution.
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Al Adamson developed a repertory company as the years rolled on, with a lot of the same actors turning up repeatedly in his films, such as Scott Brady, Kent Taylor, Robert Dix, John Cardos, Gary Kent, John Carradine, Russ Tamblyn, and Paula Raymond, among others.
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Since the original film was in black-and-white, Adamson had the whole film tinted in various colors and advertised the film as being made in a new process called Spectrum X Sherman hired artist Gray Morrow to design a number of their horror film posters, all of which were very graphic and "over the top".
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Al Adamson even created a western-horror hybrid film with his Five Bloody Graves, which starred Robert Dix, John Carradine and Scott Brady, and inserted a number of ultra-violent scenes into what would have just been a mediocre western, and even included narration scenes, with actor Gene Raymond playing "Death".
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Al Adamson filmed some of his movies at the Spahn Ranch in southern California, such as The Female Bunch and Angels' Wild Women.
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In 1975, with the biker film genre fizzling out, Sam Sherman talked Al Adamson into directing some softcore porn films to cash in on the then-popular stewardess film craze, The Naughty Stewardesses, followed by Blazing Stewardesses the same year.
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Jessie's Girls was Al Adamson's take on the then-successful Raquel Welch film Hannie Caulder.
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Al Adamson largely retired from filmmaking in the early 1980s, focusing with his wife on a career in real estate.
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Al Adamson met him in 1969 when he was casting Satan's Sadists, in which she starred, and they were married in 1972.
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Al Adamson said Regina was a waitress in a cafe at which he was having lunch, and hearing he was a movie director, she spilled a cup of coffee in his lap to get his attention.
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Al Adamson had spent several years trying desperately to save her from the disease, to no avail.
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Al Adamson himself was murdered three years after his wife died.
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Al Adamson had hired Fulford to repair his house, which he intended to flip.
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Al Adamson had given Fulford a credit card to use to purchase supplies, which Fulford quickly overspent and abused.
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Al Adamson had several confrontations with Fulford, the last of which ended violently in Al Adamson's death.
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Al Adamson's housekeeper became suspicious over his disappearance and the removal of the hot tub, which led investigators to Fulford and Al Adamson's body.
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Al Adamson was cremated and his ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean.