Boris Petroff
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Boris Petroff (December 19, 1894 – November 1972)[1][2] was a film director and producer who specialized in low budget exploitation films.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] He sometimes used the pseudonym Brooke L. Peters.[3] He included stock footage in some of his films.[3]
In 1929 he directed a production titled Noah's Lark featuring Morton and Mayo, modeled after the 1928 film Noah's Ark.[citation needed]
He asked Eddie Cochran to be in his musical comedy film The Girl Can't Help It in 1956. Cochran performed the song "Twenty Flight Rock" in the movie.
Petroff married Jane Mann, a screenwriter who co-wrote the scripts for The Unearthly and Anatomy of a Psycho. Gloria Petroff , their daughter, was in his films Two Lost Worlds and The Unearthly.
In 2014, MoMA screened the 1936 film Hats Off he directed.[10]
Filmography[edit]
Director[edit]
- Hats Off (1936 film)[11]
- Red Snow (1952 film)[12] directed by Harry S. Franklin and Boris Petroff
- The Unearthly (1957), produced and directed by Boris Petroff (as Brook L. Peters)
- Outcasts of the City (1958)
- Anatomy of a Psycho (1961)
- Shotgun Wedding (1963 film)[13]
Other roles[edit]
- Arctic Fury (1949), one of the film's producers[14]
- Two Lost Worlds (1951), produced and co-wrote film adaptation (dba Sterling Productions Inc.)[15]
References[edit]
- ↑ Atkins, Rick (18 February 2018). Among the Rugged Peaks: An Intimate Biography of Carla Laemmle. Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media. Search this book on
- ↑ "Funeral Notice". The Los Angeles Times. 1972-11-20. p. 57. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Warren, Bill (October 19, 2009). Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition. McFarland. ISBN 9780786442300 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Eichelbaum, Stanley (1963-09-18). "Mae West's Nostalgic Producer". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 21. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ↑ "Things That Happened". Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. 1967-08-07. p. 8. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ↑ "'Shotgun Wedding' Is Backwoods Sex Flim". The Los Angeles Times. 1963-12-07. p. 32. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ↑ Hale, David (1963-08-14). "Producer Sees Flimdom Ruin In Huge Star Salaries". The Fresno Bee. pp. 1D, 3D. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ↑ "Divorce Retrial Decreed". The Los Angeles Times. 1934-12-28. p. 28. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ↑ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ↑ "Events | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
- ↑ Dombrowski, Lisa (May 15, 2015). The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I'll Kill You. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 9780819576101 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ "Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series". March 10, 1952 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "The Unsung (Intentional) Comedy of Edward Davis Wood, Jr". August 15, 2019.
- ↑ Josephhollywood, Robert (July 17, 1949). "REVISED ARCTIC SAGA BECOMES HOT PROPERTY". The New York Times. pp. X3.
- ↑ Svehla, Gary J. (March 10, 1996). "Guilty Pleasures of the Horror Film". Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media – via Google Books.
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