B-movie guru Harry Alan Towers – More Bang for the Buck!
Posted on August 3, 2009 in Interviews | 2 Comments
B-movie producer and writer Harry Alan Towers sadly died this Sunday of heart failure in Toronto. He was 88.
He made more than 100 films working with such actors as Orson Welles, Michael York, Michael Caine, Richard Harris, James Earl Jones and Tony Curtis. He sometimes used the pseudonym Peter Welbeck.
Towers was one of the first to use tactics that would later become commonplace for indie filmmakers, such as shooting in low cost international locations, preselling rights and using public domain literary works from authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie and Edgar Wallace.
Some of his underground classics include “Venus in Furs,” “Eugenie,” “Marquis de Sade: Justine” and “Night of the Blood Monster.”
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