A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded AIP (then called American Releasing Corporation) on a $3000 loan in 1954 with his partner, James H. Nicholson, a former West Coast exhibitor and distributor. The company made its mark by targeting teenagers with quickly produced films that exploited subjects mainstream films were reluctant to tackle.
Bruce Dern
SelfPam Grier
SelfBeverly Garland
SelfPeter Bogdanovich
Narrator (voice)Herman Cohen
SelfJ. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footage)Roger Corman
SelfDick Miller
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