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KUBRICK IDEAS ON A CORMAN BUDGET: THE GREATNESS OF MONTE HELLMAN

By | May 2001

MONTE HELLMAN EXCLUSIVE! Monte Hellman was making pictures that were “out there” years before guys like Scorsese, Coppola, and Bogdanovich, and he got his big break the same way they did: through legendary producer Roger Corman…

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KUBRICK IDEAS ON A CORMAN BUDGET: THE GREATNESS OF MONTE HELLMAN

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