Roger Corman: The Mogul of the Margins

Sun, 11 May 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Roger Corman liked to say he never lost money on a film, and for most of a career that spanned more than fifty years and hundreds of pictures, it was true. That statistic alone would make him a curiosity — a producer who cracked the economics of the exploitation film so completely he turned a genre most of Hollywood sneered at into a reliable machine. But the reason his name outlasts the films is stranger and more important. The cheapest producer in America was also the greatest talent scout in the history of the medium. The people who learned the trade on Corman’s dime went on to make The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Jaws, The Terminator and Silence of the Lambs. He built the margins, and the margins rebuilt Hollywood.

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Roger Corman: The Mogul of the Margins