American International Pictures

Studios such as American International Pictures emerged during the 1950s to offer cheaply produced exploitation movies, which were targeted to specific audiences or low-rent exhibitors. These films, which were not necessarily exhibited with an A-picture, were also dubbed B-films. It was at this juncture that the term B-movie…

…Releasing Corporation, which later became American International Pictures (AIP), for which Corman produced and directed many of his most noted films. In 1955 he directed his first feature film, Five Guns West, a romantic western. The titles of many of Corman’s films of the 1950s—The Beast with a Million Eyes…