Larry Buchanan Biography

After making documentaries for evangelist Oral Roberts in the early 1950s, Buchanan assisted George Cukor on The Marrying Kind; he also appeared in several '50s films in small roles, including Henry King's The Gunfinghter. In the 1960s he began helming a series of low-budget films, exploiting race (Free, White And 21, High Yellow), sex (Under Age) and the Kennedy assassination (Naughty Dallas, a striptease-fest filmed in Jack Ruby's Carousel Club; The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald). He also made a series of even-cheaper remakes of 1950s AIP science-fictioners: The Eye Creatures, In The Year 2889, Creature of Destruction, and Zontar, the Thing from Venus. His other efforts include the crime film A Bullet for Pretty Boy; the Marilyn Monroe biopics Goodbye, Norma Jean and Good Night, Sweet Marilyn; and the tale of interplanetary sexual frustration, Mars Needs Women. ~ Rovi