Val Lewton (May 7, 1904 – March 14, 1951) was a Russian-American novelist, film producer and screenwriter best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s.

Oct 19, 2021 · Bill Ryan celebrates the nine horror films that Val Lewton produced for RKO between 1942 and 1946, like The Seventh Victim and Cat People.

Val Lewton. Producer: The Body Snatcher. Born in Russian Empire in 1904, Lewton moved with his mother and sister to Berlin in 1906, then to USA in 1909.

Nov 14, 2024 · Within this category, no filmmaker was as influential as Val Lewton, the man who presided over the B-movie unit at RKO Studios. Far from creating trashy double bills for audiences who weren’t picky about what they got, he made films that …

Oct 4, 2019 · Lewton in Hollywood was like the Gilded Boy in eighteenth-century London: forced to recite his poetry for the entertainment of cruel and glib audiences and suffocating in the effort.

Dec 8, 2024 · Val Lewton was a Hollywood film producer who broke the rules on what a "producer" can do during movie production. Uniquely experienced as a professional writer in almost every aspect of the trade, he had worked for nearly a decade as an all-purpose assistant to David O. Selznick, one of the most successful independent film makers in Hollywood ...

Nov 11, 2022 · Let's explore the strange but highly influential filmography of RKO Studios' head of horror, the legendary producer Val Lewton.