Roger Corman: A Retrospective

There’s a moment in the documentary Corman’s World, during a section dealing with Roger Corman’s lack of embrace by the film industry in Los Angeles that caught my attention. About a moment after Nicholson is mugging to the camera about how Corman had refused him more than scale for writing The Trip, which had led to Nicholson essentially cutting Corman out of any residuals from Easy Rider, Nicholson says “If Roger feels unappreciated, I’ll go over to his house tomorrow night.”

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