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Samuel Z. Arkoff was a man with a plan, or more specifically, a formula. Making an acronym from his last name, the Arkoff formula was simple: Action, Revolutionary, Killing, Oratory, Fantasy, and Fornication. After all these years, many are still not sure where "Oratory" fits in with Arkoff's movies but the "O" had to stand for something.
Two thoughts about Samuel Z. Arkoff “ He produced those fun fun beach pictures in the 60s and he also made a version of Wuthering Heights in 1970 that should be remembered. ” — Philip Wissbeck, May 23, 2010 at 5:42 a.m. “ Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson were the mark of quality as far as we were concerned.
Iowa-born law school graduate Samuel Z. Arkoff and his late partner James H. Nicholson, although they never directed movies, were among the most important low-budget producers of the late 1950s as founders of American International Pictures (originally known as American Releasing Corporation).
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Oct 30, 1990 · Arkoff co-founded American International Pictures, the company that churned out the great low-budget teen movies of the 50s, 60s, and 70s like "I Was a Teenage Werewolf," and "Blackula." The Film Forum in New York City is running a retrospective of AIP movies.
Oct 13, 1992 · Bill Asher's name is attached to "Beach Party" as director, but this watershed film's true architect is a maverick visionary named Samuel Z. Arkoff. Harboring no ambition greater than turning a profit, the cigar-chomping Poverty Row impresario churned out between 10 and 20 movies a year from the middle 1950s through the 1970s under the American-International Pictures banner.
Samuel Z. Arkoff. Producer: Dressed to Kill. By the early 1950s, future movie mogul Samuel Z. Arkoff was a brash 30-ish lawyer scratching out a living by representing his in-laws and the Hollywood fringe, which included many of now infamous director/angora-clad transvestite Edward D. Wood Jr.'s social circle.
