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W. Lee Wilder’s Terrible Trilogy that Wouldn’t Die! (Part Two)

cultfilmalley July 7, 2019 1

*contains spoilers The second movie made by Lee is the far more atrocious, yet in some ways more fun, Killers from Space. According to Myles Wilder, who told Tom Weaver, the film was shot in six days using his father’s money and actual office for the office scenes as well as other cheap locations –…

W. Lee Wilder’s Terrible Trilogy that Wouldn’t Die! (Part One)

cultfilmalley July 6, 2019 0

*contains spoilers Pity director Billy Wilder’s (born Samuel 1906-2002 pneumonia) older brother, whose name was William but was known as W. Lee Wilder (1904-82). Long estranged from each another, while Billy was receiving Oscar nominations and scoring wins, his brother, who Billy jokingly called “a dull son of a bitch”, was making some of the…