Step Right Up!: I'm Gonna Scare the Pants off America (Paperback)

by William Castle (Author), John Waters (Foreword)

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Product Description
From the heyday of the '50s B-movies through the disaster genre of the '70s, William Castle was an extraordinary movie mogul who produced such classic thrillers as Straight Jacket, Homicidal and Rosemary's Baby. Here are the outrageous memoirs of an American original whose life was every bit as outlandish as his movies. Photographs. Filmography.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: World Almanac (February 15, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0886876575
• ISBN-13: 978-0886876579
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,295,866 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Horror and Sci-Fi , They don't make them like that anymore., September 29, 1998

By A Customer

I found this book to be one of the best autobiographies I have ever read. William Castle made every bit of his life a thorough joy to read.. It was a book that I could not put down. I took it everywhere, just to see what crazy gimmick he would come up with next. A must read. I don't want to give you any details because it would just spoil the book. This book and the two below give a true sense of what it was like to make "quality" B-movies in the 50's and 60's

Check out - Roger Corman's: How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood and Never Lost A Dime. and Samuel Z. Arkoff's: Flying Through Hollywood By The Seat of My Pants.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent auto-biography of the last great Ballyhoo artist!, October 10, 2000

By A Customer

For any 1950s - 1960s horror fan, this cult classic filmmaker writes about his experiences within the crazy & zany Hollywood system of the past in the most entertaining fashion of storytelling. Wonderful tales about how Castle created some of his horror film gimmicks & publicity stunts, to his producing experiences with Roman Polanski on 'Rosemary's Baby.' It is an honest auto-biography in which boths side of Castle are revealed (from the Hollywood filmmaker to the family man he was). If you find this book, get it! It is a collector's item!!!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Castle Gift, December 27, 2008

By	Jon S. Finck (West Hollywood, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

What fun. Smooth transaction, and now the recipient in Iceland--a HUGE William Castle fan--is loving the book. I was grateful to receive it right away so I could deliver it myself in time for the holidays.