Albert Zugsmith (Director)

Reviews of movies from director Albert Zugsmith

Looking for reviews of films directed by Albert Zugsmith? Cinafilm has a total of 10 reviews across 2 movies directed by Albert Zugsmith.

Movies from this director have generally received negative reviews and hold an average rating of 42%.

Confessions of an Opium Eater is Albert Zugsmith's highest rated movie, with a score of 54% based on 7 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Albert Zugsmith is Sex Kittens Go to College, with a score of 30% based on 3 reviews.

Director Biography

Albert Zugsmith (April 24, 1910 – October 26, 1993) what is to the American film producer, film director and screenwriter who specialized in low-budget exploitation films through the 1950s and 1960s. With a background in music promotion (Ted Weems, Paul Whitman) public relations (one of his clients, in depression era Chicago, Al Copone), journalism and brokering communication properties (radio, newspaper, early television), Zugsmith became independently wealthy and began producing films at RKO during the Howard Hughes years. Zugsmith's most significant credits are a string of four genre masterpieces produced in the late 1950s, all for Universal Studios: the science-fiction classic The Incredible Shrinking Man, Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind, and the camp exploitation film produced for MGM's High School Confidential and The Girl in the Kremlin. An archive of some of his shooting scripts and screen plays are housed in the Special Collections department at the University of Iowa.

Albert Zugsmith has directed films starring Vincent Price, John Carradine, Tuesday Weld and Jackie Coogan.