3: Happy 110th Birthday, Val Lewton
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The Life and Times of Val Luton
Luton was a man of contradictions, and some of his closest collaborators have suggested that he'd thrive duff of situations like the one he was in with Cell's neck. The truth of how Luton ended up at RKO has been lost behind Luton's joke version of the story. It makes total sense that Arcadia would want to start producing horror movies. But why do they want Val Luton to do the job? That's not quite clear. He didn't exactly have a horror background. Almost all of the work Luton had done for Selznick was literary in nature,. They responded by rushing new monster movies into production, leading to The Wolf Man, which was released
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