Albert Zugsmith

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Albert Zugsmith April 24 1910 October 26 1993 was an American film producer film director and screenwriter who specialized in lowbudget 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 was 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 Zugsmiths most significant credits are a string of four genre masterpieces produced in the late 1950s all for Universal Studios the sciencefiction classic The Incredible Shrinking Man Orson Welles Touch of Evil Douglas Sirks Written on the Wind and the camp exploitation films produced for MGM 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