Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters

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Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters
Directed by Ray Dennis Steckler
Peter Balakoff
Ed McWatters
Don Russell (assistant director)
Sidney G. Koss (associate director)
Written byRay Dennis Steckler
Jim Harmon
Ron Haydock
E.M. Kevke
Produced byRay Dennis Steckler
George J. Morgan (executive producer)
Alan Neal (assistant producer)/(associate producer)
Keith A. Wester (executive producer)
John Williams (associate producer)
StarringRay Dennis Steckler
Mike Kannon
Carolyn Brandt
Don Snyder
Coleman Francis
Ron Haydock
Keith A. Wester
CinematographyJack Cooperman
Gil Hubbs
Keith A. Wester
Edited byRay Laurent
Keith A. Wester
John Williams
Music byAndré Brummer
Henri Price
Jack Du Frain (music editor)
Don Snyder
Distributed byMorgan-Steckler Productions
Steckler-Wester Film Productions
Release date
  • September 28, 1968 (1968-09-28)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters is a trilogy of short films released during 1965. The films are homages to the Bowery Boys film series which lasted from the mid-1940s to the late 1950s. [1]

Contents

Each film of the trilogy features the antics of the bumbling Lemon Grove Kids. They are titled The Lemon Grove Kids, The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Green Grasshopper and the Vampire Lady from Outer Space, and The Lemon Grove Kids Go Hollywood!. Filmmaker Ray Dennis Steckler created the characters, wrote 'Hollywood', and directed the first film of the trilogy. He also features in each segment, billed as Cash Flagg. The three shorts were edited into a comedy horror feature film, The Lemon Grove Kids Meet The Monsters. For theatrical showings, the film was interrupted by the film's mummy going into the audience.

Cast

The Lemon Grove Kids

The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Green Grasshopper and the Vampire Lady From Outer Space

The Lemon Grove Kids Go Hollywood!

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References

  1. Klein, Amanda Ann (2011). American Film Cycles: Reframing Genres, Screening Social Problems, and Defining Subcultures. University of Texas Press. p. 202. ISBN   9780292726802.