{"id":17135,"date":"2011-11-03T16:33:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T21:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=17135"},"modified":"2011-11-03T16:33:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T21:33:39","slug":"producer-richard-gordon-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/03\/producer-richard-gordon-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Producer Richard Gordon, 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/GordonLugosi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17136\" title=\"GordonLugosi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/GordonLugosi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/GordonLugosi.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/GordonLugosi-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Richard Gordon, who produced a number of B-movie horror films in the 1950s and 60s, died on Tuesday, November 1 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. No cause of death was reported, though he had been hospitalized in recent months for unspecified heart problems. He was 85.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon moved to the United States with his brother from their native England following World War Two. In the mid-1950s he began producing a string of low budget horror films such as <strong>Fiend Without A Face<\/strong>, <strong>Corridors Of Blood<\/strong> with Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee, <strong>The Haunted Strangler<\/strong> with Karloff and <strong>Island Of Terror<\/strong> with Peter Cushing. Later films included <strong>The Cat And The Canary<\/strong>, <strong>Computer Killers<\/strong> and <strong>Horror Planet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As with many B-movie producers of that era, Gordon was no stranger to using ballyhoo techniques to advertise his films. For <strong>Fiend Without A Face<\/strong>\u2019s run at the Times Square Rialto Theater, he placed a replica of the film\u2019s title monster in a glass case in front of the theater. At regular intervals the creature would move thanks to some motors hidden inside and a tape recording of its sounds would play, startling passers-by. The display only lasted two days before police asked the theater to take it down citing it as a disruption to traffic and pedestrian flows.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon also operated Gordon Films Inc., an importer of foreign movies for distribution in the U.S. until his death.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-richard-gordon-20111103,0,4233442.story?track=rss\" target=\"_blank\"><em>LA Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The B-movie producer died in New York City the day after Halloween.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/03\/producer-richard-gordon-85\/\" title=\"Producer Richard Gordon, 85\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[4479,4478,4481,4477,4480],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-obituary-news","8":"tag-corridors-of-blood","9":"tag-fiend-without-a-face","10":"tag-island-of-terror","11":"tag-richard-gordon","12":"tag-the-haunted-strangler"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17135"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=17135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}