Robert Clarke(1920-2005)

Stated in his biography that the horror movie he produced/directed/wrote was made for less than $50,000, including $500 for the rubberized lizard suit he wore. He shot the movie over 12 weekends to get two days' use of rental camera equipment for one day's fee.

[about the problems on 300 A.C. (1952)] Part of the fault was that the director, Stuart Gilmore, was being given one of his first directing opportunities . . . Gilmore had been an editor for [Howard Hughes] on El proscrito (1943); this was one of Gilmore's first pictures and he was lost. Completely. The poor man had tremendous problems: there were too many people in the cast, too many actors with no dialogue in the scenes, and then the fact that they [the producers] had overextended themselves for special effects.