Jack Pollexfen
Birthday:
10 June 1908, San Diego, California, USA
Jack Pollexfen began his professional life in the newspaper business, working his way up from copyboy at the "Los Angeles Express" to reporter on several other dailies. During this period he also found time to write and produce three plays that he once said could be classified as "off-Broadway--a LONG way off!" He found himself ...
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Jack Pollexfen began his professional life in the newspaper business, working his way up from copyboy at the "Los Angeles Express" to reporter on several other dailies. During this period he also found time to write and produce three plays that he once said could be classified as "off-Broadway--a LONG way off!" He found himself in the movie business when MGM offered him a contract to turn one of his magazine articles into a screenplay. Four years in the Air Force writing training films and manuals during World War II interrupted his movie career, which then got back on track with a series of screenplays for adventure pictures like Treasure of Monte Cristo (1949) and The Desert Hawk (1950). A short time later Pollexfen's producing career got started, in collaboration with co-writer Aubrey Wisberg, and they turned out a string of low-budget sci-fi films in the 1950s. Show less «
[on working with director Edgar G. Ulmer] Ulmer was an extremely good director for a FAST picture. He did NOT work out too well if he had an...Show more »
[on working with director Edgar G. Ulmer] Ulmer was an extremely good director for a FAST picture. He did NOT work out too well if he had any time. His English was pretty shaky, and if he had time enough he'd sit down and try to direct the cast in their dialogue . . . Ulmer was a difficult person, but a very talented person. Show less «
[on producing partner Aubrey Wisberg] Wisberg got into feuds with an awful lot of people--that was probably the main reason I finally broke ...Show more »
[on producing partner Aubrey Wisberg] Wisberg got into feuds with an awful lot of people--that was probably the main reason I finally broke up with him. He would be irritated if, say, a cameraman who'd worked for us once was not available on the next picture, and things of that nature. Very touchy. Show less «
[about The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951)] [Co-writer Mortimer Braus] and I were kidding one day about outlandish movie titles, and we came up wit...Show more »
[about The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951)] [Co-writer Mortimer Braus] and I were kidding one day about outlandish movie titles, and we came up with "The Son of Dr. Jekyll". We thought about it for a moment, thought it might sell, and knocked out a quick story. Columbia bought it at once. We had nothing to do with the production. Show less «
