Boris Petroff Explained

Boris Petroff (December 19, 1894 – November 1972)^{[1] [2]} was a film director and producer who specialized in low budget exploitation films.^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]} He sometimes used the pseudonym Brooke L. Peters. He included stock footage in some of his films.^[9]

Petroff directed a production titled Noah's Lark in 1929 and 1930.^[10] It featured Morton and Mayo and was modeled after the 1928 film Noah's Ark.

He asked Eddie Cochran to be in his musical comedy film The Girl Can't Help It in 1956. Cochran performed the song "Twenty Flight Rock" in the movie.

Petroff married Jane Mann,^[11] a screenwriter who co-wrote the scripts for The Unearthly and Anatomy of a Psycho. Gloria Petroff, their daughter, was in his films Two Lost Worlds^[12] and The Unearthly.

In 2014, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) screened the 1936 film Hats Off he directed.^[13]

Filmography

Director

• Hats Off (1936 film)^[14]
• Red Snow (1952 film)^[15] directed by Harry S. Franklin and Boris Petroff
• The Unearthly (1957), produced and directed by Boris Petroff (as Brook L. Peters)
• Outcasts of the City (1958)
• Anatomy of a Psycho (1961)
• Shotgun Wedding (1963 film)^[16]

Other roles

• Arctic Fury (1949), one of the film's producers^[17]
• Two Lost Worlds (1951), produced and co-wrote film adaptation (dba Sterling Productions Inc.)^[18]

Notes and References

1. Book: Atkins, Rick . Among the Rugged Peaks: An Intimate Biography of Carla Laemmle . 18 February 2018 . Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media . en.
2. News: 1972-11-20 . Funeral Notice . 2024-01-10 . The Los Angeles Times . 57.
3. News: Eichelbaum . Stanley . 1963-09-18 . Mae West's Nostalgic Producer . 2024-01-10 . The San Francisco Examiner . 21.
4. News: 1967-08-07 . Things That Happened . 2024-01-10 . Los Angeles Evening Citizen News . 8.
5. News: 1963-12-07 . 'Shotgun Wedding' Is Backwoods Sex Flim . 2024-01-10 . The Los Angeles Times . 32.
6. News: Hale . David . 1963-08-14 . Producer Sees Flimdom Ruin In Huge Star Salaries . 2024-01-10 . The Fresno Bee . 1D, 3D.
7. News: 1934-12-28 . Divorce Retrial Decreed . 2024-01-10 . The Los Angeles Times . 28.
8. Web site: AFICatalog . 2024-01-10 . catalog.afi.com.
9. Book: Warren, Bill. Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition. October 19, 2009. McFarland. 9780786442300. Google Books.
10. Web site: Cambridge Public Library's Historic Cambridge Newspaper Collection . The Cambridge Sentinel 19 July 1930 . 1930-07-19 . 2024-08-06.
11. Web site: Two Lost Worlds . Scifist . 2020-04-15 . James . Wass . 2024-08-06.
12. Web site: Gloria Petroff List of Movies and TV Shows . TVGuide.com . 2022-07-13 . 2024-08-06.
13. Web site: Events | MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art.
14. Book: Dombrowski, Lisa. The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I'll Kill You. May 15, 2015. Wesleyan University Press. 9780819576101. Google Books.
15. Web site: Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. March 10, 1952. Google Books.
16. Web site: The Unsung (Intentional) Comedy of Edward Davis Wood, Jr.. August 15, 2019.
17. News: Josephhollywood . Robert . July 17, 1949 . REVISED ARCTIC SAGA BECOMES HOT PROPERTY . . X3.
18. Web site: Guilty Pleasures of the Horror Film. Gary J.. Svehla. March 10, 1996. Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media. Google Books.