T-Bird Gang

T-Bird Gang
Directed byRichard Harbinger
Screenplay byTony Miller and John Brinkley
Produced byStanley Bickman
Starring
CinematographyLarry Raimond
Edited byMarvin Walowitz
Music byOriginal score by
Shelly Manne and His Men: Monty Budwig
Russ Freeman
Charley Mariano
Stu Williamson
Production
company
Sparta Productions
Distributed byThe Filmgroup
Release dates
  • June 21, 1959 (1959-06-21) (Fargo)
  • October 16, 1959 (1959-10-16) (nationwide, official)
Running time
66 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

T-Bird Gang is a 1959 American film directed by Richard Harbinger in his first and final film. It was co-written by and starring John Brinkley and Tony Miller with Edwin Nelson; all of them had appeared in several of Roger Corman's films.

Plot

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A group of criminals rob a warehouse where they cosh the elderly night watchman. The watchman's ex-G.I. son Frank finds his barely conscious father who soon dies from the injury; his last words being that the group drove a white T-Bird. Frank tracks the gang down with the idea of vengeance, but the police apprehend him and force him into getting his revenge by infiltrating the gang of robbin' hoods.

Production

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Shot in 1958 under the title of Cry Out in Vengeance, it was released by executive producer Roger Corman as a double feature with High School Big Shot as the first release of his Filmgroup company.[1]

Corman financed the film.[2]

In February 1959 Filmgroup announced they would release ten films. Their first movies were High School Big Shot (1959) and T-Bird Gang (1959) produced by Stanley Bickman.[3]

Cast

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  • John Brinkley as Frank Simmons, alias Frank Minor
  • Edwin Nelson as Alex Hendricks
  • Tony Miller as Raymond Gunderson
  • Patricia George as Marla Stanosky, alias Marla Stanley
  • Coleman Francis as Capt. R. M. Prell
  • Nola Thorp as Kay
  • Beach Dickerson as Barney Adams
  • Trent Dollar as Boy
  • Gene Walker
  • Steve Harris
  • Robert Wendell
  • Henry Randolph
  • Vic Tayback as a policeman
  • Glenn Campbell
  • Earl Miles

Notes

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  1. ^ p.27 Ray, Fred Olen The New Poverty Row: Independent Filmmakers as Distributors Mc Farland
  2. ^ Ed. J. Philip di Franco, The Movie World of Roger Corman, Chelsea House Publishers, 1979 p 137
  3. ^ "Roger Corman Sets 10 to Nourish Filmgroup". Variety. 18 February 1959. p. 3.
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