Registered: January 1, 2009 | Reputation: | Posts: 3,087 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting ninehours: Quote: I'm not 100% sure that all those pseudonyms are his? if you look at the page for Lina Romay and check her alternate names you will find that some of them are the same (of coarse they could both be using the same alternate names) which is why i was trying to find some other sources to corroborate them (thanks for the links) From the last link, bolded by me: Quote: He acted in almost all of his films, performing the roles of music men, lawyers, porters, all of them sinister, maniac and comic characters, and using, apart from the names Jes?s Franco, Jess Franco or Franco Manera, many pseudonyms (reaching the point of using the name of other people in the credits): Jess Frank, Robert Zimmerman, Frank Hollman, Clifford Brown, David Khune, Frarik Hollman, Toni Falt, James P. Johnson, Charlie Christian, David Tough, Cady Coster, Lennie Hayden, Lul? Laverne, Betty Carter... The actress Lina Romay has been almost a constant in his films, and it's very probable that in some of them she has been credited as the director instead of him. I think it could get hard to find out which credits belong to which one. Perhaps this could also be a reason for splitting the Director credit from op into two different. Anyone sure it is really him? In the quote James P. Johnson is noted as pseudonym and not under the names he took from others in his productions, but I think it's hard to be sure. This guy is mad, so who really knows?! |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 1,414 |
| Posted: | | | | I'm not sure which film this is, but from the history of Jess Franco I would conjecture that this is some kind of re-release or revised print. It wasn't until Video Watchdog really made Franco a well known cult figure in its early issues in the 1980s that most people had the faintest sense of who Jess Franco was any more than J.P. Johnson. So there'd be no particular attraction to adding his name to an older film until after that point. Furthermore, due to snootiness about local filmmakers, Spanish and Italian directors frequently worked under English pseudonyms so they looked like higher-quality imports rather than the usual cheapie shot in 3 days sleaze (a hallmark of Franco's films).
Anyway, my reading of this credit is that originally the credit onscreen read "J. P. Johnson" and that it was revised (possibly in the transfer to the DVD) to add the quotation marks and the Jess Franco reference. The "J.P. Franco" on the back cover is probably a typo that combines the two.
Again, this is all conjecture, but I can't see any way to make "J. P. Johnson" a nickname. So I don't think the middle-name rule applies at all.
The Lina Romay thing is weird and probably impossible to figure out for certain. She was credited with directing a lot of films, both under her own name and her porn pseudonym, Candy Coster, but many Franco authorities seem convinced that they're actually Jess's work. Whether Romay ever sat in the director's chair at all is to my mind open to question. Given that Candy Coster is well-established as her nom de porn, I guess we have to give her the benefit of the doubt that it is her directing unless we find some irrefutable evidence to the contrary (say, interviews with Romay and Franco, commentaries, etc.). | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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Registered: April 3, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,998 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting gardibolt: Quote: I'm not sure which film this is, Female Vampire (UK Title) Female Vampire: Widescreen Edition All Regions Released: 22/04/2002 Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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Registered: May 8, 2007 | Posts: 823 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Corne: Quote: Actually, that rule is talking about actors. The director is part of the crew. AAAAhhhhhhh!!!!!! | | | 99.9% of all cat plans consist only of "Step 1." |
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Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,459 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Kluge: Quote: I think that the corrected way is: Jess Franco ["J. P. Johnson" Jess Franco] as on screen. I'd agree with this - it seems to represent what's on screen the best. |
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