Wild Guitar (1962)

 

 

A young Arch Hall, Jr. is given a shot at the big time by the unscrupulous owner of a small record company played by Arch Hall, Sr. (aka William Watters).

Silly, cliche-ridden musical drama is not as bad as its credentials might suggest: the music is OK, and Vilmos Zsigmond's camera work lifts it up a notch.
 

Maltin BOMB: "Perfectly awful melodrama." 

 

 

The Sadist (1963)

Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend.

Tough, mean-spirited and quite effective low-budget thriller with good editing and cinematography (Vilmos Zsigmond!); Arch Hall Jr. is remarkable as the terrifying psychopath.

Maltin**1/2: "Taut little B picture...Hall is distressingly believable as the psycho.Imaginatively shot by Vilmos (billed as William) Zsigmond."