The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975 film directed by Jim Sharman
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical comedy horror movie by 20th Century Fox. It was produced by Lou Adler and Michael White and directed by Jim Sharman. It was written by Sharman and actor Richard O'Brien.
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Directed by | Jim Sharman |
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Based on | The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O'Brien |
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Narrated by | Charles Gray |
Cinematography | Peter Suschitzky |
Edited by | Graeme Clifford |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 100 minutes[1][2] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $1.4 million[4] |
Box office | $226 million[5] |
The movie is based on the 1973 musical stage production The Rocky Horror Show.
It stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick and is narrated by Charles Gray.
In 2005, The Rocky Horror Picture Show was selected by the United States National Film Registry.
References
change- ↑ "ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (AA)". British Board of Film Classification. 17 June 1975. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
- ↑ Armstrong, Richard; et al. (7 November 2007). The Rough Guide to Film. Rough Guides. p. 506. ISBN 978-1-4053-8498-8.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on 18 September 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
- ↑ Solomon, Aubrey (1989). Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History. Scarecrow Press. p. 258.
- ↑ Ivan-Zadeh, Larushka (19 June 2020). "The Rocky Horror Picture Show: The film that's saved lives". BBC. Retrieved 27 September 2020.