Gordon McLendon
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Gordon Barton McLendon was an American radio broadcaster. Nicknamed "the Maverick of Radio", McLendon is widely credited for perfecting, during the 1950s and 1960s, the commercially successful Top 40
Liberty founder Gordon McLendon with a Liberty-branded microphone
The Giant Gila Monster
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The Giant Gila Monster is a 1959 American monster film directed by Ray Kellogg and produced by Ken Curtis. A famous B-movie of the era, the film stars Don Sullivan, a veteran of several low budget mon
Gordon McLendon
…modern-day Global Television Network. In 1959, McLendon co-produced and co-starred in two sci-fi monster movies filmed in Texas, The Killer Shrews and The Giant Gila Monster. He produced over 150 motion-picture campaigns for United Artists from 1963 to 1966. At one point, he became the largest shareholder in Columbia Pictures…
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Drive-in advertisement from 1959 for The Giant Gila Monster alongside its co-feature The Killer Shrews