10. ‘Rock All Night’ (1957)
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A memorable early film from Corman, ‘Rock All Night’ sets a hardboiled crime drama to a bopping rock n’ roll score. Dick Miller, Corman’s most frequent collaborator, stars as the unnamed hero, a short man with an inferiority complex who becomes the unexpected hero when he’s forced to save a teen bar from two convicted killers who hold the place hostage. At a mere 61 minutes, it’s not exactly the most substantive of Corman’s films, but it has verve and excitement between its great music and Miller’s great embittered performance. The film’s also notable as one of the projects Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez would later cite as an inspiration for ‘Grindhouse.’