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Gas-s-s-s, the Glossary

Gas-s-s-s (on-screen title: Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.) is a 1970 post-apocalyptic black comedy film produced and released by American International Pictures.^[1]

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1970 black comedy films
1970 science fiction films
1970s comedy road movies
1970s science fiction comedy films
Cultural depictions of Edgar Allan Poe
Films about God
Films set in Dallas

A Bucket of Blood

A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 American comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman. Gas-s-s-s and a Bucket of Blood are American International Pictures films, American black comedy films, American satirical films, films directed by Roger Corman and films produced by Roger Corman.

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American International Pictures

American International Pictures LLC (AIP or American International Productions) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios.

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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.

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Army general

Army general is the highest ranked general officer in many countries that use the French Revolutionary System.

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Battle of Bến Tre

The Battle of Bến Tre took place during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War when Vietcong (VC) forces attacked Bến Tre, the capital of Kien Hoa Province, on 31 January 1968.

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Ben Vereen

Benjamin Augustus Vereen (born Benjamin Augustus Middleton; October 10, 1946) is an American actor, dancer and singer.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, bleak comedy, morbid humor, gallows humor, black humor, or dark humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Boxcar Bertha

Boxcar Bertha is a 1972 American romantic crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by Roger Corman, from a screenplay by Joyce H. Corrington and John William Corrington. Gas-s-s-s and Boxcar Bertha are American International Pictures films and films produced by Roger Corman.

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Bud Cort

Walter Edward Cox (born March 29, 1948), known professionally as Bud Cort, is an American actor known for his unorthodox starring roles in Robert Altman's Brewster McCloud (1970) and Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude (1971).

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Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is an American cartoon character created in the late 1930s at Warner Bros. Cartoons (originally Leon Schlesinger Productions) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc.

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Cindy Williams

Cynthia Jane Williams (August 22, 1947 – January 25, 2023) was an American actress.

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Country Joe and the Fish

Country Joe and the Fish was an American psychedelic rock band formed in Berkeley, California, in 1965.

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Country Joe McDonald

Joseph Allen "Country Joe" McDonald (born January 1, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and musician who was the lead vocalist of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe and the Fish.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.

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Double feature

The double feature is a motion picture industry phenomenon in which theatres would exhibit two films for the price of one, supplanting an earlier format in which the presentation of one feature film would be followed by various short subject reels.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

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Edinburgh International Film Festival

The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), established in 1947, is the world's oldest continually running film festival.

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Elaine Giftos

Elaine Giftos (born 1942/1943) is a retired American model, actress, and dancer.

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Gas leak

A gas leak refers to a leak of natural gas or another gaseous product from a pipeline or other containment into any area where the gas should not be present.

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Gene Corman

Eugene Harold "Gene" Corman (September 24, 1927 – September 28, 2020) was an American film producer and agent.

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George Armitage

George Brendan Armitage (born March 2, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Gestapo

The Geheime Staatspolizei, abbreviated Gestapo, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.

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God

In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.

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Greek chorus

A Greek chorus (chorós) in the context of ancient Greek tragedy, comedy, satyr plays, is a homogeneous group of performers, who comment with a collective voice on the action of the scene they appear in, or provide necessary insight into action which has taken place offstage.

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It's a Bikini World

It's a Bikini World is a 1967 American musical comedy film starring Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley and Bobby Pickett.

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James H. Nicholson

James Harvey Nicholson (September 14, 1916 – December 10, 1972) was an American film producer.

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John Wayne

Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), professionally known as John Wayne and nicknamed "the Duke", was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies.

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Late-night television

Late-night television is one of the dayparts in television broadcast programming.

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Lenore (poem)

"Lenore" is a poem by the American author Edgar Allan Poe.

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List of American films of 1970

This is a list of American films released in 1970.

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List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.

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Medicaid

In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources.

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Medicare (United States)

Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the United States for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities, including those with end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease).

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Midnite Movies

Midnite Movies is a line of B movies released first on VHS and later on DVD by MGM Home Entertainment.

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Mike Medavoy

Morris Mike Medavoy (born January 21, 1941) is an American film producer and business executive.

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Robert Corff

Robert Corff (born October 31, 1947) is an American actor and singer who played the lead in Gas-s-s-s (1970).

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Roger Corman

Roger William Corman (April 5, 1926 – May 9, 2024) was an American film director, producer and actor.

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Samuel Z. Arkoff

Samuel Zachary Arkoff (June 12, 1918 – September 16, 2001) was an American producer of B movies.

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Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private research university in University Park, Texas, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico.

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Stephanie Rothman

Stephanie Rothman (born November 9, 1936, in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter, known for her low-budget independent exploitation films made in the 1960s and 1970s, especially The Student Nurses (1970) and Terminal Island (1974).

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Talia Shire

Talia Rose Shire (née Coppola; born April 25, 1946) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Connie Corleone in ''The Godfather'' trilogy and Adrianne Pennino Balboa in the ''Rocky'' series.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.

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The Little Shop of Horrors

The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American horror comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Gas-s-s-s and The Little Shop of Horrors are American black comedy films, films directed by Roger Corman and films produced by Roger Corman.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Raven

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)

The St. Gas-s-s-s and The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film) are films directed by Roger Corman and films produced by Roger Corman.

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Title sequence

A title sequence (also called an opening sequence or intro) is the method by which films or television programmes present their title and key production and cast members, utilizing conceptual visuals and sound (often an opening theme song with visuals, akin to a brief music video).

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Unholy Rollers

The Unholy Rollers is a 1972 American action comedy film directed by Vernon Zimmerman and starring Claudia Jennings. Gas-s-s-s and Unholy Rollers are American International Pictures films.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Von Richthofen and Brown

Von Richthofen and Brown, alternatively titled The Red Baron, is a 1971 war film directed by Roger Corman and starring John Phillip Law and Don Stroud as Manfred von Richthofen and Roy Brown. Gas-s-s-s and von Richthofen and Brown are films directed by Roger Corman and films produced by Roger Corman.

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Wild in the Streets

Wild in the Streets is a 1968 American dystopian comedy-drama film directed by Barry Shear and starring Christopher Jones, Hal Holbrook, and Shelley Winters. Gas-s-s-s and Wild in the Streets are American International Pictures films and American satirical films.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas-s-s-s

Also known as Gas!, Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It., Gas! or It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It, Gas-s-s-s (1971 film), Gassss.

, Variety (magazine), Von Richthofen and Brown, Wild in the Streets.

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See also

1970 black comedy films

1970 science fiction films

1970s comedy road movies

1970s science fiction comedy films

Cultural depictions of Edgar Allan Poe

Films about God

Films set in Dallas

References