In Praise of Lone Star Film Works

Based out of Lubbock, Texas, Lone Star Film Works was an independent film distributor, which made bank releasing multiple documentaries throughout the seventies.  These included OVERLORDS OF LOCH NESS (1975), UFOs OVER OAK ISLAND (1976), NOSTRADAMUS V CRISWELL: THE FINAL BATTLE (1977), UNEXPLANABLE MYSTERYS OF THE UNKNOWN (1977), ENCOUNTERS FROM BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (1978) and the most notorious, BIGFOOT AND ME (1979).

which was an account of women who have claimed to have been abducted by and had relations with the big guy.  One lady in particular, Tammy Sue Peterson, claimed to have spent three years with a family of Big Foots in the Pacific Northwest.  Peterson professed to have been able to teach the creatures how to drive a car (a stick shift no less) and together, they robbed numerous banks across Oregon and Washington.  When asked why no one recognized a big foot robbing a bank, Peterson tells the interviewer that they all wore masks to conceal their identity.  Ridiculous stuff to be sure, but a fun view none the less. 

Three years earlier Lone Star had released BRUCE LEE AND THE UFO CONSPIRACY (1976).

In the running for the oddest Bruceploitation movie, which is saying a hell of a lot, is BRUCE LEE AND THE UFO CONSPIRACY (1976), the host, Herbert M. Brinkman, an ufologist and Yellow Belt, whose main theory is that Bruce Lee descended from aliens and that the aliens were responsible for his talent, rise to worldwide fame and eventually his premature death.  Brinkman contends that aliens have infiltrated the movie business across the globe and have attained high level positions in the movie industry.  He also states that the alien life forms control various media outlets, in particular a country and western AM radio station in Topeka, Kansas and that extraterrestrials invented soap on a rope.

More on Lone Star Film Works will appear soon.