Carl Leo Pierson (1891-1977) edited several hundred films during his long career, almost all of which would be categorized as ‘B’ pictures. Indicative of this is the fact that his best-known work is Reefer Madness (1936), the ‘notorious exploitation shocker’.
Only six years earlier, Pierson had been in the refined setting of Metro’s Culver City studio, editing Montana Moon.
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