Bruce Dern, then just one of the fledgling actors to whom Corman gave crucial early roles, recalled asking Corman on the set ...

The document was believed to have been stolen between 1985 and 1993, and passed hands “many times” before its recovery.

And to bring it full circle, they once starred in the 1978 film KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park whose TV Guide description reads, “One the eve of a concert, KISS is kidnapped by an army of robots ...