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PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - An affectionate tribute to the not-quite-obscure Roger Corman, "Corman's World" breaks little newborn ground but serves as a lively undercoat for any flick buff dubious of the low-budgeteer's lasting footprint on the American flick biz.

Funny, quick-paced and stuffed with well-known interviewees, it naturally has far meliorate status melodramatic prospects than anything its subject has produced lately.

The doc's straightforward chronological approach, which tidily breaks a large occupation into apprehensible stages, is broken exclusive by past footage from the set of "Dinoshark," a creation that lets us observe Corman and wife/partner Julie at impact and offers at least one newborn anecdote colorful enough to start Corman lore.

There's content aplenty here, as administrator Alex Stapleton interviews most of the figures intimately linked to the producer's mythology (with the celebrity omission of Francis author Coppola) -- we action down small-town streets with Ron Howard, meet Martin filmmaker in a jewel-box-like private display room and watch as Bruce Dern gets his material cut, everybody eager to share their experiences with the man.

And then, of course, there's Jack. Easily the doc's prizewinning interview, Nicholson is diverting and astonishingly serious (emotional, even) as he marvels at the Negro who kept him employed even after the category of performance he gave in "The Terror." Nicholson also caps the news of how "Easy Rider," which could have been Corman's crowning achievement, slipped through his fingers.

The movie rarely lingers anywhere for long, leaving fans wanting to hear more about, say, how the Corman Corps created the not-so-special personalty in his earliest sci-fi pictures. But it does provide comely tending to "The Intruder," the from-the-heart 1962 flick most favoritism (starring William Shatner, who reminisces here) that bombed so seriously it certain Corman to acceptation a "text/subtext" move in the future, concealing political themes low boobs, bombs and blood.

A few tidbits haw be news to unplanned fans (New World's unlikely relation with auteurs same Ingmar Bergman, for instance), and in plenteous footage of the Negro himself (including oldness talk-show appearances), Stapleton presents, though never really explains, the provocative oppositeness between Corman's dignified persona and the bottom-feeding fare he produces.

Those B- and D-flicks are meet art of a assorted sort, filmmaker generously suggests. In "Corman's World," there's nobody around who module contest that assertion.