Bert Shefter

Birth : 1902-05-15, Poltava, Poltavskaya guberniya, Russian Empire [now in Poltavs'ka oblast', Ukraine]

Death : 1999-06-29

Movies

They Call Him Marcado
Original Music Composer
The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to boot. The town’s resident Mater Dolorosa, madam of the brothel, hires her lover Marcado to kill the Kid, who is of course her son.
Emiliano Zapata
Original Music Composer
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
The Christine Jorgensen Story
Original Music Composer
Christine Jorgensen goes to 1950s Denmark and makes headlines for having the first sex-change operation.
The Bubble
Original Music Composer
A couple encounter mysterious atmospheric effects in an airplane and find themselves in a town where people behave oddly.
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Original Music Composer
Three strippers seeking thrills encounter a young couple in the desert. After dispatching the boyfriend, they take the girl hostage and begin scheming on a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert, reputedly hiding a tidy sum of cash. They become house guests of the old man and try and seduce the sons in an attempt to locate the money, not realizing that the old man has a few sinister intentions of his own.
Motor Psycho
Original Music Composer
A biker gang, led by a Vietnam veteran, rapes a veterinarian's wife. When the man decides to seek revenge and hunt down the perpetrators himself, he ends up joining forces with a Cajun woman whose husband they killed.
Curse of the Fly
Original Music Composer
The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly, continues to pursue his father's experiment, while his own two sons attempt to extricate him, themselves and the family name from further disaster and scandal.
The Last Man on Earth
Original Music Composer
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
Thunder Island
Original Music Composer
A hit man hijacks a boat — and the married couple aboard — in order to carry out a contract on a dictator in the Caribbean.
Jack the Giant Killer
Original Music Composer
The terrible and trecherous Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by getting the king to abdicate and to marry his lovely daughter. To help him he has his dreadful witches in his castle and his almost unstoppable sorcery. A giant under his control abducts the princess, but on the way home with her the giant meets farming lad Jack who slays him. This is only the beginning.
About Time
Music Supervisor
An entry in the Bell Science animated film series, on the nature of time.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Original Music Composer
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Misty
Original Music Composer
Every year the Chincoteague fire department rounds up the wild ponies of Assateague Island and holds an auction to thin out the herd. The young children set out to raise enough money in hopes that the Phantom will be caught in this years round up. They soon realize they will get more than they bargained for when the Phantom has a surprise for everyone: a foal named Misty.
Police Dog Story
Music
After exhaustive training, a police dog joins an arson investigation.
Five Guns to Tombstone
Original Music Composer
Billy Wade (James Brown) is an ex-gunslinger who is approached by his outlaw brother Matt (Robert Karnes), not long out of prison, to help him with a big-time robbery. Matt forces Billy's participation with an offer he cannot refuse, unaware that Billy is actually working on the side of the law.
Tess of the Storm Country
Original Music Composer
Fourth reworking of the classic Grace Miller White novel, this time updated to the 60s, with young Scottish lassie Tess (Diane Baker) becoming embroiled in a conflict about a toxic chemical plant near her new home in Pennsylvania.
The Walking Target
Original Music Composer
An ex-con finds unexpected romance with the widow of his former accomplice as he tries to collect his hidden loot.
The Lost World
Original Music Composer
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
Cage of Evil
Original Music Composer
While investigating a diamond heist, disgruntled cop Harper falls for Holly, the top suspect's main squeeze. When she convinces him to kill her boyfriend and make off with her and the loot, they start down a treacherous path full of dark surprises.
The Music Box Kid
Original Music Composer
A young gangster in 1920's New York quickly rises through the ranks of the mob, then sets up his own murder-for-hire organization. When he starts kidnapping other mobsters for ransom, the New York gangs band together for revenge.
Noose for a Gunman
Original Music Composer
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
Three Came to Kill
Original Music Composer
Assassins take a flight controller's family hostage to force him into revealing the aircraft carrying their quarry.
A Dog's Best Friend
Music
A young orphan rejects his foster parents and instead turns to a German shepherd whose master was recently murdered. Stumbling on some evidence, the boy is rescued from the killer by his dog.
Vice Raid
Music
A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.
The Big Circus
Music
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
Return of the Fly
Original Music Composer
Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.
The Cosmic Man
Original Music Composer
A strange sphere settles down in a California canyon, causing both the scientific and military communities to gather around to investigate.
Villa!!
Music
Biographical south-of-the-border cowboy western adventure thriller of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa
Wind Across the Everglades
Music
An ornithologist battles a family of bird poachers in the Florida Everglades.
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Original Music Composer
In 1973, the first manned expedition to Mars is marooned; by the time a rescue mission arrives, there is only one survivor: the leader, Col. Edward Carruthers, who appears to have murdered the others! According to Carruthers, an unknown life form killed his comrades during a sandstorm. But the skeptical rescuers little suspect that "it" has stowed away for the voyage back to Earth...
Ambush at Cimarron Pass
Original Music Composer
A small Army patrol unit and a couple of former Confederates reluctantly throw in their lot together after being attacked by a band of Native Americans.
The Deerslayer
Original Music Composer
After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the hostile Huron Indians, they learn that the Hurons will attack Old Tom Hutter and his two daughters, Hetty and Judith, who live on a floating raft fort on the river.
Gun Duel In Durango
Original Music Composer
A former outlaw must prove himself innocent after he's accused of bank robbery. Western.
She Devil
Original Music Composer
Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.
Kronos
Original Music Composer
Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy directed at it in an effort to destroy it.
Five Steps to Danger
Original Music Composer
Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies?
The Desperados Are in Town
Original Music Composer
In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He is advised by one of the desperadoes to return home. The boy does, and with hard work, makes the farm successful. Harvest time rolls around. He is just about to celebrate when the outlaws ride up and force him to help them pull a local bank job. He refuses and kills the gang leader and his brother. Meanwhile, the boy's past is revealed to the town banker. Seeing that he truly has gone straight, the banker forgives him. The boy marries and lives with his lovely bride upon his land.
The Big Chase
Original Music Composer
A policeman (Glenn Langan) with a pregnant wife (Adele Jergens) winds up chasing a payroll thief (Lon Chaney Jr.) into Mexico by helicopter.
No Escape
Conductor
A woman and a songwriter suspected of murder join forces to crack the case.
No Escape
Original Music Composer
A woman and a songwriter suspected of murder join forces to crack the case.
Leave It to the Marines
Music
Gerald Meek and Myrna McAllister go to city hall to apply for a marriage license. Gerald wanders into the Marine Recruiting office by mistake and Sergeant Delaney signs him into the Marine Corps and sends him for a medical examination before Gerald realizes what has happened. He finds himself in uniform and ready to be shipped to boot camp without any delay, other than explain to his intended-bride that Uncle Sam has other plans for him.
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Music Director
Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.
Fingerprints Don't Lie
Music
A fingerprint expert (Richard Travis) figures out who killed the mayor.
One Too Many
Conductor
A once-famous concert pianist has had her career ruined by her alcoholism. Her husband and a member of Alcoholics Anonymous try to help her recover.
One Too Many
Music
A once-famous concert pianist has had her career ruined by her alcoholism. Her husband and a member of Alcoholics Anonymous try to help her recover.