Herschel Burke Gilbert

Birth : 1918-04-20,

Death : 2003-06-08

Movies

The Witch Who Came from the Sea
Original Music Composer
Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
Poor Albert and Little Annie
Original Music Composer
Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way...
Sam Whiskey
Original Music Composer
Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ship and secretly bring them back to the mint before they are missed. But how shall he manage to get several hundred pounds of gold into the mint without anyone noticing?
Geronimo
Conductor
In 1883, the Apache Indians lead by Geronimo reluctantly surrender to the attacks of American and Mexican troops, in exchange for a territory and food for their warriors. Soon though, Geronimo escapes the camps and declares war against the Americans.
Crime and Punishment USA
Original Music Composer
Believing he can elude justice, a California law student murders an elderly pawnbroker, then matches wits with the detective on the case.
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Music Arranger
A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Original Music Composer
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
Nightmare
Music Director
Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.
Nightmare
Original Music Composer
Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.
The Naked Hills
Original Music Composer
Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian, and teams up with Sam Wilkins, a claim jumper employed by Willis Haver. Six years later, Powell returns to Indiana and his sweetheart, Julie. They marry and he tries farming again but, on the night their son is born, he takes off again searching for gold. This time he heads for the hills with an inveterate prospector, Jimmo McCann. A decade later, the two are still hunting for their big strike when McCann is killed in an accident. Powell returns home with news of a big strike but the deserted Julie will have nothing to do with him. His friend Killian will not believe him but Haver, now a banker gives him a small loan and then beats him out of his claim. Many years pass before he comes home, now sixty-years-old, and this time, his wife and son open their home to him. But he vows to go prospecting come next spring.
While the City Sleeps
Original Music Composer
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
The Bold and the Brave
Music Director
An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944.
The Bold and the Brave
Original Music Composer
An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944.
The Naked Dawn
Original Music Composer
Santiago, a jolly modern bandito, has just lost his partner when he happens on the isolated farm of young Manuel and Maria Lopez...
Carmen Jones
Music Director
The tale of the cigarette-maker Carmen and the Spanish cavalry soldier Don Jose is translated into a modern-day story of a parachute factory worker and a stalwart GI named Joe who is about to go to flying school. Conflict arises when a prize-ring champ captures the heart of Carmen after she has seduced Joe and caused him to go AWOL.
Riot in Cell Block 11
Original Music Composer
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Project Moon Base
Music Director
In the future (1970) the US sends a mission to the moon to investigate the building of a moon base.
Project Moon Base
Original Music Composer
In the future (1970) the US sends a mission to the moon to investigate the building of a moon base.
Vice Squad
Original Music Composer
A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.
The Moon Is Blue
Original Music Composer
Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.
No Time for Flowers
Music
A young girl's loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attache who has just arrived from the United States.
The Thief
Conductor
A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who's selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.
The Thief
Original Music Composer
A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who's selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.
The Ring
Original Music Composer
A young Mexican/American learns about life both inside and out of the ring when he takes up boxing.
Without Warning!
Original Music Composer
Police track a serial killer.
The Magic Face
Original Music Composer
Actor becomes Hitler's valet, murders him, takes his place and ruins Nazi Germany's war efforts.
The Scarf
Original Music Composer
A man believe to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
Three Husbands
Music
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
There's a Girl in My Heart
Original Music Composer
A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.
Mr. Soft Touch
Orchestrator
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
Impact
Orchestrator
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
Open Secret
Original Music Composer
A couple discovers that their friend has gone missing. Their investigation leads them to believe that anti-semites are behind the disappearance.
Christmas Eve
Orchestrator
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?
Lured
Orchestrator
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
Mr. District Attorney
Music Score Producer
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.