John Gilling

John Gilling

Nacimiento : 1912-05-29, London, England, UK

Muerte : 1984-11-22

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John Gilling (29 May 1912 – 22 November 1984) was an English film director and screenwriter, born in London. He was chiefly known for his horror films, especially for Hammer Films, for whom he directed Shadow of the Cat (1961), The Plague of the Zombies (1966), The Reptile (1966) (the latter two filmed back to back in Cornwall) and The Mummy's Shroud, among others. He is also renown for many low to mid budget detective films and teleplays with unexpected touches of comedy blended in.                      Description above from the Wikipedia article John Gilling, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.                    

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John Gilling

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The Vatican Museums
Originally produced in 1997 on the threshold of the Third Millennium of the Christian Era, and in celebration of the Jubilee of the Year of Our Lord 2000, The Vatican Museums was the culmination of three years of research and filming, the collaboration of thirty-two scholars and historians from around the world, a crew of forty directors of photography, operators, and lighting technicians, state-of-the-art digital cinematography, lighting, animation, and computerized editing, and the work of a famous composer with original performances by master musicians. Now available on DVD for the first time, this historic three-disc collection features seven hours of magnificent documentary film that illuminates and chronicles the great journey of the human spirit. Here then is the world's most spectacular and sacred repository of art, history, and faith.
Cross of the Devil
Writer
A British novelist travels to Spain to visit his sister. However, when he arrives he discovers that she has been murdered by a gang of devil-worshiping bandits called the Devil's Cross.
Cross of the Devil
Director
A British novelist travels to Spain to visit his sister. However, when he arrives he discovers that she has been murdered by a gang of devil-worshiping bandits called the Devil's Cross.
Trog
Original Story
Una antropóloga maternal (Joan Crawford) intenta por todos los medios educar y defender a un extraño ser hallado en una cueva que podría ser "el eslabón perdido".
El sudario de la momia
Screenplay
Una pequeña expedición arqueológica conducida por Sir Basil Walden (André Morell) descubre la tumba escondida de Kah-to-Bey. A pesar de las advertencias del guardián de mirada siniestra, Hasmid Ali (Roger Delgado), se llevan a Kahto-Bey al Cairo y lo guardan junto a la momia de Prem, su devoto esclavo y protector. Los jerogílficos del sudario que cubre el cuerpo de Kahto-Bey son leídos en voz alta por Ali haciendo que Prem vuelva a la vida. Empieza una espiral imparable de locura, misterio y asesinatos.
El sudario de la momia
Director
Una pequeña expedición arqueológica conducida por Sir Basil Walden (André Morell) descubre la tumba escondida de Kah-to-Bey. A pesar de las advertencias del guardián de mirada siniestra, Hasmid Ali (Roger Delgado), se llevan a Kahto-Bey al Cairo y lo guardan junto a la momia de Prem, su devoto esclavo y protector. Los jerogílficos del sudario que cubre el cuerpo de Kahto-Bey son leídos en voz alta por Ali haciendo que Prem vuelva a la vida. Empieza una espiral imparable de locura, misterio y asesinatos.
Where the Bullets Fly
Screenplay
In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,
Where the Bullets Fly
Director
In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,
El Reptil
Director
Harry y Valerie llegan a un pequeño pueblo de Inglaterra porque Charles, el hermano de Harry, ha muerto en extrañas circunstancias. La gente del pueblo muestra recelo ante la llegada de extraños y parece ocultar algo. La verdad es que viven atemorizados por una serie de muertes producidas por mordedura de serpiente. El Dr. Franklyn y su hija Anna tienen la clave de ese misterio: una maldición procedente de un antiguo culto oriental que oculta un terrible secreto.
La maldición de los zombies
Director
En una pequeña ciudad de Gran Bretaña, varios trabajadores mueren a causa de una misteriosa epidemia. Desesperado, el doctor Peter Tompson pide ayuda a su amigo Sir James Forbes, que llega dispuesto a buscar el origen de la horrible plaga. Los dos doctores se embarcan en una peligrosa investigación que encubre un horrible secreto y que les llevará hasta la asombrosa verdad: alguien está utilizando la magia negra para devolver la vida a los muertos.
La llamada del espacio exterior
Director
Un alienígena secuestra seres humanos de raza femenina para poder llevarlas a Ganímedes y que su raza no se vea condenada a la extinción.
Rebelión en la India
Writer
India, 1850. Robert Case, un oficial mestizo del cuerpo de lanceros bengalíes, al servicio del su majestad en el ejército británico en la India, es degradado y condenado a prisón bajo una falsa acusación de cobardía: la de haber abandonado a un compañero herido en acción de guerra. Case decide escapar cuando Eli Khan, el cabecilla rebelde de una tribu enemiga, le ofrece asilo, el cual acepta dada su difícil situación. Case se convierte en el estratega del rebelde y comparte con él diversas escaramuzas. El objetivo principal es ahora el acuartelamiento de Fort Kandahar, uno de los principales asentamientos del ejército británico en la India (FILMAFFINITY)
Rebelión en la India
Director
India, 1850. Robert Case, un oficial mestizo del cuerpo de lanceros bengalíes, al servicio del su majestad en el ejército británico en la India, es degradado y condenado a prisón bajo una falsa acusación de cobardía: la de haber abandonado a un compañero herido en acción de guerra. Case decide escapar cuando Eli Khan, el cabecilla rebelde de una tribu enemiga, le ofrece asilo, el cual acepta dada su difícil situación. Case se convierte en el estratega del rebelde y comparte con él diversas escaramuzas. El objetivo principal es ahora el acuartelamiento de Fort Kandahar, uno de los principales asentamientos del ejército británico en la India (FILMAFFINITY)
The Secret of Blood Island
Writer
Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.
La leyenda de Vandorf
Screenplay
Una serie de asesinatos han tenido lugar en el pueblo de Yandorf y, en todos los casos, la víctima se ha convertido en piedra. Después de que Sacha, una joven del lugar, aparezca muerta de la misma manera, las sospechas recaerán sobre su amante. Cuando el grupo que le busca encuentra su cuerpo sin vida colgando de un árbol, piensa que él es la mente maligna que está detrás de los crímenes.
The Scarlet Blade
Screenplay
A 1964 British action adventure film from Hammer studios. The Scarlet Blade is set during the english civil war. A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathisers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring do.
The Scarlet Blade
Director
A 1964 British action adventure film from Hammer studios. The Scarlet Blade is set during the english civil war. A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathisers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring do.
Panic
Writer
In this crime melodrama, a Swiss woman finds herself unwittingly involved in a plot to steal from her employer, a London diamond merchant. Her boyfriend is behind the scheme. First he sends two accomplices disguised as German jewelers to see the boss. He is not fooled by their ruse and is killed while the woman is knocked unconscious. She awakens with amnesia and begins aimlessly wandering the London streets. Thinking that his girl has squealed to the police, her boy friend begins scouring the town to find her. Meanwhile, she is taken in by a boxer who returns to the ring to win the money needed to get her out of the country. Trouble ensues when her lover finally finds her after the match and begins beating on the exhausted fighter.
Panic
Director
In this crime melodrama, a Swiss woman finds herself unwittingly involved in a plot to steal from her employer, a London diamond merchant. Her boyfriend is behind the scheme. First he sends two accomplices disguised as German jewelers to see the boss. He is not fooled by their ruse and is killed while the woman is knocked unconscious. She awakens with amnesia and begins aimlessly wandering the London streets. Thinking that his girl has squealed to the police, her boy friend begins scouring the town to find her. Meanwhile, she is taken in by a boxer who returns to the ring to win the money needed to get her out of the country. Trouble ensues when her lover finally finds her after the match and begins beating on the exhausted fighter.
The pirates of Blood River
Screenplay
En un pueblo de refugiados hugonotes, Jonathan Standing es exiliado por su padre a una colonia penal de las inmediaciones por su relación impropia con una mujer casada. Esta colonia penal es invadida después por piratas que obligan a Jonathan a llevarlos de vuelta a su pueblo, convencidos de que alberga un gran tesoro.
The pirates of Blood River
Director
En un pueblo de refugiados hugonotes, Jonathan Standing es exiliado por su padre a una colonia penal de las inmediaciones por su relación impropia con una mujer casada. Esta colonia penal es invadida después por piratas que obligan a Jonathan a llevarlos de vuelta a su pueblo, convencidos de que alberga un gran tesoro.
The Shadow of the Cat
Director
Tabitha, que siempre fue una mascota dócil, afable y devota, adopta todas las características de un animal feroz después del asesinato de su ama. Los tres culpables quedan atrapados por el poder del gato y cada uno alcanzará muertes prematuras de horribles proporciones sin que nadie pueda resolver el misterio que rodea su brutal muerte.
La bahía de los contrabandistas
Director
En la Inglaterra del siglo XVIII, los fuertes impuestos exigidos por los terratenientes obligaron a los pescadores honestos a hacer contrabando. Siguiendo la tradición de sus ancestros franceses, estos pescadores lucharon por sobrevivir y no hicieron daño a nadie. Pero hubo otros que iban a la mar para atraer a los barcos a sus dominios, matar a los supervivientes y robar su carga...
El reto
Screenplay
Billie y Kristy encabezan una banda de ladrones que se dedica sobre todo a robar bancos. Jim, el amante de Billie, es atrapado por la policía después de esconder una importante cantidad de dinero. Cuando sale de la cárcel, tanto la policía como su banda lo persiguen para apoderarse del botín. Las cosas se complican cuando Kristy secuestra al hijo de Jim y amenaza con matarlo si Jim no devuelve el dinero escondido.
El reto
Director
Billie y Kristy encabezan una banda de ladrones que se dedica sobre todo a robar bancos. Jim, el amante de Billie, es atrapado por la policía después de esconder una importante cantidad de dinero. Cuando sale de la cárcel, tanto la policía como su banda lo persiguen para apoderarse del botín. Las cosas se complican cuando Kristy secuestra al hijo de Jim y amenaza con matarlo si Jim no devuelve el dinero escondido.
La Carne y el Demonio
Screenplay
El doctor Robert Knox imparte clases de anatomía a jóvenes estudiantes en la Academia que lleva su nombre. Al concluir una de sus clases, el prestigioso Knox recibe la visita de su prima, mientras horas más tarde se cita a altas horas de la madrugada con Billy Burke y William Hare, un par de siniestros personajes del pueblo que proveen al veterano profesor de cadáveres recientes para sus prácticas. El modus operandi de Burke y Hare resulta siempre el mismo en sus inicios: el asesinato de viejos sin recursos económicos perpetrados cerca o dentro de la casa del primero, provista de habitaciones para huéspedes, que regenta junto a su esposa. Pero el perfil de las víctimas cambia cuando Hare intenta violar a Mary Patterson, la díscola y alcohólica prometida de Christopher Jackson, uno de sus alumnos menos brillantes de la clase de anatomía cuyas clases dirige Knox.
La Carne y el Demonio
Original Story
El doctor Robert Knox imparte clases de anatomía a jóvenes estudiantes en la Academia que lleva su nombre. Al concluir una de sus clases, el prestigioso Knox recibe la visita de su prima, mientras horas más tarde se cita a altas horas de la madrugada con Billy Burke y William Hare, un par de siniestros personajes del pueblo que proveen al veterano profesor de cadáveres recientes para sus prácticas. El modus operandi de Burke y Hare resulta siempre el mismo en sus inicios: el asesinato de viejos sin recursos económicos perpetrados cerca o dentro de la casa del primero, provista de habitaciones para huéspedes, que regenta junto a su esposa. Pero el perfil de las víctimas cambia cuando Hare intenta violar a Mary Patterson, la díscola y alcohólica prometida de Christopher Jackson, uno de sus alumnos menos brillantes de la clase de anatomía cuyas clases dirige Knox.
La Carne y el Demonio
Director
El doctor Robert Knox imparte clases de anatomía a jóvenes estudiantes en la Academia que lleva su nombre. Al concluir una de sus clases, el prestigioso Knox recibe la visita de su prima, mientras horas más tarde se cita a altas horas de la madrugada con Billy Burke y William Hare, un par de siniestros personajes del pueblo que proveen al veterano profesor de cadáveres recientes para sus prácticas. El modus operandi de Burke y Hare resulta siempre el mismo en sus inicios: el asesinato de viejos sin recursos económicos perpetrados cerca o dentro de la casa del primero, provista de habitaciones para huéspedes, que regenta junto a su esposa. Pero el perfil de las víctimas cambia cuando Hare intenta violar a Mary Patterson, la díscola y alcohólica prometida de Christopher Jackson, uno de sus alumnos menos brillantes de la clase de anatomía cuyas clases dirige Knox.
Los asesinos del Kilimanjaro
Screenplay
Un ingeniero norteamericano llega a Mombasa para acabar las obras de un ferrocarril africano y para encontrar a su predecesor, que ha desaparecido misteriosamente. Mientras prosigue las obras, tendra que hacer frente a diversos obstáculos, especialmente a las violentas tribus locales, a los árabes traficantes de esclavos y a los animales salvajes.
El bandido de Zhobe
Writer
En la India colonia del Imperio Británico, Kasim Kam es un joven hindú huérfano cuyo padre había sido el jefe de la secta de los Thuggs. Tras una serie de actos terroristas cometidos por esa secta, los británicos acusan a Kasim de ser el cabecilla. Al verse acosado, huye de casa y, al regresar, comprueba horrorizado que su mujer y su hijo han sido asesinados. (FILMAFFINITY)
El bandido de Zhobe
Director
En la India colonia del Imperio Británico, Kasim Kam es un joven hindú huérfano cuyo padre había sido el jefe de la secta de los Thuggs. Tras una serie de actos terroristas cometidos por esa secta, los británicos acusan a Kasim de ser el cabecilla. Al verse acosado, huye de casa y, al regresar, comprueba horrorizado que su mujer y su hijo han sido asesinados. (FILMAFFINITY)
Idol on Parade
Director
A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.
Conflicto íntimo
Director
Varios grupos de aventureros van tras un diamante de incalculable valor que ha sido robado.
High Flight
Director
The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.
Policía internacional
Director
Victor Mature es un agente de narcóticos que persigue a un peligroso traficante. Dada la dificultad de la empresa, cambia de táctica y decide centrarse en su atractiva cómplice para llegar hasta él. Todo un reto también pues la tendrá que seguir por medio mundo.
El monstruo del rayo gamma
Screenplay
Un reportero descubre un doctor que expone a unos chicos a los rayos gamma, con la suposición que esto los convertirá en seres con una inteligencia superior. Lamentablemente los sujetos de experimentación se convierten en zombies asesinos.
El monstruo del rayo gamma
Director
Un reportero descubre un doctor que expone a unos chicos a los rayos gamma, con la suposición que esto los convertirá en seres con una inteligencia superior. Lamentablemente los sujetos de experimentación se convierten en zombies asesinos.
Odongo
Screenplay
Steve Stratton (Macdonald Carey) es un cazador duro que atrapa y guarda animales salvajes en un santuario africano para venderlos a zoológicos y circos. Cuando contrata a un nuevo veterinario llamado "P.J. Muir", no se imagina que la "P" representa a Pamela, interpretada por la hermosa Rhonda Fleming.
Odongo
Director
Steve Stratton (Macdonald Carey) es un cazador duro que atrapa y guarda animales salvajes en un santuario africano para venderlos a zoológicos y circos. Cuando contrata a un nuevo veterinario llamado "P.J. Muir", no se imagina que la "P" representa a Pamela, interpretada por la hermosa Rhonda Fleming.
Bond of Fear
Writer
An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.
Tiger by the Tail
Screenplay
On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray. The affair ends when she is shot struggling for a gun she has pulled on him. This is only the start of his troubles, as Anna worked for a criminal organisation who know Desmond has now got her valuable contacts list.
Tiger by the Tail
Director
On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray. The affair ends when she is shot struggling for a gun she has pulled on him. This is only the start of his troubles, as Anna worked for a criminal organisation who know Desmond has now got her valuable contacts list.
The Gilded Cage
Director
Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's innocence.
The Embezzler
Screenplay
Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
The Embezzler
Director
Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
Profile
Screenplay
The editor of a magazine falls in love with the publisher's daughter. The only trouble is that the publisher's wife quite fancies him as well. Then he's accused of embezzling funds.
Double Exposure
Screenplay
A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!
Double Exposure
Director
A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!
Three Steps to the Gallows
Screenplay
A U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.
Escape by Night
Writer
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
Escape by Night
Director
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
Three Steps to the Gallows
Director
A U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.
Recoil
Screenplay
A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go undercover to infiltrate the home of the killer's brother. Slowly she is drawn into the world of the rival gangs.
Recoil
Director
A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go undercover to infiltrate the home of the killer's brother. Slowly she is drawn into the world of the rival gangs.
The Steel Key
Screenplay
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
Deadly Nightshade
Director
Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
Murder at the Grange
Writer
A former police detective turned private investigator is approached by two elderly sisters, who say that someone is terrorising them, but it turns out that the man they believe is responsible is long since dead.
The Voice of Merrill
Writer
A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to wish her dead
The Voice of Merrill
Director
A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to wish her dead
The Big Frame
Screenplay
An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered.
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
Producer
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. Through radar control, he contacts the robot and orders it to come to him, bringing along Mother Riley! But his life is turned upside down when he holds this most meddling of mothers captive.
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
Director
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. Through radar control, he contacts the robot and orders it to come to him, bringing along Mother Riley! But his life is turned upside down when he holds this most meddling of mothers captive.
King of the Underworld
Writer
A sinister crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds, a secret formula and murder. Thee episodes from a 1952 British television series called "Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard, Investigates" were joined together and released theatrically.
Wings of Danger
Screenplay
A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly becomes entangled in a morass of suspicion.
13 East Street
Screenplay
When police inspector Gerald Blake wants to infiltrate a London stolen-goods gang, he does a thorough job of it. First, he robs a jewelry store, gets caught and is sentenced to prison. Then he teams up with gang-member Joey to make their escape. Once in the gang, Blake identifies the boss, Larry, and most of the other thieves, but not the "inside man." As a big fur job looms closer, the detective's task is complicated by the playful but seductive advances of Judy, a dazzling blonde who happens also to be the jealous Larry's girl friend.
The Frightened Man
Writer
Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son (Dermot Walsh) joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father (Charles Victor).
The Frightened Man
Director
Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son (Dermot Walsh) joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father (Charles Victor).
Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard
Story
Mystery directed by Francis Searle.
Blind Man's Bluff
Writer
Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders. But when a boarding house becomes the headquarters for a criminal gang, it is Pendrell who cracks the case.
The Quiet Woman
Screenplay
The former wife of a criminal moves to a coastal town and takes over the running of a bar known as The Quiet Woman. She becomes outraged when she discovers the previous owner had allowed local smugglers to use it as a base. She soon has become romantically involved with one of the smugglers, which causes enormous problems when a customs officer turns up, followed closely by her former husband.
The Quiet Woman
Director
The former wife of a criminal moves to a coastal town and takes over the running of a bar known as The Quiet Woman. She becomes outraged when she discovers the previous owner had allowed local smugglers to use it as a base. She soon has become romantically involved with one of the smugglers, which causes enormous problems when a customs officer turns up, followed closely by her former husband.
The Rossiter Case
Writer
A husband cheats on his disabled wife--who has been paralyzed in a car accident--with her sister. When the sister is murdered he is accused of the crime, but it turns out that he may not be the killer after all.
Dark Interval
Screenplay
A young woman marries and moves into her husband's family mansion. She soon discovers that neither the house, nor her husband, is exactly what it seems to be.
Blackout
Screenplay
A blind man is witness to a murder; later cured of his blindness he attempts to puzzle out the solution to the crime.
No Trace
Screenplay
A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.
No Trace
Director
A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.
The Lady Craved Excitement
Writer
A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.
Room to Let
Screenplay
In 1904 London, neighbors begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may indeed be the famous Jack the Ripper.
Guilt Is My Shadow
Screenplay
A woman is haunted by her conscience after she murders a man and then hides the body. Based on the novel 'You're Best Alone' by Norah Lofts.
A Matter of Murder
Writer
An embezzler is implicated in his girlfriend’s murder.
A Matter of Murder
Director
An embezzler is implicated in his girlfriend’s murder.
Old Mother Riley's New Venture
Associate Producer
Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel - stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow.
The Man from Yesterday
Screenplay
A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered! Soon the psychic points the finger at her jealous husband.
The Man from Yesterday
Original Story
A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered! Soon the psychic points the finger at her jealous husband.
Escape from Broadmoor
Writer
A maniac killer returns to the scene of a ten-year-old crime, only to find the ghost of a murdered servant girl waiting to exact her revenge.
Escape from Broadmoor
Director
A maniac killer returns to the scene of a ten-year-old crime, only to find the ghost of a murdered servant girl waiting to exact her revenge.
House of Darkness
Screenplay
In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow knows that his stepbrother has a heart condition and so sets off a fatal attack by smashing a beloved violin. However, his actions do not come without a terrible price.
The Greed of William Hart
Assistant Director
Hart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When the supply becomes low and demand still great, the two decide to create their own supply, a plan that proves profitable when they stick to vagrants, prostitutes and drunkards. But when they poison likable Jamie, the townsfolk retaliate. NB: This film was originally written to be about Burke and Hare, but after it was completed, the British censors refused to allow its release on the grounds those names themselves were offensive; thus the entire soundtrack was recut so that new names - Hart and Moore - recorded by the film's actors, were cut into the previously recorded lines, replacing the offending "Burke" or "Hare", sentence by sentence.
The Greed of William Hart
Writer
Hart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When the supply becomes low and demand still great, the two decide to create their own supply, a plan that proves profitable when they stick to vagrants, prostitutes and drunkards. But when they poison likable Jamie, the townsfolk retaliate. NB: This film was originally written to be about Burke and Hare, but after it was completed, the British censors refused to allow its release on the grounds those names themselves were offensive; thus the entire soundtrack was recut so that new names - Hart and Moore - recorded by the film's actors, were cut into the previously recorded lines, replacing the offending "Burke" or "Hare", sentence by sentence.
A Gunman Has Escaped
Writer
In this crime drama, three gem thieves must get out of London after they kill a man. Friction between the men increases as they hide out on a farm and then get back on the road. Trouble ensues when one of the three begins suspecting the others of treachery.
Black Memory
Writer
Cockney Danny Cruff is the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the mystery himself by hobnobbing with London's underworld. To do this, he poses as a juvenile delinquent.
Wings over Africa
Assistant Director
Two prospectors in Africa, Tony Cooper and Dalton come across a skeleton that has nearly been picked clean by vultures. They find a letter on the body addressed to a clerk in London named Wilkins . Cooper goes to Wilkins in London and tells him that his brother, whose body they had found, has left a map and a deed to a large diamond mine. Wilkins decides to go to Africa with Cooper to find the mine and, in order to speed up and finance their venture, they give a third interest to Carol Reade and her partner John Trevor), who operate a barnstorming airplane service. In Africa, close to the mine location, they are greeted by some tough gentlemen named Collins and Quincy who have terrorized the natives and lorded over the region, who quickly discover the reason for the party's mission. They join, unasked, in the race for the diamonds. The race is interrupted by the death of Trevor who is found knifed in his bunk.