Richard H. Landau

Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.

Una pequeña nave que explora el espacio exterior llega hasta las proximidades de un agujero negro; a punto de ser absorbida por él, sus tripulantes descubren una gigantesca nave cuyo comportamiento les resulta inexplicable.

A scientist obsessed with creating life steals body parts to put together his "creation." Released as a feature on video, this was originally shown in two installments on TV as part of the Wide World of Entertainment series.

Un bandido acusado de robo y asesinato huye al desierto para evitar a sus perseguidores...

En el este occidental, un sargento de caballería es equivocadamente llevado a una corte marcial. Para recuperar su buen nombre, que se hace cargo de una patrulla que acaba de perder a su líder en un ataque de los indios. Él lleva el regimiento a Fort Valiente, pero se horroriza al descubrir que los indios atacaron y masacraron a todos menos uno de sus habitantes. Ahora El pequeño grupo hardy debe luchar contra los renegados por su cuenta. El ex sargento planea una estrategia brillante que culmina en ganar el respeto de los indios. Salen de la fortaleza y la paz solo se restaura.

El teniente Ken Braden es un joven oficial que acaba de recibir el título de especialista en submarinos. Terminados sus estudios, disfruta de un permiso en San Diego, donde conoce a Sally, una mujer con la que inicia una relación amorosa. Su felicidad se verá truncada, al ser destinado a Pearl Harbor. Nada más llegar a la base naval, descubre que Sally pertenece al servicio de inteligencia y que ha estado investigando su personalidad para determinar si era un candidato idóneo para una peligrosa misión: desembarcar en la isla japonesa de Kusaie para fotografiar importantes documentos, gracias a los cuales se podría impedir un ataque nipón contra las islas Gilbert y Marshall y salvar la vida de miles de soldados norteamericanos.

Rider Kelly Cobb travels to county rodeos to win money so he can buy a patch of land he wants to call his own. He rescues trick rider Jackie Adams from the clutches of an amorous sports ...

Rider Kelly Cobb travels to county rodeos to win money so he can buy a patch of land he wants to call his own. He rescues trick rider Jackie Adams from the clutches of an amorous sports ...

The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.

Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged terrain to a remote missile base. Uncredited "remake" of The Wages of Fear.

After WW2, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA.

After WW2, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA.

Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover who among the terrified guests and staff -- including bodacious vixen Harriet Ames, the hotel's bitter, crippled proprietor, visiting lawyer David Hewson and his secretary, Beth -- is the culprit, even as murders continue to take place.

Archaeologists in Egypt find one of their crew has been turned into a blood sucking mummy after they have unleashed a three thousand year curse.

Un hombre de negocios pretende levantar un complejo hotelero en una isla que, según se dice, está maldita. Ya ha enviado a cuatro hombres a explorar el terreno, pero sólo uno ha vuelto con vida, y en estado de shock. Sin embargo, esto no parece afectarle en absoluto, y envía una nueva expedición sin reparar en las consecuencias.

Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result, things don't go as smoothly as planned.

In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...

Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is currently in a British prison. Angela has refused to give Nick up to the law, so the combined authorities arrange for Angela to escape, aided by stoolie Gran' Ramsey who is at the same prison. The police will then follow Angela to Nick. Gran' stages the getaway, and the two women, accompanied by a third convict, Marguerite, whose prison-born baby is about to be turned over to welfare authorities. It is up to Gran' to keep the police informed of Angela's movements without being detected by the escapees, until Angela contacts Nick. This film is a reworking of principal footage from the UK film WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (1955), q.v., which, with added new footage (including scenes with original star Beverly Michaels), significantly revises the plot and central characters from a story about a wrongly imprisoned waif to one about a gangster's moll.

Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.

El primer cohete espacial británico ha despegado con éxito y vuelve a la Tierra, pero la comunicación se corta. Sólo uno de los tres astronautas permanece a bordo, y su salud, tanto física como mental está gravemente dañada. Es puesto bajo observación pero su esposa le saca del hospital, liberando de este una gran amenaza para la humanidad, ya que el sobreviviente está siendo consumido por una fuerza alienígena.

A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!

An idol of auto-racing fans attempts a comeback after serving in the Air Force. When his former rival lies dying in the hospital he must decide whether to continue in the Grand Prix, or make peace with his adversary. Featuring race car greats Stirling Moss, Reg Parnell, John Cooper, Alan Brown, Geoffrey Taylor and Leslie Marr.

When a beautiful girl offers Casey Morrow a lot of money for a mystery job, Morrow doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood perhaps a little more caution should have been exercised. An intriguing story of deception, greed and immorality.

Un anciano rey de Israel cae en las redes de una hermosa e intrigante mujer llamada Jezabel y, desoyendo las advertencias de sus consejeros, se casa con ella. El plan de la mujer es introducir en Israel sus ídolos paganos, lo cual enoja a Dios, que decide vengarse de Israel.

The famed outlaw is talked into saddling up for one more bank robbery.

El científico de cohetes americano Stephen Mitchell (Howard Duff) trabaja para conseguir su objetivo de enviar el primer satélite artificial al espacio. Mientras tanto, Vanessa Mitchell (Cecile Chevreau), su esposa, está manteniendo una aventura con el científico Crenshaw (Andrew Osborn). Poco después de que Mitchell descubra esa relación, el satélite es lanzado antes de lo previsto y a su vez, su esposa y el amante desaparecen. Mitchell es acusado de asesinato y de haber dejado los cadáveres en el satélite. Para probar su inocencia, se ofrece voluntario para ir en busca del satélite.

Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution.

Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.

The life of the French seer and some of his selected quatrains are reviewed.

Un cirujano plástico, apasionadamente enamorado de una célebre pianista, se vuelve loco cuando ella lo rechaza. Entonces decide operar a una convicta y reconstruir su rostro haciéndolo identico al de su amada.

G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.

Un investigador de seguros honrado conoce a una hermosa mujer, de la que se enamora. Creyendo que sólo con dinero podrá conseguirla, trama un plan para robar un millón de dólares uniéndose a una banda...

Un grupo de científicos formado por el Profesor Rostov, el Doctor Philips y el Doctor Briggs, están realizando pruebas con uno de sus valiosos cohetes sobre Nueva Guinea. El cohete desaparece durante las pruebas y el gobierno recluta a un piloto de excepción, el Mayor Nolan, para que lleve una expedición de rescate a recuperarlo. Al volar sobre una isla selvática de la zona, una onda radioactiva inutiliza los controles del avión haciendo que se estrelle en lo más profundo de la selva. Allí descubrirán algo que podría cambiar el futuro de nuestro mundo...

Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon's lesser-known stories. Martin Martin and Dane Cory were former partners in crime who have long since split up. When a new district attorney puts the heat on, Cory, anxious to save his own hide, accuses Martin of an unsolved murder. Holed up in abandoned house, Martin is befriended by a little girl and her dog. It so happens that the girl is the daughter of the crusading DA, and thereby hangs the rest of this tale.

A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.

A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.

A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.

Little Iodine does her best to break up the marriage of her parents, ruin a romance and cost her father his job.

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Después de la caída de Filipinas en manos de los japoneses, el Coronel norteamericano Joseph Madden se queda para organizar la lucha de los guerrilleros contra los invasores. (FILMAFFINITY)

A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.

A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.

This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, rabbit's feet, and breaking champagne bottles to christen ships, plus the role of superstitions in the Flying Dutchman tale.