Aben Kandel

Nacimiento : 1897-08-15,

Muerte : 1993-01-28

Películas

Locura
Writer
Neal Mottram es un anticuario que esconde en el sótano de su tienda un valiosísimo tesoro: una escultura africana que le proporciona suerte y riqueza; pero, a cambio, tiene que ofrecerle sacrificios humanos.
Trog
Screenplay
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".
Berserk
Screenplay
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Berserk
Story
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Garras asesinas
Screenplay
Michael Conrad es el dueño de un zoológico privado, pero también lidera un grupo de culto que adoran los animales, sobre todo los grandes felinos como tigres, leones, panteras, guepardos... Joe, uno de los cuidadores del zoológico, es atacado por un tigre y acaba disparando contra el felino. Conrad, por este acto, lejos de preocuparse por atender la situación emocional o física de su empleado, no dudará en castigarlo con la muerte por su actitud ante los animales. Aquella misma noche se celebrará un cortejo fúnebre nocturno al que asistirán el dueño del zoológico, su esposa Edna, otro de sus empleados y varias fieras salvajes: es el entierro del tigre asesinado por Joe. Conrad nunca vacilará en asesinar a todo aquel que se le ponga por delante con tal de proteger los intereses de todos sus animales.
Konga
Writer
El doctor Decker regresa de África después de un año, presuntamente muerto. Durante ese año, se encontró con una forma de cultivar plantas y animales a un tamaño enorme. Trae una cría de chimpancé para probar su teoría. Como tiene muchos enemigos en casa, decide usar su chimpancé, 'Konga' para 'deshacerse de ellos'. ¡¡Entonces Konga crece a proporciones gigantescas y causa estragos en toda la ciudad de Londres !!
Horror en el museo negro
Writer
Cuando el sol se esconde y los cielos se tornan oscuros, detrás de las puertas del MUSEO NEGRO se desata el horror. Las calles de Londres se visten con colores tétricros y se llenan de cadaveres, un asesino desconocido está sembrando el pánico y mantiene en jaque a Scotland Yard.
The Headless Ghost
Screenplay
Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.
The Headless Ghost
Original Story
Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.
Cómo hacer un monstruo
Original Story
Peter Drummond ha sido el responsible de maquillaje y efectos especiales de películas de terror de un estudio de Hollywood durante 25 años. Cuando el estudio es vendido, se informa a Pete con brusquedad de que no van a necesitar más sus servicios ya que el estudio se va a centrar solamente en producciones musicales. Humillado, Pete decide vengarse de los responsables del estudio hipnotizando a dos actores para que crean que son auténticos monstruos, enseñándoles a asesinar y a infundir el terror.
Cómo hacer un monstruo
Screenplay
Peter Drummond ha sido el responsible de maquillaje y efectos especiales de películas de terror de un estudio de Hollywood durante 25 años. Cuando el estudio es vendido, se informa a Pete con brusquedad de que no van a necesitar más sus servicios ya que el estudio se va a centrar solamente en producciones musicales. Humillado, Pete decide vengarse de los responsables del estudio hipnotizando a dos actores para que crean que son auténticos monstruos, enseñándoles a asesinar y a infundir el terror.
Yo fui un Frankenstein adolescente
Screenplay
Un científico demente construye un monstruo a partir de trozos sueltos de seres humanos, incluído la cabeza de un adolescente.
Blood of Dracula
Screenplay
A crazed teacher at a respectable girls' school draws power from a medallion she has obtained from the Carpathian Mountains, and uses it to experiment telepathically on the school's newest young pupil.
Blood of Dracula
Story
A crazed teacher at a respectable girls' school draws power from a medallion she has obtained from the Carpathian Mountains, and uses it to experiment telepathically on the school's newest young pupil.
Yo fui un hombre lobo adolescente
Story
Tony Rivers (Michael Landon) es un adolescente con muchos problemas que acude a la consulta del doctor Brandon (Whit Bissell) para hallar una solución. Éste dice que le ayudará con sesiones de hipnosis, pero en realidad su propósito es experimentar con Tony, transformándolo en un hombre lobo las noches de luna llena.
Yo fui un hombre lobo adolescente
Screenplay
Tony Rivers (Michael Landon) es un adolescente con muchos problemas que acude a la consulta del doctor Brandon (Whit Bissell) para hallar una solución. Éste dice que le ayudará con sesiones de hipnosis, pero en realidad su propósito es experimentar con Tony, transformándolo en un hombre lobo las noches de luna llena.
Singing in the Dark
Writer
Leo, a holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia, comes to the U.S. and works as a hotel desk clerk. One night while a comedian who owns a bar in the hotel gives him a drink, he breaks out in song and discovers a great voice. Under a psychiatrist's treatment, and because of a blow to the head by some hoodlums, he realizes his name is David and that he was the son of a great Jewish Cantor, and gradually recovers his memory of losing his parents. He gives up a promising career singing in nightclubs to return to the synagogue.
Time Table
Screenplay
An insurance detective encounters numerous surprises when he is assigned to investigate a meticulously-planned train robbery in Arizona.
The Fighter
Writer
A boxer, in Mexico, sets out to avenge the murder of his family by using the money from his winnings to purchase weapons.
Kid Monk Baroni
Screenplay
Leonard Nimoy is "Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang who becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in "Little Italy" New York.
Big City
Additional Dialogue
A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.
High Conquest
Original Story
Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
Three Russian Girls
Screenplay
Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three Russian Girls is a remake of Russia's The Girl From Stalingrad. Set just after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the film stars Anna Sten as Natasha, a Red Cross volunteer who is dispatched to a field hospital located in an old pre-revolution mansion. American test pilot John Hill (Kent Smith), who'd been in Russia on a goodwill mission, is wounded in battle and brought to the hospital. As he slowly recovers from his wounds, Hill falls in love with Natasha. A last-act crisis develops when the hospital personnel are forced to move immediately to Leningrad as the Nazis advance.
El comandante de hierro
Screenplay
Biografia del irlandés Frank Cavanaugh, uno de los entrenadores más importantes de fútbol americano en Estados Unidos.
What's Buzzin', Cousin?
Story
Musicians help a woman (Ann Miller) and her friends make some money with a ghost-town hotel.
Ciudad de conquista
Novel
Nueva York. Un camionero (James Cagney) decide hacerse boxeador para ayudar a su hermano que se dedica a la música (Arthur Kennedy), pero a un gángster sin escrúpulos no le gustará la idea.
Rio
Screenplay
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
Fisherman's Wharf
Dialogue
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over. Poor Toma gets his feelings hurt and the idea he "isn't wanted" and runs away
Ellos no olvidarán
Screenplay
En 1915, una muchacha llamada Mary Clay fue encontrada muerta en una población sureña. La policía detuvo como presunto autor del asesinato a un conserje negro, pero un periódico local comenzó una campaña acusando del homicidio a un hombre blanco de Nueva York llamado Robert Hale, profesor del instituto donde estudiaba Mary.
Thunder in the City
Screenplay
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
More Than a Secretary
Story
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
Come Closer, Folks
Story
A fast-talking pitchman working the con-games on the streets, works himself up into an executive position of a large department store, with the aide of his shill, Mae. But the owner, Elmer Woods, of the department store has a blonde-beauty daughter, Peggy, who goes to work on him.
Hot Money
Theatre Play
Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
She Gets Her Man
Screenplay
Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further complications.
She Gets Her Man
Story
Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further complications.
Manhattan Moon
Screenplay
Night club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn, but Reggie is a playboy with no money but lots of social connections. In lieu of the cash, Dan gets Reggie to introduce him to the swells of high society. They go to the opera and, after hearing Yvonne Malloy sing, Dan falls in love with her. Reggie introduces them, but the introduction is to Yvonne's double and stand-in, Toots. This leads to many complications for all concerned.
Sing and Like it
Story
Un gángster se enamora de una cantante del tres al cuarto y trata de obligar a un productor a montarle un espectáculo.
High Pressure
Theatre Play
Gar Evans (William Powell) acepta desarrollar el producto de Ginsburg, una goma artificial creada a partir de aguas fecales, sólo después de que su amigo Mike Donahey (Frank McHugh) le asegura que no es un fraude. Gar es supersticioso; cree que sólo tendrá éxito si su sufrida novia Francine Dale (Evelyn Brent) se une a la empresa. Ella, sin embargo, se ha cansado de él, especialmente tras haberla dejado cinco días atrás para recoger sal de bromo y no regresar.