Albert Zugsmith
Nacimiento : 1910-04-24, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Muerte : 1993-10-26
Historia
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Albert Zugsmith (April 24, 1910 – October 26, 1993) was an American film producer, film director and screenwriter who specialized in low-budget exploitation films through the 1950s and 1960s. With a background in music promotion (Ted Weems, Paul Whitman) public relations (one of his clients in depression era Chicago was Al Copone), journalism and brokering communication properties (radio, newspaper, early television), Zugsmith became independently wealthy and began producing films at RKO during the Howard Hughes years. Zugsmith's most significant credits are a string of four genre masterpieces produced in the late 1950s, all for Universal Studios: the science-fiction classic The Incredible Shrinking Man, Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind, and the camp exploitation films produced for MGM High School Confidential and The Girl in the Kremlin. An archive of some of his shooting scripts and screen plays are housed in the Special Collections department at the University of Iowa.
The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques. Archival interviews originally appeared in the documentary "Douglas Sirk: Uber Stars" (Eckhart Schmidt, 1980)
Writer
A masked serial rapist prowls the streets of Hollywood by night, stalking young female victims.
Director
A masked serial rapist prowls the streets of Hollywood by night, stalking young female victims.
Cameo
Relato fantástico acerca de un médico racista e intolerante que, para sobrevivir a su cuerpo enfermo, decide el transplante de su cabeza a otro cuerpo que, lamentablemente para él, es el de un hombre de color.
Writer
A monk-robed Manson-like cult leader who lives in a coffin, is transported around in a black hearse. At times he gets sadistic with his girl followers. Ivor, the cult leader , is taking in various young woman and seducing them before sending them out to do his evil acts. We also get to see flashbacks of the early Cult family and the start of his madness.
Director
A monk-robed Manson-like cult leader who lives in a coffin, is transported around in a black hearse. At times he gets sadistic with his girl followers. Ivor, the cult leader , is taking in various young woman and seducing them before sending them out to do his evil acts. We also get to see flashbacks of the early Cult family and the start of his madness.
Director
The Phantom Gunslinger is set in the town of "Tucca Flats." The peaceful life of the town is disrupted by the arrival of a gang of bandits, including Algernon, Big Sam, Cookie, and some others. The sheriff leaves town, but not before naming Bill as his successor. Bill, unfortunately, doesn't carry or even know how to use a gun, and the outlaws take over Tucca Flats. But with the help of some Indians, a suit of armor, and springs on his shoes, Bill manages to run the gang out of town.
Writer
In this steamy morality play, a Hollywood screenwriter lusts after his beautiful 16-year-old daughter -- who reciprocates his feelings -- while his wife finds herself torn between her spouse and her lesbian inclinations.
Director
Lisa, a beautiful Hollywood starlet, grows tired of her playboy husband, Charlie, and attempts to seduce her newlywed neighbor's husband. Lisa settles for a lesbian bout with the wife when her advances are spurned by the husband. Charlie likewise begins to look elsewhere for satisfaction. He goes to Hollywood swim parties with his employer and witnesses him seduce a virgin by hypnosis. Lisa and Charlie decide to engage in group sex with their neighbors, but after a short time the newlyweds' feeling of guilt forces them to withdraw. Lisa and Charlie then engage in mate swapping with Charlie's employer and his new bride, his hypnosis victim. Eventually, Lisa becomes tired of the same sex partners and begins to search for new lovers.
Director
In this steamy morality play, a Hollywood screenwriter lusts after his beautiful 16-year-old daughter -- who reciprocates his feelings -- while his wife finds herself torn between her spouse and her lesbian inclinations.
Director
Safo, es una chica joven y bonita que a pesar de los mejores esfuerzos de su novio, está decidida a ser virgen hasta que se case. Un día, recoge a una hermosa y exuberante autoestopista llamada Brigitte, de la cuál se empieza a sentir muy atraída.
Screenplay
Safo, es una chica joven y bonita que a pesar de los mejores esfuerzos de su novio, está decidida a ser virgen hasta que se case. Un día, recoge a una hermosa y exuberante autoestopista llamada Brigitte, de la cuál se empieza a sentir muy atraída.
Screenplay
An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict.
Director
An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict.
Writer
A young man lies by a highway with a rifle, shooting people in cars. As the police close in, he kills himself. In flashbacks, his girlfriend explains why it all happened.
Director
A young man lies by a highway with a rifle, shooting people in cars. As the police close in, he kills himself. In flashbacks, his girlfriend explains why it all happened.
Director
Producer/director Albert Zugsmith's acid-therapy "comedy," complete with a tinted trip sequence "in hilarious LSD color." A suicidal film star named Honey Bunny is sent by her producer to a rest home run by an unhinged Dr. Horatio, who gives his patients LSD as a cure. The wacky patients include female impersonator Skippy Roper as an effeminate dress designer, a midget, a fat lady, and lots of actors, directors, and producers, including Zugsmith himself.
Director
Troubled young lass Margaret 'Peggy' Bardot candidly discusses her sexual hang-ups with a psychologist. Bardot's past negative experiences are related in flashback while the psychologist does his to figure out the root cause of her problems.
Grand Duke
Cult filmmaker Russ Meyer takes on directorial duties in Zugsmith s adaptation of the notorious erotic classic Fanny Hill. Set in pre-Victorian London, young Fanny finds herself taken in by a madame at one of the city s most elite brothels. A strange mix of Zugsmith s surreal slapstick and Meyer s trademark buxom beauties and thoughtful satire, Fanny Hill is an over-the-top saga of low-rent thrills in high-brow settings.
Producer
Cult filmmaker Russ Meyer takes on directorial duties in Zugsmith s adaptation of the notorious erotic classic Fanny Hill. Set in pre-Victorian London, young Fanny finds herself taken in by a madame at one of the city s most elite brothels. A strange mix of Zugsmith s surreal slapstick and Meyer s trademark buxom beauties and thoughtful satire, Fanny Hill is an over-the-top saga of low-rent thrills in high-brow settings.
Producer
Thomas de Quincey es un aventurero de comienzos del siglo XIX que ayudaba a esclavas fugitivas y a víctimas de la guerra tong en San Francisco. Vestido de negro de pies a cabeza, de Quincey narra sus aventuras. En la subasta de esclavos donde hermosas chicas orientales son expuestas en jaulas colgantes hechas de bambú, de Quincey se hace amigo de una ocurrente enana oriental...
Director
Thomas de Quincey es un aventurero de comienzos del siglo XIX que ayudaba a esclavas fugitivas y a víctimas de la guerra tong en San Francisco. Vestido de negro de pies a cabeza, de Quincey narra sus aventuras. En la subasta de esclavos donde hermosas chicas orientales son expuestas en jaulas colgantes hechas de bambú, de Quincey se hace amigo de una ocurrente enana oriental...
Producer
World War II GIs adopt an Italian war orphan.
Writer
World War II GIs adopt an Italian war orphan.
Director
World War II GIs adopt an Italian war orphan.
Producer
Sociology professor Steve MacInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the young people. Some of the good citizens begin to find exception to his sociological survey when they find out it includes questions about sex. Reporter Betty Ducayne receives an anonymous tip that the good professor is engaging in corruption of youth and when Steve's past comes up to haunt him, all heck breaks loose.
Story
Sociology professor Steve MacInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the young people. Some of the good citizens begin to find exception to his sociological survey when they find out it includes questions about sex. Reporter Betty Ducayne receives an anonymous tip that the good professor is engaging in corruption of youth and when Steve's past comes up to haunt him, all heck breaks loose.
Director
Sociology professor Steve MacInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the young people. Some of the good citizens begin to find exception to his sociological survey when they find out it includes questions about sex. Reporter Betty Ducayne receives an anonymous tip that the good professor is engaging in corruption of youth and when Steve's past comes up to haunt him, all heck breaks loose.
Producer
Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr. Mathilda West, who has degrees in lots of things, but turns out to be disruptively attractive as well.
Story
Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr. Mathilda West, who has degrees in lots of things, but turns out to be disruptively attractive as well.
Director
Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr. Mathilda West, who has degrees in lots of things, but turns out to be disruptively attractive as well.
Executive Producer
Un hombre va a investigar la muerte de su hijo, sucedida en una exclusiva academia militar, a la que acuden jóvenes delincuentes de clase alta, convencidos de que el dinero lo soluciona todo...
Presenter
Cuando un autobús se queda aislado a causa de una inundación, los pasajeros se convierten en Adán, Eva y el demonio en un sueño.
Director
Cuando un autobús se queda aislado a causa de una inundación, los pasajeros se convierten en Adán, Eva y el demonio en un sueño.
Producer
Chip is killed accidentally while trying to rape a blonde girl, who runs. Silver becomes the number one suspect even though she has an alibi, but due to previous brushes with the law she's sent to Girls Town, a home for young women in trouble with the law which is run by nuns. Silver is rebellious and causes trouble at the school, and her friend Sarafina totters near the brink of self-destruction because of an infatuation with a young singer. Meanwhile Chip's father hires a detective to find out the truth, and Chip's friend Fred gets Silver's sister in trouble at a drag race. Silver has a lot of problems all right.
Producer
Un hombre se vuelve loco cuando unos agentes federales lo investigan.
Producer
A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.
Producer
A POW marries a woman he meets in Mexico. Controversy erupts when people find out that she's one-quarter black.
Producer
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.
Producer
Un agente de la policía de narcóticos (Heston) llega a la frontera mexicana con su esposa justo en el momento en que explota una bomba. Inmediatamente se hace cargo de la investigación contando con la colaboración de Quinlan (Welles), el jefe de la policía local, muy conocido en la zona por sus métodos expeditivos y poco ortodoxos. Una lucha feroz se desata entre los dos hombres, pues cada uno de ellos tiene pruebas contra el otro.
Story
Vanessa Windsor es una estrella de cine que es salvada de un accidente en el estudio por un apuesto joven, quien tras el feliz encuentro va tras ella. En su casa de la playa conocerá a la hija de la actriz, Penny, una joven sexy y alcohólica, por la que se sentirá atraído.
Producer
Vanessa Windsor es una estrella de cine que es salvada de un accidente en el estudio por un apuesto joven, quien tras el feliz encuentro va tras ella. En su casa de la playa conocerá a la hija de la actriz, Penny, una joven sexy y alcohólica, por la que se sentirá atraído.
Producer
En la pequeña población de Spurline, dos hombres que trabajan para un ranchero manipulador y poderoso llamado Renchler, dueño de la hacienda Golden Empire, son acusados de haber matado a un hombre mexicano. El sheriff Sadler luchará contra muchos obstáculos en su decisión valerosa de encontrar a los asesinos e impartir justicia. (FILMAFFINITY)
Producer
Robert Schumann (Robert Stack), un piloto que combatió en la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), sobrevive haciendo acrobacias con su avioneta en las ferias de los pueblos. Burke Devlin (Rock Hudson), un periodista local que se interesa por la familia de Schumann, es testigo de la decadencia del piloto, de la frustración de su mujer (Dorothy Malone) y también del sufrimiento de su hijo a causa de las bromas que mecánicos y pilotos hacen a costa de su padre. Schumann, sin embargo, no ceja en la búsqueda de una oportunidad que le permita, además de recuperar el amor propio, demostrar a su familia que los antiguos sueños aún son posibles.
Producer
Un valiente estibador permanece después de ser abatido a tiros por 3 mafiosos, como un ayudante decidido, D.A. busca con ahínco testigos temerosos contra los hombres
Producer
In Moscow 1953, four terrified women prisoners are brought before Joseph Stalin, who chooses the beautiful Dasha. He punishes her by shaving off her long hair. Moments later, a plastic surgeon leads Stalin into the operating room and transforms his face so that he is unrecognizable. He vanishes, but OSS agent Steve Anderson searches for him in Europe.
Producer
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly...
Producer
Cuando Scott Carey se ve expuesto a una combinación de radiación e insecticida, empieza a menguar sin que la medicina sea capaz de encontrar solución a su mal.
Producer
Kile Hadley, un magnate del petróleo, y Mitch Wayne, su mejor amigo y empleado, se enamoran de la misma mujer: la secretaria Lucy Moore. Kile, que es un alcohólico irresponsable, se casa con ella, aunque Mitch está convencido de que con esta boda Lucy comete un gran error. Al cabo de un año, contra todo pronóstico, Kyle parece un hombre nuevo: ha dejado de beber y presta más atención a sus negocios.
Producer
El sheriff de Gunlock pretende ahorcar a un hombre llamado Hall, acusado de matar a tres granjeros. La gente desea linchar al asesino antes de que sea rescatado por sus amigos, pero el sheriff quiere antes sonsacarle información y enterarse de quien lo contrató para cometer el crimen.
Producer
En la segunda mitad de siglo XIX, en el estado de Oregón, había una ley según la cual, si una mujer quedaba viuda, el primer hombre que la atrapara, sería su marido. Así, la esposa india de un granjero, debe casarse con uno de los hombres de un terrateniente que impuso dicha Ley y mandó ahorcar al marido de la mujer. Un día aparece un forastero que resulta ser el hermano del ahorcado. Intentará averiguar quién tuvo la culpa. Conocerá a la atractiva esposa del terrateniente, una buena mujer
Producer
Después de que un pistolero le salvase la vida en un tiroteo, Alec Longmire decide cambiar de vida. Cabalga hasta la ciudad y encuentra trabajo como ayudante del sheriff.
Producer
Un empleado de un colmado, ante el riesgo de perder a su padre por alcoholismo, y a su chica por la falta de perspectivas profesionales, decide entrar en el mundo del boxeo.
Producer
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn finds both her real estate agent and Drummond Hall, her beachcomber neighbor, making themselves quite at home. Lynn soon has no doubts of what her scheming neighbors are up to, but she finds Drummond's physical charms hard to resist. And she still doesn't know what really happened to Eloise.
Associate Producer
A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all.
Associate Producer
An enemy of the Count of Monte Cristo frames his son for a murder in order to exact revenge and steal the family fortune.
Producer
A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union.
Associate Producer
In post-apocalyptic New York, three tribes of survivors (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver People) vie for the right to exist. When the treacherous Upriver People attack the Norms, kill their chief and take their people captive, two Norm refugee men must find a way to ally with the Mutates, who have previously kidnapped Norm women in an effort to reproduce healthy children, to rout the Uprivers, who also seek to kill off the Mutates.
