Ladislas Fodor
Nacimiento : 1898-03-28, Budapest, Hungary
Muerte : 1978-09-01
Historia
Hungarian born Ladislas Fodor was a novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Numerous films were based on his screenplays or theatrical plays.
Screenplay
En la ciudad africana de Akasawa se ha descubierto una extraña sustancia que ciega a las personas. Varias personas, representando diferentes intereses internacionales, combaten por hacerse con ella y un agente del servicio británico llega para investigar el caso, con el pretexto de hacer turismo.
Writer
Cetege consigue iniciar la guerra entre los ostrogodos y su reina, Amalasuntha, y el imperio bizantino, pero cuando el ejército de Bizancio invade Italia para reconquistar Roma, en poder de los godos, el romance se impone y amenaza con dar al traste con los planes de Cetege.
Screenplay
Cethegus (Laurence Harvey), líder de la nobleza romana, viaja a Bizancio para reunirse con el emperador Justiniano (Orson Welles) y reunir un ejército que pueda frenar el avance de los godos. Su propósito es aprovecharse de este enfrentamiento para adueñarse del poder.
Screenplay
Un asesino en serie, que se autodenomina "El cadáver risueño", se disfraza de esqueleto y mata a sus víctimas con una anillo en forma de escorpión, lleno de veneno.
Screenplay
Tras la muerte de Sigfrido, Krimilda jura que el hijo que lleva en su vientre vengará la muerte de su esposo. Pero el niño muere en un ataque de los hombres de Hagen y Krimilda se casa con Atila, el Rey de los Hunos. Para el bautizo de su primer hijo invitan a toda la corte de Burgundia
Original Story
Un espía norteamericano se halla en Hong Kong, cuando se apodera de un medallón antiguo y descubre que es el objetivo de varios grupos misteriosos.
Screenplay
Sigfrido da muerte al dragón que custodia el tesoro de los Nibelungos y se baña en su sangre para conseguir la invulnerabilidad. Ofrece el anillo de los Nibelungos a Brunilda, Reina de Finlandia y se encamina a Burgundia. Allí pedirá al Rey Gunter la mano de su hermana Krimilda. El rey le pedirá a cambio ayuda para conseguir a Brunilda, que sólo se casará con el hombre que la derrote
Writer
Johnny Ringo es un pistolero al que todos persiguen con la intención de matarlo. Tras refugiarse en el Rancho Conroy, es asediado y mueren todos sus hombres, así como los miembros de la familia Conroy. Ringo decide entonces huir y cambiar de identidad para poder sobrevivir.
Screenplay
Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans.
Screenplay
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
Screenplay
The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.
Screenplay
Un grupo de renegados tratan de conseguir que el ejército abandone su fuerte, para ello convierten a los indios en adictos al whisky para luego convencerlos de atacar y expulsar a los soldados.
Writer
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub.
Screenplay
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city.
Screenplay
A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.
Screenplay
Screenplay
El director de un asilo para enfermos mentales es dominado por el malvado genio del Dr. Mabuse.
Screenplay
Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an ominous transport firm soon. When he is receiving mysterious threatening letters he is sure that Dr. Mabuse has risen again. But what is going on at "Enterprise X" so that both the goverment and the mad genius in crime are interested in it?
Writer
Screenplay
The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called "The Anatomy Of The Devil".
Screenplay
Año 1900. George Pratt (John Wayne) y Sam McCord (Stewart Granger) son dos mineros, dos buscadores de oro, que han entablado una gran amistad en Nome, una ciudad de Alaska. Después de haber encontrado oro, George le pide a Sam que vaya a Seattle y le traiga a su novia para casarse con ella. Sam parte en su busca, pero cuando llega, comprueba que la novia de su amigo ya se ha casado. Así que decide regresar con Ángel (Capucine), una bella francesa a la que conoce en un saloon.
Writer
Writer
Screenplay
La Reina del Bosque concede un niño del tamaño de un pulgar a un matrimonio de leñadores que no ha tenido descendencia. Pronto, el diminuto niño es raptado por unos delincuentes que planean utilizar su reducida estatura para sus pérfidos planes.
Writer
Novel
Based on Ladislas Fodor's "Stranger on the Stairs". A loved triangle composed by a cynical entrepreneur, a loan manager, and a seductive secretary will lead to a criminal plot in Cuba.
Theatre Play
Story
A tramp steamer lands sick crewman Jake Davis on rubber-growing island Oraka, from which voluptuous, bedroom-eyed saloon singer Coral is about to be ejected because "men like her too much." But Coral's slimy boss Cognac gets her a reprieve so she can learn Jake's secret.
Screenplay
Una mujer descubre una carta fogosa dirigida a su marido, este intenta cubrirse diciendo que la carta es dirigida a un amigo suyo, este por los rumores de su increíble pasión se hace muy popular entre las mujer incluso conquistando en cierto a modo a la mujer y a la amante de su amigo.
Story
Adaptación de la novela de Dostoiesvki "El jugador". Un hombre se debate entre su pasión por el juego y las buenas intenciones de quien intenta alejarlo de él.
Screenplay
Adaptación de la novela de Dostoiesvki "El jugador". Un hombre se debate entre su pasión por el juego y las buenas intenciones de quien intenta alejarlo de él.
Story
Legendary superstar María Félix, stars in this melodrama noir playing the role of Raquel, a woman who has a passionate love affair with married aristocrat Antonio. However, a sensual sculpture untitled “The Kneeling Goddess” and modeled after Raquel will lead Antonio down a memory lane he'd rather soon forget.
Screenplay
Gravemente enferma, la concertista de piano Karen Duncan (Barbara Stanwyck) ingresa en un sanatorio suizo. A pesar de sentirse atraída por el doctor Tony Stanton, Karen hace caso omiso de sus recomendaciones sobre guardar reposo total; es más, decide irse a Montecarlo a vivir intensamente su romance con el apuesto Paul Clermont.
Story
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
Story
A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat.
Adaptation
A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat.
Theatre Play
Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.
Story
A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.
Screenplay
A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.
Theatre Play
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
Writer
Película ambientada en Nueva York y dividida en varios episodios independientes, pero enlazados entre sí por un traje de hombre que va pasando de unas manos a otras. Cada personaje vive una aventura especial relacionada con el traje.
Theatre Play
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
Novel
Writer
A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.
Theatre Play
Errol Flynn es un superficial caballero de la alta sociedad. Su carácter frívolo poco hace sospechar a los que le rodean que tiene una doble vida. Compagina su faceta más exclusiva con una labor como escritor de novelas de misterio y colaborador de la policía.
Theatre Play
A capricious lady resigns herself to work as the host of a female radio program where she sings jingles and gives advice on cooking and gardening, putting aside her love of police novels, but she will find herself involved in a murder.
Original Story
La cantante de cabaret Bijou, expulsada de varias islas del Océano Indico por suscitar peleas, recala en Boni Komba para trabajar en el Café Seven Sinners. Tiene mucho éxito entre los marineros americanos, especialmente con el Teniente Dan Brent. Cuando Dan le propone matrimonio, su carrera y su vida correrán peligro
Theatre Play
A young man, despite his qualification, can not find work and, after several attempts, asks a classmate, who is secretary of the President of an important Hungarian bank, to make him have a desk in his room and to do so pass for an employee.
Theatre Play
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
Author
A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
Theatre Play
A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
Theatre Play
Una mujer ha sido testigo de un asesinato, pero no puede implicar al criminal sin revelar el pasado tormentoso de su propio marido.
Theatre Play
When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.
Theatre Play
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
Story
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
Writer
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
Theatre Play
Comedy about an ambitious woman who starts working at a bank.
Screenplay
The daughter of a nouveau riche family, invited to an upper class ball meant to launch her in society, rejects the offer.
Screenplay
Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl.But an inheritance turns these nice people into snob Nouveaux Riches;although the aristocracy invites them,the 'Tout-Paris ' laughs behind their back.
