Gordon Hessler
Nacimiento : 1925-12-12, Berlin, Germany
Muerte : 2014-01-19
Historia
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Gordon Hessler (born 12 December 1930 in Berlin, Germany) is a British film and television director, screenwriter, and producer.
He was raised in England and studied at the University of Reading. While a teenager, he moved to the United States and directed a series of short films and documentaries. Universal Studios hired Hessler as a story reader for the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series. He became story editor for two seasons (1960–1962) for that series, then served as the associate producer for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour from 1962 until its cancellation in 1965. He directed episodes of that series and several other shows (including Hawaii Five-O).
In 1969, he directed his debut feature film, The Oblong Box, starring Vincent Price. It was the first of three horror films Hessler would direct with the veteran horror star, the other two being Cry of the Banshee (1970) and Scream and Scream Again (1970). Hessler's other films include Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) and The Girl in a Swing (1988) starring Meg Tilly, an adaptation of Richard Adams's ghost story novel. The majority of Hessler's directorial work from the late-1970s to date has been in television.
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En el siglo 17 Japón se divide entre dos fuerzas. El ejército principal del este por el señor de la guerra Tokugawa Ieyasu y el ejército occidental que lucha por el clan de Toyotomi. A pesar de ganar una batalla reciente, las cosas se ven sombrías para el ejército oriental. El ejército de Toyotomi tiene un suministro de armas de fuego modernas, un arma que podría cambiar el rumbo de la guerra. Tokugawa Ieyasu envia a su samurai de confianza samurai, Mayeda, y su hijo Yourimune a España para adquirir 5.000 fusiles. Pero es un viaje peligroso y hay muchos que conspiran en su contra. Y cuando por fin llegan a España, nada sale como esperaban.
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Un astuto trotamundos se enfrenta a un grupo de jóvenes violentos que actúa en una pequeña ciudad.
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A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a secretary fluent in Danish, English, and German. He falls deeply in love with the woman, despite the fact that he knows virtually nothing about her. She insists on not being married in a church, and after they are married, some bad things from her past begin surfacing in subtly supernatural ways, and he must find the best way to deal with them without destroying their relationship.
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A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a secretary fluent in Danish, English, and German. He falls deeply in love with the woman, despite the fact that he knows virtually nothing about her. She insists on not being married in a church, and after they are married, some bad things from her past begin surfacing in subtly supernatural ways, and he must find the best way to deal with them without destroying their relationship.
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Invierno de 1942. Los intentos alemanes por romper el cerco soviético han fracasado. Adolf Hitler, contrariado por el rumbo que están tomando los acontecimientos, da a sus tropas la orden de no retroceder y oponer una resistencia fanática, mientras exige al enemigo que capitule.
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Un policía japonés llamado Shiro, y su compañero Ray, van tras un grupo de traficantes de drogas; pero son traicionados por un informante y Ray es asesinado. Shiro sigue al asesino, un sádico narcotraficante, hasta Singapur.
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Una familia japonesa decide mudarse a Estados Unidos para comenzar una nueva vida, su sueño se verá truncado por una banda mafiosa que cree que son los responsables del robo de una de sus mercancías.
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Lee Van Cleef stars as John Peter McAllister, who as a reverend master of the Ninja warrior society, deserts the order the order to search for his missing daughter in the U.S.
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A young American is framed and thrown into a Mexican prison. His friends journey to Mexico to break him out.
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Jack Palance stars as a self-serving, abusive boor who becomes stranded (along with his two children) by a thunderstorm, forcing them to take shelter in an isolated country estate owned by a group of mysterious and wealthy old dowagers. Seeing a golden opportunity, Palance soon turns to plundering their estate, but his plans collide with the secret activities of a Satanic snake-cult who carry out ritual sacrifices in the attic.
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An improbable story, but entertaining, of five American women pilots recruited in to the British RAF before the USA joined the war to fly a new top secret aircraft, which turns out to be helicopters, with a Hollywood mansion standing in for a British stately home.
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La mejor banda de Rock Heavy: KISS, va a dar un concierto en el parque de atracciones más popular de Estados Unidos. Este acontecimiento no es bien visto por Abner Devereaux, un científico chiflado que trabaja en el parque, y que tiene un plan para dominar al mundo con su ejercito de robots. Por ello decide crear unos dobles indénticos a los miembros de KISS para así suplantarlos en el concierto y controlar las mentes del público a traves de su música.
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Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and intrigue.
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When a millionaire playboy is murdered, suspicion falls on three married women, best friends, whom he had tried to play against each other in a game of divide and conquer.
Director
A houswife, tired of her everyday routine, makes changes in her hair, her wardrobe and her makeup, and begins to take on the personality of a woman who had died five years earlier.
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Tony Pintana, an art collector, and his wife are contacted by Martin, who is short on cash and proposes to rob a museum of a Indian golden mask that's worth 10 million dollar. When their attempt miserably fails, the museum decides to have the mask transported to a safer location. The three try their luck again and are successful this time. Chased by a policeman who isn't convinced they're innocent, the three will have a difficult time selling the mask on the black market.
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Wealthy widow Helen Mercer hires a young woman, Gretchen Addison, to act as her personal assistant and companion. Unfortunately, Helen is a poor judge of character, as Gretchen is part of a murderous extortionist duo with her boyfriend, Jay. However, Gretchen has second thoughts when she develops genuine affection for Helen. When Gretchen informs Jay that she wants to call off their plot, he refuses and carries on with the plan. Now both Helen and Gretchen may be in grave danger.
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The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive or rational his appearance or argument. However, the creek dries up, indicating an upstream blockage and an imminent flood. Several trips upstream by the son have failed to locate the blockage and now Dad wants to be released...
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A Los Angeles woman, on her way to visit her sister in San Fransisco, picks up a hitchhiker who has just killed his stepmother. Charmed by him, she fails to notice his strange behavior until it is too late.
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The passengers in an aerial tramway are trapped when the tramway breaks down 8,500 feet in the air.
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Simbad, Príncipe de Bagdad y marino legendario, encuentra un curioso mapa y con él se embarca rumbo a la isla de Lemuria junto a una bella esclava, Margiana, y al Gran Visir de Marabia. El Príncipe Koura, un mago oscuro que intenta hacerse con el poder en Marabia manipulando a espíritus del mal, los persigue, tratando de detener a Simbad en su búsqueda. Simbad llega a Lemuria a pesar del encantamiento que Koura ha lanzado sobre el mascarón de proa de su barco, que le hace cobrar vida. En Lemuria, Simbad y su fiel tripulación se encuentran con una estatua de seis brazos blandiendo una espada, con un centauro de un ojo y con un grifo.
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A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.
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In Greece, a stewardess is murdered by a masked maniac. Suspicion falls on a drunken American playboy and a murderous gangster.
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A KGB assassin infiltrates the American embassy in Beirut in an attempt to eliminate a Russian defector being protected by the CIA.
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Siglo XIX. Cesar Charron, el propietario del teatro Grand Guignol de París, está realizando una adaptación de "Los crímenes de la Rue Morgue" (E. A. Poe) para consternación de su hija Madeleine, a la que la obra provoca pesadillas. Cuando varios miembros de la compañía teatral son asesinados, Charron empieza a sospechar que quizá René Marot, el asesino de su mujer al que la policía dio por muerto, esté vivo.
Executive Producer
Una bruja intenta vengarse del reino de sangre que impone un noble, impartiéndole una terrible maldición a él y a su familia. Un demonio con forma de hombre joven es enviado a asesinar a la familia del terrateniente.
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Una bruja intenta vengarse del reino de sangre que impone un noble, impartiéndole una terrible maldición a él y a su familia. Un demonio con forma de hombre joven es enviado a asesinar a la familia del terrateniente.
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Una serie de asesinatos de jóvenes mujeres está azotando la ciudad de Londres. El Inspector Bellaver (Alfred Marks) está a cargo de la investigación, la cual lo conduce a la mansión del excéntrico Doctor Browning (Vincent Price).
Director
Un hombre extraño, una historia inusual.
Producer
El aristócrata Julian Markham mantiene a su hermano desfigurado, Sir Edward, encerrado en una torre de su casa. De vez en cuando Sir Edward escapa y causa estragos en la ciudad...
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El aristócrata Julian Markham mantiene a su hermano desfigurado, Sir Edward, encerrado en una torre de su casa. De vez en cuando Sir Edward escapa y causa estragos en la ciudad...
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Charles Nordeck is a successful marriage counselor whose own marriage is on the rocks. When his wife Anne seeks a divorce, Charles refuses to sign the papers fearing the bad publicity could ruin his career. The adulterous Anne then convinces her lover Peter to take care of the problem.
Director
A rich woman who uses meditation to deal with pain is visited by her niece who returns from Paris. The woman can be a handful and one of her employees suggests to her husband that he kill her freeing them both. When an affair starts between the husband and the niece murder becomes a real possibility. However some people won't stay dead.
Editor
Reflections of the neon lights, pedestrians and street traffic on the sidewalks of New York’s Times Square at night in the rain….the lights resemble precious gems and the shiny sidewalks appear to be animated stained glass windows.
