Howard W. Koch

Howard W. Koch

出生 : 1916-04-11, New York City, New York, USA

死亡 : 2001-02-16

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Howard Winchel Koch was an American producer and director of film and television.

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Howard W. Koch

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Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
Self
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula uncovers the life and career of legendary actor Bela Lugosi, examining his early life in Hungary and Germany through his Hollywood successes and eventual decline. The film features a vast array of never-before-seen footage of the actor, ranging from remains of his 1918 film Struggle for Life to behind-the-scenes home movies on the set of RKO Studios. Lugosi is peppered with dozens of rare films clips and photographs, with the story itself coming to life thanks to the vast array of on-camera interviewees.
ゴースト/ニューヨークの幻
Executive Producer
温厚誠実な銀行員サム・ウィート(パトリック・スウェイジ)は、陶芸家として成功しつつある最愛の恋人モリー・ジェンセン(デミ・ムーア)と幸せな時間を過ごし、同僚の友人カール・ブルーナー(トニー・ゴールドウィン)とも良好な関係を維持しながら順調に仕事をこなし、平穏な日々を送っていた。 ある日、サムは勤め先の銀行で、コンピュータ内の口座データに異変があるのを発見した。カールが手伝おうとしたが、サムは断り残業して調べる…。 後日、サムとモリーが「マクベス」を観劇しての帰り道、モリーがサムに自分の心を打ち明けた。「貴方と結婚したい」。今まで、彼女が避けていた問題だったのでサムは驚く。悩むサムに、モリーはなぜ「愛してる」と言葉にしてくれないのかと問い詰める。「愛してる……」とモリーが言うと、サムは必ず「Ditto(同じく)」と答えていた。 しかしそのとき、暗がりから一人の暴漢がサムを襲った。そしてサムと暴漢は揉み合いになり、暴漢が持っていた拳銃が発砲された。そして暴漢は逃げ、それを追いかけるも取り逃がしたサムが諦めて戻ると、モリーが血だらけの自分を抱いていた。サムは死んでゴーストになってしまったのだ。
ゴースト/ニューヨークの幻
Producer
温厚誠実な銀行員サム・ウィート(パトリック・スウェイジ)は、陶芸家として成功しつつある最愛の恋人モリー・ジェンセン(デミ・ムーア)と幸せな時間を過ごし、同僚の友人カール・ブルーナー(トニー・ゴールドウィン)とも良好な関係を維持しながら順調に仕事をこなし、平穏な日々を送っていた。 ある日、サムは勤め先の銀行で、コンピュータ内の口座データに異変があるのを発見した。カールが手伝おうとしたが、サムは断り残業して調べる…。 後日、サムとモリーが「マクベス」を観劇しての帰り道、モリーがサムに自分の心を打ち明けた。「貴方と結婚したい」。今まで、彼女が避けていた問題だったのでサムは驚く。悩むサムに、モリーはなぜ「愛してる」と言葉にしてくれないのかと問い詰める。「愛してる……」とモリーが言うと、サムは必ず「Ditto(同じく)」と答えていた。 しかしそのとき、暗がりから一人の暴漢がサムを襲った。そしてサムと暴漢は揉み合いになり、暴漢が持っていた拳銃が発砲された。そして暴漢は逃げ、それを追いかけるも取り逃がしたサムが諦めて戻ると、モリーが血だらけの自分を抱いていた。サムは死んでゴーストになってしまったのだ。
Hostage Flight
Story
A plane is hijacked and bound for London. Once the terrorists begin killing hostages, the passengers take matters into their own hands.
ドラゴンスレイヤー
Executive Producer
The sorcerer and his apprentice Galen are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a pact that the King himself made with the dragon to protect his kingdom.
The Pirate
Producer
An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, is put in charge of his country's vast oil fortunes. He comes into conflict with a fanatical terrorist group--headed by his daughter.
Beyond Reason
Producer
An unconventional psychiatrist slowly begins to question his own sanity.
Telly...Who Loves Ya, Baby?
Producer
At the height of his KOJAK TV series fame, Telly Savalas starred in this variety special that was sponsored by Kraft Foods and shown without commercial interruption. Barbara Eden, Cloris Leachman, Diahann Carroll and others appear and join in the singing and dancing and mugging.
Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
Producer
An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.
The Underground Man
Executive Producer
A private detective goes after the kidnappers of his ex-girlfriend's son and becomes involved in a series of murders.
Badge 373
Producer
When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the experience only emboldens him. Ryan eventually learns that his partner was caught up in a Puerto Rican gun-running scheme masterminded by a crook named Sweet Willie, who wants to foment revolutionary war.
Badge 373
Director
When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the experience only emboldens him. Ryan eventually learns that his partner was caught up in a Puerto Rican gun-running scheme masterminded by a crook named Sweet Willie, who wants to foment revolutionary war.
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Producer
A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel the desire to roam and realizes that one day each week, his mother's apartment will be empty all afternoon. He makes several attempts at seduction, only to learn that it is much more complicated and difficult than he could have imagined.
Star Spangled Girl
Producer
A pair of 60's hippies fall in love with the girl next door, who is exactly the kind of square that they are fighting against.
Something Big
Assistant Director
Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier
Plaza Suite
Producer
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
A New Leaf
Producer
Henry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing down the social ladder.
晴れた日に永遠が見える
Producer
デイジー・ギャンブル: 不思議な超能力を持つヒロインの唯一の悩みは、煙草を吸いすぎることだった。カウンセラーのもとで催眠療法を行なううち、彼女が過去、何度となく生まれ変わり……。
The Odd Couple
Producer
In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix's ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.
The President's Analyst
Executive Producer
At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Executive Producer
In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although he's out-gunned, Robbo wants to keep his own territory. A pool-playing dude from Indiana and the director of a boys' orphanage join forces with Robbo; and, when he gives some money to the orphanage, he becomes the toast of the town as a hood like Robin Hood. Meanwhile, Guy schemes to get rid of Robbo, and Big Jim's heretofore unknown daughter Marian appears and goes from man to man trying to find an ally in her quest to run the whole show. Can Robbo hold things together?
For Those Who Think Young
Executive Producer
A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.
4 for Texas
Executive Producer
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 from an outlaw named Matson. Once in Galveston, however, their rivalry continues, as Thomas joins up with Elya Carlson and Jarret with Maxine Richter. But Matson is still on the loose, and a scheming banker threatens both Thomas and Jarrett.
Come Blow Your Horn
Executive Producer
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
影なき狙撃者
Executive Producer
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
Sergeants 3
Executive Producer
Mike, Chip, and Larry are three lusty, brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territory in 1870.
X-15
Executive Producer
X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them.
The Last Mile
Director
Jail house tensions mount as a killer's execution approaches.
Andy Hardy Comes Home
Director
Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.
Born Reckless
Director
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 ...
Macabre
Producer
After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's small daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.
Frankenstein 1970
Director
The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.
Violent Road
Director
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.
Fort Bowie
Director
Fort Bowie commander Colonel Garrett, suspecting that his wife Alison is having an affair with good-looking Captain Thompson, sends him on a dangerous mission to try to persuade renegade Indian leader Victorio to cease his attacks against white settlers and soldiers.
Hell Bound
Producer
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.
The Girl in Black Stockings
Director
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.
Jungle Heat
Director
Japanese communists attempt to take over Hawaii and only Dr. Jim Ransom can stop them.
Bop Girl Goes Calypso
Director
Bop Girl Goes Calypso is a 1957 American United Artists film directed by Howard W. Koch and starring Judy Tyler. It featured Calypso music, and music by the Bobby Troup Trio and bassist Jim Aton. The calypso craze of the late 1950s drives this fun musical about grad student Bob Hilton (Bobby Troup), who sets out to prove that rock 'n' roll and bop are going the way of the dinosaur, to be replaced by the refreshing rhythms of calypso.
War Drums
Producer
The friendship between a white man & an Apache chief is tested when they fall in love with the same woman
Untamed Youth
Director
Sisters Jane and Penny are arrested for hitchhiking on their way to Los Angeles when they stop for a quick skinny dip in a rural town. Local agricultural magnate Tropp is a sponsor for a local prison work program and the women get put in the fields to work off their sentence. Tropp is dating the widowed judge in order to ensure a stable supply of cheap labor in order to undercut his competition. The prisoners suffer ill treatment, but the judge's son has signed on as a hired hand and begins to figure out the scam as he begins falling in love with Jane, and Penny dreams of making it big in showbiz.
Revolt at Fort Laramie
Producer
At the breaking of the Civil War the garrison of Fort Laramie splits between the sympathezers of the two different factions, but when the fort is attacked by the Sioux, they unite their forces to fight them.
Voodoo Island
Producer
A wealthy industrialist hires the renowned hoax-buster Phillip Knight to prove that an island he plans to develop isn't voodoo cursed. However, arriving on the island, Knight soon realizes that voodoo does exist when he discovers man-eating plants and a tribe of natives with bizarre powers.
Emergency Hospital
Producer
About the lives and loves of the staff of an emergency hospital as reflected in a single frenetic night of business-as-usual.
Rebel in Town
Producer
Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason whirls and shoots dead a boy playing with a cap pistol. The Mason clan then flees but Gray Mason, feeling remorse, decides to return to the town. He winds up at the home of John and Nora Willoughby who, unknown to him, are parents of the dead boy. Nora recognizes him as one of the Confederates but keeps quiet, wishing to avoid more violence. However, when John learns of Gray's true identity, he determines to avenge his son's death
The Black Sleep
Producer
In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...
The Broken Star
Producer
A deputy sheriff defies local ranchers to investigate a Mexican's murder.
Crime Against Joe
Producer
Down-and-out artist Joe Manning (John Bromfield) wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he's being held on suspicion for the murder of a nightclub singer.
Hot Cars
Producer
Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.
Three Bad Sisters
Producer
Following the death of a wealthy man, his three daughters squabble about who should be the principal heiress.
Big House, U.S.A.
Director
A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.
Shield for Murder
Director
A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.
Julius Caesar
Assistant Director
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
The Naked Spur
Assistant Director
Howard Kemp has been tracking killer Ben Vandergroat for a long time. In the Colorado Rockies, he teams up with prospector Jesse Tate and former Union soldier Roy Anderson. Thinking Kemp is a sheriff, they agree to help for a small fee. When they catch Vandergroat, he tells them Kemp is pursuing a $5,000 bounty. After demanding equal shares, the uneasy alliance heads for Kansas as Vandergroat tries to turn them against each other.
Side Street
Assistant Director
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000, and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
Tulsa
Assistant Director
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.
He Walked by Night
Assistant Director
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
Tメン
Assistant Director
Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.
Out of the Blue
Assistant Director
Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on George while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.
Philo Vance Returns
Assistant Director
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
The Keys of the Kingdom
Assistant Director
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
Shining Victory
Screenplay
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
The Sea Hawk
Screenplay
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.