James Dowell Vance

出生 : 1919-07-05, Los Angeles, California, USA

死亡 : 2007-05-12

参加作品

Carpool
Production Design
A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds himself a victim of a robbery. However, the situation only gets worse as a desperate man who had been contemplating a bank robbery robs the robbers and takes the man and the kids hostage in their van as his truck is blocked by an armored car. The thing then proceeds into a comedic chase movie. The father finds his kids don't really respect him and they react better to the robber. The end result is everyone gets a lifestyle change, including the original store owner.
夢を生きた男/ザ・ベーブ
Production Design
メジャー・リーグに名を残す伝説のホームラン王、ベーブ・ルースを描いた伝記映画。個性派役者ジョン・グッドマンがベーブ・ルースを巧みに演じて、有名な予告ホームランや、病床の少年とのエピソードなどを見事に映像化している。
Hunters Are for Killing
Art Direction
A man comes home after serving time in prison to claim his share of his deceased mother's estate. However, his stepfather, who holds him responsible for his own son's death, intends to fight him for everything.
Outrageous Fortune
Production Design
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study with Korzenowski. The two women end up dating the same man (who turns out to be a double agent) and follow him across the country to force him to choose between them.
The Lonely Guy
Production Design
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
Nightwing
Production Design
Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.
三人の女
Art Direction
Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.
ロンゲスト・ヤード
Production Design
In this rough-and-tumble yarn, filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prison, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' semi-pro football team to a national championship.
The Midnight Man
Production Design
An ex-convict, and ex-cop, finds himself in the midst of drama as a murder, of a female student, is commited at the university where he works as a night watchman. He is reluctantly drawn into the criminal investigation and eventually becomes a suspect in the case. Will he be able to find the real murderer and clear his own name, or not?
ワイルド・アパッチ
Art Direction
インディアン居留区を出奔したウルザナは、仲間とともに白人に対する復讐を始めた。彼らの討伐のため、老練なマッキントッシュが砦に呼ばれる。騎兵隊の若き中尉デブリンを補佐しながら、彼らは凶悪なアパッチを追った……。実話を基に存亡を賭けたアパッチ族との壮絶な闘いに挑む騎兵隊を描いた西部劇。
The Grissom Gang
Art Direction
The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his prisoner, which results in a bloody breakdown of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang and the original No Orchids For Miss Blandish were inspired by the best-seller by James Hadley Chase, though neither film retains Chase's original ending.
House on Greenapple Road
Art Direction
A promiscuous housewife has been murdered and hardboiled detective Dan August has to find the motive...and the body.
The Flame Barrier
Art Direction
Carol Dahlmann enlists the Hollister brothers to help locate her missing husband. The husband was tracking a fallen satellite through the jungle. While tracking him down, the trio discover an unusually strong acid killing animals and people.
The Return of Dracula
Art Direction
After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
Art Direction
Three Indians were brutally murdered by a gang of hooded outlaws. Each one possessed a silver medallion, which were sections cut off from a large silver plaque which served as a treasure map to a secret location where a large amount of gold is reputedly stashed. Two more medallions are unaccounted for, and the The Lone Ranger and his friend Tonto must use all their resources to intercept the gang, prevent further carnage and save the owners of the medallions.
The Vampire
Art Direction
A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.
The Monster That Challenged the World
Art Direction
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.