Cy Endfield

Cy Endfield

出生 : 1914-11-10, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA

死亡 : 1995-04-16

略歴

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cyril Raker Endfield (November 10, 1914 – April 16, 1995) was an American screenwriter, film director, theatre director, author, magician and inventor, based in Britain from 1953.

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Zulu Dawn
Screenplay
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
Universal Soldier
Derek Bowden
A life-long mercenary commander and weapons expert is commissioned to train an army for an exiled African leader. But as his conscience finally catches up to him, he is seen as a threat to the powers behind the operation.
Universal Soldier
Writer
A life-long mercenary commander and weapons expert is commissioned to train an army for an exiled African leader. But as his conscience finally catches up to him, he is seen as a threat to the powers behind the operation.
Universal Soldier
Director
A life-long mercenary commander and weapons expert is commissioned to train an army for an exiled African leader. But as his conscience finally catches up to him, he is seen as a threat to the powers behind the operation.
De Sade
Director
The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.
Sands of the Kalahari
Producer
A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.
Sands of the Kalahari
Director
A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.
Hide and Seek
Director
A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady businessman Marek and they plan to kidnap the professor and make it look as though he has defected to the Soviet Union.
ズール戦争
Writer
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
ズール戦争
Producer
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
ズール戦争
Director
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
SF巨大生物の島
Director
時は南北戦争のさなか、気球にのって戦場から脱出した囚人たちは風に流され見知らぬ島にたどり着く。だがそこは通常の何十倍もある大きさの生物が跋扈していた。後から漂着した母娘を加えてサバイバル生活が始まるが、島にはもう一人奇妙な人物が住んでいることが判明する。それはあの伝説のネモ船長だった……。
Jet Storm
Screenplay
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
Jet Storm
Director
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
Sea Fury
Director
The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a young girl at the behest of her father, in the hope of getting his hands on the vessel. Meanwhile, a handsome English sailor, signs on to the boat and before long he and the girl fall for one another. Meanwhile a sinking freighter carrying explosive cargo has to be salvaged....
Hell Drivers
Adaptation
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Hell Drivers
Screenplay
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Hell Drivers
Director
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Child in the House
Screenplay
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.
Child in the House
Director
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.
The Master Plan
Screenplay
Following WW II, a U.S. army officer stationed in West Germany is assigned with keeping classified information away from the Communists. Unfortunately, Red spies know that he suffers from sudden black-outs and use this to hypnotise him, and make it appear that he is a traitor.
The Master Plan
Director
Following WW II, a U.S. army officer stationed in West Germany is assigned with keeping classified information away from the Communists. Unfortunately, Red spies know that he suffers from sudden black-outs and use this to hypnotise him, and make it appear that he is a traitor.
Colonel March Investigates
Director
This is a feature-length compilation of three short episodes taken from a TV series called 'Colonel March of Scotland Yard' (1954-56, 26 episodes) starring Boris Karloff as Colonel March, head of Scotland Yard's Department D.3, otherwise known as The Bureau of Queer Complaints.
The Secret
Screenplay
An American loses all his money and finds himself stranded in England. He finds hope when he meets a female smuggler who has brought jewels into the country inside a teddy bear, but unfortunately, things quickly get out of hand.
The Secret
Director
An American loses all his money and finds himself stranded in England. He finds hope when he meets a female smuggler who has brought jewels into the country inside a teddy bear, but unfortunately, things quickly get out of hand.
Impulse
Writer
An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride to a woman he sees stranded on the road. One thing leads to another, and he soon finds himself enmeshed in a plot involving a diamond robbery, gangsters and murder.
Impulse
Director
An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride to a woman he sees stranded on the road. One thing leads to another, and he soon finds himself enmeshed in a plot involving a diamond robbery, gangsters and murder.
The Limping Man
Director
An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a limping sniper.
Tarzan's Savage Fury
Director
The jungle king's cousin tries to get him to help find a diamond treasure.
The Sound of Fury
Writer
A family man -desperate for a job- latches onto a friend that encourages him into being a criminal.
The Sound of Fury
Director
A family man -desperate for a job- latches onto a friend that encourages him into being a criminal.
The Underworld Story
Adaptation
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
The Underworld Story
Director
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
Original Story
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.
Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
Screenplay
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.
Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
Additional Dialogue
Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his innocence.
Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
Director
Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his innocence.
The Argyle Secrets
Screenplay
A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of American war profiteers and traitors who collaborated with the Nazis during the war.
The Argyle Secrets
Director
A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of American war profiteers and traitors who collaborated with the Nazis during the war.
Stork Bites Man
Writer
A man engages in a boycott of a no children allowed apartment house, with the help of an imaginary stock and a large department store, after his wife become pregnant and they are evicted.
Stork Bites Man
Director
A man engages in a boycott of a no children allowed apartment house, with the help of an imaginary stock and a large department store, after his wife become pregnant and they are evicted.
Hard Boiled Mahoney
Screenplay
Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.
Mr. Hex
Associate Producer
Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.
Mr. Hex
Screenplay
Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.
Gentleman Joe Palooka
Screenplay
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
Gentleman Joe Palooka
Director
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
Our Old Car
Director
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man traces his history by the succession of cars his father owned. [This short appears in its entirety during MGM's short feature "The Great Morgan".]
Joe Palooka, Champ
Screenplay
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.
Magic on a Stick
Director
This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.
The Great American Mug
Director
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years.
Dancing Romeo
Director
Froggy plans a dance recital to win over Marilyn.
Tale of a Dog
Director
When Bigshot Jones gives his unnamed dog to the All-For-One Club, Buckwheat quickly names the canine "Smallpox", inadvertently causing a city-wide panic.
Radio Bugs
Director
When Froggy discovers the fabulous salaries paid to radio stars, he gets the idea that the gang should be in on the action. But success in radio requires a sponsor. They audition comedy skits at the dentist's office, and Shakespeare at the mortuary. Their efforts to snag a sponsor are without success until . . .
Nostradamus IV
Director
This Carey Wilson Miniature takes a further look at prophecies by 16th century seer Nostradamus.
Inflation
Director
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.