Herbert L. Strock
Nascimento : 1918-01-13, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Morte : 2005-11-30
História
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Herbert L. Strock (January 13, 1918 - November 30, 2005) was an American television producer and director, and a B-movie director of titles such as I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), How to Make a Monster (1958) and The Crawling Hand (1963).
Strock was born in Boston, and moved with his family to Los Angeles when he was 13. By 17, while a student at Beverly Hills High School, Strock was director of gossip columnist Jimmy Fidler's Hollywood segments for Fox Movietone News. Strock graduated in 1941 from USC, where he studied journalism and film. During World War II, he served in the Army's Ordnance Motion Picture Division. He was assistant editor on the 1944 film Gaslight for MGM.
In a "pioneering" television career that began in the 1940s, Strock was involved with many television series including Highway Patrol, Sky King, Sea Hunt and Maverick.
Other directorial efforts included Blood of Dracula (a 1957 film in which a disturbed teenage girl at a boarding school becomes a vampire through hypnosis) and Ivan Tors' "Office of Scientific Investigation" trilogy, which included The Magnetic Monster, Riders to the Stars and Gog, shot in 3-D.
In 2000, Strock published a memoir, Picture Perfect.
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Editor
16-year-old Jonathan Snazowski has a vivid imagination and lives in a dream world filled with adventure, fast cars, beautiful women and easy money. Unfortunately he only has partial control over his fantasies, and is constantly beset by obstacles from the dark and tangled reaches of his mind. A slightly demented psychologist, a rotten kid brother, neighborhood bullies, demons and even laser-toting sex police are conspiring to wreak havoc on his life. But Jonathan has a plan: he is going to defeat his enemies, get his car, win the girl and lose his virginity... even if it kills him!
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The hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the living.
Director
The hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the living.
Editor
Summertime, beach weather, hot cars, tan bikini-clad women on the prowl. Perhaps these are merely the images of a young man's overactive imagination...and yet, will Jonathan have to miss out and work this summer, or is California dreaming becoming a reality?
Editor
A football star throws a party for his friends. Two insane killers escape from a nearby asylum on that same night, and in their efforts to elude authorities, wind up at the party.
Editor
Betty Boop runs for president in a loose storyline assembled from Fleischer cartoons redrawn by Korean animators.
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Betty Boop runs for president in a loose storyline assembled from Fleischer cartoons redrawn by Korean animators.
Writer
A documentary exploring the existence of UFOs and the possible visit of aliens to Earth at sometime in the past
Editor
Three women use witchcraft to help their professor husbands further their careers. When a higher position becomes available in the university, they turn on each other.
Director
Three women use witchcraft to help their professor husbands further their careers. When a higher position becomes available in the university, they turn on each other.
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A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
Director
A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
Editor
A documentary exploring the existence of extra-terrestrials.
Producer
A documentary exploring the existence of extra-terrestrials.
Editor
After her husband dies, a woman begins to have a nervous breakdown and is consoled by her younger sister. Soon, however, other members of the family begin to suspect the younger woman's motives.
Director
A black exploitation flick of the early 70's about a college/high school teacher who tries to intervene and rescue his student who is being pursued by the law. The professor happens to have sexual intercourse with at least 2 different women on his way to save his student. I've gotta love the title music track fr this movie, very 70's... "Brother on the run...etcetcetc. If you see t in the $3.00 video bin at your local video outlet pick it up for your own little amusement. It's not a must see, it's more like a "gotta see it to believe it" (in ways). Hehe.. the editor for this film should have been canned, (a hint) lay off the qualudes.
Producer
A precedent-setting comedy-drama special in which a salesman (Bob Newhart) and a sexologist (Jill St. John) have misadventures with plot development determined by the votes of the studio audience.
Editor
Após uma espaçonave cair na terra, um dos restos mortais do tripulante vêm a vida para aterrorizar um casal de adolescentes
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Após uma espaçonave cair na terra, um dos restos mortais do tripulante vêm a vida para aterrorizar um casal de adolescentes
Director
Após uma espaçonave cair na terra, um dos restos mortais do tripulante vêm a vida para aterrorizar um casal de adolescentes
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Após um acidente traumático, uma mulher é atraída por um misterioso parque abandonado.
Director
Three prospectors divide and bury their gold to safeguard it from warring Apaches. Cue a series of double crosses, triple crosses, chases, and shoot-outs as greed drives the three men to murder and betrayal.
Director
In this feature version of the Swedish TV series "13 Demon Street," a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams.
Director
When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
Director
Comprised of 4 episodes from the unsold TV series The Veil (1958) - "Whatever Happened to Peggy," "Destination Nightmare," "The Return of Madame Vernoy," and "Girl on the Road.'
Director
Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.
Director
A crazed teacher at a respectable girls' school draws power from a medallion she has obtained from the Carpathian Mountains, and uses it to experiment telepathically on the school's newest young pupil.
Director
In the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pilot how important helicopter rescue work is and turn him into a team player.
Editor
A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.
Director
A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.
Associate Producer
Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world
Production Assistant
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.
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A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.
Editor
Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped during the war, as Tom can prove Peter's right to legal entry into the United States. If he can't find Tom within 24 hours and prove his case, he will be branded a fugitive and will be permanently disqualified for U.S. citizenship.
Supervising Editor
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
Director
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
