Herschel Burke Gilbert

Nascimento : 1918-04-20,

Morte : 2003-06-08

Filmes

The Witch Who Came from the Sea
Original Music Composer
Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
Poor Albert and Little Annie
Original Music Composer
Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way...
Sam Whiskey, o Proscrito
Original Music Composer
Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ship and secretly bring them back to the mint before they are missed. But how shall he manage to get several hundred pounds of gold into the mint without anyone noticing?
Geronimo: Sangue de Apache
Conductor
Em 1883, os índios Apache liderados por Geronimo se rendem relutantemente aos ataques das tropas americanas e mexicanas, em troca de um território e alimento para seus guerreiros. Logo, porém, Geronimo escapa dos campos e declara guerra contra os americanos.
Crime and Punishment USA
Original Music Composer
Believing he can elude justice, a California law student murders an elderly pawnbroker, then matches wits with the detective on the case.
Assassinato na Décima Avenida
Music Arranger
A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.
Suplício de uma Alma
Original Music Composer
Um repórter/escritor, auxiliado por seu futuro sogro, conspira para conduzir o assassinato de uma dançarina burlesca com provas forjadas como parte de um esforço para banir a pena de morte. O repórter investigativo Tom Garrett, licenciado de seu trabalho no jornal, trabalha em seu segundo romance. Como está tendo problemas para escrever o segundo, seu chefe e futuro sogro, o editor de jornais Austin Spencer, sugere que ele escreva um livro de não-ficção sobre a pena capital. Eles acreditam que o promotor público do estado, Roy Thompson, sempre manipula os júris para garantir vereditos, levando pessoas inocentes para o corredor da morte. O plano é plantar provas que condenem uma pessoa inocente num caso de assassinato, Tom será a pessoa inocente. Vão documentar todas as evidências plantadas, tornando-as públicas após a apresentação do veredicto para reverter e, esperamos, levar à discussão dos méritos da abolição da pena de morte.
Pesadelo
Music Director
Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.
Pesadelo
Original Music Composer
Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.
The Naked Hills
Original Music Composer
Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian, and teams up with Sam Wilkins, a claim jumper employed by Willis Haver. Six years later, Powell returns to Indiana and his sweetheart, Julie. They marry and he tries farming again but, on the night their son is born, he takes off again searching for gold. This time he heads for the hills with an inveterate prospector, Jimmo McCann. A decade later, the two are still hunting for their big strike when McCann is killed in an accident. Powell returns home with news of a big strike but the deserted Julie will have nothing to do with him. His friend Killian will not believe him but Haver, now a banker gives him a small loan and then beats him out of his claim. Many years pass before he comes home, now sixty-years-old, and this time, his wife and son open their home to him. But he vows to go prospecting come next spring.
No Silêncio de uma Cidade
Original Music Composer
A morte do magnata da mídia Amos Kyne (Robert Warwick) provoca uma disputa de poder nas suas empresas. Ao mesmo tempo, Nova Iorque sofre com os ataques de um serial killer de mulheres. Edward Mobley (Dana Andrews) precisa capturar o assassino, evitar que as empresas Kyne caiam em mãos erradas e ainda tentar salvar seu relacionamento do fim.
O Preço da Audácia
Music Director
An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944.
O Preço da Audácia
Original Music Composer
An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944.
Madrugada da Traição
Original Music Composer
Santiago, a jolly modern bandito, has just lost his partner when he happens on the isolated farm of young Manuel and Maria Lopez...
Carmen Jones
Music Director
Versão contemporânea da ópera de Bizet, com novas letras e um elenco afro-americano. A história da produtora de cigarros Carmen e do soldado espanhol da cavalaria Don Jose é transposta na história moderna de uma operária de pára-quedas e um soldado robusto chamado Joe, que está prestes a ir para a escola de vôo. O conflito surge quando um campeão do ringue captura o coração de Carmen depois que ela seduziu Joe e o levou a ficar inoperante.
Rebelião no Presídio
Original Music Composer
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Projeto Base Lunar
Music Director
Um sabotador posando como cientista se esforça para destruir a primeira estação espacial do mundo.
Projeto Base Lunar
Original Music Composer
Um sabotador posando como cientista se esforça para destruir a primeira estação espacial do mundo.
O Segredo de um Amante
Original Music Composer
A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.
Ingênua Até Certo Ponto
Original Music Composer
Dois playboys estão interessados pela mesma garota, mas ela evita dar alguma chance a ambos com o argumento de que quer se manter virgem até a noite de núpcias. Os dois homes, então, tentam encontrar uma maneira de fazê-la mudar de idéia.
No Time for Flowers
Music
A young girl's loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attache who has just arrived from the United States.
The Thief
Conductor
1952 black and white Cold War spy film, entirely without dialog
The Thief
Original Music Composer
1952 black and white Cold War spy film, entirely without dialog
The Ring
Original Music Composer
A young Mexican/American learns about life both inside and out of the ring when he takes up boxing.
Without Warning!
Original Music Composer
Police track a serial killer.
The Magic Face
Original Music Composer
Actor becomes Hitler's valet, murders him, takes his place and ruins Nazi Germany's war efforts.
The Scarf
Original Music Composer
A man believe to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
Three Husbands
Music
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
There's a Girl in My Heart
Original Music Composer
A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.
A Vida é um Jogo
Orchestrator
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
Impact
Orchestrator
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
Open Secret
Original Music Composer
A couple discovers that their friend has gone missing. Their investigation leads them to believe that anti-semites are behind the disappearance.
Véspera de Natal
Orchestrator
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?
Emboscada
Orchestrator
Um serial killer em Londres está assassinando jovens mulheres, que encontra através das colunas pessoais de jornais; ele anuncia cada um de seus crimes à polícia, enviando-lhes um poema enigmático. Depois de uma dançarina desaparecer, a polícia convoca uma amiga americana dela, Sandra Carpenter, para responder aos anúncios nas colunas pessoais e assim atrair o assassino.
Mr. District Attorney
Music Score Producer
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.