Kurt Neumann

Kurt Neumann

Nascimento : 1908-04-05, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany

Morte : 1958-08-21

História

Kurt Neumann (5 April 1908, Nuremberg, Germany - 21 August 1958, Los Angeles) was a german Hollywood film director who specialized in science fiction movies in his later career. Neumann came to the US in the early talkie era, hired to direct German language versions of Hollywood films. Once he mastered English and established himself as technically proficient in filmmaking, Neumann directed such low-budget programmers as The Big Cage (1932), Secret of the Blue Room (1933) with Paul Lukas and Gloria Stuart, Hold 'Em Navy (1936), It Happened in New Orleans (1936) with child star Bobby Breen, Wide Open Faces (1937) with Joe E. Brown, and Ellery Queen: Master Detective (1939). Neumann was signed by producer Hal Roach in 1941 to direct a series of "streamliners", 45-minute features designed to fill out short double bills. Among these 4-reel comedies were About Face (1942), Brooklyn Orchid (1942), Taxi, Mister? (1943) and Yanks Ahoy (1943). In 1945, he joined the company of producer Sol Lesser, who engaged Neumann as coproducer and principal director of the Tarzan series produced by Lesser 1945-1954. The Tarzan films were produced for RKO and starred Johnny Weissmuller and later Gordon Scott. Neumann became known as a specialist in science fiction movies due to his producing and directing such productions as Rocketship X-M (1950) and The Fly (1958). Neumann directed other sci-fi and horror films such as Kronos (1957) and She-Devil (1957), and directed non-scifi films such as The Ring (1952) an independent feature co-starring Rita Moreno, Carnival Story (1954), Mohawk (1956), and The Deerslayer (1957) Contrary to some published reports, Neumann did not die as a result of suicide, but, rather, from natural causes in Los Angeles on 21 August 1958, shortly after a preview screening of The Fly but before the official premiere. Thus, Neumann never knew what a boxoffice hit The Fly was. He was entombed at Utter McKinley Cemetery in Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kurt Neumann (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Perfil

Kurt Neumann

Filmes

Até o Último Disparo
Assistant Director
Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
Production Manager
A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping adoption records sealed.
A Irmandade do Sino
Assistant Director
Um professor de sucesso tem sua carreira ameaçada por um segredo de seu passado - na época de faculdade ele tornou-se membro de uma poderosa sociedade secreta, e agora a sociedade tem uma missão para ele.
The President's Analyst
Assistant Director
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.
Enter Laughing
Assistant Director
David Kolowitz, a nice young man living with his parents in New York City in 1938, works at a machine repair shop. His parents want David to study to become a pharmacist. But what he really wants is to be an actor like his idol, Ronald Colman. One day, at his friend Marvin's suggestion, David tries out for a part in a play, and gets it, despite his obvious lack of acting experience (not to mention ability). True, it's a rather small part in a low-rent production. Leading the troupe is a washed-up, alcoholic actor who hires David at the urging of his actress-daughter, who finds David "cute." To play his part, David must come up with his own costume - a tuxedo - and pay the house five dollars a week, ostensibly for tuition. But it is David's first acting job, one which calls for him to "enter laughing." And if it doesn't work out - well, there's always pharmacy school.
Counterplot
Director
Man hides out in Puerto Rico from the police and his double-crossing attorney.
Watusi O Gigante Africano
Director
Harry Quartermain (George Montgomery) é o filho do homem que primeiro partiu na tentativa de achar as riquezas do rei Salomão. Ele está determinado em obter sucesso, onde seu pai fracassou. Harry vai para a África com seu amigo Rick Cobb (David Farrar) e, durante a jornada, Erica Neuler (Taina Elg) passa a acompanhá-los. Ela é a filha de um missionário, que foi morto por uma tribo local. O trio luta contra serpentes mortais, crocodilos e outros perigos da selva, no entanto Harry não consegue esconder seu antagonismo em relação a Erica, pois ela é alemã e a mãe de Harry foi morta no mar por alemães durante a 1ª Guerra Mundial. Só a determinação de achar as minas e uma certa ambivalência dos sentimentos de Harry para Erica e vice-versa fazem com que o trio se mantenha unido para tentar seu objetivo.
Na Selva dos Caraíbas
Director
This 1959 film noir take on "Othello," filmed in Puerto Rico, stars Mari Blanchard as flirtatious Jean, who marries an older man, plantation owner Don Luis (Albert Dekker), for financial security and finds herself falling for his virile foster son, Carlos (Carlos Rivas). Fearing that Jean will inherit Luis's money, his greedy cousin, Miguel (Lee Van Cleef), poisons the bridegroom against his new wife, informing him about her passion for another.
A Mosca da Cabeça Branca
Producer
Cientista sofre um terrível acidente quando tenta usar seu novo invento - uma revolucionária máquina de teletransporte. Sem perceber, entra na máquina um inseto cujo DNA será transferido para o cientista - que logo irá se transformar numa mosca. Clássico da ficção científica baseado num conto de George Langelaan publicado pela primeira vez em 1957 numa edição da revista Playboy. Dirigido por Kurt Neumann, o filme se tornou uma das maiores bilheterias do estúdio Fox naquele ano e o maior sucesso comercial na carreira do diretor - que nunca soube disso, uma vez que ele morreu apenas um mês antes da estréia. Houve ainda duas sequências: "O Retorno da Mosca" (1959) e "A Maldição da Mosca" (1965). Em 1986 o filme original foi refilmado por David Cronenberg.
A Mosca da Cabeça Branca
Director
Cientista sofre um terrível acidente quando tenta usar seu novo invento - uma revolucionária máquina de teletransporte. Sem perceber, entra na máquina um inseto cujo DNA será transferido para o cientista - que logo irá se transformar numa mosca. Clássico da ficção científica baseado num conto de George Langelaan publicado pela primeira vez em 1957 numa edição da revista Playboy. Dirigido por Kurt Neumann, o filme se tornou uma das maiores bilheterias do estúdio Fox naquele ano e o maior sucesso comercial na carreira do diretor - que nunca soube disso, uma vez que ele morreu apenas um mês antes da estréia. Houve ainda duas sequências: "O Retorno da Mosca" (1959) e "A Maldição da Mosca" (1965). Em 1986 o filme original foi refilmado por David Cronenberg.
The Deerslayer
Producer
After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the hostile Huron Indians, they learn that the Hurons will attack Old Tom Hutter and his two daughters, Hetty and Judith, who live on a floating raft fort on the river.
The Deerslayer
Screenplay
After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the hostile Huron Indians, they learn that the Hurons will attack Old Tom Hutter and his two daughters, Hetty and Judith, who live on a floating raft fort on the river.
The Deerslayer
Director
After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the hostile Huron Indians, they learn that the Hurons will attack Old Tom Hutter and his two daughters, Hetty and Judith, who live on a floating raft fort on the river.
Guerreiro Apache
Story
An Apache brave vows revenge when he feels betrayed by the U.S. Army.
Guerreiro Apache
Screenplay
An Apache brave vows revenge when he feels betrayed by the U.S. Army.
A Mulher Diabólica
Producer
Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.
A Mulher Diabólica
Screenplay
Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.
A Mulher Diabólica
Director
Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.
Kronos
Producer
Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy directed at it in an effort to destroy it.
Kronos
Director
Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy directed at it in an effort to destroy it.
The Desperados Are in Town
Producer
In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He is advised by one of the desperadoes to return home. The boy does, and with hard work, makes the farm successful. Harvest time rolls around. He is just about to celebrate when the outlaws ride up and force him to help them pull a local bank job. He refuses and kills the gang leader and his brother. Meanwhile, the boy's past is revealed to the town banker. Seeing that he truly has gone straight, the banker forgives him. The boy marries and lives with his lovely bride upon his land.
The Desperados Are in Town
Screenplay
In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He is advised by one of the desperadoes to return home. The boy does, and with hard work, makes the farm successful. Harvest time rolls around. He is just about to celebrate when the outlaws ride up and force him to help them pull a local bank job. He refuses and kills the gang leader and his brother. Meanwhile, the boy's past is revealed to the town banker. Seeing that he truly has gone straight, the banker forgives him. The boy marries and lives with his lovely bride upon his land.
The Desperados Are in Town
Director
In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He is advised by one of the desperadoes to return home. The boy does, and with hard work, makes the farm successful. Harvest time rolls around. He is just about to celebrate when the outlaws ride up and force him to help them pull a local bank job. He refuses and kills the gang leader and his brother. Meanwhile, the boy's past is revealed to the town banker. Seeing that he truly has gone straight, the banker forgives him. The boy marries and lives with his lovely bride upon his land.
Mohawk - A Lenda dos Iroquis
Director
Num posto avançado do exército, um artista aguarda a chegada de sua noiva. Esta chega do Leste em companhia da filha do Chefe dos Índios. Quando as coisas pareciam estar em ordem e na absoluta paz, os ânimos de ambos os lados se acirram e uma batalha entre o exército e os índios está prestes a começar.
Adventure in Rio
Director
A remake of the 1940 film of the same title. It was shot on location in Brazil with separate German and Italian versions.
Three from Variety
Director
Jeanine, her husband Alexis and Renato are the stars of the Varieté Royal under the name “The 3 Loopings”. A blindfolded somersault performed for the first time catapulted the three even higher in the audience’s favour. Jeanine repeatedly has problems with Renato, who has fallen in love her…
They Were So Young
Screenplay
Grim melodrama about girls sent to South America to be used by crooks.
They Were So Young
Producer
Grim melodrama about girls sent to South America to be used by crooks.
They Were So Young
Director
Grim melodrama about girls sent to South America to be used by crooks.
Circus of Love
Writer
Circus of Love
Director
Carnival Story
Screenplay
An American carnival in Germany sets the scene for sin, sex and melodrama.
Carnival Story
Director
An American carnival in Germany sets the scene for sin, sex and melodrama.
Regina Amstetten
Director
Tarzan and the She-Devil
Director
The king of the jungle fights off ivory poachers.
Hiawatha
Director
A young Indian brave attempts to bring peace to two warring tribes.
The Ring
Director
A young Mexican/American learns about life both inside and out of the ring when he takes up boxing.
O Filho de Ali Babá
Director
In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl who he later finds is an escaped slave girl belonging to the wicked Caliph. They flee to his father's palace. But alas, there's more to her than meets the eye. Will the evil schemers succeed? The sons of the Forty Thieves to the rescue!
Reunion in Reno
Director
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.
Estouro da Manada
Director
O jovem filho mimado de um rico proprietário de ferrovia consegue se perder no meio do nada. Ele é encontrado por um cowboy que está conduzindo uma boiada e o rapaz deve começar a aprender as difíceis lições de trabalhar em equipe, se quiser chegar a San Diego.
Da Terra à Lua
Writer
Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations cause them to end up landing on Mars. On Mars, evidence of a once powerful civilization is found. The scientists determined that an atomic war destroyed most of the Martians. Those that survived reverted to a caveman like existence.
Da Terra à Lua
Producer
Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations cause them to end up landing on Mars. On Mars, evidence of a once powerful civilization is found. The scientists determined that an atomic war destroyed most of the Martians. Those that survived reverted to a caveman like existence.
Da Terra à Lua
Director
Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations cause them to end up landing on Mars. On Mars, evidence of a once powerful civilization is found. The scientists determined that an atomic war destroyed most of the Martians. Those that survived reverted to a caveman like existence.
Duelo Sangrento
Director
Western reconstituindo um dos episódios mais famosos da carreira de William H. Bonney, o fora-da-lei, Billy the Kid (1859-1881), interpretado por Audie Murphy. Aos 18 anos, Billy chega ao Novo México e abandona as armas, empregando-se no rancho do inglês Tunstall, com quem faz amizade e que o ajuda a regenerar-se. Tunstall, porém, é assassinado por ladrões de gado que operam na região e Billy resolve vingar-se deflagrando um combate que ficou conhecido como a Guerra do Condado de Lincoln (1878).
Bad Boy
Director
A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.
Bad Men of Tombstone
Director
A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own.
The Dude Goes West
Director
Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and becomes the foe of the notorious Pecos Kid, the captive of Paiutes, the target in a saloon showdown, and the lone source of the whereabouts of a fabulous gold strike.
Tarzan e a Caçadora
Director
A shortage of zoo animals after World War II brings beautiful animal trainer Tanya, her financial backer and her cruel trail boss to the jungle. After negotiating a quota with the native king, they take more animals than allowed. Tarzan intervenes.
Tarzan e a Caçadora
Producer
A shortage of zoo animals after World War II brings beautiful animal trainer Tanya, her financial backer and her cruel trail boss to the jungle. After negotiating a quota with the native king, they take more animals than allowed. Tarzan intervenes.
Tarzan e a Mulher Leopardo
Associate Producer
A tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into Africa.
Tarzan e a Mulher Leopardo
Director
A tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into Africa.
Tarzan e as Amazonas
Associate Producer
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
Tarzan e as Amazonas
Director
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
Tarzan em Terror no Deserto
Associate Producer
A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set out across the desert looking for the plants. Along the way they befriend a stranded American lady magician.
The Return of the Vampire
Story
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
The Unknown Guest
Director
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.
Yanks Ahoy
Director
Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.
Comboio Para o Leste
German (uncredited)
O tenente Joe Rossi é primeiro oficial num Navio da Liberdade em um grande comboio de Halifax para Murmansk. Depois de submarinos alemães atacarem o comboio seu navio se separa e está indo sozinho para Murmansk. Apesar dos ataques de aviões e submarinos alemães ele luta para levar o navio em segurança para Murmansk.
Insuspeitos
Gestapo Man (Uncredited)
O professor Richard Myles e sua mulher Frances se preparam para sair em lua de mel na Alemanha quando são contratados pelo serviço secreto inglês. Eles precisam encontrar um misterioso cientista nazista determinado a destruir a Marinha britânica.
Taxi, Mister
Director
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
Director
Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunderstanding Tim's wife Sadie thinks he is having an affair with his secretary, Ms. Lucy Gibbs. To annoy Tim, Sadie starts taking classes with a fitness instructor, Samson, and later going with him to his out-of-town health club. To sort out all the misunderstandings both Tim and Eddie go to the health club as well.
Fall In
Director
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
About Face
Director
Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
Brooklyn Orchid
Director
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
A Night at Earl Carroll's
Director
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Director
The mysteriously ill John Braun makes a new will, leaving out his daughter Barbara, over the protests of his wife. The trouble began when the daughter wanted to marry Mr. Braun's doctor, James Rogers. Mrs. Braun asks Inspector Queen to help find the long-missing Barbara. The inspector's son, Ellery, works on the case. He goes to a home frequently visited by Dr. Rogers where the bell is answered by Nikki Porter who Ellery mistakes for Barbara and insists she return to the Braun home. Nikki does, to protect Barbara, and a short time later finds herself alone in a room outside Braun's bedroom. She finds him dead - his throat cut. No weapons are found and the door to the room where Nikki had been is locked, and she is suspected. Ellery hides Nikki in his apartment. Braun's body, sent for an autopsy, disappears and in its place is a life-sized statue of the dead man.
All Women Have Secrets
Director
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
Island of Lost Men
Director
A Chinese general's daughter (Anna May Wong) tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's (J. Carrol Naish) jungle empire.
Unmarried
Director
Pals Pat Rogers (Helen Twelvetrees) and Slag Bailey (Buck Jones) try to collect a debt from Slag's recently deceased boxing promoter but wind up collecting his child, instead, and raising him as their own son.
Ambush
Director
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
Touchdown, Army
Director
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.
Wide Open Faces
Director
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
Hold 'Em Navy
Director
Two football players fight over the same girl.
Make a Wish
Director
Canary-voiced boy wonder Bobby Breen once more croons his way into our hearts in Make a Wish. While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Breen befriends famed composer Basil Rathbone. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Rathbone at last finds it when he meets Breen's gorgeous mother Marion Claire, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiance Ralph Forbes refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block. But Little-Mister-Fixit Breen manages to patch up everything just in time for Claire to debut in Rathbone's latest masterpiece. Offering much-needed comedy relief are Henry Armetta, Leon Errol and Donald Meek as a trio of parasitic would-be songwriters. Make a Wish was based on a story by Gertrude Berg, of "Molly Goldberg" fame.
Espionage
Director
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Rainbow on the River
Director
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
Violets in Spring
Director
Mary Jones and Charlie Hall have worked for four years in the same office at the Acme Carpet Sweeper Company, but they have never shown any interest in each other. At the suggestion of a janitor, the president of the company uses psychology to try to get them together.
A Filha de Drácula
treatment
Dr. Van Helsing, pensando ter livrado Londres de todos os vampiros, é ao contrário preso por assassinato. Quando o destino de Van Helsing parece estar traçado, os corpos desaparecem repentinamente. Logo, inúmeras pessoas são encontradas mortas, seus corpos encharcados de sangue. Enquanto isso, a bela Condessa Marya Zaleska aparece em Londres. A problemática mulher procura a ajuda de Dr. Garth, psiquiatra de Van Helsing, para uma consulta.
Let's Sing Again
Director
An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York.
The Affair of Susan
Director
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
Alias Mary Dow
Director
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
Wake Up and Dream
Director
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
O Pescador Jovial
Director
A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
Let's Talk It Over
Director
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
King for a Night
Director
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Secret of the Blue Room
Director
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
O Rei da Jaula
Director
A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.
Os Três Trapaceiros
Director
A crooked jockey tries to reform.
Meu Amigo, O Rei
Director
The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.
House of Mystery
Director
Two hunters discover a dead young woman in a cabin in the woods.One of them being the sheriff, he proceeds to press the wealthy owner for an explanation. At first it looks like his son has killed his unfaithful wife, but the wife's lover and the family butler are acting suspiciously enough to be followed.