George W. GeorgeFilmography

Rich Kids

Crew: Producer

Actors: Trini Alvarado, Jeremy Levy, Kathryn Walker, John Lithgow, Terry Kiser

Synopsis: The rich kids of the title are 12-year-old Trini Alvarado and her intellectual pal Jeremy Levy. Alvarado is down in the dumps because her parents are going through a divorce. She finds a kindred spirit in Levy, whose folks split up long ago. He points out the advantages and privileges of being a Read More

Night Watch

Crew: Producer

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw, Robert Lang, Tony Britton

Synopsis: Night Watch a suspenseful, under-rated thriller tells the story of a lonely, unhappily married woman who believes that she sees a murder committed in the deserted house across her courtyard. Ellen Wheeler (Elizabeth Taylor) spends her nights alone, drinking, wandering around her living room, and Read More

A Matter of Innocence

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hayley Mills, Trevor Howard, Shashi Kapoor, Brenda de Banzie, Dick Patterson

Synopsis: Polly (Hayley Mills) is a shy young girl on a world tour with her impossible aunt (Brenda de Banzie). In Singapore, the ladies are entertained by their Eurasian guide (Shashi Kapoor). Polly begins an affair with the seductive guide, and upon the death of her aunt she finally comes out of her shell Read More

Twisted Nerve

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw, Phyllis Calvert, Frank Finlay

Synopsis: In a disturbing movie about psychosis, Hayley Mills plays Susan Harper, a young student who tries to help a rich, emotionally ill and sinister young man, Martin Durnley (Hywel Bennett). Martin is a schizophrenic who assumes the personality of a six-year-old boy when he is in his "nice" phase. Read More

Combat!: The Chateau

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Searching for an evacuation hospital behind enemy lines, King Company medic Doc Walton (Steven Rogers) is captured along with Pvt. Braddock (Shecky Greene) and several wounded soldiers. The prisoners are herded into a chateau owned by French aristocrat Count De Gontran (Ben Wright) and his Read More

Bonanza: Song in the Dark

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Gregory Walcott

Synopsis: Gregory Walcott is cast as Danny Morgan, a guitar-strumming "travelling troubadour." Grateful that Danny once saved his life, Adam Cartwright returns the favor by hiring the wandering minstrel as a ranchhand. The plot thickens when Danny is accused of murdering Widow Baker, with the sole witness Read More

Bonanza: The First Born

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Barry Coe

Synopsis: Season Four of Bonanza began on September 23, 1962 with what was intended to be a landmark episode. In "The First Born", Barry Coe plays Clay Stafford, a new ranchhand on the Ponderosa. Ordered to leave Virginia City after killing a man in self-defense (or so it seems), Clay reveals an astonishing Read More

The Two Little Bears

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Eddie Albert, Jane Wyatt, Butch Patrick, Brenda Lee

Synopsis: In this standard children's story -- with a few teen songs added -- the head of Burberry Elementary School, Harry Davis (Eddie Albert) is the proud father of two boys, Timmy and Billy (Donnie Carter and Butch Patrick) who wish they were bears. If Dad was bothered before by this wish, things only Read More

The Son of Robin Hood

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: David Hedison, June Laverick, David Farrar, Marius Goring, Phillip Friend

Synopsis: The off-spring of the legendary British bandit dons his father's tights to help save his countrymen from the tyrannical rule of an evil aristocrat. Unfortunately, the "son" is a sham and after several unsuccessful attempts to stop the nasty nobleman, the merry men decide to send for Robin's real Read More

Apache Territory

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Barbara Bates, John Dehner, Carolyn Craig, Thomas Pittman

Synopsis: A wandering cowboy endeavors to save a wagon train from an Apache attack in this western that is based upon a Louis L'Amour novel. The settlers are frightened and flee. They all end up dead, but for one little girl, whom the cowboy saves. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fort Dobbs

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo, Brian Keith, Richard Eyer, Russ Conway

Synopsis: In this western, an accused killer is able to escape lynchers by trading coats with a dead man he found lying beside the road with an arrow in his back. He soon happens upon a farm. As the farm is under Comanche attack when he arrives, the man immediately saves the life of a woman and her son. He Read More

The James Dean Story

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer

Synopsis: A cut above the usual cheesy paste-up "tribute", The James Dean Story is imbued with a modicum of style thanks to fledgling film-director Robert Altman. Most of the film consists of clips from Dean's three starring pictures (East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant), with tantalizing glimpses Read More

The Halliday Brand

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Viveca Lindfors, Betsy Blair, Ward Bond, Bill Williams

Synopsis: It's "Freud on the Frontier" time in the tension-filled western The Halliday Brand. Ward Bond plays Big Dan, the despotic head of the Halliday clan, while Joseph Cotten and Betsy Blair costar as Halliday's offspring Daniel and Martha. Intensely anti-Indian, Big Dan encourages a mob to lynch Jivaro Read More

Uranium Boom

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Patricia Medina, William Talman, Tina Carver, Philip Van Zandt

Synopsis: In this drama, two prospectors search the Colorado Territory for precious radioactive metal. They find large deposits and become rich men. Unfortunately, their friendship almost disintegrates after they fall in love with the same sexy woman. She pits them against each other. Fortunately, their Read More

Smoke Signal

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dana Andrews, Piper Laurie, Rex Reason, William Talman, Milburn Stone

Synopsis: Dana Andrews plays Cavalry deserter Brett Halliday in the compact Universal western Smoke Signal. Cavalry captain Harper (William Talman) is determined to bring Halliday to justice, but first he must lead his men and a handful of Indian-massacre survivors to safety through hostile, uncharted Read More

Desert Sands

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ralph Meeker, Marla English, J. Carrol Naish, John Smith, Ron Randell, John Carradine

Synopsis: Although the French Foreign Legion became increasingly anachronistic in the 1950s, films like Desert Sands helped to perpetuate the glamorous legend of this mercenary aggregation. Ralph Meeker heads the cast as a bold legionnaire who falls in love with gorgeous Arab girl Marla English. Alas, Marla Read More

The Rocket Man

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Charles Coburn, Spring Byington, George Winslow, Anne Francis, John Agar, Emory Parnell

Synopsis: The strangest aspect of the low-budget fantasy effort The Rocket Man is the fact that one of its screenwriters was Lenny Bruce. There's nothing scatalogical or even satirical in the film itself, however. Essentially an Andy Hardyesque comedy drama with a peripheral sci-fi slant, the story concerns Read More

City of Bad Men

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Dale Robertson, Richard Boone, Lloyd Bridges, Carole Mathews

Synopsis: Unlike many westerns, City of Bad Men is placed within a specific historical time frame. The scene is Carson City, Nevada, in the year 1897. As the city prepares itself for the much-ballyhooed prizefight between Gentleman Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons, soldier-of-fortune Brett Stanton (Dale Robertson Read More

Weekend with Father

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Van Heflin, Patricia Neal, Virginia Field, Richard Denning

Synopsis: This seminal Brady Bunch stars Van Heflin as a widower and Patricia Neal as a widow. Both parties have several children by their first marriages. Heflin and Neal fall in love and decide to marry, each hoping to adopt the other's kids. The couple idealistically subscribes to the "one big happy Read More

Red Mountain

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Ladd, Lizabeth Scott, Arthur Kennedy, John Ireland, Jeff Corey

Synopsis: The rugged Colorado Territory provides the setting for this epic Civil War-era western chronicle of a Southern rebel who sets off to join Captain Quantrill's raiders. Along the way, the rebel kills a Union supporter who had stolen the rebel's land. Unfortunately, he leaves a different Confederate Read More

The Nevadan

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Forrest Tucker, Frank Faylen, George Macready

Synopsis: Those westerns produced by the team of star Randolph Scott and producer Harry Joe Brown tended to be several notches above the norm, and The Nevadan is no exception. Scott is cast as U.S. marshal Andrew Barkeley, who goes undercover in a federal pen to get a line on $250,000 in stolen money. Read More

Mystery Submarine

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: MacDonald Carey, Märta Torén, Robert Douglas, Carl Esmond, Ludwig Donath

Synopsis: The trendy elegance of director Douglas Sirk's later big-budget soap operas is nowhere to be found in Sirk's Atomic-Age melodrama Mystery Submarine. MacDonald Carey stars as Brett Young, a U.S. undercover agent whose job it is to prevent atomic secrets from falling into the wrong hands. Marta Toren Read More

Experiment Alcatraz

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: John Howard, Joan Dixon, Walter Kingsford, Lynne Carter, Robert Shayne

Synopsis: Experiment Alcatraz stars John Howard as a doctor who develops a serum to cure radioactive poisoning. He tests it on several Alcatraz "lifers," who have volunteered for the experiment on the promise of freedom if they survive. A murder within the group casts aspersions on the doctor, but the Read More

Peggy

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Diana Lynn, Charles Coburn, Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Lawrence, Charles Drake

Synopsis: Peggy Brookfield (Diana Lynn) is one of many aspirants for the position of Queen of the annual Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, Calfornia. Also competing is Peggy's sister Susan (Barbara Lawrence). Both girls make the trek from Ohio to Pasadena in the company of their father (Charles Coburn), a Read More

Bodyguard

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Phillip Reed, June Clayworth, Elizabeth Risdon

Synopsis: Granite-jawed Lawrence Tierney is the Bodyguard in this second-echelon noir thriller. Invited to resign from the LA police, short-tempered Mike Carter (Tierney) hires on to protect wealthy dowager Eugenia Dyson (Elizabeth Risdon). Before the film has reached its halfway point, Carter has been Read More

I Married a Communist

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar, Thomas Gomez, Janis Carter

Synopsis: There's propaganda aplenty in RKO's I Married a Communist, the first of producer Howard R. Hughes' many anti-Red broadsides. Robert Ryan plays shipping executive Brad Collins, whose youthful flirtations with certain left-wing causes have made him ripe for plucking by Commie cell leader Vanning (Thomas Gomez Read More