Harry Alan TowersFilmography

Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

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City of Fear

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gary Daniels

Synopsis: Although he has not reached the level of fame enjoyed by such action superstars as Jackie Chan, Jean Claude Van Damme, or Stephen Seagal, Gary Daniels has gained a following in the direct-to-video market. He puts his athletic skills to use once again in Mark Roper's City of Fear. The thin story Read More

2000
Treasure Island

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jack Palance, Kevin Zegers, Patrick Bergin, Walter Sparrow, David Robb

Synopsis: An adaptation of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel, featuring 1991 Academy Award winner Jack Palance as the salty pirate Long John Silver. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1998
Cry, the Beloved Country

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Vusi Kunene, Leleti Khumalo, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: Alan Paton's classic novel about two fathers coming to terms with personal loss and the emotional scars inflicted on South Africa during the era of apartheid was brought to the screen for a second time with this adaptation, the first major film produced in South Africa after Nelson Mandela's Read More

1995
Bullet to Beijing

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Caine, Jason Connery, Mia Sara, Michael Sarrazin, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Working-class espionage-agent Harry Palmer returns in this spy thriller. The story begins in London after a murder occurs during a demonstration at the North Korean embassy. Palmer, who was supposed to ensure nothing happened, fears repercussions from his higher-ups. They tell him that since the Read More

1995
The Mangler

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A hellish piece of professional laundry equipment wreaks havoc in a tiny New England town in this horror film. It all begins in The Blue Ribbon Laundry, a place run by the ruthless, crippled old Bill Gartley. With no feelings at all for his employees, he demands absolute obedience and unrelenting Read More

1995
Return to the Lost World

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Rhys-Davies, David Warner, Eric McCormack

Synopsis: Filmed in the Zimbabwe jungles at the same time as its precursor, the 1992 version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic adventure fantasy The Lost World, this sequel is set a few years after the six explorers journeyed into the Belgian Congo and discovered the isolated plateau where dinosaurs still Read More

1993
The Mummy Lives

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tony Curtis

Synopsis: Although it claims to be "suggested by an Edgar Allen Poe" story, this British production is basically a remake of Karl Freund's 1932 The Mummy -- but with nude shower scenes. Tony Curtis, in the Boris Karloff role, becomes obsessed with a young blonde woman whom he believes to be the reincarnated Read More

1993
The Lost World

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Rhys-Davies, David Warner, Tamara Gorski, Eric McCormack, Nathania Stanford

Synopsis: Arthur Conan Doyle's novel serves as the source material for this tale of rival scientists (John Rhys-Davies and David Warner) who find living, breathing dinosaurs in Africa in 1912. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
The Hitman

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chuck Norris, Michael Parks, Al Waxman, Alberta Watson, Salim Grant

Synopsis: Chuck Norris stars in this derivative action film (directed by his brother, Aaron Norris) which bears more than a passing similarity to Steven Seagal's Marked for Death. Norris plays Cliff Garret, a Seattle cop who is mortally wounded in a drug bust. Garret's condition is grave but he manages to Read More

10/25/91
The Masque of the Red Death

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A contemporary version of the masterpiece by Edgar Allan Poe follows a photographer (Michelle McBride) as she spies on a soap-opera star at a party in Bavaria. She must solve the crimes when several guests are murdered by someone in a skull mask and red coat. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Delta Force 3: The Killing Game

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Eric Douglas, Mike Norris, Matthew Penn

Synopsis: In this actioner, a Middle-Eastern leader is threatening to detonate a nuclear bomb that he has planted in Miami and now a crack team of American and Russian soldiers must somehow stop him. This entry in the series is the first made without its original star, Chuck Norris. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

1991
Dance Macabre

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This mundane, predictable psycho-thriller was originally conceived as a sequel of sorts to the 1989 version of Phantom of the Opera, another unsuccessful horror vehicle for Robert Englund. Filmed on location in St. Petersburg, the film stars Englund as the co-director of a prestigious Russian Read More

1991
Ten Little Indians

Crew: Producer

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Frank Stallone, Sarah Maur-Thorp, Herbert Lom, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: Ten Little Indians, the classic mystery by Agatha Christie, is again adapted, with enjoyable results. The setting of the now familiar mystery is moved to Africa, where the ten guests of a mysterious host are killed one by one as they travel on safari. None of the guests, played with great fun by a Read More

11/10/89
The Phantom of the Opera

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Lawrence

Synopsis: Gaston Leroux's classic tale of love and suspense gets a face-lift in this horror story loosely adapted from Leroux's novel. Christine (Jill Schoelen) is a young classical vocalist who, in the midst of performing a recently discovered piece by an obscure composer, is struck on the head by a Read More

11/3/89
River of Death

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Robert Vaughn, Donald Pleasence, Herbert Lom, L.Q. Jones

Synopsis: This jungle adventure features an extremely complicated plot that involves a megalomaniacal Nazi doctor who continues to perform inhuman experiments in the Amazon jungle and helms the Lost City of the Nazis, a mecca for war criminals and new followers. He is pursued by three vengeful people: a Read More

9/29/89
Edge of Sanity

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, Sarah Maur-Thorp, David Lodge, Ben Cole

Synopsis: This demented fusion of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with the legend of Jack the Ripper marks one of the final roles for Anthony Perkins, and certainly one of the weirdest performances of his career. Perkins plays Dr. Jekyll as more of a dedicated 19th-century man of medicine than an obsessed eccentric Read More

3/31/89
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Bradley, Steve James, Marjoe Gortner, Michael Paul Chan, Yehuda Efroni

Synopsis: This, the third issue in the American Ninja series, stars karate expert David Bradley who goes to Japan for ninja training so he'll be able to avenge his father's murder. Once trained, he enters in an international karate contest held by some no-goods who'd like to get their hands on the world's Read More

2/24/89
Outlaw of Gor

Crew: Producer

Actors: Urbano Barberini, Donna Denton, Jack Palance, Russel Savadier

Synopsis: In this sword and sorcery sequel to Gor, a bland professor again finds himself upon Gor, that planetary bastion of barbarous men and savage women. This time he must take on a vicious queen after he is accused of murder by her wicked priest. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Master of Dragonard Hill

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Oliver Reed, Eartha Kitt, Herbert Lom, Kimber Sissons, Claudia Udy

Synopsis: In this swashbuckler a despotic colonial governor has made it legal to punish people with the terrifying and excruciatingly painful split-tongue whip, called the Dragonard. Fortunately, a handsome hero appears and stops him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Skeleton Coast

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Robert Vaughn, Oliver Reed, Daniel Greene, Nancy Mulford

Synopsis: This action-adventure film is based on a novel by Edgar Wallace. In the story, Colonel Smith (Ernest Borgnine) is an aging military man whose son is a CIA agent. His son has been captured by a bevy of iron-curtain bad-guys involved in a civil war in the African country of Angola, and Col. Smith is Read More

1989
The House of Usher

Crew: Producer

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Oliver Reed, Romy Windsor

Synopsis: Without a doubt the weirdest adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe tale in recent memory, this lurid production features a raging, leering Oliver Reed as Roderick Usher, who treats his nephew (Rufus Swart) and the man's bride-to-be (Romy Windsor) to some genuine family hospitality by raping her and Read More

1989
Platoon Leader

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Robert F. Lyons, Michael de Lorenzo, Rick Fitts, Jesse Dabson

Synopsis: Lieutenant Jeff Knight (Michael Dudikoff) is an idealistic young officer who arrives in Vietnam to lead a group of fighters from the 103rd Airborne division in jungle combat. Sergeant Michael McNamara (Robert F. Lyons) is a combat veteran who helps Jeff after most of the platoon is wiped out. George S. Clinton Read More

10/7/88
Gor

Crew: Co-producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Urbano Barberini, Rebecca Ferratti, Paul L. Smith, Oliver Reed

Synopsis: In this sword and sorcery film, a wimpy college professor Tarl Cabot (Urbano Barberini) is mysteriously thrown into the world of Gor, where he must battle the evil Sarm (Oliver Reed) to save the innocent people of Gor. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

3/4/88
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare

Crew: Producer

Actors: Romy Windsor, Michael T. Weiss, Anthony Hamilton, Susanne Severeid, Lamya Derval

Synopsis: Shot in South Africa, this direct-to-video installment of the werewolf series continues that franchise's tradition of generating sequels light-years distant from the quality of Joe Dante's witty and frightening original. The fourth chapter even attempts to rewrite the original film's premise Read More

1988
Captive Rage

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Oliver Reed, Robert Vaughn, Claudia Udy, Lisa Rinna, Maureen Kedes

Synopsis: Edward Delacorte (Robert Vaughn) is the director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency who incurs the wrath of the Paradorian dictator General Belmondo (Oliver Reed) when the general's drug-dealing son is arrested. The irate dictator orders a plane carrying students from Loyola Marymount to be Read More

1988
Dragonard

Crew: Producer

Actors: Oliver Reed, Eartha Kitt, Annabel Schofield, Claudia Udy, Patrick Warburton

Synopsis: A group of slaves rise up against their oppressive owners in this costume drama starring Eartha Kitt and Oliver Reed. Richard Abdee (Patrick Warburton) is exiled from Britain for treason and falls in love with Honore (Annabelle Schofield), the sister of the sadistic plantation owner Pierre Read More

1987
Lightning: The White Stallion

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabel Lorca, Mickey Rooney, Susan George, Billy Wesley

Synopsis: In this drama, Barney Ingram (Mickey Rooney) is a gambler who's lost his money, only to discover his favorite horse Lightning has been stolen. A young woman with severe vision problems named Stephanie (Isabel Lorca) is the only one able to ride Lightning to a sure victory. A group of tough-talking Read More

10/17/86
Black Arrow

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Oliver Reed, Fernando Rey, Benedict Taylor, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Produced for cable TV by The Disney Channel, The Black Arrow is based on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson adventure tale. Stephen Chase plays the title character, a dogooding swashbuckler who tries to avenge his father's murder during the War of the Roses. Though Chase carries the bulk of the Read More

1984
Christina

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jewel Shepard, Karin Schubert, Josephine Jacqueline Jones, Ian Serra, John E. Johnson

Synopsis: In this softcore sexploitation film by Paco Lara, Christina (Jewel Shepard) is the wealthy heiress to a publishing fortune, kidnapped by a variety of evil men or women who sexually use her as they wish and then pass her on to the next group, willingly or not. In-between the sex are some obviously Read More

1984
Fanny Hill

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lisa Raines, Shelley Winters, Oliver Reed

Synopsis: Fanny Hill (Lisa Raines) is a buxom country maiden who arrives in the big city and quickly begins an affair with the scion of a wealthy family in this softcore version of an old British tale. When the clan patriarch dies, Fanny is ready to marry her lover until she discovers he has been unfaithful Read More

1983
The Shape of Things to Come

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, John Ireland, Barry Morse, Nicholas Campbell

Synopsis: This is a remake of a 1936 sci-fi, future dystopia tale by H.G. Wells, but the drama, as interpreted by director George McCowan and scripter Martin Lager is not altered to accommodate today's more demanding audiences. As a result, the story, characters, and dialogue are a little weak. After a Read More

1979
And Then There Were None

Crew: Producer

Actors: Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough, Gert Fröbe, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: An Italian-French-Spanish version of the much-filmed Agatha Christie story, this film is strangely set in Iran, not Great Britain. Ten guests are invited to a remote desert inn and informed that the mysterious host has described in a nursery rhyme how they will all die during the gathering. One by Read More

1975
Call of the Wild

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlton Heston, Raimund Harmstorf, Michele Mercier, George Eastman, Sancho Gracia

Synopsis: Director Ken Annakin and an international cast including Charlton Heston and George Eastman try to breath life into Jack London's often-filmed wilderness adventure. The story follows the adventures of John Thornton (Heston) and Pete (Raimund Harmstorf) as they brawl their way through the Alaskan Read More

1972
Treasure Island

Crew: Producer

Actors: Walter Slezak, Lionel Stander, Orson Welles, Kim Burfield

Synopsis: This 1972 international production of Treasure Island is one of many film versions of the classic adventure by Robert Louis Stevenson. Kim Burfield plays Jim Hawkins, a young man who works at a pub with his mother (Maria Rohm). When drunken old sailor Billy Bones (Lionel Stander) comes in for a Read More

1972
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Crew: Producer

Actors: Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom, Marie Liljedahl, Margaret Lee

Synopsis: The classic story of evil by Oscar Wilde is a plodding, campy, trashy production that gives the viewer moments of unintentional laughter. Dorian Gray (Helmut Berger) is the vain young Englishman who sells his soul to the devil to remain eternally youthful in appearance. His portrait is being Read More

8/17/70
The Bloody Judge

Crew: Producer

Actors: Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Maria Schell, Maria Rohm, Margaret Lee

Synopsis: This erotic horror film from cult director Jesus Franco is based on the witch-hunting exploits of Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys (Christopher Lee), a real historical figure who died in prison in 1702 at the age of 54. In 1685 England, young Alicia Gray is burnt for witchcraft. Alicia's sister Mary (Maria Rohm Read More

2/5/70
Sandy the Seal

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this children's drama, a loving lighthouse keeper finds a stray seal and brings it home for his children to raise. Meanwhile, the kids try to run heartless poachers out of town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1969
The Girl From Rio

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler, George Sanders

Synopsis: From Jesus Franco, the infamous director behind such exploitation classics as Sadomania and Vampyros Lesbos, comes this low-budget erotic adventure starring Bond girl Shirley Eaton as a maniacal lesbian warlord. Eaton plays Sumitra, the bisexual leader of a clan of oversexed women bent on Read More

1969
El Conde Dracula

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski, Soledad Miranda, Maria Rohm, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: This doggedly faithful adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel about a vampiric nobleman was helmed by cult director Jesus Franco. Despite its textual loyalty and atmospheric photography by Manuel Merino, the film -- a co-production from Spain, Italy, Germany, and Liechtenstein -- is plodding and dull. Read More

1969
Venus in Furs

Crew: Producer

Actors: James Darren, Barbara McNair, Klaus Kinski, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Not to be confused with Massimo Dallamano's contemporaneous treatment of the Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch classic, this unrelated (but quite entertaining) thriller from cult director Jesus Franco was originally known as Black Angel. James Darren stars as Jimmy Logan, an American jazz musician in Read More

1969
99 Women

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Maria Schell, Mercedes McCambridge, Luciana Paluzzi, Herbert Lom, Maria Rohm

Synopsis: Jesus Franco's campy women's prison film, though both stereotypical and rare to find in its original version, is worthwhile for genre devotees primarily due to an outstanding cast. Mercedes McCambridge is unintentionally hilarious as sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz, spitting tacky dialogue Read More

1969
La Ciudad sin Hombres

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Shirley Eaton, George Sanders, Richard Wyler

Synopsis: Shirley Eaton stars as Sumuru, the barbaric leader of an Amazon tribe, in Jesus Franco's uninspired adventure based on characters created by Sax Rohmer. Banker Ennio Rossini (Walter Rilla) hires a detective named Jeff Sutton (Richard Wyler) to travel from Barcelona to Brazil in search of his Read More

1968
The Blood of Fu Manchu

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Greene, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: The first of several collaborations between cult director Jesus Franco and British producer Harry Alan Towers, this horror-tinged adventure is full of jungle action, creative murders, and violent sexual sadism. Christopher Lee portrays the mysterious Asian madman Fu Manchu, plotting world Read More

1968
The Castle of Fu Manchu

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Christopher Lee, Werner Abrolat

Synopsis: This extremely low-budget adventure was director Jesus Franco's second Fu Manchu film for British producer Harry Alan Towers. Christopher Lee returns as the Asian madman, who has developed a way to turn the oceans into ice as part of his plan to rule the world. Kidnapping famed Prof. Herakles (Gustavo Re Read More

1968
Eve

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this jungle adventure, a downed Yankee flier must make his way alone through the dense Amazon jungle. At one point, he finds himself surrounded by unfriendly natives. He is just about to lose his life when a beautiful white woman, who is revered by the natives as a goddess, swoops down from the Read More

1968
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Carsten, Tony Ferrer, Wolfgang Kieling, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) is the internationally known criminal mastermind back for another round of evil deeds. The objects of his malevolence are the police chiefs of the world, in particular the head of Scotland Yard. With the help of his equally evil daughter Lin Tang (Tsai Chin), Fu Manchu Read More

1968
Those Fantastic Flying Fools

Crew: Producer

Actors: Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe, Hermione Gingold, Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: Produced in the wake of the all-star "comedy spectacular" Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Fantastic Flying Fools (originally titled Blast-Off, and also released as Those Fantastic Flying Fools) is based very loosely on a Jules Verne novel. A 19th century British newspaper offers a Read More

1967
The Million Eyes of Su-Muru

Crew: Producer

Actors: Frankie Avalon, George Nader, Shirley Eaton, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: Two Yankee spies team up with British intelligence to stop the beautiful but deadly Su-Muru, a woman with eyes literally on ruling the world. Having gathered an enormous army of gorgeous women, she and her minions use their considerable wiles and natural attributes to enslave the world's most Read More

1967
Haus der Tausend Freuden

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Vincent Price, Martha Hyer, George Nader, Ann Smyrner, Wolfgang Kieling

Synopsis: Felix Manderville (Vincent Price) is a traveling magician who manages to make young women disappear in this exploitation thriller. The trouble is, Felix drugs the femmes and sells them to white slave traders with the help of his mind-reading assistant Rebecca (Martha Hyer). Marie Armstrong (Anne Smyrner Read More

1967
Five Golden Dragons

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Cummings

Synopsis: While traveling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell (Robert Cummings) accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons, and the local mobsters. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1967
Circus of Fear

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: Based on an Edgar Wallace murder mystery this chiller centers on a Scotland Yard investigation of a series of puzzling deaths plaguing a traveling circus and the hunt for loot stolen from an armored car robbery. Suspects include the mask-wearing and disfigured lion tamer, a vengeful ringmaster, an Read More

1967
Our Man in Marrakesh

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tony Randall, Senta Berger, Terry-Thomas, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: Films like Bang, Bang, You're Dead helped kill the movie career of Tony Randall in the mid-1960s. Randall plays an innocent oil company representative who gets tied up with a gang of crooks in Morocco. The head criminals, played by Herbert Lom and Klaus Kinski, plunge Randall into the middle of a Read More

1966
24 Hours to Kill

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: 24 Hours to Kill is an all-star crime caper filmed as an apparent tax write-off in Europe and Lebanon. Mickey Rooney plays an American airline purser whose greed gets the better of him. During a 24-hour layover in Beirut he transports a cache of stolen goods, which brings him to the attention of Read More

1966
Mozambique

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: An unemployed, cynical Yankee pilot begins working for a strange colonel flying between Lisbon and Mozambique. He is in one of the wealthy officer's clubs when he meets a promising young singer. From there he finds himself entangled in murder, narcotics smuggling and the white slave trade. The Read More

1966
The Brides of Fu Manchu

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Christopher Lee, Marie Versini, Tsai Chin

Synopsis: The nefarious Fu Manchu strikes again in this crime drama. This time the megalomaniacal Manchu plots to earn the money he needs to build a world-dominating ray gun by abducting the daughters of 12 important world leaders. His dastardly daughter assists. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1966
Ten Little Indians

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian, Leo Genn, Stanley Holloway

Synopsis: The third of many film and TV adaptations of the popular Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians is the title of the American edition, the hit play, and most of the movies), this 1965 version moves the action from a remote island to an isolated ski resort and otherwise Read More

1965
Coast of Skeletons

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Todd, Heinz Drache, Marianne Koch, Derek Nimmo, Elga Andersen

Synopsis: In the mid-1960s, Richard Todd starred in two British films based on Edgar Wallace's Sanders of the River. Coast of Skeletons was the sequel to Todd's earlier Death Drums Along the River. Playing insurance investigator Harry Sanders, Todd comes upon an insidious scheme to steal the valuables from Read More

1965
City of Fear

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this drama a Canadian journalist heads for Hungary to do a story when he meets a man who asks him to bring a package containing "medicine" for his niece. The reporter agrees but accidently loses the niece's phone number. He decides to have the message of the packet's arrival broadcast on the Read More

1965
The Face of Fu Manchu

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, Howard Marion-Crawford, Tsai Chin

Synopsis: In this drama, the devilish Chinese villain has concocted a deadly gas. He tries it out in a small English town and is delighted to discover that it is terribly effective. He then travels to the Thames with his daughter. There he has an explosive encounter with the hero who stops the evil plot. Read More

1965
Code 7, Victim 5

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lex Barker, Ronald Fraser, Ann Smyrner, Veronique Vendell, Walter Rilia

Synopsis: In this action film, an American detective is hired by an aging millionaire to investigate the murder of his valet. The detective journeys to South Africa and discovers that the murder is linked to Nazi POWs who never went back to Germany. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1964
Sanders

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Todd

Synopsis: Death Drums Along the River was the come-on American title for this 1963 remake of 1935's Sanders of the River. Both films were loosely based on a very popular Edgar Wallace novel. Richard Todd assumes the leading role of Harry Sanders (originally R. G. Sanders), a British police investigator Read More

1963
Invitation to Murder

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this British crime drama, a dying millionaire recluse wills his estate to the beneficiary who survives. A series of murders occurs and a detective is assigned to investigate. He discovers that the murderer is working for one of the recluse's granddaughters. After the guilty one is arrested, the Read More

1962
The Anatomist

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this darkly comic chiller, a surgeon suggest that his students steal corpses to use in their experiments. Unfortunately, they aren't very good at purloining the dead and resort to murder instead. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1961
Quay South

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Miriam Karlin, Richard Pearson, Allan Cuthbertson, Frederick Piper

Synopsis: This hour-long episode of the ITV network's anthology series Television Playhouse (which ran from 1955 through 1964 in the UK) originally aired December 10, 1955. It constitutes an adaptation of Howard Clewes's play Quay South, about a seafarer, Captain Daniel Thwaite (here played by Roger Read More

1955
Family Flaw

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: A straight-laced father and his not-so-straight brother come together under strange circumstances in this comedy from Italy. Only a few days before his daughter Chiara (Elena D'Urso) is to be married, Nicolo Gammarota (Lino Banfi) gets the sad news that his mother has passed on. Now Nicolo must Read More

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