Jonathan HazeFilmography

11th Victim

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Bess Armstrong

Synopsis: The 11th Victim was partially based on the activities of California's Hillside Strangler. Bess Armstrong stars as a Des Moines TV journalist whose younger sister, an aspiring actress, has entered a life of prostitution in Los Angeles. When the sister becomes the eleventh victim of a sex murderer Read More

Sammy Stops the World

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Sammy Davis, Jr., Dennis Daniels, Donna Lowe, Marian Mercer

Synopsis: Sammy Davis, Jr. basically plays tribute to himself in this version of Anthony Newly's Broadway/screen musical Stop the World--I Want to Get Off. As in that earlier show, this production started out as a stage show and as the tale progresses, the camera seldom moves. The story centers around a Read More

Confessions of Tom Harris

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Don Murray, Linda Evans, David Brian, Angelique Pettyjohn, Don Joslyn

Synopsis: Actor Don Murray wrote, produced, and starred in this drama about an alcoholic former serviceman who falls in with gangsters until he has a spiritual awakening and decides to devote his life to helping others. The supporting cast includes Linda Evans, Logan Ramsey, and Angelique Pettyjohn. Also Read More

Track of the Vampire

Synopsis: This low-budget vampire quickie is distinguished mainly by the presence of director Stephanie Rothman, who emerged from Roger Corman's New World Pictures (for whom she directed the exploitation classic The Student Nurses) to become an acclaimed feminist filmmaker. The piecework story incorporates Read More

The Terror

Actors: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller, Dorothy Neumann

Synopsis: In this horror chiller, an intriguing, beautiful woman (Sandra Knight) keeps re-appearing to early 19th-century Lt. Duvalier (Jack Nicholson), and he is led to a castle where he finds an imposter of Baron Von Leppe (Boris Karloff). He becomes trapped in the ancient castle and tries to make sense Read More

X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes

Actors: Ray Milland, Diana Van Der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, Don Rickles, John Hoyt

Synopsis: Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) is a brilliant but unorthodox researcher whose work with human sight has yielded an experimental chemical that may vastly increase the range of what we can see. Despite the misgivings and warnings of the two people closest to him, Dr. Diane Fairfax (Diana Van Der Vlis Read More

Invasion of the Star Creatures

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This slapstick, silly sci-fi feature centers on two bumbling soldiers who get separated from their group and end up encountering terrifying leotard-clad, vegetable-headed space creatures. Curious, the dim-bulbed duo follow the aliens into a cave and find out that they are controlled by beautiful Read More

Little Shop of Horrors

Actors: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Myrtle Vail, Laiola Wendorff

Synopsis: Perhaps the greatest movie ever shot in two days, Little Shop of Horrors was originally conceived as a followup to Roger Corman's black comedy A Bucket of Blood (1959). Jonathan Haze plays Seymour Krelboin, a schlemiel's schlemiel who works at the Skid Row flower shop of Mr. Mushnick (Mel Welles). Read More

Forbidden Island

Actors: Jon Hall, Nan Adams, John Farrow, Jonathan Haze, Greigh Phillips

Synopsis: More noted in its day for its underwater photography than for any distinction in its script or characters, this simple crime drama evolves around the retrieval of a priceless emerald from a sunken ship. Stuart Godfrey (John Farrow) is the black-hearted leader of a diving expedition to get the gem. Read More

Stakeout on Dope Street

Synopsis: In this crime drama, three teens are sorely tempted when they stumble across two pounds of pure heroine. They think about the consequences of selling the dope and then try doing it anyway in the hope that they will become wealthy. Unfortunately, none of them are experienced in the dangers of drug Read More

Ghost of the China Sea

Actors: David Brian, Lynn Bernay, Jonathan Haze, Norman Wright, Harry Chang

Synopsis: In this actioner, set during WW II, the hard-bitten, cynical captain of the USS "Frankenstein" must escape a Japanese invasion. Unfortunately, the ill-fated cruiser is low on food, water, and fuel. When the foundering crew spies a ship (which they believe to be a Dutch cruiser) upon the horizon Read More

Teenage Caveman

Actors: Robert Vaughn, Leslie E. Bradley, Frank de Kova

Synopsis: Filmed under the title Prehistoric World, Teenage Caveman stars future Man From UNCLE Robert Vaughn as the eponymous hero, known only as The Boy. A member of a primitive tribe living in a desolate valley, The Boy has been warned never to journey into the Forbidden Area, lest disaster or death Read More

Not of This Earth

Actors: Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones, William Roerick, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: One of Roger Corman's finest science-fiction endeavors of the 1950s, Not of This Earth is an excellent film by any standards. Paul Birch stars as Johnson, a taciturn gentleman in a dark business suit who hires nurse Nadine (Beverly Garland) to care for him. Curious that Johnson needs constant Read More

Naked Paradise

Actors: Richard Denning, Beverly Garland, Lisa Montell, Leslie E. Bradley, Dick Miller

Synopsis: The lurid title of this Roger Corman production refers to the Hawaiian Islands, where the film was shot in its entirety. Richard Denning stars as Duke, skipper of a Hawaii-based schooner. Duke's vessel is chartered by Zac (Leslie Bradley), who claims to be a toy manufacturer. In truth, Zac is the Read More

Poor White Trash

Actors: Peter Graves, Lita Milan, Douglas Fowley, Timothy Carey, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: The calculatedly sleazy Bayou stars Lita Milan as Marie, the daughter of slovenly Cajun fisherman Herbert (Douglas Fowley). Marie falls in love with Northern architect Martin (Peter Graves), which rests not at all well with her ardent--and psychotic--local suitor Ulysses (Tim Carey at his most Read More

Carnival Rock

Actors: Susan Cabot, Brian G. Hutton, David J. Stewart, Iris Adrian

Synopsis: Producer-director Roger Corman serves up another thinly plotted musicfest in Carnival Rock. Corman regular Susan Cabot stars as Natalie, a singer for an oceanside carnival. Smitten by Natalie, high-stakes gambler Stanley (Brian Hutton) wins the carnival in a poker game so that he can be near the Read More

The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent

Synopsis: By the time you've read the title, the film is half over. Anyway, the story concerns a group of proud female Nordic warriors (who look more like UCLA cheerleaders), who set out on a perilous sea journey, the better to locate their long-missing men. Halfway across the ocean, their vessel is Read More

Rock All Night

Actors: Abby Dalton, Robin Morse

Synopsis: Its title notwithstanding, Roger Corman's Rock All Night is a tense little hostage melodrama. Corman regular Dick Miller stars as Shorty, a much-maligned hanger-on at the Cloud Nine tavern. Shorty's hotheaded pugnaciousness comes in handy when a pair of gunmen (played by Russell Johnson--yes, "The Read More

Dragnet: The Big Wish

Synopsis: Kip King, a future member of the Groundlings comedy troupe (and the father of comedian Chris Kattan), here essays a serious role as 17-year-old drug addict John Colter. Though he is willing to turn himself in and go "cold turkey", John refuses to rat on his supplier. While trying to get the boy to Read More

The Oklahoma Woman

Actors: Richard Denning, Peggie Castle, Tudor Owen, Martin Kingsley, Cathy Downs

Synopsis: In this western, a gunfighter is finally released from prison and returns to his hometown only to discover that it is being torn apart by conflicting forces. He is even more upset to discover that his girl has become the leader of the "evil" side of town and is completely committed to achieving a Read More

It Conquered the World

Actors: Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef, Sally Fraser, Charles B. Griffith, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: Though Roger Corman was still new to sci-fi in 1956, he made up for lost time with the above-average quickie It Conquered the World. Peter Graves heads the cast as Paul Nelson, who suspects that his best friend, eccentric genius Tom Anderson (Lee Van Cleef), is up to no good. Sure enough, Tom has Read More

The Gunslinger

Actors: John Ireland, Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes, Martin Kingsley, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: Produced by Roger Corman, Gunslinger stars Corman's then-sweetheart Beverly Garland as tough lady-marshal Rose Hood. Dance-hall girl Erica Page (Allison Hayes), Rose's bitterest enemy, hires gunslinger Cane Miro (John Ireland) to bump off the marshal. When he falls in love with Rose, Cane is faced Read More

The Day the World Ended

Actors: Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, Paul Birch, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: The Day the World Ended was filmmaker Roger Corman's modest entree into the realm of science fiction. The film begins at "The End"--or rather, the years following an all-out atomic war. A group of survivors find refuge in a well-protected valley owned by Maddison (Paul Birch) and his daughter Read More

East of Eden

Actors: Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives, Dick Davalos, Jo Van Fleet

Synopsis: This truncated screen version of John Steinbeck's best-seller was the first starring vehicle for explosive 1950s screen personality James Dean, who plays Cal Trask, the "bad" son of taciturn Salinas valley lettuce farmer Adam Trask (Raymond Massey). Although he means well, Cal can't stay out of Read More

Apache Woman

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Joan Taylor, Lance Fuller, Morgan Jones, Paul Birch

Synopsis: In 1870s Arizona, Anne LeBeau (Joan Taylor) is caught between two cultures in a conflict that may kill her and her brother Armand (Lance Fuller). They're the children of a white French father and an Apache mother (the daughter of a chief, no less), and they find that they're equally despised by Read More

Five Guns West

Actors: John Lund, Dorothy Malone, Bob Campbell, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: Five convicted outlaws, sentenced to hang, are recruited by a Confederate Army officer on what could easily be a suicide mission -- they're each given a full pardon in exchange for a quick ride through hostile Indian territory to Dawn Springs, Kansas, where their job is to stop a stagecoach coming Read More

Swamp Women

Actors: Marie Windsor, Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland, Jill Jarmyn, Susan Cummings

Synopsis: Swamp Diamonds is the family-trade title for the sweaty Roger Corman crime melodrama Swamp Women. Policewoman Carole Mathews dons her torpedo bra and tight jeans to infiltrate a dangerous all-female criminal gang, currently serving time in a Louisiana Prison. The ladies escape and head to the Read More