Paul Sawtell Filmography

The Christine Jorgensen Story

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Hansen, Joan Tompkins, Quinn K. Redeker, John Himes, Ellen Clark

Synopsis: Taken from the autobiography of the world's first transsexual, George Jorgensen (John Hansen) is a woman trapped in a man's body who opts for surgery and hormone treatments to make him a woman. Events of his childhood are covered, showing young George preferring dolls over contact sports. Inducted Read More

Emiliano Zapata

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

The Bubble

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael Cole, Deborah Walley, Johnny Desmond, Barbara Eiler

Synopsis: This sci-fi outing was originally released in 3-Dimensional "Spacevision" and tells the tale of a young couple who go for a fun day of flying and end up forced into a gigantic plastic bubble during a sudden violent storm. Inside the inverted bowl is an apparently empty ghost town, that on further Read More

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams, Sue Bernard, Stuart Lancaster

Synopsis: Exploitation maven Russ Meyer created a cult classic with this turbo-charged action film. Three curvaceous go-go dancers in a cool sports car go on a desert crime spree, led by Varla (the amazing Tura Satana), a busty, nasty woman dressed entirely in black. Varla's lesbian moll, Rosie (Haji) Read More

The Last Man on Earth

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vincent Price, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Tony Cerevi, Franca Bettoja, Emma Danieli, Umberto Rau, Antonio Corevi, Ettore Ribotta

Synopsis: In a post-epidemic nightmare world, scientist Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is the only man immune to the plague which has transformed the entire population of the Earth into vampire-like creatures. He becomes the monster slayer that vampire-society fears. Curing one of them, Ruth (Franca Read More

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Season 01

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Robert Dowdell, Del Monroe, Paul Trinka

Synopsis: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, created and produced by Irwin Allen and based on his 1961 movie of the same title, told of the adventures of the Seaview, an advanced nuclear-powered research submarine, designed and built by retired admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart), the founder Read More

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Celia Kaye, Larry Domasin, Ann Daniel, George Kennedy, Carlos Romero

Synopsis: Based on the popular children's story by Scott O'Dell, this family movie tells of the true adventures of a young Native American girl. After her father is killed by a malevolent white trapper, Karana (Celia Kaye) joins her community as they leave their island home in the Pacific to live on the Read More

Thunder Island

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gene Nelson, Fay Spain, Brian Kelly, Miriam Colon, Art Bedard

Synopsis: In this drama, a hit man is hired by a group of South American nationalists to kill their exiled ruler in his new Caribbean home. To get there, he hijacks a boat and its two frightened occupants. He keeps the boat-owner's wife as his hostage. When he gets to the island, the assassin misses his Read More

Harbor Lights

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this mystery a Yankee gambler travels to Puerto Rico to see his brother. He soon discovers that his brother has been murdered for his involvement with a stolen diamond. The surviving brother begins to investigate the death, but is hindered by police detectives. The hero eventually finds the Read More

Cattle King

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: William Windom, Larry Gates, Robert Taylor, Joan Caulfield, Robert Loggia, Robert Middleton, Virginia Christine

Synopsis: Robert Taylor closed out his MGM contract with the 1963 western Cattle King. Taylor plays a Wyoming rancher at odds with cattle baron Robert Middleton, who is dead set against barbed wire being erected on "his" land. Just so we know the film isn't kidding around, leading lady Joan Caulfield is Read More

Young Guns of Texas

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Mitchum, Alana Ladd, Jody McCrea, Gary Conway

Synopsis: In this western, a young cadet is expelled from West Point and goes looking for the brother who was accused of stealing from the Union Army. En route, he befriends a young man and then meets a young woman at a church dance. During the festivities, a fight erupts and the three new friends end up Read More

Wild Harvest

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This grim drama is set in the Mesa Vineyards of California and chronicles the horrible conditions suffered by migrant workers who are treated as slaves by a cruel vineyard supervisor. He is particularly brutal with the females whom he repeatedly rapes and batters. The foreman goes over the edge Read More

Five Weeks in a Balloon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Herbert Marshall

Synopsis: With Five Weeks in a Balloon, 20th Century-Fox hoped to cash on the success of the studio's earlier Jules Verne adaptation Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959). The plot is set in motion when 19th-century explorer Fergusson (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) volunteers to head a balloon expedition to Read More

Jack the Giant Killer

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Judi Meredith, Torin Thatcher

Synopsis: Nathan Juran, director of The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, tries to make the magic happen again on a much more attenuated budget in Jack the Giant Killer. Torin Thatcher, another Sinbad alumnus, plays a wicked wizard who kidnaps toothsome-princess Judi Meredith. Kerwin Mathews, still another Read More

Gun Fight

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this western, a discharged cavalry soldier rides a stage to his brother's cattle ranch. En route he meets a dance hall girl. Later he saves her from an outlaw's unsavory advances during a heist. When he gets to his brother's ranch he soon learns that his brother makes his real living by Read More

Misty

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David Ladd, Arthur O'Connell, Pam Smith, Anne Seymour, Duke Farley

Synopsis: Marguerite Henry's beloved novel Misty of Chincoteague is given a charmingly old fashioned cinemadaptation in this 1961 second feature. David Ladd (son of Alan) plays a pre-teen boy who with his sister Pam Smith live with their grandparents on a Virginia coastal island. Each year, the local Read More

The Big Show

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Esther Williams, Cliff Robertson, Nehemiah Persoff, Robert Vaughn, Margia Dean

Synopsis: Greedy family members engage in bitter infighting over the ownership of a circus. It all begins as a ruthless, corrupt father gets in trouble with the law leaving all but his youngest sons to begin a vicious battle over the business. This is the third variation of Jerome Weidman' novel I'll Never Read More

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre, Robert Sterling, Michael Ansara

Synopsis: Walter Pidgeon is the nominal star of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, portraying Admiral Harriman Nelson, the designer of the submarine Seaview, a glass-nosed research submarine. The sub embarks on her shakedown cruise under the polar ice cap as the movie begins. Upon surfacing, however, the crew Read More

Five Guns to Tombstone

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Brown, John Wilder, Walter Coy, Robert Karnes, Joe Haworth

Synopsis: One more stock western in a long line stretching back to the turn of the 20th century, this oater by peripatetic director Edward L. Cahn has nothing particularly distinctive in its story about a group of outlaws. Billy Wade (played by the athletic James Brown) is an ex-gunslinger who is approached Read More

Frontier Uprising

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Davis, Nancy Hadley, Ken Mayer, Nestor Paiva, Don O'Kelly

Synopsis: Jim Stockton (James Davis) leads a group of pioneers into California and trouble in this routine western by director Edward L. Cahn. Stockton gets caught up in the battles and grievances between the Mexicans, white Californians, and Native Americans that rage during the 1840s -- the Read More

Tess of the Storm Country

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Diane Baker, Jack Ging, Lee Philips, Archie Duncan, Nancy Valentine

Synopsis: In this modernized version of Grace Miller White's popular novel, the feisty Tess moves to the Pennsylvania Dutch country and finds herself unwelcome by her Mennonite neighbors until she begins fighting along with a group of farmers who sold land to a chemical company and are now unhappy because Read More

Pirates of Tortuga

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ken Scott, Leticia Roman, Dave King, John Richardson, Rafer Johnson

Synopsis: In this high-seas adventure set in the 1600s, a British sea captain must go undercover, join a pirate band, and capture the notorious Captain Henry Morgan. But Morgan is on to the ruse and is well prepared when the sea captain makes his move. As the two engage in mortal combat, they are knocked Read More

The Long Rope

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Hugh Marlowe, Alan Hale, Jr., Robert J. Wilke, Chris Robinson

Synopsis: Talented action film director William Witney shows the depth of his skills in turning this one-week-in-production wonder into a passable, entertaining, one-hour western. The focus of attention is a trial in a town with no respect for the law, where the federal judge (Hugh Marlowe) valiantly tries Read More

Three Came to Kill

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Cameron Mitchell, John Lupton, Steve Brodie, Lyn Thomas, Paul Langton

Synopsis: A routine story about an attempted assassination of a foreign head of state, Three Came to Kill is one of many action dramas directed by the indefatigable Edward L. Cahn in 1960 and '61. In this instance, the setting is Los Angeles and a gang of hoodlums, for their own reasons, are intent on Read More

Cage of Evil

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ron Foster, Patricia Blair, John Maxwell, Preston Hanson

Synopsis: Scott Harper (Ron Foster) is frustrated and angry as a police detective because he keeps getting passed over for a promotion to lieutenant. Meanwhile, he is assigned to gain the confidence of Holly Taylor (Patricia Blair), the girlfriend of a suspect in a robbery/homicide. Predictably, the two Read More

The Lost World

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Claude Rains, Fernando Lamas

Synopsis: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story of an expedition to a remote plateau rumored to be the home of prehistoric beasts, already the basis of a 1925 sci-fi classic, is again brought to the screen in Irwin Allen's lesser version. Claude Rains stars as Professor Challenger, who leads a team of fellow Read More

The Music Box Kid

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ron Foster, Luana Patten, Grant Richards, Johnny Seven, Carl Milletaire

Synopsis: The "music box" of the title of this low-budget, routine gangster film is a submachine gun, and its owner Larry Shaw (Ronald Foster) is the focus of attention. Larry has as little concern for morality or human life as an exterminator does for cockroaches, and so he is able to climb up the ladder Read More

A Dog's Best Friend

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bill Williams, Marcia Henderson, Roger Mobley, Charles Cooper

Synopsis: In this children's drama, an angry little boy is adopted by a ranching couple. The mean little tyke takes an immediate dislike to his new parents, but his life changes for the better when he finds a wounded German Shepherd that was especially trained by the Marines. The troubled youth begins Read More

The Return of the Fly

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton, David Frankham, Dan Seymour

Synopsis: This sequel to Kurt Neumann's The Fly (1958) is peculiar, to say the least. Producer/director Neumann had passed away during the summer of 1958, and the studio needed a sequel. The resulting film, Return of the Fly, was directed by Edward L. Bernds, a filmmaker (and former sound man at Columbia Read More

Vice Raid

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mamie van Doren, Richard Coogan, Brad Dexter, Frank Gerstle, Barry Atwater

Synopsis: A low-budget, tawdry police yarn with the world of prostitution and gangsters thrown in, Vice Raid features Mamie Van Doren as Carol Hudson, a Motor City hooker. The bosses of the prostitution racket have Hudson go to New York City to entrap a police officer and get him thrown off the force. She Read More

The Sad Horse

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David Ladd, Chill Wills, Patrice Wymore, Rex Reason, Gregg Palmer

Synopsis: A depressed race horse and a lonely boy come together in this touching drama. The horse gets the blues when it loses the dog that was his constant companion. The boy is lonely after his father remarries and sends him to live on his grandfather's ranch. While wandering around one day, the boy and Read More

The Big Circus

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Victor Mature, Red Buttons, Rhonda Fleming, Kathryn Grant, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre

Synopsis: Victor Mature, in one of his last leading man performances, plays Hank Whirling, the owner of a financially shaky circus who is trying to get back on his feet, despite cutthroat competition from a rival organization. He also has a younger sister (Kathryn Grant) to watch out for. After arranging Read More

The Miracle of the Hills

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rex Reason, Theona Bryant, Jay North, Gilbert Smith, Tracy Stratford

Synopsis: Miracle of the Hills is a melodramatic, standard western with two ostensible "enemies" that fuel the plot: a decent town preacher, Scott Macauley (Rex Reason) and an "indecent" former prostitute, Kate Peacock (Betty Lou Gerson). The preacher is on his way to cleaning up his parish and the town but Read More

The Cosmic Man

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bruce Bennett, John Carradine, Angela Greene, Paul Langton, Scotty Morrow

Synopsis: The Cosmic Man is a moralistic sci-fi tale that does not quite live up to the pretensions of its title. Everything starts when a strange sphere settles down in a California canyon, causing both the scientific and military communities to gather around in an instant. The object appears to have one Read More

A Dog of Flanders

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David Ladd, Donald Crisp, Theodore Bikel, Max Croiset, Monique Ahrens

Synopsis: Based on a novel written in 1872, this charming tale of a young boy and his dog is leisurely and heart-warming. Nello (David Ladd) and his grandfather Daas (Donald Crisp) manage to make ends meet by delivering milk from the nearby farms to the city of Antwerp. Nello's most deeply felt ambition is Read More

Villa!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Brian Keith, Cesar Romero, Margia Dean, Rodolfo Hoyos, Rosenda Monteros

Synopsis: This historical adventure recounts the many exploits of the notorious Mexican bandit Pancho Villa as he evolves from a womanizing thief to a passionate leader of the Mexican revolution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hong Kong Confidential

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gene Barry, Beverly Tyler, Allison Hayes, Noel Drayton

Synopsis: Director Edward L. Cahn always knew how to make lemonade from a lemon; his B pictures of the late 1950s displayed a raw energy that many of his higher-budgeted films of the 1930s lacked. Hong Kong Confidential is a backlot cheapie starring Gene Barry and second-feature stalwarts Beverly Tyler and Allison Hayes Read More

Machete

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mari Blanchard, Albert Dekker, Juano Hernandez, Carlos Rivas, Lee Van Cleef

Synopsis: Filmed in 1958 and released by United Artists in 1959, Machete is set on vast Puerto Rican plantation. Juano Hernandez plays a modern-day Iago who plants seeds of jealousy in the mind of plantation owner Albert Dekker. Hernandez insists that Dekker's curvaceous new wife is making time with foreman Read More

The Fly

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vincent Price, Patricia Owens, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman

Synopsis: Wealthy Helene Delambre (Patricia Owens) is discovered late at night in the factory owned by her husband Andre (David Hedison). Helene stands beside a huge metal press, which has crushed the head and arm of her husband. Held for murder, the near-catatonic Helene refuses to tell anyone--not even Read More

The Hunters

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Richard Egan, May Britt, Lee Philips

Synopsis: Directed with crisp efficiency by Dick Powell, The Hunters is a romantic melodrama with an aviation angle. Robert Mitchum plays veteran Air Force pilot Maj. Cleve Saville, in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea. Among the men under Saville's command are cocksure Lt. Ed Peil (Robert Read More

Sierra Baron

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Brian Keith, Rick Jason, Rita Gam, Mala Powers, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: In this western set in the California territory in the mid-19th century, a rancher tries to protect his Spanish land grant from greedy American landgrabbers. Unfortunately the eastern interlopers bring in a Texas gunfighter to frighten the man. The gunfighter ends up falling in love with the Read More

Cattle Empire

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Joel McCrea, Gloria Talbott, Don Haggerty, Phyllis Coates, Bing Russell

Synopsis: A brave cowboy/ex-con hits the dusty trail as the leader of a major cattle drive in this western. He is offered the job by the very townspeople his gang terrorized a few years before. They are also the same people who put him in the slammer, and even though he accepts the task, he secretly plots Read More

Ambush at Cimarron Pass

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Scott Brady, Margia Dean, Baynes Barron, William Vaughan, Ken Mayer, Clint Eastwood

Synopsis: Despite the glut of TV westerns in 1958, 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films subsidiary continued grinding out profitable sagebrushers. In Ambush at Cimarron Pass, cavalry sergeant Scott Brady is ordered to escort a prisoner through treacherous Indian territory. A diehard Union sympathizer, Brady is Read More

It! The Terror from Beyond Space

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Kim Spalding, Ann Doran, Dabbs Greer, Richard Benedict

Synopsis: One of the best of the medium-budgeted science fiction flicks of the 1950s, It! The Terror from Beyond Space is set in "the future" (1973, to be exact). An rescue ship travels out to Mars to retrieve the only survivor of a space probe that has experienced some sort of cataclysm. That survivor Read More

The Story of Mankind

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Peter Lorre, Dennis Hopper, Chico Marx

Synopsis: Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of Henrik Willem Van Loon's best- selling historical volume. A Celestial Tribunal has been convened to decide the fate of the Earth after the invention of nuclear weapons, with The Devil (Vincent Price Read More

Hell Ship Mutiny

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this South Seas adventure, a sea captain teams up with lovely island princess help her vanquish the brutal smugglers who are forcing her people to dive for pearls. There are French colonialists on the island and a judge is there to ensure justice. Unfortunately, he is crooked, and after the Read More

Five Steps to Danger

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer, Richard Gaines, Charles Davis

Synopsis: Five Steps to Danger was adapted from thenovel The Steel Mirror by Donald Hamilton. When her scientist brother is killed in East Berlin, Ruth Roman finds herself in possession of a secret code, engraved on the back of a mirror. To prevent Ruth from delivering the secret information to the Read More

The Deerslayer

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lex Barker, Rita Moreno, Forrest Tucker, Cathy O'Donnell, Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis: This drama is another adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's popular novel that follows the exploits of a white scout who was raised by the Mohicans. He comes to the aid of a settler's colony that is plagued by warring Indians. He becomes entangled with an old white trader and his two daughters Read More

Ghost Diver

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Craig, Audrey Totter, Nico Minardos, Lowell Brown

Synopsis: Roger Bristol (James Craig) is the star of a popular TV adventure series. To further boost his ratings, Bristol promises his viewers that he will locate a sunken treasure off the coasts of South America. True to his word, Bristol, his secretary Anne Stevens (Audrey Totter) and his skindiver son Read More

Monkey on My Back

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster, Paul Richards, Jack Albertson, Kathy Garver

Synopsis: The painfully true story of welterweight boxing champion Barney Ross is detailed in Monkey on My Back. Cameron Mitchell stars as Ross, whose meteoric ring career is interrupted when he joins the Marines at the outset of WWII. A highly decorated hero, Ross contracts malaria oversees and is given Read More

Last of the Badmen

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: George Montgomery, James Best, Douglas Kennedy, Keith Larsen, Robert Foulk

Synopsis: Last of the Badmen gets started in 1880 Chicago, as detective Dan Barton (George Montgomery) prepares to head westward. Barton intends to round up a gang of stagecoach bandits, whose modus operandi is to spring criminals from jail in return for their services. In order to infiltrate the Read More

Gun Duel in Durango

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: George Montgomery, Ann Robinson, Steve Brodie, Bobby Clark, Frank Ferguson

Synopsis: Originally released as Gun Duel in Durango, this solid little western stars George Montgomery as reformed outlaw Dan. He falls in love with ranch owner Judy (Ann Robinson), but she won't accept his proposal until she's certain that he's given up his criminal activities. This proves difficult when Read More

Pawnee

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: George Montgomery, Bill Williams, Lola Albright, Francis McDonald, Robert Griffin

Synopsis: George Montgomery stars in Pawnee as Paul, a white man raised by Indians. Upon attaining adulthood, Paul finds himself rejected by both the Pawnee tribe and the white community. He manages to attain a job as a wagon train scout, but even in this position of respect and authority he is treated with Read More

Stopover Tokyo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O'Brien, Ken Scott, Reiko Oyama

Synopsis: Novelist John P. Marquand's soft-spoken Japanese detective Mr. Moto was brought to the screen in an entertaining 1930s B-picture series by 20th Century-Fox. But when the same studio purchased Marquand's novel Stopover Tokyo in 1957, Mr. Moto was totally excised from the screenplay. The film's main Read More

She Devil

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Albert Dekker, Jack Kelly, Mari Blanchard, John Archer

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of his successful sci-fier Kronos, Kurt Neumann directed the lesser genre entry She Devil. Jack Kelly stars as a doctor who invents a miracle cure for several horrible diseases. Suffering from tuberculosis, Mari Blanchard agrees to test out Kelly's wonder serum. Almost instantly Read More

The Black Scorpion

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas, Mario Navarro, Carlos Muzquiz

Synopsis: Filmed in Mexico, The Black Scorpion was the last theatrical feature to bear the imprimatur of special-effects maven Willis O'Brien. Allegedly an outgrowth of a ten-minute "test" film, the story is set in motion by a volcanic eruption which releases dozens of giant scorpions from a cave. American Read More

Kronos

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jeff Morrow, Barbara Lawrence, John Emery, George O'Hanlon, Morris Ankrum

Synopsis: A alien satellite enters close orbit around the Earth and releases a projectile that takes over the body and mind of Dr. Hubbell Eliot (John Emery), the director of Lab Central, America's top astrophysics research facility. Even as Elliot is falling victim to the invaders, Lab Central scientist Read More