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Harry Spalding
Harry Spalding (1913-2008) was an American writer best known for the films he wrote for Robert L. Lippert and director Maury Dexter. He later worked for the Walt Disney Company. He sometimes wrote under the name "Henry Cross". Select Credits * ''Country Music Holiday'' (1958) * '' Freckles'' (1960) * ''Teenage Millionaire'' (as H. B. Cross) (1961) * '' Air Patrol'' (original screenplay - as Henry Cross) (1962) * '' Hand of Death'' (uncredited) (1962) * ''The Day Mars Invaded Earth'' (writer) (1962) * '' The Firebrand'' (writer) (1962) * ''Womanhunt'' (story) (1962) * ''Young Guns of Texas'' (writer - as Henry Cross) (1962) * '' Harbor Lights'' (writer) (1963) * '' House of the Damned'' (writer) (1963) * ''Police Nurse'' (writer) (1963) * ''The Young Swingers'' (writer) (1963) *'' Surf Party'' (1964) * '' Night Train to Paris'' (as Henry Cross) (1964) * ''Raiders from Beneath the Sea'' (screenplay) (1964) *'' The Murder Game'' (1965) * ''The Earth Dies Screaming'' (as Henry Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert L
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raiders From Beneath The Sea
''Raiders from Beneath the Sea'' is a 1964 American adventure film directed by Maury Dexter and starring Ken Scott and Merry Anders. Plot A down-on-his-luck California apartment house manager hatches a plan to rob a Catalina Island bank—and escape with his accomplices using scuba gear. Cast * Ken Scott as Bill Harper * Merry Anders as Dottie Harper * Russ Bender as Tucker * Booth Colman as Purdy * Garth Benton as Buddy * Bruce Anson as Policeman #1 * Walter Maslow Walter Maslow (born January 16, 1928) is an American film, stage and television actor. Life and career Maslow was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 16, 1928. After high school, he served for two years in the United States Navy, performin ... as Policeman #2 * Stacey Winters as Bank Teller * Ray Dannis as Bowman * Larry Barton as Bank Manager * Roger Creed as Bank Guard References External links * * * * Review of filmat Cinema Sentries 1964 films American black-and-white films 1964 drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 Births
Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war. * January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland. * January 23 – 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Ismail Enver comes to power. * January – Stalin (whose first article using this name is published this month) travels to Vienna to carry out research. Until he leaves on February 16 the city is home simultaneously to him, Hitler, Trotsky and Tito alongside Berg, Freud and Jung and Ludwig and Paul Wittgenstein. February * February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest railroad station. * February 3 – The 16th Amendment to the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witchery (film)
''Witchery'' ( it, La Casa 4 - Witchcraft) is a 1988 Italian horror film directed by Fabrizio Laurenti and starring David Hasselhoff, Catherine Hickland, Hildegard Knef, Linda Blair, and Annie Ross. Plot Sexually repressed virgin student Leslie is visiting an island off the coast of Massachusetts along with her photographer boyfriend Gary. They're researching a derelict hotel the locals believe to be haunted by a witch. While Leslie and Gary work on their project, a family comes to the island to inspect the hotel: greedy matriarch Rose Brooks, her husband Freddie, young son Tommy, and pregnant stepdaughter Jane. They are visiting the place because Rose plans to buy the hotel and turn it into a private club. They're accompanied by the lustful Linda Sullivan, a young architect hired to provide an estimate for the renovations, and real estate agent Jerry Giordano. After a storm leaves the guests unable to leave the island, they are attacked and murdered one by one by the Lady in B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Watcher In The Woods (1980 Film)
''The Watcher in the Woods'' is a 1980 American supernatural horror film directed by John Hough and Vincent McEveety and starring Bette Davis, Carroll Baker, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, and David McCallum. Based on the 1976 novel by Florence Engel Randall, the film tells the story of a teenage girl and her little sister who become encompassed in a supernatural mystery regarding a missing girl in the woods surrounding their new home in the English countryside. Filmed at Pinewood Studios and the surrounding areas in Buckinghamshire, England, ''The Watcher in the Woods'' was one of several live-action films produced by Walt Disney Productions in the 1980s, when the studio was targeting young adult audiences. The film had its premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on April 17, 1980, but was pulled from release after ten days, and future screenings were canceled by the studio because of an overwhelming negative response from critics and audiences. Several change ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sky's The Limit (1975 Film)
''The Sky's the Limit'' is a 1975 American made-for-television adventure film directed by Tom Leetch, starring Pat O’Brien, Ike Eisenmann and Lloyd Nolan. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the story by Larry Lenville. The film was originally aired as a two-part episode on ''The Wonderful World of Disney'' on January 19 and 26, 1975 on NBC. Plot A boy known as Three (Ike Eisenmann), off from school for the summer, reluctantly goes to spend the time on his grandfather's farm. The rural life with his grandfather, Abner (Pat O'Brien) and his only farm hand Cornwall (Lloyd Nolan) is hard for Three to adjust to. This includes a goose that picks on him and an attempt to drive a tractor that goes wrong. However, things change when Three discovers a World War I biplane in the barn and that his grandfather was a flying ace during that war. Three convinces Abner to fix the plane and teach him how to fly. Cast * Pat O’Brien as Abner Therman *Ike Eisenmann as Thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chosen Survivors
''Chosen Survivors'' is a 1974 Mexican-American horror science fiction film directed by Sutton Roley and starring Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel, Bradford Dillman, Pedro Armendáriz Jr. and Diana Muldaur Plot After being selected at random by a computer to seek safety in an underground bomb shelter on the eve of a nuclear attack, a group of refugees makes a horrible realization: They are sharing the space with a colony of vampire bats. And since going back above ground is not an option, they are forced to stay and fight for their lives. Cast * Jackie Cooper as Raymond Couzins * Alex Cord as Steven Mayes * Richard Jaeckel as Major Gordon Ellis * Bradford Dillman as Peter Macomber * Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. as Luis Cabral (credited as Pedro Armendariz Jr.) * Diana Muldaur as Alana Fitzgerald * Lincoln Kilpatrick as Woody Russo * Gwenn Mitchell as Carrie Draper * Barbara Babcock as Dr. Lenore Chrisman * Cristina Moreno as Kristin Lerner (credited as Christina M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Little Indian (film)
''One Little Indian'' is a 1973 American Western comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions starring James Garner and Vera Miles. The supporting cast includes Pat Hingle, John Doucette, Morgan Woodward, Andrew Prine, as well as a 10-year-old Jodie Foster. The plotline involves a cavalry soldier's misadventures with a camel and a little boy. The film was written by Harry Spalding and directed by Bernard McEveety. Garner later wrote that "I've done some things I'm not proud of. This is one of them. The only bright spot was a ten year old Jodie Foster." Cast Production Parts of the film were shot in Kanab Canyon, the Gap, Kanab movie fort, and the Coral Pink Sand Dunes in Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it .... Reception The film earned an estimated $2 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Run Like A Thief
''Run Like a Thief'' (Spanish: ''Robo de diamantes'') is a 1967 American-Spanish comedy crime film directed by Bernard Glasser and starring Kieron Moore, Ina Balin and Keenan Wynn.Riambau & Torreiro p.362 A soldier of fortune makes off with a fortune in diamonds, but has to go to great lengths to evade his pursuers. The film's sets were designed by the art director Santiago Ontañón. Location shooting took place in Spain at Madrid and Guadalajara Plot Cast * Kieron Moore as Johnny Dent * Ina Balin as Mona Shannon * Keenan Wynn as Willy Gore * Fernando Rey as Col. Romero * Charles Regnier as Piet de Jonge * Victor Maddern as Abel Baker * Sancho Gracia as Wes * Bobby Hall as Whitey Keller * Mike Brendel as Turk * Luis Rivera as Young Lieutenant * Román Ariznavarreta as Ernie * Joe Zboran as Benny * Xan das Bolas as Gonzalez * Vicente Roca Vicente is an Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese name. Like its French variant, Vincent, it is derived from the Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild On The Beach
''Wild on the Beach'' is a 1965 beach party film directed by Maury Dexter and starring Frankie Randall, Sherry Jackson, Gayle Caldwell, and Jackie Miller. It is notable for the musical acts showcased onscreen, being the film debut of Sonny & Cher in particular. It is one of the few films in the genre to be filmed in black and white. Although some sources state that the film was also released under the title ''Beach House Party, '' to date no prints or posters have surfaced with such a title. Plot Co-ed Lee Sullivan ( Sherry Jackson), a student at an unnamed California college, inherits a house on the beach from her late uncle. She wants to use the building as a boarding house for girls, thus both alleviating the student housing shortage and financing her education. Meanwhile, Adam Miller (Frankie Randall) plans to turn the beach house into a boys' boardinghouse, claiming that he received permission to do so while Lee's uncle was still alive. Adam secretly files first for an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curse Of The Fly
''Curse of the Fly'' is a 1965 American horror science-fiction film and a sequel to ''Return of the Fly'' (1959), as the third installment in ''The Fly'' film series. It was released in 1965, and unlike the other films in the series was produced in the United Kingdom. The film was directed by Don Sharp and the screenplay was written by Harry Spalding. ''Curse of the Fly'' was rarely seen for many years, as it was the only entry in the ''Fly'' film trilogy that did not receive a videotape, laserdisc or online release. It did not receive its home video premiere until 2007, when it was released in a boxed set with the original series of films. Plot Martin Delambre is driving to Montreal one night when he sees a young girl by the name of Patricia Stanley running in her underwear. They fall in love and are soon married. However, they both hold secrets: she has recently escaped from a mental asylum; he and his father Henri are engaged in radical experiments in teleportation, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spaceflight IC-1
''Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space'' is a 1965 British science-fiction movie starring Bill Williams and Norma West. The civilized world is controlled by an all-powerful computerized government that is carefully choosing colonists for its newest space launch. The candidates are selected on the basis of their age, health and IQ. The director was Bernard Knowles and the writer was Harry Spalding working under the name "Henry Cross". Plot summary In the year 2015, spaceship IC-1 (Interstellar Colony #1) travels toward a planet similar to Earth to explore the possibility that the population problem on Earth can eventually be solved there. IC-1's crew consists of Capt. Mead Ralston ( Bill Williams), his wife Jan ( Norma West), Drs. Steven (John Cairney) and Helen Thomas (Linda Marlowe), two other married couples, and four people in suspended animation. One year into the voyage, Helen is found to have a fatal pancreatic infection that can only be cured if the ship returns to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
