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Byron Haskin studied at the University of California-Berkeley before signing up with the navy as an aviation cadet. After wartime service, Haskin worked as a cartoonist and ad man, then entered the film industry as a newsreel cameraman. By 1922, he was a director of photography at Warner Bros., and within five years graduated to director of such diverse Warner programmers as Irish Hearts and Ginsburg the Great. With the coming of talkies, he returned to cinematography, spending his spare time developing more efficient means of adapting to the new technical challenges of sound. From 1929 to 1932, Haskin served as a production executive and technical advisor for the British movie industry. Upon his return to Hollywood, Haskin was signed by Warner Bros.' special effects department, which he headed from 1937 to 1945. During this phase of his career, Haskin and his staff earned several Oscar nominations for their technological advancements. When Warners executive producer Hal Wallis moved to Paramount in 1945, he took Haskin along. Here, Haskin resumed his directorial career with the Burt Lancaster-Kirk Douglas film noir I Walk Alone (1947). He made a second trip to England in 1949, where he helmed Disney's live-action adaptation of Treasure Island, starring Robert Newton (later in the 1950s, he directed Newton in the follow-up film Long John Silver, and also worked on the spin-off TV series of the same name). With his direction of 1953's The War of the Worlds, Haskin began a long and rewarding association with fantasy-film producer--and fellow special-effects specialist--George Pal. The director's subsequent science-fiction efforts (not all of them produced by Pal) included Conquest of Space (1955), From the Earth to the Moon (1958), Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) and The Power (1968). He also directed episodes of such memorable TV weeklies as "The Outer Limits." It might be true that, in the words of film historian Bill Warren, Byron Haskin was never really "a director of actors," but his handling of robots, extraterrestrials and mutated insects was second to none. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less

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Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
Cast: Adam West Wally Westmore
Tags: Space Adventure Science Fiction
Length: 109min
Spun from Daniel DeFoe's tale of the titular character, this sci-fi story involves a spaceship commander, Chris Draper (Paul Mantee) in a similar situation to the original Robinson Crusoe -- but rather than being stranded on an island, our hero is on...
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Captain Sindbad (1963)
Cast: Bernie Hamilton Pedro Armendáriz
Tags: Epic Fantasy Adventure Action Adventure Drama
Length: 85min
Captain Sindbad was based on an Arabian Nights story, was filmed in Germany, and starred an American leading man (Guy Williams), a German leading lady (Heidi Bruhl) and a Mexican villain (Pedro Armendariz). How's that for cultural diversity? Anyway,...
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The Power (1968)
Cast: George Hamilton Yvonne De Carlo George Pal Richard Carlson Suzanne Pleshette
Tags: Horror Crime Science Fiction Crime Thriller
Length: 109min
A team of research scientists believe they have discovered a superior intelligence. Jim Tanner (George Hamilton) and his pretty partner Margery Lansing (Susan Pleshette) have discovered the entity through their work on human endurance. The Power is...
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September Storm (1960)
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure
Length: 99min
In this standard adventure yarn shown in 3-D, four people on a "borrowed" boat -- three men and a woman -- take off looking for sunken gold worth millions. A young, handsome man (Asher Dann) works on the yacht of a Parisian tycoon who happens to be...
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Armored Command (1961)
Cast: Burt Reynolds
Tags: Spy Film Melodrama Action Drama Romance
Length: 105min
In December of 1944, while the Battle of the Bulge rages in the Ardennes, the American 7th Army settles in to what most of its officers and men figure to be a routine and peaceful occupation of the Vosges-Alsace area. The region is mountainous and...
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From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
Cast: George Sanders Joseph Cotten Byron Haskin Debra Paget
Tags: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Length: 100min
The resurgence of interest in Jules Verne following the release of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) led to a brief cycle of Verne-based films. Produced in Mexico by Benedict Bogeaus, From the Earth to the Moon stars Joseph Cotten as eccentric Civil...
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Jet over the Atlantic (1959)
Cast: George Raft Guy Madison
Tags: Disaster Film Action
Length: 92min
A onetime pilot, now a convicted killer in the custody of the FBI, is the only hope of an overseas flight carrying a bomb. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
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The Little Savage (1959)
Tags: Family Adventure Romantic Adventure
Length: 73min
A routine swashbuckler set during the 18th century when pirates still roamed the Spanish main, this adventure film stars popular Mexican idol Pedro Armendariz as the appropriately named Captain Tiburon (Capt. Shark). Tiburon and his first mate Taursus...
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The First Texan (1956)
Cast: Joel McCrea
Tags: Docudrama Biopic Action Western
Length: 85min
Cashing in on the popularity of TV's Davy Crockett and the jukebox favorite "Yellow Rose of Texas", Allied Artists came up with the CinemaScope biopic The First Texan. The title character is Sam Houston, played with rugged assuredness by Joel McCrea....
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The Boss (1956)
Tags: Drama Political Drama
Length: 89min
John Payne always felt that he delivered his best screen performance in The Boss. Set in the years following WW1, the story concerns a small-town veteran named Matt Brady (John Payne), whose brother, machine politician Tim Brady (Roy Roberts),...
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