Biography: Ernest B. Schoedsack |
Six-foot-six Iowa-native Ernest B. Schoedsack was fascinated with the mechanics of film photography long before taking his first movie job with the Keystone Studios in 1914. During World War I, he worked as a Signal Corps cameraman, and after the... more
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Cast: Frank McHugh Ray Harryhausen John Ford
Tags: Animal Picture Fantasy
Length: 94min
Hoping to make the magic of King Kong happen again, the production team of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack came up with the 1949 special-effects smorgasbord Mighty Joe Young. Robert Armstrong reprises his Kong portrayal of Carl Denham as...
Cast: Jack Holt
Length: 61min
Jack Holt is so tight-jawed in Outlaws in the Orient that one wonders how his bridgework will hold up. Holt plays Chet Eaton, a troubleshooting mail-plane pilot dispatched to the oil fields of the Gobi desert. Here he runs afoul of local bandit...
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
Tags: Historical Film Epic
Length: 96min
RKO Radio's spectacular production The Last Days of Pompeii utilizes the title but precious little else of the famous Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton historical novel (at least the film admits as much in the opening credits). Preston S. Foster stars as...
Tags: Science Fiction Horror Sci-Fi Horror
Length: 76min
The first Technicolor horror film since Mystery of the Wax Museum, Dr. Cyclops was directed by Ernest Schoedsack, of King Kong fame. Albert Dekker chews the scenery as mad scientist Dr. Thorkel, who has developed a process that will shrink human...
Cast: Mae Clarke
Length: 62min
In this adventure set in Cairo, two foreign correspondents are assigned to investigate a ring of arms smugglers. One of them gets involved with a gangster who mistakes him for another crook and ends up joining the Foreign Legion. As he tries to...
Cast: David O. Selznick Bruce Cabot Fay Wray
Tags: Creature Film Adventure
Length: 105min
"How would you like to star opposite the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood?" Enticed by these words, brunette leading lady Fay Wray dyed her hair blonde and accepted the role of Ann Darrow in King Kong -- and stayed with the project even after...
Cast: John Barrymore
Tags: Drama
Length: 63min
John Barrymore is the Long Lost Father in this lightweight seriocomedy. Barrymore is felicitously cast as Carl Bellairs, who is unexpectedly reunited with Lindsay Lane (Helen Chandler), the daughter he deserted years earlier. Not surprisingly, Lindsay...
Tags: Comedy Creature Film Prehistoric Fantasy
Length: 70min
Hoping to immediately cash in on its blockbuster hit King Kong (1933). RKO Radio commissioned producers Willis O'Brien and Ernest B. Schoedsack to hastily slap together a sequel. Son of Kong begins where King Kong left off, with foolhardy entrepreneur...
Cast: Ernest B. Schoedsack Ralph Bellamy
Length: 65min
After saving RKO Radio from receivership with King Kong, producer-director Ernest B.. Schoedsack relaxed a bit with the comparatively sedate crime caper Blind Adventure. King Kong co-star Robert Armstrong plays Richard Bruce, an American in London who...
Cast: C. Aubrey Smith
Tags: Horror
Length: 58min
An old man learns the sad truth of the old saw about being careful what you wish for in this horror outing that is based on the enduring cautionary tale. It all begins with an army sergeant who is given a magical monkey's paw while fighting in India....
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