Biography: Howard W. Koch |
An assistant director and second-unit director by the early '50s, Howard Koch helmed his first film in 1954, the bad-cop drama Shield for Murder, co-directed by its star Edmond O'Brien. A series of genre films followed, most notably the campy... more
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Cast: Robert Duvall
Tags: Thriller Police Detective Film
Length: 116min
Robert Duvall is cast as a suspended New York cop who sets out on a one-man crusade to avenge his cop-partner's murder. ~ All Movie Guide
Cast: Mamie van Doren Arthur Hunnicutt
Tags: Drama Musical Sports Drama Modern Western
Length: 79min
This rodeo songfest finds Jackie (Mamie Van Doren) in love with Kelly (Jeff Richards) as they perform on the traveling rodeo circuit. Cool Man (Arthur Hunnicutt) is the likeable rodeo veteran. Jackie carries the torch for Kelly, who plays hard to get....
Tags: Prison Film Drama
Length: 81min
A late '50s upgrade of the 1931 film by the same title, this version of trouble on death row by Howard Koch is more violent than its predecessor -- a hint of the trend toward shock for its own sake that would one day dominate action films and...
Cast: Mickey Rooney
Tags: Comedy
Length: 80min
With Andy Hardy Comes Home, Mickey Rooney hoped to revive the character -- and the movie series -- that had brought him fame and fortune back in the 1930s and 1940s. Returning to his home town of Carvel after several years absence, lawyer Andy Hardy...
Cast: Boris Karloff Don "Red" Barry
Tags: Creature Film Science Fiction Horror Sci-Fi Horror
Length: 83min
This is one of the more off-beat entries into the Frankenstein sub-genre, in that it features the original Creature, Boris Karloff (who really hams it up) playing the disfigured grandson of the famed mad baron in a style that combines gothic horror...
Cast: Ben Johnson
Length: 80min
There's a measure of sympathy for the Apaches at the beginning of Fort Bowie. Under the tyrannical rule of ambitious Major Wharton (P. Ian Douglas), a cavalry detachment slaughters a band of Apache who've arrived with the intention of surrendering. A...
Cast: Brian Keith Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama
Length: 86min
In this drama, six daring truckers must transport unstable, highly explosive rocket fuel through a dangerously bumpy, rugged country. The film centers on their individual reasons for making the trip. These are presented via flashback. Though most of...
Cast: Lucien Littlefield George O'Hanlon
Tags: Showbiz Comedy Musical Comedy Musical Comedy
Length: 80min
Also known as Bop Girl, this diverting musical time capsule features several of the best Calypso performers of the late 1950s. Real-life jazz musician Bobby Troup stars as a college music student, writing a graduate thesis on rock 'n' roll. For...
The Girl in Black Stockings (1957)
Cast: Anne Bancroft Marie Windsor Lex Barker
Length: 75min
Anne Bancroft was several years away from her 1962 Oscar win when she starred in the compact murder mystery The Girl in Black Stockings. The scene is a posh Utah resort hotel, where several beautiful women are mysteriously killed. Suspects include...
Cast: Howard W. Koch
Tags: Adventure Action Spy Film
Length: 75min
Jungle Heat is set in pre-WWII Hawaii. A group of pro-Japanese fifth columnists infiltrate the islands, intended to demoralize the populace long before the Pearl Harbor attacks. Specializing in sabotage, the spies target the pineapple and sugar...
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