Biography: Hubert Cornfield |
Hubert Cornfield was born in Istanbul while his father, a movie-studio sales executive, was in Turkey on business. Attracted to the creative end of the film industry, Cornfield was given his first directorial opportunity with the 1955 second feature
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Tags: Farce Black Comedy Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 84min
The sweet elderly aunt and her two nieces survive the vendetta killing of their whole family because they are out picking flowers at the time. Undaunted, the aunt, a tough old Corsican, tracks down and kills all but one of the men who wiped out her...
The Night of the Following Day (1969)
Cast: Marlon Brando Richard Boone Rita Moreno
Length: 93min
A pair of desperate men plan to kidnap a wealthy heiress upon her arrival in France. Bud (Marlon Brando) and Leer (Richard Boone) grab the gorgeous girl (Pamela Franklin) at the airport in Paris. The limousine is driven down a deserted country road...
Cast: Sidney Poitier Peter Falk Stanley Kramer Ernest Haller Bobby Darin
Tags: Drama Melodrama Psychological Drama
Length: 87min
Unable to get through to a particularly hostile patient, psychiatrist Peter Falk goes to gray-haired senior shrink Sidney Poitier for advice. This prompts Poitier to recall his experiences during World War II. While working on behalf of the...
Cast: Burt Reynolds Joan Blondell Henry Jones
Length: 97min
Based on Jenny Angel, a novel by Elise Oaks Barber, Angel Baby is a gloves-off study of the faith-healing racket. The title character, played by Salome Jens, is a mute whose speech is ostensibly restored by Bible-thumper George Hamilton. Angel Baby is...
Cast: Julie London Laraine Day Edmond O'Brien
Tags: Thriller Crime Drama Crime Thriller
Length: 79min
Hubert Cornfield wrote, directed, and co-produced this standard suspense story about two people who commit both murder and fraud -- out of revenge on the one hand and materialistic gain on the other. Marian Forbes (Laraine Day) has been having an...
Cast: Hubert Cornfield
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime
Length: 76min
Not to be confused with the film noir classic Thunder Road, Plunder Road is nonetheless a fine little thriller on its own. Gene Raymond stars as the head of a robbery gang, whose latest caper involves the heist of a gold shipment from a US Mint train....
Cast: Marshall Thompson
Length: 74min
Based on a novel by Gil Brewer, Lure of the Swamp top-bills Marshall Thompson as a Florida swamp guide. Thompson is hired by mysterious stranger Willard Parker, who intends to a hide a large sum of money somewhere in the deepest recesses of the swamp....
Tags: Crime Mystery Drama Detective Film Melodrama
Length: 85min
Having forsaken westerns for detective melodramas in Dial Red O, William "Wild Bill" Ellliot continues in this vein in Sudden Danger. Elliot is cast as detective lieutenant Doyle, who at present is investigating the alleged suicide of a clothing...
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