Biography: William A. Berke |
A graduate of Los Angeles Polytechnic High School, William A. Berke entered the burgeoning film industry as an office boy for L-KO comedies and later functioned as assistant to the cameraman then cameraman for the same company. He continued his career... more
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Cast: Robert Loggia Phillip Pine
Tags: Horror Science Fiction
Length: 70min
The final film of director William Berke (his son, Lester William Burke, took over shooting following his father's death during filming) , The Lost Missile is a very cleverly constructed low-budget sci-fi thriller with some fascinating twists. A rogue...
Cast: Vince Edwards
Length: 72min
Set amidst the beauty of the Caribbean, this romance centers upon the captain of a sail boat who falls in love with a tourist. The happy couple encounter rough seas when he tourist's aunt decides she wants the handsome salt for herself. ~ Sandra...
Cast: Nehemiah Persoff Geraldine Brooks William Harrigan
Tags: Action Drama Police Drama
Length: 76min
This action-filled police drama chronicles the difficult first year of a rookie cop. The trouble begins on his very first day on the beat when he has a conflict with the criminally connected owner of the local tavern. Against the more moderate advice...
Cast: Gerald O'Loughlin
Tags: Mystery Police Detective Film
Length: 75min
On a boiling hot night in the middle of a steaming New York summer, Detective Mike Reardon is on his way to work when he is shot down execution style. His fellow officers at the 87th, led by detectives Steve Carelli (Robert Loggia) and Mike Maguire...
Cast: James Franciscus Stefan Schnabel
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime
Length: 74min
In this crime drama, a police psychiatrist sets out to capture a whacko purse snatcher who has been scarring the faces of his female victims as he makes off with their bags. When a girl is killed, all evidence points to the mugger, but when he is...
Cast: Cesar Romero Marie Windsor
Tags: Adventure Drama Prehistoric Fantasy Adventure Drama
Length: 74min
This Lippert release teams studio "regulars" Cesar Romero and Marie Windsor with Monogram's Rod Cameron. The three stars head to India to investigate reports that the elephant population is being terrorized and stampeded by prehistoric mammoths....
Cast: Robert Foulk Johnny Weissmuller
Tags: Adventure
Length: 67min
Valley of the Headhunters was number eleven in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series. Johnny Weissmuller returns as Jim, while his leading lady on this safari is Christine Larson. Things get under way when Jim is assigned to help a government representative...
Cast: Hoot Gibson Harry Lauter Tex Ritter
Length: 71min
To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass named Laurie Anders, was in 1953 a popular TV personality. A regular on The Ken Murray Show, Anders had risen to fame with the...
Length: 74min
Long before he became entrenched in the public's consciousness as Sgt. Carter on Gomer Pyle USMC, Frank Sutton topped the cast of the minor juvenile-delinquent melodrama Four Boys and a Gun. Sutton plays Ollie Denker, a runner for a gang of bookies...
Cast: Amanda Blake Cameron Mitchell
Length: 64min
Having signed up with Columbia to re-create his stage role in Death of a Salesman, Cameron Mitchell was obliged to earn his keep in such potboilers as Smuggler's Gold. Mitchell plays Mike Sloan, the fiancé of Susan Clarke (played by future Gunsmoke...
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