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Raiders From Beneath The Sea
''Raiders from Beneath the Sea'' is a 1964 American adventure film directed by Maury Dexter and starring Ken Scott and Merry Anders. Plot A down-on-his-luck California apartment house manager hatches a plan to rob a Catalina Island bank—and escape with his accomplices using scuba gear. Cast * Ken Scott as Bill Harper * Merry Anders as Dottie Harper * Russ Bender as Tucker * Booth Colman as Purdy * Garth Benton as Buddy * Bruce Anson as Policeman #1 * Walter Maslow Walter Maslow (born January 16, 1928) is an American film, stage and television actor. Life and career Maslow was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 16, 1928. After high school, he served for two years in the United States Navy, performin ... as Policeman #2 * Stacey Winters as Bank Teller * Ray Dannis as Bowman * Larry Barton as Bank Manager * Roger Creed as Bank Guard References External links * * * * Review of filmat Cinema Sentries 1964 films American black-and-white films 1964 drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maury Dexter
Maury Dexter (born Morris Gene Poindexter; June 12, 1927 – May 28, 2017) was an American producer and director of film and TV. He worked several times for Robert Lippert and American International Pictures. Life and career Dexter was born in Paris, Arkansas, to William Henry and Emma (née Foster) Poindexter. He has three brothers, Foster, William Jr., and James. Dexter first entered show business as a teenaged actor in The Three Stooges short, ''Uncivil War Birds'' (1946). After a few additional movie roles, he busied himself with stage and television work until the Korean War and military service intervened; following his discharge, he landed an acting job on ''The Hank McCune Show'' (1950) and was soon working there behind the scenes. A clerical job at filmmaker Robert L. Lippert, Robert L. Lippert's Regal Films eventually led to Dexter producing and directing gigs at that independent production company, where many of the movies were shot in seven days on $100,000 budgets. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Spalding
Harry Spalding (1913-2008) was an American writer best known for the films he wrote for Robert L. Lippert and director Maury Dexter. He later worked for the Walt Disney Company. He sometimes wrote under the name "Henry Cross". Select Credits * '' Country Music Holiday'' (1958) * '' Freckles'' (1960) * '' Teenage Millionaire'' (as H. B. Cross) (1961) * ''Air Patrol'' (original screenplay - as Henry Cross) (1962) * '' Hand of Death'' (uncredited) (1962) * ''The Day Mars Invaded Earth'' (writer) (1962) * ''The Firebrand'' (writer) (1962) * '' Womanhunt'' (story) (1962) * ''Young Guns of Texas'' (writer - as Henry Cross) (1962) * '' Harbor Lights'' (writer) (1963) * '' House of the Damned'' (writer) (1963) * '' Police Nurse'' (writer) (1963) * '' The Young Swingers'' (writer) (1963) *'' Surf Party'' (1964) * '' Night Train to Paris'' (as Henry Cross) (1964) * '' Raiders from Beneath the Sea'' (screenplay) (1964) *'' The Murder Game'' (1965) * '' The Earth Dies Screaming'' (as Henr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Scott (actor)
Ken Scott (born Kenneth E. Schibath; October 13, 1928 – December 2, 1986) was an American actor best known for his work in films in the 1950s and on television after that. Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York, Scott was the son of interior decorator Ernst Schibath and attended school at Erasmus Hall High School and Colby Academy. He worked as a truck driver, an artist, an actor, a salesman and finally a TV announcer at WDSU-TV in New Orleans. Discovered by producer Buddy Adler on a television show, he was contracted to 20th Century Fox on Oct. 8, 1956 with his first work narrating the film '' Three Brave Men''. He had lead roles in several of the studio's API second features and made appearances in some of Fox's major films. Following his years at Fox he appeared as a guest star on numerous American television series, Scott was cast as Johnny Ringo in the 1963 episode, "The Melancholy Gun", of the syndicated television anthology series, ''Death Valley Days'', hosted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merry Anders
Merry Anders (born Mary Helen Anderson; May 22, 1934 – October 28, 2012) was an American actress and model who appeared in a number of television programs and films from the 1950s until her retirement from the screen in 1972. Early life Anders was born in Chicago in 1934, the only child of Charles, a contractor, and Helen Anderson. Anders was of German, Irish and Swedish descent. In 1949, Anders and her mother visited Los Angeles for two weeks. They decided to remain in Los Angeles permanently while Charles Anderson remained in Chicago. While she was a student at John Burroughs Middle School, Anders met former actress Rita Leroy who encouraged her to begin a modeling career. While working as a junior model, Anders began studying acting at the Ben Bard Playhouse. It was there that a talent scout from 20th Century Fox spotted her and signed her to a film contract in 1951. Career Anders made her film debut in the 1951 musical '' Golden Girl''. For the next two years, she appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floyd Crosby
Floyd Delafield Crosby, A.S.C. (December 12, 1899 – September 30, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American cinematographer, descendant of the Van Rensselaer family, and father of musicians Ethan and David Crosby. Early life Crosby was born and raised in West Philadelphia, the son of Julia Floyd (née Delafield) and Frederick Van Schoonhoven Crosby. Through his maternal grandmother, he was descended from the prominent Van Rensselaer family. His maternal grandfather was Dr. Francis Delafield. His maternal uncle was Edward Henry Delafield (18801955). Career During his career, Floyd Crosby was involved in the cinematography of more than 100 full-length movies. He won the 1931 Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the film '' Tabu: A Story of the South Seas''. In 1973, Crosby participated in an oral history sponsored by the American Film Institute, part of which dealt with his work on '' Tabu: A Story of the South Seas''.https://archive.org/details/TapeIIS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lippert Pictures
Lippert Pictures was an American film production and distribution company controlled by Robert L. Lippert. History Robert L. Lippert (1909-1976) was a successful exhibitor, owning a chain of movie theaters in California and Oregon. He was frustrated that the Hollywood studios concentrated on making big, expensive pictures that commanded premium rental fees. He felt there was a market for smaller, cheaper feature films intended for neighborhood theaters in smaller situations. He called his new production company Action Pictures, and his first film, ''Wildfire (The Story of a Horse)'' (1945) was an outdoor adventure filmed in then-novel Cinecolor. Reception was encouraging enough for the ambitious Lippert to expand his operations. In 1946 he joined forces with independent producer Edward Finney to create Screen Guild Productions. Lippert's timing was excellent. By 1946 most of the Hollywood studios had abandoned low-budget productions and were making fewer films, leaving scores of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Producers Incorporated
Robert Lenard Lippert (March 31, 1909 – November 16, 1976) was an American film producer and cinema chain owner. He was president and chief operating officer of Lippert Theatres, Affiliated Theatres and Transcontinental Theatres, all based in San Francisco, and at his height, he owned a chain of 139 movie theaters. He helped finance more than 300 films, including the directorial debuts of Sam Fuller, James Clavell, and Burt Kennedy. His films include '' I Shot Jesse James'' (1949) and '' The Fly'' (1958) and was known as "King of the Bs". In 1962, Lippert said, "the word around Hollywood is: Lippert makes a lot of cheap pictures but he's never made a stinker". Biography Born in San Francisco, California and adopted by the owner of a hardware store, Robert Lippert became fascinated by the cinema at an early age. As a youngster, he worked a variety of jobs in local theaters, including projectionist and assistant manager. As a manager of a cinema during the Depression, Lipp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Century Fox
20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film studio, film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. As of 2019, it serves as a film production arm of Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by 20th Century Studios and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (Buena Vista Home Entertainment) distributes the films produced by 20th Century Studios in home media under the 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment banner. For over 80 years – beginning with its founding in 1935 and ending in 2019 (when it became part of Walt Disney Studios), 20th Century Fox was one of the then Major film studio, "Big Six" major American film studios. It was formed in 1935 from the merger of the Fox Film, Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures and was originally known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Film
An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, animation, comedy, drama, fantasy, science fiction, family, horror, or war. Overview Setting plays an important role in an adventure film, sometimes itself acting as a character in the narrative. They are typically set in far away lands, such as lost continents or other exotic locations. They may also be set in a period background and may include adapted stories of historical or fictional adventure heroes within the historical context. Such struggles and situations that confront the main characters include things like battles, piracy, rebellion, and the creation of empires and kingdoms. A common theme of adventure films is of characters leaving their home or place of comfort and going to fulfill a goal, embarking on travels, quests, tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russ Bender
Russ Bender (January 1, 1910 – August 16, 1969) was an American actor. Career Before becoming an actor, Bender wrote detective stories for magazines. That part of his life was interrupted when he joined the Army. By the time he returned to civilian life, the market for such material had decreased. At that point, he became an actor, appearing in the ''Gunsmoke'' episode “Gold Mine” (S11E15 of 1965). Even then, he continued to write to some extent, creating script for five films as well as "numerous television scripts". He frequently appeared in b-movies, and often worked with director Maury Dexter. Filmography He appeared in the films *1952: '' Paula'' - Cop (uncredited) *1953: ''The War of the Worlds'' - Dr. Carmichael (uncredited) *1956: ''It Conquered the World'' - Brig. Gen. James Pattick *1957: ''Kelly and Me'' - Police Captain (uncredited) *1957: '' Dragstrip Girl'' - Police Lt. Bradley *1957: '' Badlands of Montana'' - George Johannson *1957: ''Beau James'' - Repo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booth Colman
Booth Colman (March 8, 1923 – December 15, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor. In his later years he played older authority figures, such as doctors and lawyers. Colman appeared in films since 1952, when he debuted (uncredited) in '' The Big Sky'' directed by Howard Hawks. Life and career Colman was born in Portland, Oregon. As a child actor in local productions, he became active in local radio. He studied Oriental language at the University of Washington and University of Michigan. During World War II, he enlisted in the United States Army on May 12, 1943, and attended language training at the University of Michigan from 1943 to 1944. After language training, he worked in New York City and was discharged from the army in 1944 at Fort Dix, New Jersey.''High Council - An Interview with Booth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Maslow
Walter Maslow (born January 16, 1928) is an American film, stage and television actor. Life and career Maslow was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 16, 1928. After high school, he served for two years in the United States Navy, performing and directing while serving. After his discharge. Maslow performed at the Gellar Playhouse in Los Angeles, California, and at Mount Gretna Playhouse in Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania. Maslow began his film and television career in 1956, first appearing in the adventure and drama television series ''Crusader''. He guest-starred in television programs including ''Johnny Staccato'', ''26 Men'', '' Man with a Camera'', '' Colt .45'', ''Tales of Wells Fargo'', ''Sky King'', ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', '' Fury'', ''Iron Horse'' and ''Highway Patrol''. In 1958, Maslow played Pvt. Marty Green in the film ''Suicide Battalion''. In the same year, he played Dick Averill for three episodes in the western television series ''The Life and Legend of Wy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
