Writing

Orville H. Hampton

Born — Died

1917-05-21 — 1997-08-08

Place of birth

Rockford, Illinois, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Lost Continent poster
3.6

When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, taboo mountain.

Lost Continent

1951

Jack the Giant Killer poster
6.6

Desiring control of the kingdom, evil wizard Pendragon devises a cunning machination to usurp the throne. By abducting and forcing Princess Elaine to marry him, Pendragon will coerce the king into abdicating his power. When Pendragon sends a giant to kidnap Elaine, a simple farmer named Jack witnesses the abduction, and bravely slays the beast. Undeterred, Pendragon has more power and creatures at his disposal.

Jack the Giant Killer

1962

The Atomic Submarine poster
5.3

Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate.

The Atomic Submarine

1959

Friday Foster poster
6.1

Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".

Friday Foster

1975

One Potato, Two Potato poster
6.9

Study of interracial marriage in the 1960s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era.

One Potato, Two Potato

1964

Jet Attack poster
5.4

A Soviet nurse helps a U.S. pilot, his buddies and a scientist escape from North Korea. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Suicide Battalion".

Jet Attack

1958

Behind the camera

Lost Continent poster
3.6

When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, taboo mountain.

Lost Continent

1951

Jack the Giant Killer poster
6.6

Desiring control of the kingdom, evil wizard Pendragon devises a cunning machination to usurp the throne. By abducting and forcing Princess Elaine to marry him, Pendragon will coerce the king into abdicating his power. When Pendragon sends a giant to kidnap Elaine, a simple farmer named Jack witnesses the abduction, and bravely slays the beast. Undeterred, Pendragon has more power and creatures at his disposal.

Jack the Giant Killer

1962

The Atomic Submarine poster
5.3

Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate.

The Atomic Submarine

1959

Friday Foster poster
6.1

Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".

Friday Foster

1975

One Potato, Two Potato poster
6.9

Study of interracial marriage in the 1960s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era.

One Potato, Two Potato

1964

Jet Attack poster
5.4

A Soviet nurse helps a U.S. pilot, his buddies and a scientist escape from North Korea. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Suicide Battalion".

Jet Attack

1958

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone poster
6.5

A lawman goes undercover in order to capture the outlaws who murdered his wife.

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone

1958

New Orleans Uncensored poster
5.3

Discharged naval officer Dan Corbett moves to New Orleans and accepts a job as a longshoreman, unaware that the docks are run by an infamous racketeer. When the dock manager is murdered before he can notify the authorities of their criminal scheme, Dan coordinates with the police to go undercover and investigate.

New Orleans Uncensored

1955

The Alligator People poster
5.6

Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.

The Alligator People

1959

Experiment Alcatraz poster
6.9

A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Experiment Alcatraz

1950

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake poster
6.0

Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later in a locked cabinet, Drake realizes an ancient curse placed upon his grandfather by a tribe of South American Jivaro Indians is still in effect and that he himself is the probable next victim.

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

1959

Motor Patrol poster
7.0

A cop poses as a member of a stolen-car ring to capture the men responsible for the murder of his fiancee's brother.

Motor Patrol

1950

Lady in the Fog poster
6.5

In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspicious and so begins roaming the London streets in search of the killer.

Lady in the Fog

1952

The Black Whip poster
10.0

A gang of renegade Civil War soldiers terrorize four women and the owners of an inn as they plot to kidnap the new governor of the state. If all goes according to plan, the outlaws will murder their hostage after collecting a hefty ransom.

The Black Whip

1956

Outlaw Women poster
4.8

A old west town run by women. All the town's business is controlled by a woman gambler who tries not to succumb to the allure of a handsome and persistent cowboy.

Outlaw Women

1952

Beauty and the Beast poster
4.7

Curse turns a handsome prince into a Beast at night. A princess tries to help him, while his enemies plot to take his throne.

Beauty and the Beast

1962

Detroit 9000 poster
5.5

After a fundraiser for a Black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one Black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.

Detroit 9000

1973

Hi-Jacked poster
5.4

A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers.

Hi-Jacked

1950

The Flight That Disappeared poster
5.6

A cross-country airliner, whose passengers include a nuclear physicist, a rocket expert, and a mathematical genius, is drawn beyond radar range by an unknown, unbreakable force.

The Flight That Disappeared

1961

A Dog's Best Friend poster
6.2

A young orphan rejects his foster parents and instead turns to a German shepherd whose master was recently murdered. Stumbling on some evidence, the boy is rescued from the killer by his dog.

A Dog's Best Friend

1959

Riot on Sunset Strip poster
5.1

A police captain is caught between businesses operating on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip who don't like the punks hanging out, and his belief in allowing the kids their rights. But when his daughter gets involved with an unruly bunch, his attitude starts to change.

Riot on Sunset Strip

1967

Incident in an Alley poster
4.1

A policeman is accused of manslaughtering a 14-year-old boy but is acquitted of all charges. Still, he feels a lot of guilt and begins to doubt if he really is innocent after all.

Incident in an Alley

1962

Mask of the Dragon poster
5.3

A private eye and his girlfriend avenge his buddy, stabbed over a jade dragon.

Mask of the Dragon

1951

The Snake Woman poster
4.7

A doctor in 1890 England, in order to cure his wife's "sick mind," injects her with snake venom. She later gives birth to a daughter whom the villagers call "The Devil's Baby" and in a fit of fear they end up burning the family's house down. Years later a Scotland Yard detective is sent to the village to investigate a rash of deaths that are caused by snakebite.

The Snake Woman

1961

Red Snow poster
5.7

An Eskimo Army Sergeant is sent to his Arctic tribal village to gather information about a mysterious unmarked black airplane which shadows military planes in northern Alaska and equally-mysterious flashings lighting up the sky from Siberia across the Bering Strait. He soon discovers Soviet espionage at work. Along the way he must also deal with an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue, a fight with a polar bear and marriage to his fiancee.

Red Snow

1952

A Time to Sing poster
6.5

A young farmer becomes a singer against the wishes of his uncle.

A Time to Sing

1968

The Gambler Wore a Gun poster
5.3

The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the Sheriff's life, who got into an ambush. However another man is dead, Will Donovan, from whom he bought the ranch! Neither the Sheriff nor Donovan's children know about the sale. So Case has to switch back to his former profession, while he tries to clarify the situation. He comes across a group of cattle thieves.

The Gambler Wore a Gun

1961

Leave It to the Marines poster
7.0

Gerald Meek and Myrna McAllister go to city hall to apply for a marriage license. Gerald wanders into the Marine Recruiting office by mistake and Sergeant Delaney signs him into the Marine Corps and sends him for a medical examination before Gerald realizes what has happened. He finds himself in uniform and ready to be shipped to boot camp without any delay, other than explain to his intended-bride that Uncle Sam has other plans for him.

Leave It to the Marines

1951

Oklahoma Territory poster
7.0

Temple Houston (Sam Houston's son) who is the DA with a sense of Justice. He is located in Fort Smith, Ark and works with Judge Parker in 1872. His area includes the Oklahoma Territory which was the Indian territory at that time. Chief Buffalo Horn who is falsely accused of murder.

Oklahoma Territory

1960

Fingerprints Don't Lie poster
5.8

A fingerprint expert figures out who killed the mayor.

Fingerprints Don't Lie

1951

The Three Outlaws poster
6.0

Ready to quit their life of crime, the three "most-wanted" outlaws in the West---Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid and Bill Carver ---perform their final job by robbing and stealing a train and fleeing across the border. In a South American town they begin their life of respectability by purchasing a ranch and depositing their stolen fortune in the local bank, and throwing a big fiesta to entertain the locals, including Colonel Aguilar and his beautiful daughter Rita.

The Three Outlaws

1956

You Have to Run Fast poster
6.7

Dr. Frank Harlow is in the process of trying to save a man badly beaten by two gangsters whom he identifies to the police. When the victim dies the charge becomes murder and Harlow hightails it to the far woods where he finds a job as clerk Roger Condon in a sporting-goods store. Harlow's plan is to lay low until the gangsters forget about him. But complications arise from two different sectors. First, Harlow falls in love with the local beauty Laurie Maitland and second, the murderers find out where he is hiding.

You Have to Run Fast

1961

Frontier Uprising poster
5.4

Not having heard that war has erupted between the U.S. and Mexico, a wagon train heads west, only to find itself threatened by the Mexicans who have teamed up with hostile Indians.

Frontier Uprising

1961

Sky High poster
5.5

When he is told that he is to spend three more years as a tailgunner, goofball GI Herbert Pumice thinks that a promotion--which he has little to no chance of getting--will get him out of the job he hates. He asks his girlfriend Sally, who owns the base café, for help. She goes to the base commander, Col. Baker--who she knows has a crush on her--to help out Herbert. Col. Baker schedules a promotion hearing for Herbert that Friday. He naturally fails it miserably, and then learns that Col. Baker is going out on a date with Sally. Meanwhile, the base military intelligence officer discovers that Herbert is a dead-ringer for the head of a spy ring intending to sabotage a new automated plane, and gets Herbert assigned to infiltrate the gang. Complications ensue.

Sky High

1951

Gunfighters of Abilene poster
5.3

A gunman receives a request for help from his brother, but arrives too late to save him from the lawless rancher who wanted him dead.

Gunfighters of Abilene

1960

I Shot Billy the Kid poster
4.5

Although the Lincoln County War has come to a conclusion, Billy the Kid turns his back on a gubernatorial pardon and continues his lawless career.

I Shot Billy the Kid

1950

Submarine Seahawk poster
5.1

For his first command in the Pacific war a by-the-book officer is ordered to take his submarine on a reconnaissance mission to locate a fleet of Japanese fighting ships the Allies have lost track of. At first, the rest of the crew resent his distant manner and the way he keeps avoiding taking on the Japs.

Submarine Seahawk

1958

Inside the Mafia poster
5.8

A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.

Inside the Mafia

1959

Riot in Juvenile Prison poster
6.0

When the shootings of two juvenile inmates bring public protest, a psychologist is brought in to see if he can do anything to control the problems peacefully.

Riot in Juvenile Prison

1959

Frontier Gambler poster
6.5

A deputy marshal arrives in the small western town of Fairweather to investigate the death of a beautiful gambler known as "The Princess".

Frontier Gambler

1956