Lindsay Shonteff

Directing

Lindsay Shonteff

Born — Died

1935-11-05 — 2006-03-11

Known for

Directing

Credits

31 titles

Lindsay Craig Shonteff (5 November 1935 – 11 March 2006) was a Canadian born film director, film producer and screenwriter who achieved fame for low-budget films produced in the United Kingdom.

Known for

Behind the camera

The Million Eyes of Sumuru poster
4.3

Sumuru is a beautiful but evil woman who plans world domination by having her sexy all-female army eliminate male leaders and replace them with her female agents.

The Million Eyes of Sumuru

1967

Licensed to Love and Kill poster
5.8

A British secret agent sent to America to rescue a nobleman comes up against an evil genius who is replacing people in important positions with clones who will do his bidding.

Licensed to Love and Kill

1979

Devil Doll poster
4.8

An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.

Devil Doll

1964

Devil Doll poster
4.8

An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.

Devil Doll

1964

No. 1 of the Secret Service poster
4.1

No. 1 is fearless, irrestible, and licensed to kill. No. 1 is assigned to capture a madman killing international financiers. Before getting the bad guy, No. 1 encounters mercenaries from the evil organization K.R.A.S.H. (Killing, Rape, Arson, Slaughter, and Hit).

No. 1 of the Secret Service

1977

Curse of the Voodoo poster
3.8

In Africa, a professional hunter kills a male lion which is sacred to a local tribe which also practices voodoo; and when he returns to England, he finds himself deteriorating under the influence of a curse which they have placed on him for his sacrilege.

Curse of the Voodoo

1965

Permissive poster
4.7

When Suzy arrives in London to visit an old school friend, she is unwittingly plunged into the ruthless world of the 'groupie'. Fuelled by sex, drugs and jealousy, her new lifestyle fosters in her a cold, cynical instinct for survival. But tragedy is never far away.

Permissive

1970

Licensed to Kill poster
7.0

An English spy (Tom Adams) guards a Scandinavian scientist (Karl Stepanek) who has sold an anti-gravity device to each side.

Licensed to Kill

1965

Licensed to Kill poster
7.0

An English spy (Tom Adams) guards a Scandinavian scientist (Karl Stepanek) who has sold an anti-gravity device to each side.

Licensed to Kill

1965

Night After Night After Night poster
5.6

There's a killer on the loose in London, and whilst our typically craggy copper DI Rowan investigates, Judge Lomax is busy in court, dishing out harsh sentences to everyone who comes before him.

Night After Night After Night

1969

Clegg poster
5.0

Harry Clegg is an ex policeman who fights dirty, his mission to track down a crazed prostitute responsible for a string of murders.

Clegg

1970

Spy Story poster
5.5

A nuclear war specialist returns from a mission gathering data on Soviet communications and electronic warfare techniques in the Arctic Ocean to find that his flat has been broken into and mysteriously re-decorated.

Spy Story

1976

How Sleep the Brave poster
6.0

A squad of young fresh American soldiers are sent to Vietnam. Immediately upon their arrival, they are sent on a very hazardous mission into the jungle losing a couple of them on the way. As soon as they return to camp they have no time to rest and are sent out again on a long jaunt to destroy a V.C. village. After destroying the village they embark on the journey back to camp

How Sleep the Brave

1982

How Sleep the Brave poster
6.0

A squad of young fresh American soldiers are sent to Vietnam. Immediately upon their arrival, they are sent on a very hazardous mission into the jungle losing a couple of them on the way. As soon as they return to camp they have no time to rest and are sent out again on a long jaunt to destroy a V.C. village. After destroying the village they embark on the journey back to camp

How Sleep the Brave

1982

No artwork available
8.0

A young woman is unable to decide between a boxer and folk singer, and ends up losing both.

Run with the Wind

1966

Big Zapper poster
4.0

A female private detective, Harriet Zapper, is hired by a rich old man to find his missing children, and becomes involved in counterfeiting and murder.

Big Zapper

1973

The Yes Girls poster
2.6

Maria, a juvenile delinquent is stuck in a boring girls school for young offenders in Sunderland. A suggestive wink and a flash of her knickers at an elderly gardener is enough to convince the old sod to help Maria escape from the school.

The Yes Girls

1971

The Yes Girls poster
2.6

Maria, a juvenile delinquent is stuck in a boring girls school for young offenders in Sunderland. A suggestive wink and a flash of her knickers at an elderly gardener is enough to convince the old sod to help Maria escape from the school.

The Yes Girls

1971

The Yes Girls poster
2.6

Maria, a juvenile delinquent is stuck in a boring girls school for young offenders in Sunderland. A suggestive wink and a flash of her knickers at an elderly gardener is enough to convince the old sod to help Maria escape from the school.

The Yes Girls

1971

The Hired Gun poster
9.0

Gunman Don Borisenko is hired by the townsfolk to mete out justice to a cruel land baron. Instead, Borisenko gets romantically involved with Tass Tory, the wife of a local farmer. When the smoke clears, the gunman has killed the rancher, and the farmer has killed the gunman.

The Hired Gun

1961

The Hired Gun poster
9.0

Gunman Don Borisenko is hired by the townsfolk to mete out justice to a cruel land baron. Instead, Borisenko gets romantically involved with Tass Tory, the wife of a local farmer. When the smoke clears, the gunman has killed the rancher, and the farmer has killed the gunman.

The Hired Gun

1961

The Hired Gun poster
9.0

Gunman Don Borisenko is hired by the townsfolk to mete out justice to a cruel land baron. Instead, Borisenko gets romantically involved with Tass Tory, the wife of a local farmer. When the smoke clears, the gunman has killed the rancher, and the farmer has killed the gunman.

The Hired Gun

1961

The Swordsman poster
8.0

When Harriet Zapper is hired to find the identity of Karel Duval, and the true heir to the Duval family fortune, a bloody trail of murders leads the Big Zapper from London to the South of France and into a hornet's nest of betrayal and death.

The Swordsman

1974

Number One Gun poster
6.2

Number 1 has to compete against the mad Russian agent Ace Kissoff, who can change into a woman by just taking a pill.

Number One Gun

1990

The Fast Kill poster
10.0

A successful robbery goes sour when six criminals attempt to divvy up the fruits of their labour.

The Fast Kill

1972

Lipstick and Blood poster
6.0

Having become obsessed with her, a man kidnaps a night club stripper.

Lipstick and Blood

1986

Lipstick and Blood poster
6.0

Having become obsessed with her, a man kidnaps a night club stripper.

Lipstick and Blood

1986

No artwork available
NR

A satire about the afterlife and the greatest mystery of all - show business! God is the Almighty Producer directing his headstrong angels. Representing unruly earthlings, the flamboyant angel Mark exasperates the Almighty while on assignment.

Angels, Devils and Men

2009

No artwork available
NR

When a guinfighter drifts into a small Arizona town offering his gun for hire he finds what life is all about and that his has been wasted.

The Running Gun

1992

The Killing Edge poster
4.7

In a post-nuclear-war wasteland, a man searches for his family while trying to avoid deadly killer robots.

The Killing Edge

1984

No artwork available
4.0

A confrontation between a man and his abusive father, triggers a psychotic break from reality that eventually lands him in the desert in the company of a beautiful woman and her jealous lover.

Ice Cold in Phoenix

2004