Hubert Cornfield

Directing

Hubert Cornfield

Born — Died

1929-02-09 — 2006-06-18

Place of birth

Istanbul, Turkey

Known for

Directing

Credits

13 titles

Hubert Cornfield (February 9, 1929 — June 18, 2006) was an American film director in Hollywood. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, and died in Los Angeles. Billy Wilder, William Wyler and Joseph L. Mankiewicz all signed his Directors Guild of America (DGA) application. He moved to the US as a refugee in 1941. He received attention for a short film he made The Color is Red which attracted the interest of 20th Century Fox. He directed mainly crime films... from Film Noir to Neo Noir... and worked with legendary actors ranging from Marlon Brando to Sidney Poitier. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hubert Cornfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Behind the camera

The Night of the Following Day poster
5.9

A gang of four professional criminals kidnaps a wealthy teenage girl from an airport in Paris in a meticulous plan to extort money from the girl's wealthy father. Holding her prisoner in an isolated beach house, the gang's scheme runs perfectly until their personal demons surface and lead to a series of betrayals.

The Night of the Following Day

1969

The Night of the Following Day poster
5.9

A gang of four professional criminals kidnaps a wealthy teenage girl from an airport in Paris in a meticulous plan to extort money from the girl's wealthy father. Holding her prisoner in an isolated beach house, the gang's scheme runs perfectly until their personal demons surface and lead to a series of betrayals.

The Night of the Following Day

1969

The Night of the Following Day poster
5.9

A gang of four professional criminals kidnaps a wealthy teenage girl from an airport in Paris in a meticulous plan to extort money from the girl's wealthy father. Holding her prisoner in an isolated beach house, the gang's scheme runs perfectly until their personal demons surface and lead to a series of betrayals.

The Night of the Following Day

1969

Plunder Road poster
6.9

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

Plunder Road

1957

Lure of the Swamp poster
7.0

Simon Lute ekes out a modest living chartering his skiff to tourists and guiding them through the labyrinthine bayou.

Lure of the Swamp

1957

Angel Baby poster
6.1

A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South.

Angel Baby

1961

Pressure Point poster
6.6

An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.

Pressure Point

1962

Pressure Point poster
6.6

An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.

Pressure Point

1962

Sudden Danger poster
5.5

Detective Andy Doyle suspects that a suicide is actually a murder. He suspects the victim's son, Wallace who is blind and he pursues him until he gets to the truth.

Sudden Danger

1955

The 3rd Voice poster
5.9

Marian Forbes has been having an affair with her boss and when he drops her for another woman. In an act of jealousy and greed she convinces an acquaintance to murder her former lover and then impersonate him just long enough to get their hands on a large sum of money.

The 3rd Voice

1960

The 3rd Voice poster
5.9

Marian Forbes has been having an affair with her boss and when he drops her for another woman. In an act of jealousy and greed she convinces an acquaintance to murder her former lover and then impersonate him just long enough to get their hands on a large sum of money.

The 3rd Voice

1960

The 3rd Voice poster
5.9

Marian Forbes has been having an affair with her boss and when he drops her for another woman. In an act of jealousy and greed she convinces an acquaintance to murder her former lover and then impersonate him just long enough to get their hands on a large sum of money.

The 3rd Voice

1960

Les Grands Moyens poster
5.6

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 kinfolk.

Les Grands Moyens

1976