Writing

George Eckstein

Born — Died

1928-05-03 — 2009-09-12

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

23 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Duel poster
7.4

Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.

Duel

1971

Sunshine poster
6.5

A young woman living in the woods with her husband, a struggling musician, and her young daughter, discovers she has terminal cancer. She begins to tape-record a journal of the time she has left so her daughter will know something of her when she grows up.

Sunshine

1973

Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception poster
6.8

Perry Mason ventures to Paris to defend a U.S. Marine Corps Captain accused of murdering a man suspected of being a Nazi SS Officer.

Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception

1990

Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen poster
7.1

The chief suspects in the murder of an author are the numerous colleagues whom he continuously plagiarized.

Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen

1990

Sunshine Christmas poster
8.0

A musician, brooding over the marriage of his sometime girlfriend, decides to take his adopted daughter to his home in Texas to celebrate Christmas with his family. While there, he begins to rekindle the relationship he once had with his childhood girlfriend.

Sunshine Christmas

1977

Tail Gunner Joe poster
6.0

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.

Tail Gunner Joe

1977

Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder poster
6.5

A young theatre director is accused of killing a more famous Broadway director. Perry takes his case.

Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder

1989

Jane Doe: The Wrong Face poster
6.4

When it comes to crime solving, nobody does it better than Jane Doe.

Jane Doe: The Wrong Face

2005

The Bad Seed poster
6.1

Rachel is a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself - unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rachel's mother Christine to suspect that her child is a latent murderess. Upon discovering that she herself is the daughter of a convicted killer, Christine becomes convinced that sweet little Rachel is a "bad seed" - an inherent killer who feels no remorse because she doesn't know any better.

The Bad Seed

1985

Moment of Truth: To Walk Again poster
10.0

A marine is paralyzed after being shot during a training exercise, leaving his parents to fight to get him proper medical care.

Moment of Truth: To Walk Again

1994

When We Were Young poster
7.0

A group of young people in 1959 get ready to set out on their journey to adulthood.

When We Were Young

1989

House on Greenapple Road poster
7.4

A promiscuous housewife has been murdered and hardboiled detective Dan August has to find the motive...and the body.

House on Greenapple Road

1970

Death Takes a Holiday poster
4.9

Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.

Death Takes a Holiday

1971

The Couple Takes a Wife poster
10.0

Complications ensue when an overworked couple decides to hire a "wife" — someone who can run the household for them with complete autonomy — but she's a little too attractive for comfort.

The Couple Takes a Wife

1972

My Name Is Kate poster
6.4

Kate (Donna Mills) is an alcoholic--and, as is often the case, she is in full denial regarding her illness. Only when she is threatened with mass desertion by her husband, children and best friend does the sullen Kate agree to seek out treatment.

My Name Is Kate

1994

Where the Ladies Go poster
10.0

A small-town bar, open only from 9AM to 3PM and owned by Buck (Earl Holliman), is the setting where bored housewives and wandering husbands go to find some adventure in their miserable lives.

Where the Ladies Go

1980

A Little Game poster
7.5

A hostile youngster who will stop at nothing to break up his mother's marriage is suspected of homicide, and his stepfather fears that he may be the boy's next victim.

A Little Game

1977

Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend poster
8.0

A lonely, gay, middle-aged artist shares his Manhattan brownstone with a young lady in a platonic relationship, and when she becomes pregnant by a married man, he decides to raise her child as his own.

Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend

1981

Travis McGee poster
5.7

Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, resulting in a death that might have been faked.

Travis McGee

1983

Man on the Outside poster
8.0

A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his eyes and his grandson is kidnapped by a syndicate killer in this pilot for Lorne Greene's brief "Griff" series, which went off the air 18 months before this film was aired.

Man on the Outside

1975

The Tribe poster
6.0

A family tribe of Cro-Magnons faces hardships, such as hunger, animal attacks, Neanderthal attacks, and death from injuries as they migrate to find a more bountiful land to live on.

The Tribe

1974

Amelia Earhart poster
NR

Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in 1937.

Amelia Earhart

1976

The Keegans poster
8.0

A professional football player is accused of murdering the man who attacked his sister. His brother, an investigate reporter, sets out to prove his brother's innocence.

The Keegans

1976