Writing

Jo Heims

Born — Died

1930-01-15 — 1978-04-22

Place of birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

12 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Play Misty for Me poster
6.6

A brief fling between a late-night radio disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening turn when another woman enters the picture.

Play Misty for Me

1971

Breezy poster
6.8

A free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensing that she just wants to use him he tries to have nothing to do with her. She's not that easy to shake, however, and over time a bond forms between them.

Breezy

1973

Double Trouble poster
4.9

When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.

Double Trouble

1967

Nightmare in Badham County poster
5.9

Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at the hands of the administrators of the prison and the prison guards.

Nightmare in Badham County

1976

The Girl in Lovers Lane poster
3.1

Two drifters contend with love and murder in a small town.

The Girl in Lovers Lane

1960

The Threat poster
9.0

A sadistic police detective, falsely accused of murdering an underworld kingpin, embarks on a hunt for the real killer, the men who put him away, and a singer who may have squealed on him. As he fights for his own brand of justice, he discovers the frightening truth.

The Threat

1960

You'll Like My Mother poster
6.3

Francesca, a pregnant Los Angeles widow, journeys to her late husband's Minnesota hometown to finally meet his mother and family. After being met with icy acceptance from her mother-in-law, then getting stranded with her in a blizzard, Francesca begins to discover terrifying secrets about her husband's family.

You'll Like My Mother

1972

The First Time poster
5.0

With the coming of summer, three high school buddies--Kenny Leeds, Mike Decker, and Tommy Kingsley--anticipate their initiation into the pleasures of manhood. But Kenny is separated from his friends and sent to stay with his grandparents in Buffalo while his father, a widowed salesman, leaves on a business trip with his secretary-fiancée. Bored and alone in a strange city, Kenny writes his two friends letters about his adventures at "Rosie's," a fictitious brothel across the Canadian border in Niagara Falls. His lie quickly backfires.

The First Time

1969

The Gun Hawk poster
5.1

When his town-drunk father is killed by the Sully brothers, gunfighter Blaine Madden exacts his revenge but has to flee, aided by a young aspiring gunslinger, when the sheriff tries to arrest him.

The Gun Hawk

1963

The Devil's Hand poster
4.6

A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a satanic cult.

The Devil's Hand

1961

Tell Me In The Sunlight poster
8.0

A sailor and a stripper fall in love on the beaches of Nassau in this romance. Unfortunately, the exotic dancer already has a lover.

Tell Me In The Sunlight

1965

Navajo Run poster
7.5

A sick trap opens for half-breed Matthew Whitehawk when he seeks help at a frontier ranch after being bitten by a rattler. Luke Grog, wife Sarah, and mute brother Jesse nurse him back to his feet so that Luke can drop him in the middle of the forest without food or water and hunt him down as he has 16 Indians before him.

Navajo Run

1964