Writing

John Melson

Born — Died

1930-12-17 — 1983-01-29

Known for

Writing

Credits

10 titles

Known for

Battle of the Bulge poster
6.9

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.

Battle of the Bulge

1965

Journey to the Centre of the Earth poster
5.1

A 19th-century expedition to the Earth's core reveals primordial wonders, prehistoric monsters and a subterranean civilization that may convey the greatest discovery of all.

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

1977

Love and Bullets poster
5.8

Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.

Love and Bullets

1979

Special Delivery poster
5.5

A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles. The police are quickly called in, however, and only one of the robbers, Murdock, makes a clean getaway. Unfortunately, in order to do so, he is forced to dump the stolen cash into a mailbox, which he then finds is locked until midnight, forcing him to wait until the mailman makes his late night pickup. As he waits, he discovers that his hiding place has been observed by several other people, all of whom want a share of the loot.

Special Delivery

1976

Cauldron of Blood poster
4.3

A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is the next target.

Cauldron of Blood

1968

Savage Pampas poster
5.3

An army captain in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's gaucho gang.

Savage Pampas

1966

Behind the camera

Battle of the Bulge poster
6.9

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.

Battle of the Bulge

1965

Journey to the Centre of the Earth poster
5.1

A 19th-century expedition to the Earth's core reveals primordial wonders, prehistoric monsters and a subterranean civilization that may convey the greatest discovery of all.

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

1977

Love and Bullets poster
5.8

Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.

Love and Bullets

1979

Special Delivery poster
5.5

A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles. The police are quickly called in, however, and only one of the robbers, Murdock, makes a clean getaway. Unfortunately, in order to do so, he is forced to dump the stolen cash into a mailbox, which he then finds is locked until midnight, forcing him to wait until the mailman makes his late night pickup. As he waits, he discovers that his hiding place has been observed by several other people, all of whom want a share of the loot.

Special Delivery

1976

Cauldron of Blood poster
4.3

A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is the next target.

Cauldron of Blood

1968

Savage Pampas poster
5.3

An army captain in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's gaucho gang.

Savage Pampas

1966

Simón Bolívar poster
5.1

Simon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution.

Simón Bolívar

1969

F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck poster
6.0

An Interpol agent is tasked with investigating the deaths of several other agents.

F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck

1964

No artwork available
8.0

A popular singer learns that an old gypsy legend about cats may not be simple superstition.

Four Nights of the Full Moon

1963

Aphrodite poster
4.6

Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mansion of his friend...

Aphrodite

1982