Writing

Richard H. Landau

Born — Died

1914-02-21 — 1993-09-18

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

35 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Back to Bataan poster
6.1

A U.S. Army colonel leads local fighters in a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.

Back to Bataan

1945

Lost Continent poster
3.6

When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, taboo mountain.

Lost Continent

1951

The Crooked Way poster
6.2

A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.

The Crooked Way

1949

The Secret of the Whistler poster
6.1

A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.

The Secret of the Whistler

1946

The Quatermass Xperiment poster
6.5

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is lost from radar before roaring back to Earth and crashing in a farmer's field. The rocket is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.

The Quatermass Xperiment

1955

Up Periscope poster
6.2

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.

Up Periscope

1959

The Girl in Black Stockings poster
6.1

Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover who among the terrified guests and staff -- including bodacious vixen Harriet Ames, the hotel's bitter, crippled proprietor, visiting lawyer David Hewson and his secretary, Beth -- is the culprit, even as murders continue to take place.

The Girl in Black Stockings

1957

Frankenstein 1970 poster
5.4

The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.

Frankenstein 1970

1958

Stolen Face poster
5.8

A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict but trouble starts when his true love returns.

Stolen Face

1952

Four Rode Out poster
4.4

In this western, a Mexican desperado tries to flee his partner, a determined girl friend, and a US Marshal.

Four Rode Out

1969

Hell Bound poster
5.8

After WW2, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA.

Hell Bound

1957

The Man Is Armed poster
5.2

Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result, things don't go as smoothly as planned.

The Man Is Armed

1956

The Great Jesse James Raid poster
6.0

The famed outlaw is talked into saddling up for one more bank robbery.

The Great Jesse James Raid

1953

Blackout poster
6.2

When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood, he must unravel the mystery to clear his name.

Blackout

1954

Women Without Men poster
7.5

In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...

Women Without Men

1956

Spaceways poster
4.8

A rocket engineer, responsible for sending a satellite into space, is accused of committing the most extraordinary crime.

Spaceways

1953

Fort Courageous poster
5.0

In this western, a cavalry sergeant is wrongly court-martialed. To reclaim his good name, he takes over a patrol that just lost its leader in an Indian attack. He leads the regiment to Fort Courageous, but is appalled to discover that the Indians attacked and massacred all but one of its inhabitants. The hardy little group must now fight the renegades on their own. The ex-sergeant plans a brilliant strategy that culminates in winning the Indian's respect. They leave the fort alone and peace is restored.

Fort Courageous

1965

Hot Cars poster
5.8

Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.

Hot Cars

1956

FBI Girl poster
6.2

G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.

FBI Girl

1951

Wild Weed poster
4.8

A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.

Wild Weed

1949

Little Iodine poster
4.7

Little Iodine does her best to break up the marriage of her parents, ruin a romance and cost her father his job.

Little Iodine

1946

Frankenstein poster
7.3

A scientist obsessed with creating life steals body parts to put together his "creation." Released as a feature on video, this was originally shown in two installments on TV as part of the Wide World of Entertainment series.

Frankenstein

1973

Let's Ask Nostradamus poster
6.0

Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution.

Let's Ask Nostradamus

1953

Voodoo Island poster
4.6

A wealthy industrialist hires the renowned hoax-buster Phillip Knight to prove that an island he plans to develop isn't voodoo cursed. However, arriving on the island, Knight soon realizes that voodoo does exist when he discovers man-eating plants and a tribe of natives with bizarre powers.

Voodoo Island

1957

The Flanagan Boy poster
6.0

Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan to murder her husband.

The Flanagan Boy

1953

Sins of Jezebel poster
5.8

The aging king of Israel, Ahab, falls under the influence of a young and beautiful but scheming Pagan woman named Jezebel and, against the advice of his advisers and the prophet Elijah, marries her. Her plan to introduce her idols to Israel angers God, who wreaks vengeance on Israel.

Sins of Jezebel

1953

Pharaoh's Curse poster
4.6

Archaeologists in Egypt find one of their crew has been turned into a blood sucking mummy after they have unleashed a three thousand year curse.

Pharaoh's Curse

1957

Who's Superstitious? poster
6.7

This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, rabbit's feet, and breaking champagne bottles to christen ships, plus the role of superstitions in the Flying Dutchman tale.

Who's Superstitious?

1943

Violent Road poster
6.4

Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged terrain to a remote missile base. Uncredited "remake" of The Wages of Fear.

Violent Road

1958

No artwork available
6.0

The life of the French seer and some of his selected quatrains are reviewed.

Nostradamus Says So!

1953

Mask of Dust poster
4.2

An idol of auto-racing fans attempts a comeback after serving in the Air Force. When his former rival lies dying in the hospital he must decide whether to continue in the Grand Prix, or make peace with his adversary. Featuring race car greats Stirling Moss, Reg Parnell, John Cooper, Alan Brown, Geoffrey Taylor and Leslie Marr.

Mask of Dust

1954

Dark Shadows poster
8.9

A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.

Dark Shadows

1944

Johnny One-Eye poster
5.1

Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon's lesser-known stories. Martin Martin and Dane Cory were former partners in crime who have long since split up. When a new district attorney puts the heat on, Cory, anxious to save his own hide, accuses Martin of an unsolved murder. Holed up in abandoned house, Martin is befriended by a little girl and her dog. It so happens that the girl is the daughter of the crusading DA, and thereby hangs the rest of this tale.

Johnny One-Eye

1950

Born Reckless poster
3.9

Rider Kelly Cobb travels to county rodeos to win money so he can buy a patch of land he wants to call his own. One night he rescues trick rider Jackie Adams from the clutches of an amorous rodeo promoter and they form a team and hit the circuit along with sidekick Cool Man.

Born Reckless

1958

The Glass Cage poster
5.6

A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!

The Glass Cage

1955