Writing

Stanford Whitmore

Born — Died

1925-07-23 — 2014-05-08

Place of birth

Sioux City, Iowa, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

17 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Dark poster
4.5

At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of the victims, and a police detective, but despite their efforts only the mysterious psychic DeRenzy knows what the killer is and how to stop it.

The Dark

1979

My Old Man's Place poster
6.8

Two soldiers return from Vietnam with serious PTSD. They decide to go for a couple of days to a peaceful farm owned by the father of one of the men. A psychotic sergeant who also did tours in Nam, joins them. Personalities clash hard.

My Old Man's Place

1971

No artwork available
NR

A woman walks into a police station with a pistol and a vial of nitroglycerin. It turns out that she is the widow of an infamous criminal shot and killed by a detective. She notifies the police that she is waiting for the detective who shot her husband and intends to kill him in front of his fellow officers.

Deadlock

1967

War Hunt poster
6.4

Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.

War Hunt

1962

The Movie Murderer poster
6.9

An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets.

The Movie Murderer

1970

Trapped Beneath the Sea poster
6.4

Based on an incident that occurred off the coast of Florida in 1973, this film tells the story of four men who find themselves trapped in a mini-submarine in the ocean depths.

Trapped Beneath the Sea

1974

Hammersmith Is Out poster
5.9

The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient offers the innocent orderly vast riches if he'll help him escape.

Hammersmith Is Out

1972

The Best Place to Be poster
7.5

A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an ill-starred love affair she is having with a much younger man -- and then a former suitor comes back into the picture.

The Best Place to Be

1979

The Eyes of Charles Sand poster
6.2

A young man inherits the ability to see visions beyond the grave.

The Eyes of Charles Sand

1972

The Great American Beauty Contest poster
5.8

The pursuit by America's loveliest girls for a coveted beauty crown is threatened by a scandal which implicates a judge, a former winner, and one of the five finalists.

The Great American Beauty Contest

1973

Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story poster
7.4

The true story of treasure hunter Mel Fisher, who spent much of his life--and his fortune--hunting for sunken Spanish treasure galleons off the coast of Florida.

Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story

1986

Baby Blue Marine poster
5.2

A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A small Colorado town takes him in, treating him like the hero he appears to be.

Baby Blue Marine

1976

The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill poster
8.0

D.A. Paul Ryan doesn't buy self-defense when a pharmacist fatally shoots an armed robber and brings the man up on manslaughter charges, for which he's convicted. However, when Ryan discovers the pharmacist's double life--he's been running a burglary ring out of the pharmacy, and the dead man may have been a member of said ring, he vacates the manslaughter conviction and sets out to nail him for murder instead.

The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill

1971

Your Cheatin' Heart poster
6.5

The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.

Your Cheatin' Heart

1964

Destiny of a Spy poster
9.0

A veteran Russian spy is brought out of retirement to be sent to the West to do an important sabotage job. However, he finds himself falling in love with an attractive British double agent.

Destiny of a Spy

1969

The Runaway Barge poster
NR

Two bargemen on the Mississippi River find themselves mixed up in a kidnapping and hijacking plot.

The Runaway Barge

1975

Betrayed by Innocence poster
6.2

A married commercial filmmaker (Barry Bostwick) is charged with statutory rape when it is revealed that his lover (Cristen Kaufman) is only 16.

Betrayed by Innocence

1986