Writing

Aubrey Wisberg

Born — Died

1909-10-20 — 1990-03-14

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Aubrey Lionel Wisberg (October 20, 1909 – March 14, 1990) was a screenwriter, director, and producer. He immigrated to the United States in 1921, attended New York University and Columbia University, and married Barbara Duberstein. Wisberg made his career as a screenwriter, director, and producer with credits in more than 40 films including The Big Fix, The Man from Planet X, Hercules in New York, The Neanderthal Man, Captive Women, Port Sinister and Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl. Three of his early screenplays were World War II movies: Counter-Espionage and Submarine Raider in 1942 and They Came to Blow Up America in 1943. Wisberg's 1945 film The Ho…

Known for

Behind the camera

Hercules in New York poster
4.1

Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestling before getting mixed up with a gang of mobsters.

Hercules in New York

1970

Hercules in New York poster
4.1

Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestling before getting mixed up with a gang of mobsters.

Hercules in New York

1970

Treasure of Monte Cristo poster
5.2

A San Francisco lawyer uses a woman to lure a merchant seaman worth a legendary fortune.

Treasure of Monte Cristo

1949

The Desert Hawk poster
5.4

A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.

The Desert Hawk

1950

The Power of the Whistler poster
5.9

A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.

The Power of the Whistler

1945

Escape in the Fog poster
5.4

A military nurse recovering from a nervous breakdown at an inn keeps having dreams where she witnesses two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a federal agent, she's astounded to discover that he is the victim from her visions.

Escape in the Fog

1945

Counter-Espionage poster
6.7

The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.

Counter-Espionage

1942

The Falcon's Adventure poster
6.7

A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.

The Falcon's Adventure

1946

The Man from Planet X poster
5.8

While watching for a planet that may collide with earth, scientists stationed in Scotland are approached by a visitor from outer space.

The Man from Planet X

1951

The Man from Planet X poster
5.8

While watching for a planet that may collide with earth, scientists stationed in Scotland are approached by a visitor from outer space.

The Man from Planet X

1951

Murder Is My Beat poster
6.0

Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.

Murder Is My Beat

1955

Murder Is My Beat poster
6.0

Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.

Murder Is My Beat

1955

Son of Sinbad poster
5.1

Legendary pirate and adventurer Sinbad is in single-minded pursuit of two things: beautiful women and a substance called Greek Fire--an early version of gunpowder.

Son of Sinbad

1955

Lady in the Iron Mask poster
8.0

A female version of the man in the iron mask. In this version the mask is put on a princess (patricia medina) rather than a prince as in the original book by Alexander Dumas.

Lady in the Iron Mask

1952

Captain John Smith and Pocahontas poster
3.4

With the help of Pocahontas, Captain John Smith overcomes the treachery of some of his men and resentment of the local Native Americans to establish the colony of Jamestown.

Captain John Smith and Pocahontas

1953

Captain John Smith and Pocahontas poster
3.4

With the help of Pocahontas, Captain John Smith overcomes the treachery of some of his men and resentment of the local Native Americans to establish the colony of Jamestown.

Captain John Smith and Pocahontas

1953

So Dark the Night poster
6.1

Inspector Cassin, a renowned Paris detective, departs to the country for a much-needed break. There he falls in love with the innkeeper’s daughter, Nanette, who is already betrothed to a local farmer. On the evening of their engagement party, Nanette and the farmer both disappear. Cassin takes up the case immediately to discover what happened to them and who is responsible.

So Dark the Night

1946

The Wreck of the Hesperus poster
7.0

The story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his salvage company a success. Based on Longfellow's famous poem.

The Wreck of the Hesperus

1948

The Women of Pitcairn Island poster
4.2

The widows and children of survivors of the H.M.S. Bounty rule Pitcairn Island, fighting off sailors and intruders.

The Women of Pitcairn Island

1956

The Women of Pitcairn Island poster
4.2

The widows and children of survivors of the H.M.S. Bounty rule Pitcairn Island, fighting off sailors and intruders.

The Women of Pitcairn Island

1956

Captive Women poster
5.0

In post-apocalyptic New York, three tribes of survivors (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver People) vie for the right to exist. When the treacherous Upriver People attack the Norms, kill their chief and take their people captive, two Norm refugee men must find a way to ally with the Mutates, who have previously kidnapped Norm women in an effort to reproduce healthy children, to rout the Uprivers, who also seek to kill off the Mutates.

Captive Women

1952

Captive Women poster
5.0

In post-apocalyptic New York, three tribes of survivors (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver People) vie for the right to exist. When the treacherous Upriver People attack the Norms, kill their chief and take their people captive, two Norm refugee men must find a way to ally with the Mutates, who have previously kidnapped Norm women in an effort to reproduce healthy children, to rout the Uprivers, who also seek to kill off the Mutates.

Captive Women

1952

The Neanderthal Man poster
4.3

A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous results.

The Neanderthal Man

1953

The Neanderthal Man poster
4.3

A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous results.

The Neanderthal Man

1953

U-Boat Prisoner poster
7.3

Merchant seaman Archie Gibbs manages to survive when his ship is torpedoed by a German submarine. Disguising himself in the uniform of a dead Nazi spy, Gibbs is picked up by the Nazi U-boat. He manages to convince the German sailors that he's the spy, and in this guise he tries to rescue a group of captured Allied scientists.

U-Boat Prisoner

1944

Betrayal from the East poster
6.4

A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.

Betrayal from the East

1945

They Came to Blow Up America poster
6.8

Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations.

They Came to Blow Up America

1943

Road to the Big House poster
6.8

A bank clerk gets sent to prison after he robs his own bank. Live becomes even more difficult behind bars when he starts getting pressured to reveal where he hid the money.

Road to the Big House

1947

Sword of Venus poster
6.0

An enemy of the Count of Monte Cristo frames his son for a murder in order to exact revenge and steal the family fortune.

Sword of Venus

1953

Sword of Venus poster
6.0

An enemy of the Count of Monte Cristo frames his son for a murder in order to exact revenge and steal the family fortune.

Sword of Venus

1953

Adventures of Rusty poster
6.3

Fearing that his recently-acquired step-mother, Ann Dennis, is competing with him for his father's affections, and saddened by the death of his dog, young Danny Mitchell seeks consolation in the companionship of a ferocious, Nazi-trained police dog, Rusty, brought to the U.S. by a returning WWII-veteran. The step-mother, with tender understanding, eventually wins Danny over while Danny pacifies his new dog.

Adventures of Rusty

1945

Problem Girls poster
4.5

A medical student learns about a scheme to drug a girl and pass her off as an heiress to an oil fortune.

Problem Girls

1953

Problem Girls poster
4.5

A medical student learns about a scheme to drug a girl and pass her off as an heiress to an oil fortune.

Problem Girls

1953

Rendezvous 24 poster
9.0

In a remote, mountainous section of Russian-occupied Germany, there is an elaborate post-war Nazi underground dedicated to the achievement of Hitler's dreams of world supremacy. A group of scientists are working on a method of releasing atom bombs through remote control. The FBI learns of the plot and sends an operative in to foil it.

Rendezvous 24

1946

Return to Treasure Island poster
5.6

Jamie, a descendant of Jim Hawkins, teams up with Clive, a scholar of pirate lore, on present-day Treasure Island where villainous rivals seek her priceless map.

Return to Treasure Island

1954

Return to Treasure Island poster
5.6

Jamie, a descendant of Jim Hawkins, teams up with Clive, a scholar of pirate lore, on present-day Treasure Island where villainous rivals seek her priceless map.

Return to Treasure Island

1954

Hit Parade of 1951 poster
6.5

While raising cash to pay a debt, a Vegas gambler tricks a night club crooner there who looks like him to play him for a bit.The gambler's Latina girlfriend opens the eyes of the prissy crooner.

Hit Parade of 1951

1950

The Burning Cross poster
7.0

Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have occurred in his hometown while he was away, a young man becomes easily talked into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Banned by the Virginia Board of Censors, and financed independently because no bank would loan money for it.

The Burning Cross

1947

Port Sinister poster
6.0

A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all.

Port Sinister

1953

Port Sinister poster
6.0

A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all.

Port Sinister

1953