Nathan Juran

Directing

Nathan Juran

Born — Died

1907-09-01 — 2002-10-23

Place of birth

Gurahumora, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary (now Gura Humorului, Romania)

Known for

Directing

Credits

31 titles

Naftuli "Nathan" Hertz Juran (September 1, 1907 - October 23, 2002) was an American film art director and film director who is most noted for winning the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for How Green Was My Valley and for directing science fiction and fantasy films such as Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. He was also the brother of quality guru Joseph M. Juran.

Known for

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad poster
6.9

When the lovely Princess Parisa is shrunken by wicked Sokurah the Magician, Sinbad must embark on a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

1958

20 Million Miles to Earth poster
6.2

When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save Colonel Robert Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.

20 Million Miles to Earth

1957

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman poster
4.8

When an abused wife grows to giant size following an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her philandering husband with revenge on her mind.

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

1958

Jack the Giant Killer poster
6.6

Desiring control of the kingdom, evil wizard Pendragon devises a cunning machination to usurp the throne. By abducting and forcing Princess Elaine to marry him, Pendragon will coerce the king into abdicating his power. When Pendragon sends a giant to kidnap Elaine, a simple farmer named Jack witnesses the abduction, and bravely slays the beast. Undeterred, Pendragon has more power and creatures at his disposal.

Jack the Giant Killer

1962

Good Day for a Hanging poster
6.4

When the local sheriff is killed after a bank robbery, ex-lawman Ben Cutler collars the apparent killer, Eddie Campbell. Because of his background as a local youth who spent time living with the Cutlers, Eddie gets the benefit of the doubt from Ben's daughter and his wife-to-be. Ben is firm that Eddie is guilty, and as the matter is debated in a divisive court battle, it will soon become clear whether he's right.

Good Day for a Hanging

1959

Law and Order poster
5.7

Wild West lawman Frame Johnson arrests a notorious outlaw, but, after the locals threaten to break into the prison and hang the crook without a trial, Johnson gets fed up with injustice. He decides to put his days of gunslinging behind him in favor of a simple domestic life with his lover, Jeannie. The couple move to the supposedly idyllic Cottonwood — only to find that their new home has been overrun by a rogue rancher who has unfinished business with Frame.

Law and Order

1953

Film credits

Behind the camera

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad poster
6.9

When the lovely Princess Parisa is shrunken by wicked Sokurah the Magician, Sinbad must embark on a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

1958

20 Million Miles to Earth poster
6.2

When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save Colonel Robert Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.

20 Million Miles to Earth

1957

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman poster
4.8

When an abused wife grows to giant size following an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her philandering husband with revenge on her mind.

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

1958

Jack the Giant Killer poster
6.6

Desiring control of the kingdom, evil wizard Pendragon devises a cunning machination to usurp the throne. By abducting and forcing Princess Elaine to marry him, Pendragon will coerce the king into abdicating his power. When Pendragon sends a giant to kidnap Elaine, a simple farmer named Jack witnesses the abduction, and bravely slays the beast. Undeterred, Pendragon has more power and creatures at his disposal.

Jack the Giant Killer

1962

Jack the Giant Killer poster
6.6

Desiring control of the kingdom, evil wizard Pendragon devises a cunning machination to usurp the throne. By abducting and forcing Princess Elaine to marry him, Pendragon will coerce the king into abdicating his power. When Pendragon sends a giant to kidnap Elaine, a simple farmer named Jack witnesses the abduction, and bravely slays the beast. Undeterred, Pendragon has more power and creatures at his disposal.

Jack the Giant Killer

1962

Good Day for a Hanging poster
6.4

When the local sheriff is killed after a bank robbery, ex-lawman Ben Cutler collars the apparent killer, Eddie Campbell. Because of his background as a local youth who spent time living with the Cutlers, Eddie gets the benefit of the doubt from Ben's daughter and his wife-to-be. Ben is firm that Eddie is guilty, and as the matter is debated in a divisive court battle, it will soon become clear whether he's right.

Good Day for a Hanging

1959

Law and Order poster
5.7

Wild West lawman Frame Johnson arrests a notorious outlaw, but, after the locals threaten to break into the prison and hang the crook without a trial, Johnson gets fed up with injustice. He decides to put his days of gunslinging behind him in favor of a simple domestic life with his lover, Jeannie. The couple move to the supposedly idyllic Cottonwood — only to find that their new home has been overrun by a rogue rancher who has unfinished business with Frame.

Law and Order

1953

First Men in the Moon poster
6.3

The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew comprised of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria, proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.

First Men in the Moon

1964

The Golden Blade poster
6.7

A dashing merchant uses the magic sword of Damascus to free a Baghdad princess from the clutches of a grand vizier and his son.

The Golden Blade

1953

The Deadly Mantis poster
5.0

When a melting iceberg releases a prehistoric giant praying mantis, a palaeontologist works alongside the military to kill it after it attacks scientific outposts on its way to Washington and New York.

The Deadly Mantis

1957

Drums Across the River poster
5.8

All the gold in a small Colorado town has been panned, save for a bit on land belonging to the Ute. Greedy Frank Walker rounds up the locals and makes plans to raid the territory, but even-tempered settler Sam Brannon tries to dissuade Walker. As the battle nears, Sam's conflicted son, Gary, is torn between his belief in his father's morality and his hatred of the Utes, who killed his mother.

Drums Across the River

1954

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf poster
5.8

Little Richie Bridgestone goes to spend the weekend with his father at his secluded mountain cabin, and witnesses his father being attacked by 'a creature' that the boy recognizes as a werewolf. He tries to convince his mother and his therapist that his father is now a werewolf.

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

1973

Highway Dragnet poster
5.7

Ex-Marine Jim Henry, on the lam from a murder charge, hitches a ride with a glamour-magazine photographer, who is journeying cross-country with her principal model. Tensions rise, however, when the women realize their traveling companion may be a killer.

Highway Dragnet

1954

Hellcats of the Navy poster
4.8

Captain Casey Abbott commands an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II. When a perilous mission to retrieve a new Japanese mine for study goes awry, he's forced to abandon a likable combat diver. Abbott's orders to leave a man behind appear to be justified, but his second-in-command believes he had ulterior motives:

Hellcats of the Navy

1957

The Brain from Planet Arous poster
5.1

A malevolent alien brain, bent on world domination, takes over the body of an atomic scientist, while a 'good' alien brain inhabits the body of the scientist's dog and waits for an opportunity to defeat the evil brain.

The Brain from Planet Arous

1957

Siege of the Saxons poster
5.4

King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. Following the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the princess is ordered by the great wizard Merlin to remove the sword from the scabbard and prove his right to the throne.

Siege of the Saxons

1963

Land Raiders poster
5.6

An outlaw committing a string of robberies and murders manages to blame the crimes on Apaches, bringing about an Indian war.

Land Raiders

1969

Flight of the Lost Balloon poster
5.8

A top-hatted Englishman and his fiancée set off on an adventure to rescue a colleague from a Hindu on the Nile.

Flight of the Lost Balloon

1961

Flight of the Lost Balloon poster
5.8

A top-hatted Englishman and his fiancée set off on an adventure to rescue a colleague from a Hindu on the Nile.

Flight of the Lost Balloon

1961

The Black Castle poster
6.4

Englishman Sir Ronald Burton enters the castle of Austrian nobleman Count von Bruno, complete with torture chamber and moat, while investigating the disappearance of two friends.

The Black Castle

1952

Gunsmoke poster
6.6

Reb Kittridge is hired by the villans but turns to defend the rancher Saxon after learning the true situation. Kittrige wins Saxon's ranch with a cut of the cards but Saxon has other reasons for loosing the gamble. Telford and Lake try everything from bushwacking to wildfire starting to stop the Saxon/Kittridge herd of cattle from reaching the railhead.

Gunsmoke

1953

Doctor Blood's Coffin poster
5.3

After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research laboratory in a secluded cave. There, he attempts to revive the dead, using kidnapped humans -- who he views as unworthy of life -- for their body parts, specifically, their hearts.

Doctor Blood's Coffin

1961

East of Sudan poster
5.9

An English trooper leads a governess, her native charge and a stuffy officer downriver to Khartoum.

East of Sudan

1964

East of Sudan poster
5.9

An English trooper leads a governess, her native charge and a stuffy officer downriver to Khartoum.

East of Sudan

1964

Tumbleweed poster
6.2

Jim Harvey is hired to guard a small wagon train as it Yaqui fighters surround a wagon train, so Jim Harvey, the man guiding the pioneers, steps out to negotiate. They ignore his pleas and overrun the wagons, leaving him for dead. He manages to escape to the nearest town, but there, the law accuses him of deserting the settlers. The townspeople try to lynch him, so he flees to a ranch owned by kindly Nick, who lends Jim a trusty horse named Tumbleweed that may just be fast enough to save the day.

Tumbleweed

1953

The Crooked Web poster
6.0

Following World War II, ex-G.I. Stan Fabian opens a drive-in restaurant, where his girlfriend, Joanie, is a car hop. They want to get married someday, but less-than-stellar business puts a hold on that. One day, Joanie's ne’er-do-well brother Frank blows into town with a money-making scheme. She's against it, but inveterate gambler Stan finds the promise of riches too seductive to resist.

The Crooked Web

1955

Le Imprese di una Spada Leggendaria poster
10.0

Adaptation of The Three Musketeers

Le Imprese di una Spada Leggendaria

1958

Boy Who Caught a Crook poster
5.5

The Boy Who Caught a Crook is a 1961 childrens film about a young boy who tracks down a gangster.

Boy Who Caught a Crook

1961

Mantelli e spade insanguinate poster
10.0

Italian adaptation of the Dumas's novel The Three Musketeers, edited from episodes of the television series I tre moschettieri.

Mantelli e spade insanguinate

1959

The Big Moment poster
NR

A trilogy of individual stories depicting an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different individuals given a chance to live with dignity and self-respect: one, a young thief from Casablanca; another, an immigrant doctor brought to the United States; and the third, a Holocaust survivor.

The Big Moment

1954