Ladislas Fodor

Writing

Ladislas Fodor

Born — Died

1898-03-28 — 1978-09-01

Place of birth

Budapest, Hungary

Known for

Writing

Credits

33 titles

Hungarian born Ladislas Fodor was a novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Numerous films were based on his screenplays or theatrical plays.

Known for

Behind the camera

Old Shatterhand poster
6.2

Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.

Old Shatterhand

1964

North to Alaska poster
6.5

After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.

North to Alaska

1960

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse poster
5.5

Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit the Doctor to find some sort of clues to the robberies.

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

1962

Tom Thumb poster
6.4

A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him.

Tom Thumb

1958

Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse poster
6.4

The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city.

Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse

1963

The Invisible Dr. Mabuse poster
6.8

Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an ominous transport firm soon. When he is receiving mysterious threatening letters he is sure that Dr. Mabuse has risen again. But what is going on at "Enterprise X" so that both the goverment and the mad genius in crime are interested in it?

The Invisible Dr. Mabuse

1962

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse poster
6.2

The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

1964

Pyramid of the Sun God poster
5.6

Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans.

Pyramid of the Sun God

1965

The Zombie Walks poster
6.5

A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring.

The Zombie Walks

1968

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy poster
6.4

Siegfried of Xanten snatches the Nibelung treasure from the king of the underworld and slays the dragon Fafnir, whose blood makes him invulnerable. Siegfried falls in love with Kriemhild, the sister of the Burgundian king. But only if Siegfried helps Gunther marry Brunhild will he be allowed to marry Kriemhild. He fulfills this condition, but the two women bring ruin upon Xanten and Burgundy...

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy

1966

The Return of Dr. Mabuse poster
6.2

The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called "The Anatomy Of The Devil".

The Return of Dr. Mabuse

1961

Mercenaries of the Rio Grande poster
5.9

Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.

Mercenaries of the Rio Grande

1965

The Phantom of Soho poster
6.3

A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub.

The Phantom of Soho

1964

The Fight for Rome poster
5.9

A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus wants to swoop in after they have destroyed each other and create a new Roman Empire from their combined kingdoms; however, he does not factor into his plans the vagaries of love and the personal integrity of the people in both kingdoms.

The Fight for Rome

1968

The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal poster
7.0

The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own gain.

The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal

1969

The Great Sinner poster
6.8

A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

The Great Sinner

1949

The Devil Came from Akasava poster
4.6

A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back!

The Devil Came from Akasava

1971

Tales of Manhattan poster
6.5

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.

Tales of Manhattan

1942

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2 poster
6.5

Now Brunhild knows by which treason she was won for king Gunther of Burgund by Siegfried of Xanthen, and has been revenged by his foul murder by Hagen, more bloody revenge is inevitable. Hagen steals the Nibelungen-treasure to sink it in the stream and manages to kill Alberich and seize his invisibility-cap. Queen Kriemhild is packed of to an abbey so her son may grow up to become a prelate, but Hagen's men raid them and kill the child. She now accepts to become the wife of Etzel, king of the truly barbaric Hun nomads and invites the Burgund court nomenclature at their Danube court for their heir's baptism a few years later, but prepared a bloody conspiracy with her xenophobic brother-in-law behind her surprisingly chivalric husband's back, while Gunther accepts, hoping to avoid a far bloodier war, despite the danger for his party of knights, which materializes...

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2

1967

The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle poster
6.4

A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.

The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

1963

The Other Love poster
6.1

Seriously ill, concert pianist Karen Duncan is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. Despite being attracted to Dr Tony Stanton she ignores his warnings of possibly fatal consequences unless she rests completely. Rather, she opts for a livelier time in Monte Carlo with dashing Paul Clermont.

The Other Love

1947

Who Killed Johnny R.? poster
7.7

An assumed-dead gangster wants to implicate a completely innocent man to pay for his crimes so he can give the slip to his avengers and persecutors.

Who Killed Johnny R.?

1966

Beauty and the Boss poster
7.0

An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.

Beauty and the Boss

1932

Girl Trouble poster
7.5

A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.

Girl Trouble

1942

Breakfast in Bed poster
8.0

Henry and Liane Clausen's marriage is not going well. Henry is an ambitious publisher who is very focused on his career and neglects his wife Liane. In order to shake her husband out of his indifference, Liane Clausen begins an affair with Victor Armstrong. She expects his jealous reaction to confirm that Henry still has feelings for her. But Henry reacts differently than expected: instead of making a scene, he also begins an affair.

Breakfast in Bed

1963

Das Riesenrad poster
6.7

The story of a marriage over time, based on a play by Jan de Hartog. Maria Schell and O. W. Fischer play an aristocratic Austrian couple who meet during the imperial era and experience the first five decades of the 20th century together: temptations and transgressions, world wars, economic crisis, the death of their son in the war. They experience good times and bad times and always remain cheerful, just as the Ferris wheel in Vienna's Prater continues to turn.

Das Riesenrad

1961

A Very Young Lady poster
4.5

A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.

A Very Young Lady

1941

When My Husband Kisses poster
7.7

A high society woman discovers a fiery romantic letter in a raincoat pocket seemingly written by a rumba dancer to the woman’s doctor husband. He tries to cover by saying that the letter is addressed to a more conservative friend of his, leading to rumours of his friend’s (supposed) incredible passion becoming intriguing to the local women, even the Doctor’s own jealous wife.

When My Husband Kisses

1950

No artwork available
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Scheidungsgrund: Liebe

1960

Du bist wunderbar poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Du bist wunderbar

1959

The Ball poster
8.0

The daughter of a nouveau riche family, invited to an upper class ball meant to launch her in society, rejects the offer.

The Ball

1931

The Ball poster
6.8

Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl, but an inheritance turns these nice people into snob Nouveaux Riches. Although the aristocracy invites them, the 'Tout-Paris' laughs behind their back. When they invite their would be new friends for a ball in their desirable new mansion, their daughter, sick and tired of being abandoned by her once loving parents, throws the invitations into the Seine.

The Ball

1931

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Abiturientin

1958