Curt Siodmak

Writing

Curt Siodmak

Born — Died

1902-08-10 — 2000-09-02

Place of birth

Dresden, Germany

Known for

Writing

Credits

46 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Curt Siodmak (August 10, 1902 – September 2, 2000) was a novelist and screenwriter. He made a name for himself in Hollywood with horror and science fiction films, most notably The Wolf Man and Donovan's Brain (the latter adapted from his novel of the same name). He was the brother of noir director Robert Siodmak. Description above from the Wikipedia article Curt Siodmak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Wolf Man poster
7.0

After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.

The Wolf Man

1941

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man poster
6.2

After being resurrected by grave robbers, Larry Talbot searches for Dr. Frankenstein in the hopes of being cured of his lycanthropy. The mad scientist may turn out to be dead, but his monster is just waiting to be found…

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

1943

The Invisible Man Returns poster
6.3

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

The Invisible Man Returns

1940

Invisible Agent poster
5.8

The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.

Invisible Agent

1942

Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace poster
5.5

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson embark on a search for Cleopatra's ancient necklace, which has been stolen.

Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace

1962

The Beast with Five Fingers poster
6.4

Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.

The Beast with Five Fingers

1947

I Walked with a Zombie poster
6.8

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

I Walked with a Zombie

1943

Creature with the Atom Brain poster
5.1

Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bullets which strike them. A police doctor's investigation of the deaths leads to the discovery of an army of dead criminal musclemen restored to life, remotely controlled by a vengeful former crime boss and a former Nazi scientist, from the latter's laboratory hidden in the suburbs.

Creature with the Atom Brain

1955

The Climax poster
5.5

Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.

The Climax

1944

Love Slaves of the Amazons poster
4.5

A party of explorers in the Amazon jungle are captured by a tribe of women, and learn that they are to be used as the tribe's "love slaves."

Love Slaves of the Amazons

1957

Love Slaves of the Amazons poster
4.5

A party of explorers in the Amazon jungle are captured by a tribe of women, and learn that they are to be used as the tribe's "love slaves."

Love Slaves of the Amazons

1957

Love Slaves of the Amazons poster
4.5

A party of explorers in the Amazon jungle are captured by a tribe of women, and learn that they are to be used as the tribe's "love slaves."

Love Slaves of the Amazons

1957

Black Friday poster
6.0

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.

Black Friday

1940

The Devil's Messenger poster
4.7

In this feature version of the Swedish TV series "13 Demon Street," a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams.

The Devil's Messenger

1962

The Devil's Messenger poster
4.7

In this feature version of the Swedish TV series "13 Demon Street," a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams.

The Devil's Messenger

1962

Bride of the Gorilla poster
4.8

The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head?

Bride of the Gorilla

1951

Bride of the Gorilla poster
4.8

The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head?

Bride of the Gorilla

1951

Riders to the Stars poster
5.9

Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world

Riders to the Stars

1954

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon poster
3.8

Rock and Dr. Andrea travel up the Amazon to find out why the plantation workers have left their work in panic, allegedly because of attacks from Curucu, a monster who is said to live up the river where no white man has ever been before...

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon

1956

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon poster
3.8

Rock and Dr. Andrea travel up the Amazon to find out why the plantation workers have left their work in panic, allegedly because of attacks from Curucu, a monster who is said to live up the river where no white man has ever been before...

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon

1956

The Magnetic Monster poster
5.6

The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.

The Magnetic Monster

1953

The Magnetic Monster poster
5.6

The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.

The Magnetic Monster

1953

Tarzan's Magic Fountain poster
5.9

An expedition tries to enlist Tarzan's help in finding the secret Blue Valley, which legend says is the location of a miraculous fountain of youth.

Tarzan's Magic Fountain

1949

London Blackout Murders poster
6.7

A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Jack Rawling, tries to help her turn her new apartment into a home. Meanwhile the newspapers are reporting news of the "London Blackout Murders," a murder spree being committed against a ring of suspected Nazi spies, and Mary must determine if her kind landlord is an assassin.

London Blackout Murders

1943

The Slump Is Over poster
6.2

A provincial tour fails without money in an abandoned theater in the capital and puts on a review under the sign of optimism.

The Slump Is Over

1934

Non-Stop New York poster
6.8

A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.

Non-Stop New York

1937

Shady Lady poster
6.0

A crook becomes the victim of a crafty card player who works for the District Attorney.

Shady Lady

1945

Aloma of the South Seas poster
7.0

A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education and returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.

Aloma of the South Seas

1941

The Man in Search of His Murderer poster
7.2

A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.

The Man in Search of His Murderer

1931

The Ape poster
4.9

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?

The Ape

1940

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Maskottchen

1929

The Mantrap poster
8.0

Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection. While Stephenson is being honoured for his past successes, he senses modern detectives, particularly the current District Attorney, look at him and his methods as outdated. This spurs the old man out of retirement to prove himself to the know-it-all modern detectives.

The Mantrap

1943

Tales of Frankenstein poster
7.3

In this pilot for a series that was never picked up, Dr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. Enter a terminally ill sculptor and his assertive wife…

Tales of Frankenstein

1958

Ski Fever poster
7.0

An American student at an Austrian resort disapproves of the games of seduction played by his fellow ski instructors.

Ski Fever

1966

Girls Will Be Boys poster
5.8

The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a boy.

Girls Will Be Boys

1934

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer poster
6.5

F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and French speaking actors at the same time.

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer

1932

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Flucht in die Fremdenlegion

1929

Marion, That's Not Nice poster
10.0

A young painter in the academy hires as a model the daughter of a rich soap manufacturer and has her pose for a work based on the biblical Susannah and the Elders, which almost causes a scandal.

Marion, That's Not Nice

1933

The Shot in the Talker Studio poster
6.2

During the shooting of a jealousy scene on a soundstage, one actress is murdered. Due to the fact that the male star of the movie had a relation with the victim and the female star is now his fiance, he is suspected by the police.

The Shot in the Talker Studio

1930

No artwork available
9.0

A meek clerk can no longer abide the nastiness of his boarding house proprietress and takes drastic action.

The fight with the dragon or: The tragedy of the lodger

1930