Writing

Lou Rusoff

Born — Died

1911-08-03 — 1963-06-29

Place of birth

Canada

Known for

Writing

Credits

23 titles

Known for

Day the World Ended poster
5.0

After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter, but soon have to deal with the spread of radioactivity - and its effects on animal life, including humans.

Day the World Ended

1955

It Conquered the World poster
4.8

An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend's wife try to intervene.

It Conquered the World

1956

Beach Party poster
6.0

Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.

Beach Party

1963

Panic in Year Zero! poster
6.3

While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the business of surviving in a world where, he knows, the old ideals of humanity will be the first casualties.

Panic in Year Zero!

1962

The She-Creature poster
4.1

A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.

The She-Creature

1956

The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues poster
4.2

A marine biologist and a government agent investigate mysterious deaths and rumors of a sea monster in a secluded ocean cove, and find themselves involved with a marine biology professor conducting secretive experiments, international spies trying to steal his secrets, a radioactive light on the sea bottom, and the malevolent thing which guards it.

The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues

1955

Behind the camera

Day the World Ended poster
5.0

After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter, but soon have to deal with the spread of radioactivity - and its effects on animal life, including humans.

Day the World Ended

1955

It Conquered the World poster
4.8

An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend's wife try to intervene.

It Conquered the World

1956

Beach Party poster
6.0

Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.

Beach Party

1963

Beach Party poster
6.0

Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.

Beach Party

1963

Panic in Year Zero! poster
6.3

While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the business of surviving in a world where, he knows, the old ideals of humanity will be the first casualties.

Panic in Year Zero!

1962

The She-Creature poster
4.1

A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.

The She-Creature

1956

The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues poster
4.2

A marine biologist and a government agent investigate mysterious deaths and rumors of a sea monster in a secluded ocean cove, and find themselves involved with a marine biology professor conducting secretive experiments, international spies trying to steal his secrets, a radioactive light on the sea bottom, and the malevolent thing which guards it.

The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues

1955

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow poster
4.5

A group of drag-racing fanatics, members of a Los Angeles club, move into an old deserted mansion and set up shop, making it their headquarters. They hold a Halloween masked ball for the club's grand opening, and invite everyone to come dressed as their favorite monster! Oddly enough, the festivities turn sour when one of the bright youths discovers an impostor among them in the form of an honest-to-gosh live monster who's been hogging all the dances with the best-looking girls

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow

1959

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow poster
4.5

A group of drag-racing fanatics, members of a Los Angeles club, move into an old deserted mansion and set up shop, making it their headquarters. They hold a Halloween masked ball for the club's grand opening, and invite everyone to come dressed as their favorite monster! Oddly enough, the festivities turn sour when one of the bright youths discovers an impostor among them in the form of an honest-to-gosh live monster who's been hogging all the dances with the best-looking girls

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow

1959

Cat Girl poster
4.9

A psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a family curse.

Cat Girl

1957

Cat Girl poster
4.9

A psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a family curse.

Cat Girl

1957

Hot Rod Gang poster
5.3

A kid who wants to enter his car in the drag races joins a rock band to make enough money to do it.

Hot Rod Gang

1958

Hot Rod Gang poster
5.3

A kid who wants to enter his car in the drag races joins a rock band to make enough money to do it.

Hot Rod Gang

1958

Runaway Daughters poster
4.2

Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from misdemeanors into serious crime - and will suffer for it. Sometimes, repentance comes too late.

Runaway Daughters

1956

Operation Bikini poster
3.8

The film takes place aboard an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II. The sub's commander is ordered to stop and pick up an underwater demolition team led by Lt. Hayes, whose mission is to locate and destroy a US submarine sunken in a lagoon off Bikini Atoll before the Japanese are able to raise it and capture the advanced radar system on board.

Operation Bikini

1963

Apache Woman poster
5.0

A government agent ventures west to look into reports that Apaches are behind a recent wave of frontier attacks. Begins to suspect a set-up.

Apache Woman

1955

Suicide Battalion poster
6.3

Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep strategic papers out of enemy hands when Japanese forces invade. The men spend their last hours drowning their sorrows in a bar, but time is running out. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Jet Attack".

Suicide Battalion

1958

Shake, Rattle and Rock! poster
5.6

A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock 'n' roll palace for teens.

Shake, Rattle and Rock!

1956

Dragstrip Girl poster
6.3

Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don't like either one.

Dragstrip Girl

1957

Submarine Seahawk poster
5.1

For his first command in the Pacific war a by-the-book officer is ordered to take his submarine on a reconnaissance mission to locate a fleet of Japanese fighting ships the Allies have lost track of. At first, the rest of the crew resent his distant manner and the way he keeps avoiding taking on the Japs.

Submarine Seahawk

1958

Motorcycle Gang poster
5.7

A troublemaker returns to town only to find his old tearaway pals have joined a supervised motorcycle club. Friction erupts between him and the new leader about this goody-goody setup, and about the charms of gang moll Terry.

Motorcycle Gang

1957

Girls in Prison poster
4.5

An inmate is persuaded to take part in a prison break by cellmates anxious to cash in on loot they believe she has hidden.

Girls in Prison

1956

The Oklahoma Woman poster
4.4

After six years in jail Steve returns to claim a ranch left him in a will. The town is in the middle of a rough election masterminded by saloon owner Marie. Steve is soon on the side of the opposition candidate and his pretty daughter. The town's tough sheriff is on no-one's side, least of all Steve's

The Oklahoma Woman

1956