Gordon Hessler

Directing

Gordon Hessler

Born — Died

1925-12-12 — 2014-01-19

Place of birth

Berlin, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

32 titles

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Gordon Hessler (12 December 1925 – 19 January 2014) was a German-born British film and television director, screenwriter and producer. Raised in England and studied at the University of Reading, while a teenager, Hessler moved to the United States and directed a series of short films and documentaries. Universal Studios hired Hessler as a story reader for the anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He became its story editor for two seasons (1960–1962), then served as an associate producer for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour from 1962 until its cancellation in 1965. He directed for that, as well as several other shows, among them Hawaii Five-O, The Ma…

Known for

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad poster
6.7

Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile, Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map.

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

1973

Hitchhike! poster
8.0

Claire Stevens, on her way from Los Angeles to visit her sister in San Francisco, picks up a hitchhiker who has just killed his stepmother. Charmed by him, she fails to notice his strange behaviour until it's too late.

Hitchhike!

1974

The Girl in a Swing poster
4.9

A London art broker travels to Copenhagen, where he requires the services of a multilingual secretary. He falls deeply in love with the woman, despite knowing virtually nothing about her. She insists on not being married in a church, and after they're wed, some bad things from her past begin surfacing in subtly supernatural ways, and the new husband must find the best way to cope without destroying their relationship.

The Girl in a Swing

1988

The Misfit Brigade poster
5.7

In 1943, Nazi Germany suffers heavy losses at the Eastern Front and an order for all-out retreat is ultimately issued. The 27th Penal Panzer Regiment, consisting solely of those convicted of various real or political crimes ranging from incest to dissidence, has just returned from Stalingrad where German forces were decimated by the Soviets after a brutal, year-long fight.

The Misfit Brigade

1987

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park poster
5.2

The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Devereaux has found a way to clone humans into robots in his laboratory at an amusement park. It just so happens that he plans to use the KISS concert as a platform to unleash his plan on the world. KISS must use their special powers to stop him.

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park

1978

Scream and Scream Again poster
5.3

A serial killer stalks and drains the blood of women in London, eventually leading police to the countryside, where eccentric Dr Browning harvests body parts and constructs composite artificial humans as part of a twisted experiment to create a superior race.

Scream and Scream Again

1970

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad poster
6.7

Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile, Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map.

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

1973

Hitchhike! poster
8.0

Claire Stevens, on her way from Los Angeles to visit her sister in San Francisco, picks up a hitchhiker who has just killed his stepmother. Charmed by him, she fails to notice his strange behaviour until it's too late.

Hitchhike!

1974

The Girl in a Swing poster
4.9

A London art broker travels to Copenhagen, where he requires the services of a multilingual secretary. He falls deeply in love with the woman, despite knowing virtually nothing about her. She insists on not being married in a church, and after they're wed, some bad things from her past begin surfacing in subtly supernatural ways, and the new husband must find the best way to cope without destroying their relationship.

The Girl in a Swing

1988

The Girl in a Swing poster
4.9

A London art broker travels to Copenhagen, where he requires the services of a multilingual secretary. He falls deeply in love with the woman, despite knowing virtually nothing about her. She insists on not being married in a church, and after they're wed, some bad things from her past begin surfacing in subtly supernatural ways, and the new husband must find the best way to cope without destroying their relationship.

The Girl in a Swing

1988

The Misfit Brigade poster
5.7

In 1943, Nazi Germany suffers heavy losses at the Eastern Front and an order for all-out retreat is ultimately issued. The 27th Penal Panzer Regiment, consisting solely of those convicted of various real or political crimes ranging from incest to dissidence, has just returned from Stalingrad where German forces were decimated by the Soviets after a brutal, year-long fight.

The Misfit Brigade

1987

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park poster
5.2

The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Devereaux has found a way to clone humans into robots in his laboratory at an amusement park. It just so happens that he plans to use the KISS concert as a platform to unleash his plan on the world. KISS must use their special powers to stop him.

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park

1978

Scream and Scream Again poster
5.3

A serial killer stalks and drains the blood of women in London, eventually leading police to the countryside, where eccentric Dr Browning harvests body parts and constructs composite artificial humans as part of a twisted experiment to create a superior race.

Scream and Scream Again

1970

Rage of Honor poster
5.7

Japanese cop Shiro and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they're betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Shiro follows the murderer, a sadistic drug lord, up to Argentina.

Rage of Honor

1987

Cry of the Banshee poster
5.4

In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.

Cry of the Banshee

1970

Murders in the Rue Morgue poster
5.2

In turn-of-the-century Paris, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the titular play with his wife, Madeleine Charron, who suffers dreadful nightmares. When several murders by acid connect to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner, Rene Marot.

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1971

The Oblong Box poster
5.8

Evil lurks in the gloomy house at Markham Manor where a deranged Sir Edward is the chained prisoner of his brother Julian. When Sir Edward escapes, he embarks on a monstrous killing spree, determined to seek revenge on all those whom he feels have double-crossed him.

The Oblong Box

1969

The Oblong Box poster
5.8

Evil lurks in the gloomy house at Markham Manor where a deranged Sir Edward is the chained prisoner of his brother Julian. When Sir Edward escapes, he embarks on a monstrous killing spree, determined to seek revenge on all those whom he feels have double-crossed him.

The Oblong Box

1969

The Last Shot You Hear poster
10.0

Charles Nordeck is a successful marriage counselor whose own marriage is on the rocks. When his wife Anne seeks a divorce, Charles refuses to sign the papers fearing the bad publicity could ruin his career. The adulterous Anne then convinces her lover Peter to take care of the problem.

The Last Shot You Hear

1969

Pray for Death poster
6.1

Akira Saito, a Japanese businessman lives in Tokyo with his Japanese-American wife Aiko and their children, Takeshi and Tomoya. When the family has a chance to move to the United States so that Aiko can teach the children about their American heritage, they pack up and head for Houston, Texas and run a restaurant. This is where the trouble begins....

Pray for Death

1985

Journey of Honor poster
5.1

In war-torn 17th-century Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu sends his trusted samurai, Mayeda, and his son Yourimune to Spain. There, they're to buy five thousand muskets. But it is a dangerous journey, and there are many who conspire against them.

Journey of Honor

1991

Secrets of Three Hungry Wives poster
5.0

When a millionaire playboy is murdered, suspicion falls on three married women, best friends, whom he had tried to play against each other in a game of divide and conquer.

Secrets of Three Hungry Wives

1978

Out on Bail poster
5.3

A Tennessee sheriff and lawyer want a jailed drifter to assassinate a mayoral candidate.

Out on Bail

1989

Evil Stalks This House poster
5.7

Self-serving, abusive boor Stokes and his two children become stranded by a thunderstorm, forcing them to take shelter in an isolated country estate owned by a group of mysterious and wealthy old dowagers. Seeing a golden opportunity, Stokes turns to plundering their estate, but his plans collide with the secret activities of a Satanic snake-cult who carry out ritual sacrifices in the attic.

Evil Stalks This House

1981

A Cry in the Wilderness poster
6.5

The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive or rational his appearance or argument. However, the creek dries up, indicating an upstream blockage and an imminent flood. Several trips upstream by the son have failed to locate the blockage and now Dad wants to be released...

A Cry in the Wilderness

1974

The Secret War of Jackie's Girls poster
5.0

This prospective pilot to a series tells the improbable story of five American female pilots recruited into the British RAF, before the USA joined the war, to fly a new top-secret aircraft -- the helicopter.

The Secret War of Jackie's Girls

1980

Escape from El Diablo poster
5.3

Two young Americans, Pauli and Daniel, journey via motorcycle across the border into Mexico to visit a bar next to the infamous El Diablo prison. Pauli starts a fight with off-duty guards and is locked up. When Daniel realizes the corrupt guards are demanding a steep bribe, he rounds up their SoCal friends—including surfers and skateboarders—to stage a daring breakout.

Escape from El Diablo

1983

The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver poster
6.4

A housewife, tired of her everyday routine, makes changes in her hair, wardrobe and makeup, and adopts the personality of a woman who had died five years earlier.

The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver

1977

The Master Ninja 5 poster
10.0

Lee Van Cleef stars as John Peter McAllister, who as a reverend master of the Ninja warrior society, deserts the order the order to search for his missing daughter in the U.S.

The Master Ninja 5

1985

Embassy poster
6.5

A KGB assassin infiltrates the American embassy in Beirut in an attempt to eliminate a Russian defector being protected by the CIA.

Embassy

1972

Scream, Pretty Peggy poster
6.2

A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.

Scream, Pretty Peggy

1973

Medusa poster
3.9

In Greece, a stewardess is murdered by a masked maniac. Suspicion falls on a drunken American playboy and a murderous gangster.

Medusa

1973

3-Way Split poster
5.2

Tony Pintana, an art collector, and his wife are contacted by Martin, who is short on cash and proposes to rob a museum of a Indian golden mask that's worth 10 million dollar. When their attempt miserably fails, the museum decides to have the mask transported to a safer location. The three try their luck again and are successful this time. Chased by a policeman who isn't convinced they're innocent, the three will have a difficult time selling the mask on the black market.

3-Way Split

1976

Catacombs poster
6.1

A rich woman who uses meditation to deal with pain is visited by her niece who returns from Paris. The woman can be a handful and one of her employees suggests to her husband that he kill her freeing them both. When an affair starts between the husband and the niece murder becomes a real possibility. However some people won't stay dead.

Catacombs

1965

Betrayal poster
5.9

Wealthy widow Helen Mercer hires a young woman, Gretchen Addison, to act as her personal assistant and companion. Unfortunately, Helen is a poor judge of character, as Gretchen is part of a murderous extortionist duo with her boyfriend, Jay. However, Gretchen has second thoughts when she develops genuine affection for Helen. When Gretchen informs Jay that she wants to call off their plot, he refuses and carries on with the plan. Now both Helen and Gretchen may be in grave danger.

Betrayal

1974

Puzzle poster
10.0

Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and intrigue.

Puzzle

1978

Skyway to Death poster
5.2

When an aerial tramway stalls 8,500ft in the air after a disgruntled, terminated employee sabotages the mechanical system, a diverse group of passengers must fight for survival as severe winds and mechanical failure threaten to plunge the car downward.

Skyway to Death

1974