Directing

Melville Shyer

Born September 28, 1895 · Memphis - Tennessee - USA

Died September 14, 1968 · aged 72

From Wikipedia Melville Jacob Shyer (September 28, 1895 – September 14, 1968) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer and one of the founders of the Directors Guild of America. His career spanned over 50 years, during which he worked with Mack Sennett and D. W. Griffith. Shyer was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son of Hattie (Schwarzenberg) and Charles Richard Shyer. Hi…

Known For

The Killers

The Killers · 1946

MovieCrimeMystery

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

The Woman in Green

The Woman in Green · 1945

The Woman in Green

MovieMysteryCrime

Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.

Terror by Night

Terror by Night · 1946

Terror by Night

MovieMysteryCrime

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.

Son of Dracula

Son of Dracula · 1943

Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.

Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street · 1945

MovieDramaCrime

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man · 1943

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

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…

Beginning of the End

Beginning of the End · 1957

Beginning of the End

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?

The Night Holds Terror

The Night Holds Terror · 1955

The Night Holds Terror

MovieCrimeThriller

A group of escaped convicts holds a household prisoner as the police close in.

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The Killers

The Killers · 1946

MovieCrimeMystery

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

Assistant Director

The Woman in Green

The Woman in Green · 1945

The Woman in Green

MovieMysteryCrime

Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.

Assistant Director

Terror by Night

Terror by Night · 1946

Terror by Night

MovieMysteryCrime

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.

Assistant Director

Son of Dracula

Son of Dracula · 1943

Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.

Assistant Director

Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street · 1945

MovieDramaCrime

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

Assistant Director

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man · 1943

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

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…

Assistant Director

Beginning of the End

Beginning of the End · 1957

Beginning of the End

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?

Assistant Director

The Night Holds Terror

The Night Holds Terror · 1955

The Night Holds Terror

MovieCrimeThriller

A group of escaped convicts holds a household prisoner as the police close in.

Assistant Director

The Girl Who Came Back

The Girl Who Came Back · 1935

The Girl Who Came Back

MovieCrimeDrama

A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.

Assistant Director

The Drifter

The Drifter · 1932

MovieDramaWestern

A man known as The Drifter returns home to his cabin in the woods and winds up getting involved with an escaped convict, a gunfighter, lumber company rivals, mysterious family ties and murder.

Second Unit

Jungle Woman

Jungle Woman · 1944

MovieDramaFantasy

Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.

Assistant Director

The Lady in Scarlet

The Lady in Scarlet · 1935

The Lady in Scarlet

MovieMysteryRomance

When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.

Assistant Director

Man from the Black Hills

Man from the Black Hills · 1952

Man from the Black Hills

MovieWesternDrama

As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em out for Monogram. In Man From Black Hills, Johnny tries to help locate his saddle pal Jim Fallan's (James Ellison) long-lost father. Arriving in a small mining town, Johnny and Jim discover that Jim's father has established a financial empire--and that a local opportunist (Randy Brooks) has capitalized on this by claiming to be the old man's son.

Assistant Director

Condemned to Live

Condemned to Live · 1935

Condemned to Live

MovieHorrorThriller

After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.

Assistant Director

The Secrets of Wu Sin

The Secrets of Wu Sin · 1932

The Secrets of Wu Sin

MovieCrimeRomance

A murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown.

Assistant Director

Port of Lost Dreams

Port of Lost Dreams · 1934

Port of Lost Dreams

MovieCrimeDrama

A gangster's girlfriend on the run from the police, who suspect her of helping her boyfriend commit a robbery, holes up in a waterfront bar. She stows away on a fishing boat headed out to sea, and winds up falling in love with and marrying one of the fishermen, but doesn't tell him about her past. However, a year after they're married and have a child, her ex-boyfriend gets out of jail and comes looking for her.

Assistant Director

Arson, Inc.

Arson, Inc. · 1949

MovieActionCrime

An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.

Assistant Director

False Pretenses

False Pretenses · 1935

False Pretenses

MovieComedyRomance

A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.

Assistant Director

It Comes Up Love

It Comes Up Love · 1943

It Comes Up Love

MovieComedyRomance

This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a flirtation parallel with that of their elders, Louise Allbritton and Ian Hunter.

Assistant Director

Jungle Goddess

Jungle Goddess · 1948

MovieRomanceAction

When a plane carrying the daughter of a millionaire crashes in an African jungle, two pilots set out to collect the reward. They discover that she has become the goddess of a primitive tribe. An insurgent witch doctor and fierce wild animals make escape from the jungle difficult for the trio.

Assistant Director

Mad Youth

Mad Youth · 1940

A rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay with a friend who is enslaved by a prostitution ring.

Director

Confessions of a Vice Baron

Confessions of a Vice Baron · 1943

Confessions of a Vice Baron

On the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as abortion and white slavery, in which he frequently operated under an alias.

Director

Captive Wild Woman

Captive Wild Woman · 1943

Captive Wild Woman

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.

Assistant Director

Cross-Examination

Cross-Examination · 1932

Cross-Examination

MovieDramaMystery

Defense Atorney Gerald Waring uses great skill and ingenuity in his efforts to save the life of a young man charged with the murder of his father. Witness after witness piles up damaging evidence against the accused youth, but expert cross-examination by Waring digs out the startling truth behind the killing and subsequently reveals the identity of the real killer in a surprise-twist ending.

Assistant Director