Directing

Monte Hellman

Born July 12, 1929 · Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Died April 20, 2021 · aged 91

Monte Hellman (born Monte Jay Himmelbaum; July 12, 1929 — April 20, 2021) was an American film director, producer, writer, and editor. He was born in New York City, where his parents were visiting, but he grew up in Los Angeles.Hellman began his career as an editor's apprentice at ABC TV, and made his directorial debut with the horror film "Beast from Haunted Cave" (1959), produced by Roger Corm…

Known For

Reservoir Dogs

Reservoir Dogs · 1992

MovieCrimeThriller

A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.

The Terror

The Terror · 1963

MovieHorrorMystery

Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.

The Big Red One

The Big Red One · 1980

The Big Red One

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.

The Shooting

The Shooting · 1966

MovieWesternMystery

Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a nearby town; but soon, because of her erratic behavior, they begin to suspect that her true purpose is quite different.

Head

MovieComedyMusic

In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.

The Killer Elite

The Killer Elite · 1975

The Killer Elite

MovieCrimeAction

Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.

Two-Lane Blacktop

Two-Lane Blacktop · 1971

Two-Lane Blacktop

A driver and mechanic drag racing for money cross paths with a female hitchhiker and a drifter who challenges them to a cross-country race.

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Venice 70: Future Reloaded · 2013

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

MovieDramaDocumentary

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

Filmography

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Reservoir Dogs

Reservoir Dogs · 1992

MovieCrimeThriller

A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.

Executive Producer

The Terror

The Terror · 1963

MovieHorrorMystery

Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.

Location Manager

The Big Red One

The Big Red One · 1980

The Big Red One

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.

Second Unit Director

The Shooting

The Shooting · 1966

MovieWesternMystery

Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a nearby town; but soon, because of her erratic behavior, they begin to suspect that her true purpose is quite different.

Producer

Head

MovieComedyMusic

In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.

Editor

The Killer Elite

The Killer Elite · 1975

The Killer Elite

MovieCrimeAction

Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.

Editor

Two-Lane Blacktop

Two-Lane Blacktop · 1971

Two-Lane Blacktop

A driver and mechanic drag racing for money cross paths with a female hitchhiker and a drifter who challenges them to a cross-country race.

Director

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Venice 70: Future Reloaded · 2013

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

MovieDramaDocumentary

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

Director

Sudden Death

Sudden Death · 1977

When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses, but relents after Neilson too meets an explosive death. Deception, international intrigue and a ruthless "syndicate of businessmen" intent on raping a South Pacific Islands nation of its resources keep the pace fast.

Editor

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre · 1967

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

MovieHistoryCrime

Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.

Dialogue

Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!

Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out! · 1989

Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!

Ricky Caldwell, the notorious 'Killer Santa Claus', awakens from a six-year coma after being kept alive on life-support by a slightly crazed doctor experimenting with ESP and other special abilities. Ricky targets a young, clairvoyant blind woman, named Laura, whom is traveling with her brother Chris, and his girlfriend Jerri to their grandmother's house for Christmas Eve, and Ricky decides to go after her, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.

Director

Love, Cheat & Steal

Love, Cheat & Steal · 1993

Love, Cheat & Steal

MovieThrillerCrime

Paul Harrington thinks he has the perfect wife... stunning, kind, and ambitious. Yet behind Lauren's pretty face lies a wicked person who sent her former boyfriend to jail by setting him up. Reno Adams has lost seven years of his life in Jail and wants revenge. After escaping, he tracks Lauren down and intends to make her and her husband's life a living hell.

Additional Editing

The Wild Angels

The Wild Angels · 1966

The Wild Angels

MovieDramaAction

A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its members is injured, an event that will cause an orgy of violence and destruction.

Editor

Ride in the Whirlwind

Ride in the Whirlwind · 1966

Ride in the Whirlwind

MovieWesternThriller

Three cowboys, mistaken for members of an outlaw gang, are relentlessly pursued by a posse.

Director

Avalanche Express

Avalanche Express · 1979

Avalanche Express

MovieActionThriller

CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.

Editor

Trapped Ashes

Trapped Ashes · 2006

Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they'll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories.

Director

An Almost Perfect Affair

An Almost Perfect Affair · 1979

An Almost Perfect Affair

MovieComedyDrama

An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair begins, but the couple's romance is tested as they face the temptations of fame and fortune.

Monte Hellman on Filmfestival in Cannes

Cockfighter

Cockfighter · 1974

A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.

Director

China 9, Liberty 37

China 9, Liberty 37 · 1978

China 9, Liberty 37

MovieActionWestern

Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.

Producer

Target: Harry

Target: Harry · 1969

MovieMysteryThriller

Pilot Harry Black is hired to fly a man named Carlyle to Istanbul, where he's murdered. Now, mysterious Diane Reed and a local gangster, Rashi, are after Harry believing that he has the priceless plates Carlyle used to counterfeit money.

Editor

Beast from Haunted Cave

Beast from Haunted Cave · 1959

Beast from Haunted Cave

MovieCrimeHorror

A gold thief and his gang use a skier's lodge and meet a monster covered with cobwebs.

Director

Grey Knight

Grey Knight · 1993

MovieDramaHorror

During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers accidentally free an evil voodoo entity brought back by slave traders. The entity possesses the dead bodies of both Union and Confederate soldiers creating an army of its own bent on conquest.

Editor

Sure Did Talk to You: A Conversation with Walter Coblenz, Jared Hellman and Michael Laughlin

Sure Did Talk to You: A Conversation with Walter Coblenz, Jared Hellman and Michael Laughlin · 2007

Sure Did Talk to You: A Conversation with Walter Coblenz, Jared Hellman and Michael Laughlin

MovieDocumentary

An interview with the producers of Monte Hellman's 1971 film TWO-LANE BLACKTOP.

Director

Bus Riley's Back in Town

Bus Riley's Back in Town · 1965

Bus Riley's Back in Town

Bus Riley returns to his small town after time in the army. On his return, his ex-girlfriend wants to resume their relationship. The only problem is she has married in the mean time. Searching for fulfilment in his life, Bus decides to get a job with his gay friend who is a mortician. When the mortician makes a pass at him, Bus quickly gets out.

Assistant Editor