Directing

Kurt Neumann

Born April 5, 1908 · Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany

Died August 21, 1958 · aged 50

Kurt Neumann (5 April 1908, Nuremberg, Germany - 21 August 1958, Los Angeles) was a german Hollywood film director who specialized in science fiction movies in his later career. Neumann came to the US in the early talkie era, hired to direct German language versions of Hollywood films. Once he mastered English and established himself as technically proficient in filmmaking, Neumann directed such …

Known For

The Fly

The Fly · 1958

MovieScience FictionHorror

Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.

Kronos

MovieScience Fiction

Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy directed at it in an effort to destroy it.

Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter · 1936

Dracula's Daughter

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Tarzan's Desert Mystery

Tarzan's Desert Mystery · 1943

Tarzan's Desert Mystery

MovieActionAdventure

A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set out across the desert looking for the plants. Along the way they befriend a stranded American lady magician.

Son of Ali Baba

Son of Ali Baba · 1952

Son of Ali Baba

MovieFantasyAction

In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl who he later finds is an escaped slave girl belonging to the wicked Caliph. They flee to his father's palace. But alas, there's more to her than meets the eye. Will the evil schemers succeed? The sons of the Forty Thieves to the rescue!

About Face

About Face · 1942

Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman · 1946

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman

MovieActionAdventure

A tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into Africa.

Touchdown, Army

Touchdown, Army · 1938

Touchdown, Army

MovieDramaComedy

Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.

Filmography

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The Fly

The Fly · 1958

MovieScience FictionHorror

Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.

Director

Kronos

MovieScience Fiction

Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy directed at it in an effort to destroy it.

Director

Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter · 1936

Dracula's Daughter

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

treatment

Tarzan's Desert Mystery

Tarzan's Desert Mystery · 1943

Tarzan's Desert Mystery

MovieActionAdventure

A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set out across the desert looking for the plants. Along the way they befriend a stranded American lady magician.

Associate Producer

Son of Ali Baba

Son of Ali Baba · 1952

Son of Ali Baba

MovieFantasyAction

In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl who he later finds is an escaped slave girl belonging to the wicked Caliph. They flee to his father's palace. But alas, there's more to her than meets the eye. Will the evil schemers succeed? The sons of the Forty Thieves to the rescue!

Director

About Face

About Face · 1942

Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.

Director

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman · 1946

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman

MovieActionAdventure

A tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into Africa.

Director

Touchdown, Army

Touchdown, Army · 1938

Touchdown, Army

MovieDramaComedy

Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.

Director

Tarzan and the Huntress

Tarzan and the Huntress · 1947

Tarzan and the Huntress

A shortage of zoo animals after World War II brings beautiful animal trainer Tanya, her financial backer and her cruel trail boss to the jungle. After negotiating a quota with the native king, they take more animals than allowed. Tarzan intervenes.

Director

The Return of the Vampire

The Return of the Vampire · 1943

The Return of the Vampire

In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.

Story

Action in the North Atlantic

Action in the North Atlantic · 1943

Action in the North Atlantic

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.

German (uncredited)

The Deerslayer

The Deerslayer · 1957

MovieAdventureWestern

After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the hostile Huron Indians, they learn that the Hurons will attack Old Tom Hutter and his two daughters, Hetty and Judith, who live on a floating raft fort on the river.

Screenplay

Rocketship X-M

Rocketship X-M · 1950

MovieScience FictionAdventure

Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations cause them to end up landing on Mars. On Mars, evidence of a once powerful civilization is found. The scientists determine that an atomic war destroyed most of the Martians. Those that survived reverted to a caveman like existence.

Director

Above Suspicion

Above Suspicion · 1943

Above Suspicion

Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

Gestapo Man (Uncredited)

Unmarried

Unmarried · 1939

MovieRomanceAction

Pals Pat Rogers and Slag Bailey try to collect a debt from Slag's recently deceased boxing promoter but wind up collecting his child, instead, and raising him as their own son.

Director

The President's Analyst

The President's Analyst · 1967

The President's Analyst

MovieComedyScience Fiction

At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.

Assistant Director

Tarzan and the Amazons

Tarzan and the Amazons · 1945

Tarzan and the Amazons

MovieAdventureAction

A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.

Director

Three from Variety

Three from Variety · 1954

Three from Variety

Jeanine, her husband Alexis and Renato are the stars of the Varieté Royal under the name “The 3 Loopings”. A blindfolded somersault performed for the first time catapulted the three even higher in the audience’s favour. Jeanine repeatedly has problems with Renato, who has fallen in love her…

Director

Cattle Drive

Cattle Drive · 1951

The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and the lad must start learning the hard lessons of working in a team if he wants to make it to San Diego.

Director

Half a Sinner

Half a Sinner · 1934

A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.

Director

Enter Laughing

Enter Laughing · 1967

MovieComedyRomance

A machinist's apprentice in Depression-era New York, David dreams of becoming the new Ronald Colman. Defying the wishes of his parents, David lands a nonpaying job in a seedy theatrical production directed by broken-down ham Marlowe.

Assistant Director

Tarzan and the She-Devil

Tarzan and the She-Devil · 1953

Tarzan and the She-Devil

MovieActionAdventure

The king of the jungle fights off ivory poachers.

Director

They Were So Young

They Were So Young · 1954

They Were So Young

A model agency in Rio de Janeiro is actually a front for a white-slavery ring that kidnaps European women and sells them on the South American sex market.

Director

The Brotherhood of the Bell

The Brotherhood of the Bell · 1970

The Brotherhood of the Bell

MovieDramaThriller

A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past — in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him.

Assistant Director