Byron Haskin

Byron Haskin

Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 26 (Director)

Picture submitted by cambel

Find more information about Byron Haskin at The Internet Movie Database

Edit Biography

Titles you haven't rated - Actor (1) | Director (26)

    The War of the Worlds
    The film adaptation of the H.G.Wells story told on radio of the invasion of Earth by Martians.
    Your probable score
    ?
    Treasure Island
    Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Robinson Crusoe on Mars
    Commander Kit Draper and Colonel Dan McReady are orbiting Mars in an exploritory surveyor. A malfunction forces them to eject with only Draper and a monkey named Mona surviving. Draper must learn to survive in this hostile environment fighting thirst, hunger and even hostile aliens if he expects to see home again. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    From the Earth to the Moon
    Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane (Joseph Cotton) invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show it's potential he plans to send a rocket to the moon... (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Action in the North Atlantic
    An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors spend eleven days at sea on a raft. They're next assigned to the liberty ship "Sea Witch" bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked North Atlantic. (IMDb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Naked Jungle
    The Naked Jungle is a 1954 film directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker. Telling the story of an attack of army ants on a Peruvian cocoa plantation, it was based on the short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson. (Wikipedia.org)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Long John Silver
    In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate and return for more treasure. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Too Late for Tears
    Through a fluke circumstance a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and she is determined to hold onto it even it if means murder. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    His Majesty O\
    A Yankee sea captain has adventures in paradise trying to become an entrepreneur in Micronesia. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    I Walk Alone
    Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn't prepare Frankie for Big Business. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Captain Sindbad
    Sindbad takes on an evil wizard to save the princess he loves. (TCM.com)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Denver and Rio Grande
    Edmund O'Brien and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotage the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Power
    A man slowly realizes two things: that he has telekinesis - the power to move things with the power of his mind alone - and that another man who shares this power wants to kill him. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Conquest of Space
    A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Tarzan\
    Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The First Texan
    After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any political intrigue. However, when President Jackson personally orders him to lead the fight for Texan independence, he overcomes his reluctance to become involved and leads his compatriots to a string of victories over the Mexican army. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Warpath
    John Vickers joins Custer's cavalry regiment seeking private revenge. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Armored Command
    An American army unit is trapped in a small town during a German counterattack and discovers that a spy in the town is providing the Germans with information about them. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Boss
    Set in the years following WW1, the story concerns a small-town veteran named Matt Brady (John Payne), whose brother, machine politician Tim Brady (Roy Roberts), arranges for Matt to get a cushy government job. When Tim dies, Matt takes over his operation, eventually assuming control of the entire state (which judiciously remains unnamed in the film). (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Little Savage
    A routine swashbuckler set during the 18th century when pirates still roamed the Spanish main, this adventure film stars popular Mexican idol Pedro Armendariz as the appropriately named Captain Tiburon (Capt. Shark). Tiburon and his first mate Taursus (Rodolfo Hoyos) bury two treasure chests on a remote island, and then Taursus betrays the Captain by shooting him and leaving him for dead, with plans to come back later and pick up the loot. (allrovi.com)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Silver City
    An excellent cast brings distinction to the pedestrian goings-on in Silver City. Per its title, the film is set in silver-mining country, with hopeful prospectors and greedy claim-jumpers abounding. The villain of the piece is miserly R. R. Jarboe (Barry Fitzgerald), who holds the lease on the silver lode worked by heroine Candace Surrency (Yvonne DeCarlo) and her father Dutch (Edgar Buchanan). (allrovi.com)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Jet Over the Atlantic
    Assorted people board a plane with a fire bomb in its luggage hold. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Man-Eater of Kumaon
    A doctor hunts a vicious, man-eating tiger that terrorizes a native jungle village. In time the doctor experiences a personal change when he accepts their native customs and beliefs. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Outer Limits
    Your probable score
    ?
    Ginsberg the Great
    Johnny Ginsberg (George Jessel) is a tailor's assistant whose ambition is to become a successful conjurer/magician. He joins a carnival and fails but not before apprehending a gang of jewel thieves and gaining the love of Mary (Audrey Ferris), the girl he adores. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    September Storm
    A young, handsome man works on the yacht of a Parisian tycoon who happens to be away at the moment. Two nautical layabouts convince the man to take them out looking for the sunken treasure. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?