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Bert I. Gordon
Director 1922 - 2023

Bert I. Gordon

Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

Bert Ira Gordon (born September 24, 1922 in Kenosha, WI) was an American film director most famous for such science fiction and horror B-movies as The Amazing Colossal Man and Village of the Giants. Most of Gordon's work was in the idiom of giant monster films, for which he... Read full bio →

Directed Films

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16 titles
Empire of the Ants

Empire of the Ants

Bert I. Gordon 1977 1h 29m 4.0

Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!

The Food of the Gods

The Food of the Gods

Bert I. Gordon 1976 1h 28m 4.7

Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size.

Necromancy

Necromancy

Bert I. Gordon 1972 1h 22m

Orson Welles plays the head of a witches' coven in the town of Lilith, where he needs the powers of Pamela Franklin to raise his son from the dead.

Picture Mommy Dead

Picture Mommy Dead

Bert I. Gordon 1966 1h 22m 5.0

Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by his dead wife.

Village of the Giants

Village of the Giants

Bert I. Gordon 1965 1h 21m

Delinquent teenagers ingest a substance, grow 30 feet tall, and proceed to take over a small town.

The Magic Sword

The Magic Sword

Bert I. Gordon 1962 1h 20m 4.0

The son of a sorceress, armed with weapons, armour and six magically summoned knights, embarks on a quest to save a princess from a vengeful wizard.

Famous Ghost Stories

Famous Ghost Stories

Bert I. Gordon 1961 1h 15m 5.0

TV pilot masterminded by Bert I. Gordon and Herts-Lion International. Vincent Price hosts and plays a poltergeist while introducing the ghost story to follow, which turns out be an edited version of Gordon's "Tormented."

Tormented

Tormented

Bert I. Gordon 1960 1h 15m

A jazz pianist (Richard Carlson) is haunted by his dead ex-lover's (Juli Reding) crawling hand and floating head.

The Boy and the Pirates

The Boy and the Pirates

Bert I. Gordon 1960 1h 22m

Young boy is magically transported back in time to a pirate ship on the high seas. Jimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a wish and suddenly finds himself aboard Blackbeard's ship. Soon he realizes that being a pirate isn't what he expected.

War of the Colossal Beast

War of the Colossal Beast

Bert I. Gordon 1958 1h 9m 6.0

Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colosasal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very hungry.

Earth vs. the Spider

Earth vs. the Spider

Bert I. Gordon 1958 1h 13m 6.0

Teenagers from a rural community and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider.

Attack of the Puppet People

Attack of the Puppet People

Bert I. Gordon 1958 1h 19m 8.0

A deranged scientist creates a ray that can shrink people down to doll size.

The Cyclops

The Cyclops

Bert I. Gordon 1957 1h 6m 6.0

A test pilot is missing and a search party is sent out in the jungles of Mexico; however, while searching they uncover a monster in the jungle who became this way due to a dose of radioactivity.

The Amazing Colossal Man

The Amazing Colossal Man

Bert I. Gordon 1957 1h 20m 6.0

A military officer survives a nuclear blast, only to begin to uncontrollably grow into an increasingly unstable giant.

Beginning of the End

Beginning of the End

Bert I. Gordon 1957 1h 13m 7.0

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.

King Dinosaur

King Dinosaur

Bert I. Gordon 1955 1h 3m 5.0

A new planet moves into the Solar system and four scientists (two couples) are sent to explore planet Nova. In between romantic interludes, the cast faces an iguana masquerading as a Tyrannosaurus rex.

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