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Gordon Hessler
Director 1925 - 2014

Gordon Hessler

Berlin, Germany

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Gordon Hessler was a British film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He was raised in England and studied at the University of Reading. While a teenager, he moved to the United States and directed a series of short... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

12 titles
The Misfit Brigade

The Misfit Brigade

Gordon Hessler 1987 1h 39m 6.0

War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners. In 1943, this motley tank crew is sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines to destroy a Soviet train that's carrying fuel for the Red Army.

Rage of Honor

Rage of Honor

Gordon Hessler 1987 1h 32m 5.0

A Japanese cop, Shiro, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Shiro follows the murderer, a sadistic drug lord, up to Argentina

Pray for Death

Pray for Death

Gordon Hessler 1985 1h 32m 6.0

Akira Saito, a Japanese businessman lives in Tokyo with his Japanese-American wife Aiko and their children, Takeshi and Tomoya. When the family has a chance to move to the United States so that Aiko can teach the children about their American heritage, they pack up and head for Houston, Texas and run a restaurant.

Evil Stalks This House

Evil Stalks This House

Gordon Hessler 1981 1h 36m 5.0

This is a story about an old dark house and a family curse.

Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park

Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park

Gordon Hessler 1978 1h 36m 5.0

The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Devereaux has found a way to clone humans into robots in his laboratory at an amusement park. It just so happens that he plans to use the KISS concert as a platform to unleash his plan on the world.

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

Gordon Hessler 1974 1h 45m 6.9

Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map.

Scream, Pretty Peggy

Scream, Pretty Peggy

Gordon Hessler 1973 1h 14m 5.0

A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.

Murders in the Rue Morgue

Murders in the Rue Morgue

Gordon Hessler 1971 1h 27m 5.0

In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares.

Scream and Scream Again

Scream and Scream Again

Gordon Hessler 1970 1h 35m 6.5

A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

Cry of the Banshee

Cry of the Banshee

Gordon Hessler 1970 1h 31m 5.0

In 1500s England, a cruel witch-hunting magistrate, who often tortures innocent villagers for his entertainment, runs afoul of a witch who conjures a banshee to kill the magistrate and his family.

The Oblong Box

The Oblong Box

Gordon Hessler 1969 1h 36m 6.0

Evil lurks in the gloomy house at Markham Manor where a deranged Sir Edward is the chained prisoner of his brother Julian. When Sir Edward escapes, he embarks on a monstrous killing spree, determined to seek revenge on all those whom he feels have double-crossed him.

Catacombs

Catacombs

Gordon Hessler 1965 1h 24m 6.0

An astute businesswoman is completely devoted to her faithless husband, who must kill her to carry on with her pretty young niece. It turns out that the dead don't die so easily.

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