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Nathan Juran
Director 1907 - 2002

Nathan Juran

Gurahumora, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary (now Gura Humorului, Romania)

Naftuli "Nathan" Hertz Juran (September 1, 1907 - October 23, 2002) was an American film art director and film director who is most noted for winning the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for How Green Was My Valley and for directing science fiction and fantasy films such... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

17 titles
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

Nathan Juran 1973 1h 33m

Little Richie Bridgestone (whose parents are divorced) goes to spend the weekend with his father at his secluded mountain cabin, and witnesses his father being attacked by 'a creature' that the boy recognizes as a werewolf. He spends the rest of the film trying to convince his mother, and his therapist that his father is now a werewolf.

First Men in the Moon

First Men in the Moon

Nathan Juran 1964 1h 43m 7.2

The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.

Jack the Giant Killer

Jack the Giant Killer

Nathan Juran 1962 1h 34m 8.5

The terrible and trecherous Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by getting the king to abdicate and to marry his lovely daughter. To help him he has his dreadful witches in his castle and his almost unstoppable sorcery.

Good Day for a Hanging

Good Day for a Hanging

Nathan Juran 1959 1h 25m 6.0

When the local sheriff is killed after a bank robbery, ex-lawman Ben Cutler collars the apparent killer, Eddie Campbell. Because of his background as a local youth who spent time living with the Cutlers, Eddie gets the benefit of the doubt from Ben's daughter and his wife-to-be.

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

Nathan Juran 1958 1h 28m 7.6

When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

Nathan Juran 1958 1h 6m 4.8

When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.

The Deadly Mantis

The Deadly Mantis

Nathan Juran 1957 1h 19m 5.0

The calving of an Arctic iceberg releases a giant praying mantis, trapped in suspended animation since prehistoric times. It first attacks military outposts to eat their occupants, then makes its way to the warmer latitudes of Washington and New York. A paleontologist works together with military units to try to kill it. (copied from IMDB)

The Brain from Planet Arous

The Brain from Planet Arous

Nathan Juran 1957 1h 11m 5.8

An evil alien brain, bent on world domination, takes over the body of an atomic scientist, while a "good" alien brain inhabits the body of the scientist's dog and waits for an opportunity to defeat the evil brain.

Hellcats of the Navy

Hellcats of the Navy

Nathan Juran 1957 1h 22m 6.0

Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend.

20 Million Miles to Earth

20 Million Miles to Earth

Nathan Juran 1957 1h 22m 6.6

When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature.

The Crooked Web

The Crooked Web

Nathan Juran 1955 1h 17m 6.0

Undercover agents investigate a murderer in Chicago.

Highway Dragnet

Highway Dragnet

Nathan Juran 1954 1h 10m 6.0

An ex-Marine, on the lam from a murder charge, hitches a ride with a glamour-magazine photographer, who is travelling cross-country with her principal model. Tensions rise when the women realize the man with them may be a killer.

Drums Across the River

Drums Across the River

Nathan Juran 1954 1h 18m 6.5

When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.

Tumbleweed

Tumbleweed

Nathan Juran 1953 1h 19m

When a wagon train is wiped-out by the Yaqui Indians, the surviving guide Jim Harvey is accused of desertion and cowardice but Jim escapes the town jail in search of the truth.

The Golden Blade

The Golden Blade

Nathan Juran 1953 1h 21m 6.0

Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights.

Law and Order

Law and Order

Nathan Juran 1953 1h 20m 5.0

Frame Johnson already cleaned up Tombstone and hopes to settle down near Cottonwood. But a marshal's work is never done.

The Black Castle

The Black Castle

Nathan Juran 1952 1h 22m 6.0

A Man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.

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