Filmography from Russ Bender

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Voodoo Woman, Edward L Cahn, 1957
Deep in the African jungle a mad scientist, Dr. Roland Gerard, is experimenting with turning women into powerful beasts. He is certain that the combination of tribal voodoo and modern science will provide him with what he seeks. His wife Susan knows what he is up to and is kept a virtual prisoner in their hut. When an expedition arrives looking for gold, Gerard has new guinea pigs to experiment on....

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Wild in the Streets, Barry Shear, 1968
Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with home-made explosives. When he tires of these, he runs away from home only to emerge seven years later as Max Frost, the world's most popular entertainer. When Congressman John Fergus uses Frost as a political ploy to gain the youth vote in his run for the Senate, Frost wills himself into the system, gaining new rights for the young. Eventually, Frost runs for the presidency. Winning...

Devil's Angels, Daniel Haller, 1967
The Skulls, a violent biker gang led by Cody have a run in with a small-town sheriff after a member accidentally kills a citizen on the highway. He agrees to let them stay and protect the town. Cody then deserts them after a second gang's rescue attempt leaves the town in shreds. With Beverly Adams as Lynn and Mimsy Farmer as Marianne. A follow-up to the popular "The Wild Angels", the previous year....

I Saw What You Did, William Castle, 1965
When two teenagers make prank phone calls to strangers, they become the target for terror when they whisper "I Saw What You Did, And I Know Who You Are!" to psychopath Steve Marek (John Ireland) who has just murdered his wife. But somebody else knows of the terrible crime that was committed that night, the killer's desperately amorous neighbour Amy Nelson (Joan Crawford)....

The Strangler, Burt Topper, 1964
Leo Kroll, a lab technician in a large unnamed city, is responsible for the strangulation murders of several young nurses. He feels that in some twisted way, that he is getting back at his overbearing shrew of a mother. Leo also kills the nurse who is taking care of his mother in the rest home she is staying at. As a result, Mrs. Kroll dies from a heart attack. He also kills an arcade worker whom he feels is can identify him....

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow, William J Hole Jr (as William Hole), 1959
A group of drag-racing fanatics, members of a Los Angeles club, move into an old deserted mansion and set up shop, making it their headquarters. They hold a Halloween masked ball for the club's grand opening, and invite everyone to come dressed as their favorite monster! Oddly enough, the festivities turn sour when one of the bright youths discovers an impostor among them in the form of an honest-to-gosh live monster who's been hogging all the...

I Bury the Living, Albert Band, 1958
Through a series of macabre "coincidences," the newly-elected director of a cemetery (Richard Boone) begins to believe that he can cause the deaths of living owners of burial plots by merely changing the push-pin color from white (living) to black (dead) on a large wall map of the cemetery that notes those plots. ...

The Amazing Colossal Man, Bert I Gordon, 1957
Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast at Camp Desert Rock. Though burned over 90% of his body, he survives, and begins to grow in size. As he grows, his heart and circulatory system fail to keep pace with his growth, and he is gradually losing his mind as a result of reduced blood supply to his brain. He reaches 50 feet tall before his growth is stopped. By this time he has become insane. He escapes and wreaks...

Invasion of the Saucer Men, Edward L Cahn, 1957
ohnny Carter and Joan Hayden plan to elope but, first, visit a local lover's-lane for a compatibility check-up. Tooling along in the dark, with no headlights, they hit something, check it out and discover it is a little green man (in black-and-white) and scurry off to inform the local authorities. The police think it is a practical joke but, when they check it out, they find a man's body (white) there and charge the two with manslaughter. The...

The Twilight Zone, John Brahm (12 episodes, 1959-1964), Douglas Heyes (9 episodes, 1959-1961), Buzz Kulik (9 episodes, 1960-1963), Lamont Johnson (8 episodes, 1961-1963), Richard L Bare (7 episodes, 1960-1964), James Sheldon (6 episodes, 1961-1962), Richard Donner (6 episodes, 1963-1964), Don Medford (5 episodes, 1960-1963), Montgomery Pittman (5 episodes, 1961-1962), Jack Smight (4 episodes, 1959-1961), Alvin Ganzer (4 episodes, 1959-1960), Ted Post (4 episodes, 1960-1964), William F Claxton (4 episodes, 1960-1962), Elliot Silverstein (4 episodes, 1961-1964), Abner Biberman (4 episodes, 1962-1964), Joseph M Newman (4 episodes, 1963-1964), Alan Crosland Jr (4 episodes, 1963), Robert Florey (3 episodes, 1959-1964), Mitchell Leisen (3 episodes, 1959-1960), Robert Parrish (3 episodes, 1959-1960), Ron Winston (3 episodes, 1960-1964), Stuart Rosenberg (3 episodes, 1960-1963), David Orrick McDearmon (3 episodes, 1960-1961), Justus Addiss (3 episodes, 1961-1963), Perry Lafferty (3 episodes, 1963), Robert Stevens (2 episodes, 1959), John Rich (2 episodes, 1960-1963), Anton Leader (2 episodes, 1960-1961), Boris Sagal (2 episodes, 1961), Christian Nyby (2 episodes, 1962), Don Siegel (2 episodes, 1963-1964), Robert Butler (2 episodes, 1964), Allen Reisner (1 episode, 1959), William Asher (1 episode, 1960), Ralph Nelson (1 episode, 1960), Norman Z McLeod (1 episode, 1961), David Greene (1 episode, 1962), Robert Ellis Miller (1 episode, 1962), Allen H Miner (1 episode, 1962), Harold D Schuster (1 episode, 1962), Paul Stewart (1 episode, 1962), David Butler (1 episode, 1963), Bernard Girard (1 episode, 1963), Robert Gist (1 episode, 1963), Walter Grauman (1 episode, 1963), Roger Kay (1 episode, 1963), David Lowell Rich (1 episode, 1963), Richard C Sarafian (1 episode, 1963), Ralph Senensky (1 episode, 1963), Don Weis (1 episode, 1963), Robert Enrico (1 episode, 1964), Ida Lupino (1 episode, 1964), Jacques Tourneur (1 episode, 1964), 0
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