Herbert L. Strock Trailers
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Herbert L. Strock (January 13, 1918 - November 30, 2005) was an American television producer and director, and a B-movie director of titles such as I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), How to Make a Monster (1958) and The Crawling Hand (1963).
Strock was born in Boston, and moved with his family to Los Angeles when he was 13. By 17, while a student at Beverly Hills High School, Strock was director of gossip columnist Jimmy Fidler's Hollywood segments for Fox Movietone News. Strock graduated in 1941 from USC, where he studied journalism and film. During World War II, he served in the Army's Ordnance Motion Picture Division. He was assistant editor on the 1944 film Gaslight for MGM.
In a "pioneering" television career that began in the 1940s, Strock was involved with many television series including Highway Patrol, Sky King, Sea Hunt and Maverick.
Other directorial efforts included Blood of Dracula (a 1957 film in which a disturbed teenage girl at a boarding school becomes a vampire through hypnosis) and Ivan Tors' "Office of Scientific Investigation" trilogy, which included The Magnetic Monster, Riders to the Stars and Gog, shot in 3-D.
In 2000, Strock published a memoir, Picture Perfect.
Most Popular Herbert L. Strock Trailers
Total trailers found: 29
11 September 1971
A salesman and a sexologist have misadventures with plot development determined by the votes of the studio audience.
08 March 1958
Comprised of 4 episodes from the unsold TV series The Veil (1958) - "Whatever Happened to Peggy," "Destination Nightmare," "The Return of Madame Vernoy," and "Girl on the Road.
14 November 1980
A documentary exploring the existence of UFOs and the possible visit of aliens to Earth at sometime t
19 March 1953
Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.
25 December 1974
After her husband dies, a woman begins to have a nervous breakdown and is consoled by her younger sister.
02 November 1962
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist.
06 May 1979
A documentary exploring the existence of extra-terrestrials.
11 July 1980
A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake.
03 January 1955
In the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pilot how important helicopter rescue work is and turn him into a team player.
18 February 1953
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process.
11 April 1973
A small boy of rural Italy, befriends a Catholic priest and pleads for help to save his sick donkey. Hearing the stories of St Frances on how he loved cared, even cured animals, comes up with notion "If he could just bring his donkey to the Vatican in Rome, and ask the Pope if he could just place him in the entombed Saint's Chapel, his spiritual presence would cure him.
31 October 1980
Three women use witchcraft to help their professor husbands further their careers. When a higher position becomes available in the university, they turn on each other.
08 October 1969
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses.
01 September 1987
A football star throws a party for his friends. Two insane killers escape from a nearby asylum on that same night, and in their efforts to elude authorities, wind up at the party.
23 November 1957
Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.
24 February 1991
The hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the living.
25 October 1988
Summertime, beach weather, hot cars, tan bikini-clad women on the prowl. Perhaps these are merely the images of a young man's overactive imagination.
24 October 1962
In this feature version of the Swedish TV series "13 Demon Street," a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams.
04 June 1954
A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.
01 November 1957
A crazed teacher at a respectable girls' school draws power from a medallion she has obtained from the Carpathian Mountains, and uses it to experiment telepathically on the school's newest young pupil.
27 May 1962
Three prospectors divide and bury their gold to safeguard it from warring Apaches. Cue a series of double crosses, triple crosses, chases, and shoot-outs as greed drives the three men to murder and betrayal.
25 October 1985
Moustapha Akkad, the man who brought you HALLOWEEN, invites you to keep an APPOINTMENT WITH FEAR. According to legend, Attis, King of the Woods, sacrificed his child to keep his own spirit alive and free to wander the earth at will.
04 September 1963
After an astronaut space capsule is detonated in orbit, with the astronaut begging to be killed, a teenager couple finds a severed arm on a remote beach.
14 January 1954
Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world
30 September 1953
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid.
01 July 1958
When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
21 November 1980
Betty Boop runs for president in a loose storyline assembled from Fleischer cartoons redrawn by Korean animators.
01 January 1995
16-year-old Jonathan Snazowski has a vivid imagination and lives in a dream world filled with adventure, fast cars, beautiful women and easy money.
13 July 1973
A black exploitation flick of the early 70's about a college/high school teacher who tries to intervene and rescue his student who is being pursued by the law.
