Val Lewton Trailers
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Born in the Russian Empire in 1904, Val Lewton (born Vladimir Ivanovich Leventon) moved with his mother and sister to Berlin in 1906, then to the United States in 1909. He wrote for newspapers, magazines, novels, pornography, etc. —often using pseudonyms to disguise their origin (the name Val Lewton was one such pseudonym, used first for some novels in the 1930s, then revived later in his career to take writing credit for two movies). In 1933 he got a job with David O. Selznick, where he spent many years as a story editor and jack-of-all-trades. Then in 1942 RKO hired him to head their new horror unit, where he made many famous and well-respected B-movies, for very low costs and high profits. In 1946, he “graduated” to A-movies, but increasing health problems, trouble working with big-money Hollywood, and other factors combined to force him to produce only three more movies before his death in 1951.
Most Popular Val Lewton Trailers
Total trailers found: 18
04 October 2005
Documentary about the great 1940s horror movie producer Val Lewton, featured on the 2005 DVD release "The Val Lewton Horror Collection.
02 September 2007
Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budget horror films for RKO Studios.
12 May 1950
A woman in London unexpectedly inherits a Texas ranching fortune, and takes a transatlantic voyage to collect her fortune, not suspecting two men aboard both plan on winning her hand before she reaches America.
10 May 1946
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals.
20 April 1937
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester.
01 July 1948
Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.
01 September 1944
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
05 December 1942
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
16 December 1943
Captain Stone's newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend.
25 May 1945
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver.
02 March 1944
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
08 May 1943
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
21 April 1943
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.
21 August 1943
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling.
07 September 1945
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
30 December 1932
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
01 April 1951
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.
28 July 1944
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors.
