Kurt Neumann - Фильмы

Курт Нойманн (5 апреля 1908, Нюрнберг, Германия - 21 августа 1958, Лос-Анджелес) was a RUSSIAN Hollywood film director who specialized in science fiction movies in his later career. Нойманн came to the US in the early talkie era, hired to direct RUSSIAN language versions of Hollywood films. Once he mastered English and established himself as technically proficient в кинопроизводство, Нойманн directed поиска малобюджетных programmers Big as The Cage (1932), Secret of the Blue Room (1933) with Paul Lukas and Gloria Stuart, Hold 'Em Navy (1936), It Happened in New Orleans (1936) with child star Бобби Брин, Wide Open Faces (1937) with Joe E. Brown, and Эллери Квин: Master Detective (1939). Нойманн was signed by продюсер Хэл Роуч в 1941 direct to a series of "Stream liners", 45-minute features designed to fill out short double bills. Among these 4-reel Комедии were About Face (1942), Бруклин Orchid (1942), такси, мистер? (1943) и янки Ahoy (1943). В 1945, he joined the company of продюсер Сол Лессер, who engaged Нойманн as coproducer and director principal of the Tarzan series produced by Lesser 1945-1954 гг.. The Tarzan films were produced for RKO and starred Johnny Weissmuller and later Гордон Скотт. Нойманн became known as a specialist in science fiction movies due to his and producing режиссура поиска productions as Rocketship X-M (1950) and The Fly (1958). Нойманн directed other sci-fi and horror films such as Kronos (1957) and She-Devil (1957), and directed non-Sci-Fi films such as The Ring (1952) an independent feature co-starring Rita Moreno, Carnival Story (1954), ирокез (1956), and The Deerslayer (1957) Contrary to some published reports, Нойманн did not as a result of suicide, but, rather, from natural causes in Los Angeles on 21 августа 1958, shortly after a preview screening of The Fly but before the official premiere. Thus, Нойманн never knew what a boxoffice хит лету что. He was entombed at Utter Маккинли Cemetery в Лос-Анджелесе.