Richard H. Landau

1914-02-21 New York City, New York, USA 40 Credits
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Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve

1986

Story

6.6
Writing

Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wan...

The Black Hole

The Black Hole

1979

Story

5.8
Writing

The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposed...

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

1973

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

A scientist obsessed with creating life steals body parts to put together his "creation." Released as a feature on video, this was originally shown in...

Four Rode Out

Four Rode Out

1969

Producer

4.0
Producing

In this western, a Mexican desperado tries to flee his partner, a determined girl friend, and a US Marshal.

Fort Courageous

Fort Courageous

1965

Screenplay

5.1
Writing

In this western, a cavalry sergeant is wrongly court-martialed. To reclaim his good name, he takes over a patrol that just lost its leader in an India...

Up Periscope

Up Periscope

1959

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy ...

Born Reckless

Born Reckless

1958

Story, Screenplay

3.4
Writing

Rider Kelly Cobb travels to county rodeos to win money so he can buy a patch of land he wants to call his own. One night he rescues trick rider Jackie...

Frankenstein 1970

Frankenstein 1970

1958

Screenplay

5.4
Writing

The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.

Violent Road

Violent Road

1958

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, ...

Hell Bound

Hell Bound

1957

Story, Screenplay

5.9
Writing

After WW2, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the...

The Girl in Black Stockings

The Girl in Black Stockings

1957

Screenplay

6.1
Writing

Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the invest...

Voodoo Island

Voodoo Island

1957

Writer

4.5
Writing

A wealthy industrialist hires the renowned hoax-buster Phillip Knight to prove that an island he plans to develop isn't voodoo cursed. However, arrivi...

Pharaoh's Curse

Pharaoh's Curse

1957

Writer

4.3
Writing

Archaeologists in Egypt find one of their crew has been turned into a blood sucking mummy after they have unleashed a three thousand year curse.

Hot Cars

Hot Cars

1956

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.

The Man Is Armed

The Man Is Armed

1956

Screenplay

4.8
Writing

Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a re...

Women Without Men

Women Without Men

1956

Writer

6.0
Writing

In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model...

Blonde Bait

Blonde Bait

1956

Original Story

4.8
Writing

Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is cu...

The Quatermass Xperiment

The Quatermass Xperiment

1955

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and ...

The Glass Cage

The Glass Cage

1955

Screenplay

5.4
Writing

A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in ...

Mask of Dust

Mask of Dust

1954

Writer

4.2
Writing

An idol of auto-racing fans attempts a comeback after serving in the Air Force. When his former rival lies dying in the hospital he must decide whethe...

Blackout

Blackout

1954

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he doesn't ask too many questions. But w...

Sins of Jezebel

Sins of Jezebel

1953

Writer

4.5
Writing

The aging king of Israel, Ahab, falls under the influence of a young and beautiful but scheming Pagan woman named Jezebel and, against the advice of h...

Spaceways

Spaceways

1953

Screenplay

4.7
Writing

A rocket engineer, responsible for sending a satellite into space, is accused of committing the most extraordinary crime.

The Great Jesse James Raid

The Great Jesse James Raid

1953

Screenplay

4.7
Writing

The famed outlaw is talked into saddling up for one more bank robbery.

Let's Ask Nostradamus

Let's Ask Nostradamus

1953

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution.

The Flanagan Boy

The Flanagan Boy

1953

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fight...

Nostradamus Says So!

1953

Writer

5.0
Writing

The life of the French seer and some of his selected quatrains are reviewed.

Stolen Face

Stolen Face

1952

Screenplay

5.6
Writing

A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict b...

FBI Girl

FBI Girl

1951

Screenplay

5.9
Writing

G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.

Roadblock

Roadblock

1951

Story

5.8
Writing

An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.

Lost Continent

Lost Continent

1951

Screenplay

3.4
Writing

When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down ...

Johnny One-Eye

Johnny One-Eye

1950

Screenplay

4.9
Writing

Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon's lesser-known stories. Martin Martin and Dane Cory were former partners in crime who have long si...

Wild Weed

Wild Weed

1949

Writer

4.7
Writing

A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.

The Crooked Way

The Crooked Way

1949

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his crimin...

The Secret of the Whistler

The Secret of the Whistler

1946

Screenplay

5.9
Writing

A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.

Little Iodine

Little Iodine

1946

Screenplay

3.0
Writing

Little Iodine does her best to break up the marriage of her parents, ruin a romance and cost her father his job.

A Gun in His Hand

A Gun in His Hand

1945

Original Story

5.8
Writing

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local t...

Back to Bataan

Back to Bataan

1945

Screenplay

6.1
Writing

An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.

Dark Shadows

Dark Shadows

1944

Screenplay, Original Story

9.1
Writing

A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.

Who's Superstitious?

Who's Superstitious?

1943

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, rabbit's feet, and breaking champagne...