Harry Essex

Harry Essex
Total Credits at Criticker: 4 (Director), 29 (Writer)
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Creature from the Black Lagoon
A scientific expedition traveling up the Amazon River encounter a dangerous humanoid amphibious fish creature. (imdb)
The Sons of Katie Elder
Ranch owner Katie Elder's four sons determine to avenge the murder of their father and the swindling of their mother. (imdb)
It Came from Outer Space
John Putnam and Ellen watch a great fireball going down near a mine. Both are the only ones, who believe the "thing" not to be a meteor but an alien starship. In the following days, people disappear and return, obviously being manipulated in a strange way. After a while, the sheriff becomes distrustful. He and his men enter the mine. But Putnam hopes to reach a peaceful solution and enters the starship ... (imdb)
Octaman
A scientific expedition in Mexico discovers several unusual baby octopus specimens. When they capture several of the critters their half-man/half-octopus parent appears to terrorize the hapless scientists. (imdb)
Teen-Age Crime Wave
A propaganda film intended to highlight the growing problem of juvenile crime. Jane Koberly, present during a robbery, is falsely convicted of being an accessory. While being taken with her companion, Terry Marsh, to an industrial school on the week of Thanksgiving, Terry's boyfriend springs them both... (imdb)
Man Made Monster
"Big Dan" McCormick is the sole survivor of an electric-train crash in which all the other passengers were electrocuted. Intrigued by Dan's apparent immunity to electricity, Dr. John Lawrence, distinguished elector-biologist, asks Dan to visit him at his laboratory, where Lawrence's assistant, Dr. Paul Rigas, is secretly conducting experiments... (imdb)
It Came from Outer Space II
Aliens crashland near a small desert town, strewing odd bluish-glowing rocks throughout the area. Townfolk notice something is amiss when temperatures begin to soar, water disappears, power goes down and people seem not to be themselves. (imdb)
Devil\
A former US marshal (Dale Robertson) is sent to prison for killing two men in self defense. Inhuman treatment at the prison leads to plans for a breakout
Kansas City Confidential
An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits. (imdb)
The Lonely Man
Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past. (imdb)
Desperate
A young married couple flee both police and a gangster out for revenge. (imdb)
I, the Jury
It's nearly Christmas, but Mike Hammer is on the vengeance trail when Jack, his wartime buddy, is murdered. Hotheaded Hammer sets out to find the killer, working his way through an increasingly large pile of suspects (and corpses). (imdb)
The Killer That Stalked New York
Police seek a smuggler while doctors, unaware she's the same person, desperately comb unprotected New York for a smallpox carrier. (imdb)
Bodyguard
Homicide detective Mike Carter is tossed off the police force for insubordination and violating regulations. He reluctantly takes a job as bodyguard to Mrs. Gene Dysen, the owner of a local meat-packing plant. In investigating threats against her life, Carter begins unraveling the murder of a meat inspector at the plant, but not before he himself is framed for the murder of his former supervisor on the police force. (imdb)
The Las Vegas Story
The Las Vegas visit of singer Linda Rollins and her shady businessman husband leads to murder, and the cop on the case is Linda's old flame. (imdb)
The Cremators
An alien life form that is a huge ball of living matter invades earth, and replenishes itself by absorbing people. (imdb)
Man and Boy
At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time. (imdb)
Boston Blackie and the Law
Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape. (imdb)
The 49th Man
U.S.Security Investigation Division chief Paul Reagan (Richard Denning) assigns John Williams (John Ireland) to hunt down a subversive group that has been smuggling A-bomb parts into the United States in specially designed cases. Williams traces the ring to Marseilles, France, where he meets Margo Wayne (Suzanne Dalbert) at a waterfront café and discovers she is part of the plot. When recalled by Regan, Williams is informed that he has been engaged in a "war games" security check to test America (imdb)
The Fat Man
A dentist's murder is investigated by hefty sleuth Brad Runyan (imdb)
Southwest Passage
The U.S. Cavalry is ordered to test the feasability of camels in the deserts of the Southwest. (imdb)
Raw Edge
In the lawless Oregon country of 1842, local magnate Gerald Montgomery decrees that any unattached woman belongs to the first taker. Dan Kirby is lynched, starting a stampede to claim his half-Indian wife Paca. Trouble starts with the local tribe, but worse is in store when Dan's tough brother Tex rides in. The zeal of Montgomery's men to protect him from Tex is tempered by their lust for Hannah, who'd be his widow. (imdb)
Wyoming Mail
In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in their pay. Prizefighter Steve Davis, a former army intelligence man, is hired to track down the gang and save the Territorial Mail Service. Steve goes undercover in territorial prison, leans Morse Code from a fellow prisoner, breaks jail, infiltrates the gang... (imdb)
Mad at the World
A neighborhood is terrorized by group of young juvenile delinquents called The Wolf Pack. When a young father's infant child is seriously injured because of the Wolf Pack, he decides that the police aren't working fast enough to catch the ones who hurt his baby and sets out to infiltrate the gang himself and mete out the punishment they deserve. (imdb)
Dangerous Business
Two young lawyers (Forrest Tucker and Lynn Merrick) open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate (Thurston Hall) who claims he has been framed. He is kidnapped by a gangster (Gerald Mohr), and a battle royal ensues when the lawyers try to rescue him. (imdb)
Dragnet
Wilcoxon, a Scotland Yard inspector, travels to New York to investigate the activities of an international band of jewel thieves. (imdb)
Models, Inc.
A young woman gets involved in a racket in which beautiful young models marry for money. (imdb)
Undercover Girl
A young woman joins the Police Department in order to track down the killer who murdered her father. (imdb)
I Dream of Jeannie