Direction: Edward L. Cahn

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Edward L. Cahn. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Guns, Girls, and Gangsters

1959 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Mamie Van Doren · Gerald Mohr · Lee Van Cleef · Grant Richards

Synopsis Chuck Wheeler gets out of the Pen and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. He enlists the help of shady club owner Joe Darren and his ex-cellmate's wife, Vi. Vi's husband Mike is...

6.2

29 votes

6.2

29 votes

Girls in Prison

1956 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Richard Denning · Joan Taylor · Adele Jergens · Helen Gilbert

Synopsis Anne Carson (Joan Taylor) is sent to a women's prison for allegedly participating in a bank robbery with two others, one, Paul Anderson (Lance Fuller) who is still at large. The money was never recovered and all eyes are on...

5.8

23 votes

5.8

23 votes

Suicide Battalion

1958 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Mike Connors · John Ashley · Jewell Lain · Russ Bender

Synopsis Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep strategic papers out of enemy hands when Japanese forces invade. The men spend their last...

5.6

22 votes

5.6

22 votes

Experiment Alcatraz

1950 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast John Howard · Joan Dixon · Walter Kingsford · Lynne Carter

Synopsis A doctor tests his theory that blood diseases can be cured by atomic radiation by using prison inmates as experiments.

5.6

40 votes

5.6

40 votes

Creature with the Atom Brain

1955 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Richard Denning · Angela Stevens · S. John Launer · Michael Granger

Synopsis Several years earlier gangster Frank Buchanan was deported to his native Italy through the efforts of law enforcement authorities and rival gangsters who inform on him. While in Europe he meets scientist Wilhelm Steigg, who has perfected a method of...

5.4

168 votes

5.4

168 votes

It! The Terror from Beyond Space

1958 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Marshall Thompson · Shirley Patterson · Kim Spalding · Ann Doran

Synopsis In 1973, the first manned expedition to Mars is marooned; by the time a rescue mission arrives, there is only one survivor: the leader, Col. Edward Carruthers, who appears to have murdered the others! According to Carruthers, an unknown life...

5.3

474 votes

5.3

474 votes

5.3

98 votes

The Four Skulls Of Jonathan Drake

1959 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Henry Daniell · Valerie French · Grant Richards · Eduard Franz

Synopsis Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later in a locked cabinet, Drake realizes an ancient curse placed upon his grandfather by a...

5.2

22 votes

5.2

22 votes

Invasion of the Saucer-Men

1957 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Steven Terrell · Gloria Castillo · Frank Gorshin · Raymond Hatton

Synopsis A teenage couple making out in the woods accidentally runs over an alien creature with their car. The creature's hand falls off, but it comes alive, and, with an eye growing out of it, begins to stalk the teens. Meanwhile,...

5.1

307 votes

5.1

307 votes

Zombies of Mora Tau

1957 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Gregg Palmer · Allison Hayes · Autumn Russell · Joel Ashley

Synopsis Zombie-like, dead crewmen of a sunken ship have always prevented salvagers from claiming the wreck's legendary box of diamonds, but will a new group of treasure hunters succeed?

5.0

41 votes

5.0

41 votes

The She-Creature

1956 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Chester Morris · Frieda Inescort · Ron Randell · Marla English

Synopsis A mysterious hypnotist (Chester Morris) reverts his beautiful assistant (Marla English) back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.

4.5

66 votes

4.5

66 votes

Voodoo Woman

1957 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Lance Fuller · Marla English · Tom Conway · Mike Connors

Synopsis Deep in the jungles a mad scientist is using the natives' voodoo for his experiments to create an indestructible being to serve his will. When a party of gold seekers stumbles upon his village, the scientist realizes that Marilyn the...

4.4

28 votes

4.4

28 votes

Curse of the Faceless Man

1958 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Richard Anderson · Elaine Edwards · Adele Mara · Luis van Rooten

Synopsis In the excavation of Pompeii, a stone-encrusted body is found with a bronze medallion bearing a strange Etruscan inscription. Carlo Fiorillo, Italian archaeologist, speculates the robust body may hold some life; medical researcher Paul Mallon scoffs at the idea. But...

4.3

96 votes

4.3

96 votes

Hit-and-Run Driver (S)

1935 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Sam Flint · William Gould · Jonathan Hale · Howard C. Hickman

Synopsis A man runs over a young couple on a deserted road, then leaves the scene and tries to cover up the incident.

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Operation Bottleneck

1961 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Ron Foster · Miiko Taka · Norman Alden · John Clarke

Synopsis Sin Girls Help Two GI's Blast Enemy Lifelines.

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The Music Box Kid

1960 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Ron Foster · Luana Patten · Grant Richards · Johnny Seven

Synopsis A young gangster in 1920's New York quickly rises through the ranks of the mob, then sets up his own murder-for-hire organization. When he starts kidnapping other mobsters for ransom, the New York gangs band together for revenge.

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Main Street on the March! (S)

1941 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast John Nesbitt · Margaret Bert · Milton Kibbee · Barbara Bedford

Synopsis The film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how the people of "Main Street America", the country's military forces,...

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Not rated

You Have to Run Fast

1961 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Craig Hill · Elaine Edwards · Grant Richards · Willis Bouchey

Synopsis Dr. Frank Harlow is in the process of trying to save a man badly beaten by two gangsters who he identifies to the police. When their victim dies and the charge becomes murder and Harlow hightails it to the far...

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Main Street After Dark

1945 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Edward Arnold · Selena Royle · Tom Trout · Audrey Totter

Synopsis Ma Dibson, her son, daughter and daughter-in-law happily greet son Lefty as he is released from prison. The family makes its living by stealing from (mostly) servicemen who the two younger women meet in bars. Ma insists that Lefty lay...

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Jet Attack

1958 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

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