Direction: Edward L. Cahn
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Edward L. Cahn. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 71
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
Invisible Invaders
1959 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Edward L. Cahn
Cast John Agar · Jean Byron · Philip Tonge · Robert Hutton
5.3
98 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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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
Direction Edward L. Cahn
Cast John Agar · Audrey Totter · Gregory Walcott · James Dobson
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