George Merritt — Actor (13)
Dracula (1958) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Dracula
director: Terence Fisher actor: Peter Cushing / Christopher Lee
other title: Dracula il vampiro / O Vampiro da Noite
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) [Movie] TMDB
The Bonfire of the Vanities
director: Brian De Palma actor: Tom Hanks / Bruce Willis
other title: Il falò delle vanità / Forfængelighedens bål
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
Quatermass 2 (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Quatermass 2
director: Val Guest actor: Brian Donlevy / John Longden
other title: I vampiri dello spazio / Usina de Monstros
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
I, Monster (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
I, Monster
director: Stephen Weeks actor: Christopher Lee / Peter Cushing
other title: La vera storia del dottor Jekyll / Jeg, et uhyre
Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner inhibitions. So comes forth Mr. Blake (also Lee) who gets more monstrous with each transformation. Peter Cushing plays his friend and colleague, Dr. Utterson.
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
director: Val Guest actor: Janet Munro / Leo McKern
other title: ...E la Terra prese fuoco / Der Tag, an dem die Erde Feuer fing
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
The Full Treatment (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Full Treatment
director: Val Guest actor: Ronald Lewis / Diane Cilento
other title: La morsa / Traitement de choc
Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous feelings toward Denise. After Denise persuades him to honeymoon with her on the Cote D'Azur in France, they enlist the aid of a French psychiatrist who offers to regress Alan back to the time of the accident and cure him.
The Hands of Orlac (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Hands of Orlac
director: Edmond T. Gréville actor: Mel Ferrer / Christopher Lee
other title: Le mani dell'altro / Die unheimlichen Hände des Dr. Orlak
Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed. Helpful surgeon Volcheff grafts a pair of new hands on the hapless Orlac. Unfortunately, they're the hands of an executed murderer – useless for a pianist, but quite handy for less delicate work...
The Ghost Train (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Ghost Train
director: Walter Forde actor: Arthur Askey / Richard Murdoch
other title: Il treno fantasma / El tren fantasma
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.
The Ghost Camera (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Ghost Camera
director: Bernard Vorhaus actor: Henry Kendall / Ida Lupino
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.
The Upturned Glass (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Upturned Glass
director: Lawrence Huntington actor: James Mason / Rosamund John
other title: Persecuzione / La vengeance du docteur Joyce
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.
Daughter of Darkness (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Daughter of Darkness
director: Lance Comfort actor: Siobhán McKenna / Anne Crawford
other title: Tochter der Finsternis / La hija de las tinieblas
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favors from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
Young and Innocent (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Young and Innocent
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Nova Pilbeam / Derrick De Marney
other title: Giovane e innocente / Jovem e Inocente
When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.