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Jack Bernhard is a Director, Producer and Assistant Director American born on 28 november 1914 at Philadelphia (USA)
Jack Bernhard (né le 28 novembre 1914 à Philadelphie, en Pennsylvanie, et mort le 30 mars 1997 à Beverly Hills, en Californie) est un réalisateur et un producteur de cinéma américain.
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il est stationné en Angleterre. Il y fait la rencontre de l'actrice londonienne Jean Gillie qu'il épouse en mai 1944. Ils s'installent ensemble aux États-Unis et Bernhard lance la carrière de sa femme à Hollywood en lui offrant le rôle principal du film noir La Rapace (Decoy). Gillie y joue le rôle d'une femme fatale sans scrupules aux amours multiples. En 1947, le couple se sépare et Gillie rentre en Angleterre ou elle décède prématurément l'année suivante.
En 1948, Bernhard adapte notamment le roman Once Too Often de l'écrivain américain Whitman Chambers qui devient sous sa caméra le film noir Blonde Ice.
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Jack Bernhard
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Bernhard réalisa onze films en quatre ans, entre 1946 et 1950.Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il est stationné en Angleterre. Il y fait la rencontre de l'actrice londonienne Jean Gillie qu'il épouse en mai 1944. Ils s'installent ensemble aux États-Unis et Bernhard lance la carrière de sa femme à Hollywood en lui offrant le rôle principal du film noir La Rapace (Decoy). Gillie y joue le rôle d'une femme fatale sans scrupules aux amours multiples. En 1947, le couple se sépare et Gillie rentre en Angleterre ou elle décède prématurément l'année suivante.
En 1948, Bernhard adapte notamment le roman Once Too Often de l'écrivain américain Whitman Chambers qui devient sous sa caméra le film noir Blonde Ice.
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The Second Face (1950)
, 1h17Directed by Jack Bernhard
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ella Raines, Bruce Bennett, Rita Johnson, John Sutton, Patricia Knight, Roy Roberts
Rating58%
Claire Elwood runs to her car and speeds away. Phyllis Holmes chases after her in her own car, but crashes into a truck. She is taken to the hospital, where her head is heavily bandaged. Insurance claims adjustor Mr. West visits her to find out what happened, but she refuses to talk to him. A flashback ensues.
Search for Danger (1949)
, 1h2Directed by Jack Bernhard
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors John Calvert, Albert Dekker, Myrna Dell, Ben Welden, Douglas Fowley, Michael Mark
Rating64%
Mike Waring, a private detective in Los Angeles whose nickname is "The Falcon," is on a case. He follows a man named Andrews to a hotel, then reports back to his clients, club owners Kirk and Gregory, where the man, their business partner, can be found.
Blonde Ice (1948)
, 1h13Directed by Jack Bernhard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Leslie Brooks, Robert Paige, James Griffith, Emory Parnell, Walter Sande, Julie Gibson
Rating59%
Claire (Leslie Brooks) is a society reporter who will do whatever she has to for a story. Claire manages to keep herself in the headlines by marrying and romancing a series of wealthy men, all of whom die under mysterious circumstances. To deflect suspicion from herself, Claire frames her former boyfriend, sportswriter Les Burns.
Unknown Island (1948)
, 1h15Directed by Jack Bernhard
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Virginia Grey, Phillip Reed, Richard Denning, Barton MacLane, Ray Corrigan, Dan White
Rating51%
Adventure-seeker Ted Osborne (Phillip Reed) and his fiancee Carole (Virginia Grey) are at a cafe in Singapore, looking for a charter to an island supposedly inhabited by dinosaurs. They come across the ruthless, two fisted, alcohol-suffering Captain Tarnowski (Barton MacLane). They decide to talk, and Osborne asks is Tarnowski is willing to give them a charter in his ship to the unknown island. Initially Tarnowski refuses, but then Osborne tells that during World War II he was a pilot in the US Navy. He had flown over many remote islands, and on one he reported seeing large, moving things that looked like Brontosaurus dinosaurs. He shows Tarnowski a photo, and the captain finally agrees to take them there. Before departing, Tarnowski introduces them to John Fairbanks (Richard Denning), an old friend of his, who agrees to help them with their quest. Fairbanks and a group of friends had been shipwrecked on the island with Fairbanks being the lone survivor of attack by the dinosaurs. As Fairbanks had been drinking incessantly to forget the events of the past since his rescue, his account of the dinosaur island was believed to be the result of alcoholism and insanity. Since Fairbanks and Osborne's stories collaborated, Tarnowski agrees to allow his ship to be hired, but specifies that no one in the crew be told of their destination.
The Hunted (1948)
, 1h28Directed by Jack Bernhard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin, Russell Hicks, Frank Ferguson, Joseph Crehan
Rating64%
A policeman sends his girlfriend to prison and won't leave her alone when she gets out.
Appointment with Murder (1948)
, 1h7Directed by Jack Bernhard
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors John Calvert, Lyle Talbot, Peter Brocco, Ben Welden, Michael Mark, Anna Demetrio
Rating54%
The Falcon travels to Milan to locate some stolen paintings for an insurance company. He follows the trail from a murdered Italian painter to an art gallery in Los Angeles.
Violence (1947)
, 1h12Directed by Jack Bernhard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Nancy Coleman, Michael O'Shea, Sheldon Leonard, Peter Whitney, Emory Parnell, Pierre Watkin
Rating55%
Ann Mason (Coleman),an undercover reporter, develops amnesia after infiltrating a neo-fascist group.
Decoy (1946)
, 1h16Directed by Jack Bernhard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Jean Gillie, Robert Armstrong, Edward Norris, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard, Philip Van Zandt
Rating67%
The story picks up in Margot Shelby's apartment, as she is dying from a gunshot wound. Police detective Joe Portugal arrives at the scene to hear her last moments and possible confession. Margot recounts all the events that lead to Dr. Lloyd Craig shooting her shortly after arriving at her apartment. Via flash-back, we travel back to the beginning:
Decoy (1946)
, 1h16Directed by Jack Bernhard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard, Philip Van Zandt
Rating67%
Le cambrioleur Frank Olins (Robert Armstrong) purge une longue peine de prison après avoir organisé un casse fructueux. Il refuse de révéler à quiconque où se cache son butin. Quand son exécution est ordonnée, sa compagne, la femme fatale Margot Shelby (Jean Gillie), entreprend son évasion. Elle corrompt le docteur Craig (Herbert Rudley) pour l’aider dans sa tâche et demande au malfrat Jim Vincent (Edward Norris) de financer son plan. Mais de loin, le policier Portugal (Sheldon Leonard) surveille ce petit monde ...
Producer
Appointment with Murder (1948)
, 1h7Directed by Jack Bernhard
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors John Calvert, Lyle Talbot, Peter Brocco, Ben Welden, Michael Mark, Anna Demetrio
Roles Producer
Rating54%
The Falcon travels to Milan to locate some stolen paintings for an insurance company. He follows the trail from a murdered Italian painter to an art gallery in Los Angeles.
Violence (1947)
, 1h12Directed by Jack Bernhard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Nancy Coleman, Michael O'Shea, Sheldon Leonard, Peter Whitney, Emory Parnell, Pierre Watkin
Roles Producer
Rating55%
Ann Mason (Coleman),an undercover reporter, develops amnesia after infiltrating a neo-fascist group.
, 1h6Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Anne Gwynne, Ray Corrigan, Samuel S. Hinds, Mona Barrie
Roles Associate Producer
Rating53%
Private investigator Jerry Church (Knowles) has just married his longtime fiance, Kit (Gwynne). Defense attorney Dudley Crispin (Hinds) and Church's former police partner Capt. Hurd (Edmund McDonald), talk Church into taking one last case: investigating a string of murders committed by someone calling themself Dr. Rx where the victims have been five clients that Crispin had successfully defended in court.
Horror Island (1941)
, 1h1Directed by George Waggner
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Actors Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Leo Carrillo, Fuzzy Knight, John Eldredge, Hobart Cavanaugh
Roles Associate Producer
Rating59%
Bill Martin, graduate from Princeton University, is the proud owner of a small boulder of an island off the coast of Florida called "Morgan's Island." It is a deserted useless rock to Bill, but by pure chance he stumbles across a treasure map pointing to his island. The map is presented to him by a peg-legged old sailor, Tobias Clump, after Bill and his friend "Stuff" Oliver saves the man from drowning. Clump was pushed into the water by a "phantom," who also tore the treasure map in half and got away with one part. Clump tells them that the map shows the way to infamous buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan's twenty million dollar treasure.
Man-Made Monster (1941)
, 59minutesDirected by George Waggner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney, Jr., Anne Nagel, Frank Albertson, Samuel S. Hinds, William B. Davidson
Roles Associate Producer
Rating60%
A tragic accident occurs when a bus hits a high power line. The incident has claimed the lives of all on board, except for one Dan McCormick (Lon Chaney, Jr.), who survives because he is, surprisingly, immune to the deadly electricity. McCormick does a sideshow exhibit as Dynamo Dan, the Electric Man and is taken in by Dr. John Lawrence (Samuel S. Hinds), who wants to study him. Dr. Lawrence's colleague, mad scientist Dr. Paul Rigas (Lionel Atwill) has something else in mind, though. He wants to create an army of electrobiologically-driven zombies. He gives McCormick progressively higher doses of electricity until his mind is ruined and left dependent on the addicting electrical charges. This temporarily gives McCormick the touch of death, making him capable of killing anyone he touches by electrocution. After accidentally killing Lawrence, Rigas insures McCormick's conviction to see what will happen if he is sent to the electric chair. McCormick survives, and with a super charge in his glowing body he kills several people, including Rigas, before running out of electricity and dying.
Director
The Jury's Secret (1938)
, 1h5Directed by Edward Sloman
Origin USA
Genres Crime, Romance
Actors Kent Taylor, Fay Wray, Jane Darwell, Nan Grey, Larry J. Blake, Fritz Leiber
Roles Assistant Director
Rating69%