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Leo Erdody is a Sound American born on 17 december 1888
Leo Erdody (December 17, 1888 – April 5, 1949) was an American film composer. Of Hungarian descent, he studied music in Germany, and later went to Hollywood, scoring his first film in 1921. He later joined Producers Releasing Corporation and scored several films for them. For his work on Minstrel Man, he was a nominee for an Academy Award for Best Original Score.
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Money Madness (1948)
, 1h13Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Hugh Beaumont, Frances Rafferty, Harlan Warde, Lane Chandler, Dick Elliott, Gladys Blake
Roles Music Director
Rating58%
Steve Clark (Hugh Beaumont) is on a Los Angeles-bound bus and gets off in a small town on the way. He first hides a large amount of cash he had been carrying in his suitcase. Then he gets a job, which leads him to a chance encounter with Julie Saunders (Frances Rafferty), a local woman in her 20s. Julie lives with an elderly, bitter aunt who makes her life miserable. Clark, with his charm and original outlook on life, instantly becomes a ray of sunlight for her, and they quickly marry.
Miraculous Journey (1948)
, 1h23Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Rory Calhoun, Virginia Grey, Audrey Long, Thurston Hall, George Cleveland, Jim Bannon
Roles Music
Rating63%
A group of seven people - an actress, a blind girl, a financier, a gangster, an heiress, a hostess, and a pilot - survive an airplane crash to find themselves deserted in an African jungle. The group come across an old hermit who has been living on the island for a while. The hermit teaches them how to survive in the jungle, though the unrepentant gangster is eaten by a crocodile. Eventually, a member of the group named Larry uses a canoe to get off the island. Larry locates a helicopter and flies back to the island, where he picks up the rest of the group. Although they offer the hermit a ride, he declines the offer, feeling he has become too attached to the jungle.
The Return of Rin Tin Tin (1947)
, 1h5Directed by Max Nosseck
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Rintintin (acteur canin), Donald Woods, Robert Blake, Claudia Drake, Steve Pendleton, Earle Hodgins
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating51%
The Flying Serpent (1946)
, 59minutesDirected by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors George Zucco, Eddie Acuff, Richard Crane, Wheaton Chambers, Milton Kibbee, Budd Buster
Roles Music Director
Rating48%
Insane archaeologist Professor Andrew Forbes (George Zucco) uses a beast he unearthed to kill his enemies. The creature is the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. Slowly those who know this try to stop the maniac and his monster.
Gas House Kids (1946)
, 1h11Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Robert Lowery, Billy Halop, Teala Loring, Carl Switzer, Rex Downing, Hope Landin
Rating60%
Murder Is My Business (1946)
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Noir, Crime
Actors Hugh Beaumont, Mary Beth Hughes, Lyle Talbot, Cheryl Walker, George Meeker, Pierre Watkin
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62%
Le détective privé Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont) est en conflit avec le chef de la police local, Pete Rafferty (Ralph Dunn ). Ce dernier menace de fermer l'agence de Shayne. Et Shayne aggrave son cas en étant mêlé à une affaire de meurtre. Sa secrétaire, Phyllis Hamilton (Cheryl Walker), lui vient en aide.
Larceny in Her Heart (1946)
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Noir, Crime
Actors Hugh Beaumont, Cheryl Walker, Ralph Dunn, Douglas Fowley, Charles Quigley, Charles C. Wilson
Roles Music Director
Rating60%
Burton Stallings (Gordon Richards) demande au détective privé Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont) de retrouver sa belle-fille, Helen (Marie Hannon). Cette dernière se présente à Shayne peu après de son plein gré, mais est assassinée par un inconnu dans son bureau. Shayne commence alors son enquête.
Detour (1945)
, 1h8Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Esther Howard, Claudia Drake, Don Brodie, Harry Strang
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating72%
Piano player Al (Tom Neal) is bitter about having to work in a New York nightclub. After his girlfriend Sue (Claudia Drake) leaves to seek fame in Hollywood, he decides to join her. With little money, he has to hitchhike his way across the country.
Strange Illusion (1945)
, 1h27Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Jimmy Lydon, Warren William, Sally Eilers, Regis Toomey, Charles Arnt, George Reed
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating61%
An adolescent believes that his widowed mother's suitor may have murdered his father.
White Pongo (1945)
, 1h11Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Horror
Actors Richard Fraser, Maris Wrixon, George Lloyd, Larry Steers, Milton Kibbee, Egon Brecher
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating30%
In the jungles of the Belgian Congo, a group of natives are dancing around a great fire with a human sacrifice named Gunderson, They are attacked by an albino gorilla called The White Pongo. During the attack an elderly scientist who lives with the tribe frees Gunderson and gives him his deceased colleague's diary that contains his findings on the white gorilla.
Apology for Murder (1945)
, 1h7Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Ann Savage, Hugh Beaumont, Russell Hicks, Pierre Watkin, Sarah Padden, Eva Novak
Roles Music Director
Rating56%
Tough reporter Kenny Blake (Beaumont) falls in love with sultry Toni Kirkland (Savage) who is married to a much older man (Hicks). She seduces him to murder her husband. City editor Ward McKee (Brown), Kenny's boss and best friend, begins to pursue the tangled threads of the crime relentlessly and gradually closes the net on Kenny. In the end Tony and Kenny shoot each other. As he dies, Kenny types out his confession to the crime.
Bluebeard (1944)
, 1h12Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Peinture, Serial killer films, Children's films
Actors John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther, Ludwig Stössel, Teala Loring, George Irving
Roles Conductor
Rating58%
All Paris is frightened by the murders attributed to "Bluebeard". Modiste Lucille (Jean Parker) is introduced to Gaston Morrell (John Carradine), a puppeteer and painter, by her friend. They are attracted to each other, and she accepts a commission to design some costumes for his puppets.
Minstrel Man (1944)
, 1h10Directed by Joseph H. Lewis, Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Gladys George, Alan Dinehart, Sr., Roscoe Karns, Jerome Cowan, Glynn Turman, Molly Lamont
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating48%
Singing star Dixie Boy Johnson (Benny Fields) and his wife Caroline (Molly Lamont) are jubilant over Dixie's headlining a Broadway show and Caroline's impending motherhood. On opening night, Caroline is rushed to the hospital and Dixie begs to leave the theater and join her, but producer Lew Dunn (Alan Dinehart) refuses. Caroline dies in childbirth and Dixie is shattered. He leaves the baby in the care of his friends, Lasses and Mae (Roscoe Karns and Gladys George), and drops out of sight. Presumed dead, Dixie stays under cover and takes an assumed name, as a shipboard entertainer. Years later, Lew Dunn grooms Dixie's daughter Caroline (Judy Clark) for stardom in a revival of Dixie's Broadway show. Dixie's former agent (Jerome Cowan) sees an opportunity to sue Dunn for damages, and arranges for Dixie to confront his daughter and his old friends.
Corregidor (1943)
, 1h13Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Otto Kruger, Elissa Landi, Donald Woods, Frank Jenks, Ian Keith, Rick Vallin
Roles Music
Rating47%
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
Dead Men Walk (1943)
, 1h4Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Dwight Frye, George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Nedrick Young, Forrest Taylor, Fern Emmett
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating48%
The story involves a kindly small-town physician Doctor Lloyd Clayton (George Zucco), who attends the funeral of his twin brother, the evil magician Elwyn, whom he has secretly murdered because of the latter's deep involvement in the occult sciences. Evil Elwyn's hunchback assistant Zolarr (Dwight Frye) suspects the good doctor of doing away with his master and confronts him on this matter, but the doctor swears that he only acted in self-defense when his brother had become a danger to society. Unfortunately, the evil twin brother had gone too far meddling with the dark arts before his demise, and with the help of his assistant he returns to life as a vampire. The doctor and his beautiful young niece, Gayle Clayton (Mary Carlisle) soon discover that evil forces still are at work even after Elwyn's funeral and are horrified to learn that the resurrected Elwyn is set on a gruesome revenge against his brother and his niece.