Movies by Whit Bissell

Creature from the Black Lagoon

Creature from the Black Lagoon

When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.

The Time Machine

The Time Machine

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.

Hud

Hud

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to...

The Shanghai Story

The Shanghai Story

Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual look at the history of Frankenstein on the screen.

The Final Hour

The Final Hour

Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together.

Destination Nightmare

Destination Nightmare

Comprised of 4 episodes from the unsold TV series The Veil (1958) - "Whatever Happened to Peggy," "Destination Nightmare," "The Return of Madame Vernoy," and "Girl on the Road.'

Canon City

Canon City

Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.

Daniel Boone: And Chase the Buffalo

Daniel Boone: And Chase the Buffalo

Boone yearns to return to Kentucky, to escape the tax collector, despite his wife’s wishes. With his family remaining home, he leads a small group of farmers to Kentucky, only to be thrilled when his wife and children unexpectedly arrive to join him.

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.

In Broad Daylight

In Broad Daylight

A newly blind actor discovers his wife is cheating on him with his best friend and hatches a plot to murder her and frame his friend for it.

Tales of Robin Hood

Tales of Robin Hood

The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the few filmed episodes of an unsold TV series.

The Comedian

The Comedian

Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.

The Time Machine

The Time Machine

A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.

At Gunpoint

At Gunpoint

A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.

Exercise No. One

Exercise No. One

A lone motorist, changing a wheel on a deserted road in the middle of nowhere, is attacked by a demented ex-soldier

Time Machine: The Journey Back

Time Machine: The Journey Back

Documentary/Sequel to 1960 adaptation of "The Time Machine"

Devil's Canyon

Devil's Canyon

An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.