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Al Adamson is a Actor, Director, Writer, Producer and Stunt Double American born on 25 july 1929 at Hollywood (USA)
Al Adamson (July 25, 1929 – June 21, 1995) was a prolific director of B-grade horror films throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
After assisting his father, Victor, in making the 1963 movie Halfway to Hell, Adamson decided to work in the motion picture industry himself. Three years later, he and Sam Sherman founded Independent-International Pictures, which became the vehicle for the many movies he directed. Among them are Psycho-A-Go-Go (later worked into Blood of Ghastly Horror), Satan's Sadists and Dracula vs. Frankenstein.
Al Adamson was reported missing in 1995. Five weeks later, after law enforcement officials discovered his remains beneath the concrete and tile-covered floor in his newly remodeled bathroom, his live-in contractor Fred Fulford was apprehended at the Coral Reef hotel in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Fulford was charged with and convicted of murder, and sentenced to twenty-five-years-to-life in prison. The case of Al Adamson's murder is documented in the Investigation Discovery television series' 'Forensic Detectives', (ep. "Buried Secrets"), and The New Detectives, (season 07, episode 11).
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Al Adamson
Birth name Albert Victor Adamson Jr.
Nationality USA
Birth 25 july 1929 at Hollywood (USA)
Death 21 june 1995 (at 65 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 25 july 1929 at Hollywood (USA)
Death 21 june 1995 (at 65 years)
Al Adamson (July 25, 1929 – June 21, 1995) was a prolific director of B-grade horror films throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
After assisting his father, Victor, in making the 1963 movie Halfway to Hell, Adamson decided to work in the motion picture industry himself. Three years later, he and Sam Sherman founded Independent-International Pictures, which became the vehicle for the many movies he directed. Among them are Psycho-A-Go-Go (later worked into Blood of Ghastly Horror), Satan's Sadists and Dracula vs. Frankenstein.
Al Adamson was reported missing in 1995. Five weeks later, after law enforcement officials discovered his remains beneath the concrete and tile-covered floor in his newly remodeled bathroom, his live-in contractor Fred Fulford was apprehended at the Coral Reef hotel in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Fulford was charged with and convicted of murder, and sentenced to twenty-five-years-to-life in prison. The case of Al Adamson's murder is documented in the Investigation Discovery television series' 'Forensic Detectives', (ep. "Buried Secrets"), and The New Detectives, (season 07, episode 11).
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Doctor Dracula (1978)
, 1h28Directed by Al Adamson
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Dracula films, Vampires in film
Actors John Carradine, Larry Hankin, Al Adamson, Don "Red" Barry, Regina Carrol, Norman Pierce
Rating31%
Un éminent auteur prétend être la réincarnation de l'esprit contrôleur Svengali. En utilisant la magie noire, pendant un rituel de sacrifice il évoque une confrontation avec l'étrange M. Gregorio, qui est en fait le comte Dracula !
Black Heat (1976)
, 1h34Directed by Al Adamson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Timothy Brown, Regina Carrol, Russ Tamblyn, Al Adamson
Roles Uncredited
Rating42%
Kicks Carter is a streetwise policeman whose beat is Las Vegas. A crime gang is running guns, selling drugs, loan-sharking, and running a prostitution ring out of an upscale hotel in the city and Kicks is trying to put them out of business. But the interference of a woman reporter is making his job more difficult.
Psycho a Go-Go (1965)
Directed by Al Adamson
Genres Science fiction, Horror, Crime
Actors John Carradine, Al Adamson, Bernard Paul
Roles Travis (uncredited)
Rating42%
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Lost (1983)
, 1h32Directed by Al Adamson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sandra Dee, Jack Elam, Ken Curtis
Rating46%
Jeff Morrison (Don Stewart), his new wife Penny (Sandra Dee) and step-daughter Buddy (Shelia Newhouse) move from the city to the Utah mountains. Relationships within the new family are tested by the condition of their new home which is nothing more than a dilapidated shack, Buddy's new situation of having both a father (contacted via telephone) and step-father, and the introduction of farm animals to the city-raised women. When Buddy's pet burro needs to be put to sleep she runs off, getting lost in the mountains.
Carnival Magic (1981)
, 1h40Directed by Al Adamson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Children's films
Actors Regina Carrol
Rating25%
Markov the Magnificent is a talented magician and mind-reader whose career is fading. When he partners with a super-intelligent talking chimp named Alexander the Great, the duo suddenly become a big draw—and the potential savior for their struggling, small-time traveling circus. But they must fend off a jealous, alcoholic lion-tamer and an evil doctor intent on stealing the chimp.
Death Dimension (1978)
, 1h30Directed by Al Adamson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Adventure, Spy, Martial arts
Themes Spy films, Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Jim Kelly, Harold Sakata, George Lazenby, Terry Moore, Terry Moore, Robert Lee Minor
Rating43%
The story is about a scientist, Professor Mason, who invented a powerful freezing bomb for a gangster leader nicknamed "the Pig". Mason changes his mind and kills himself in order to not let his secret in the hands of the Pig. The scientist's assistant runs away with the plans, but is chased by the gangster's henchmen. The local police chief, Capt. Gallagher, gets put on the case an investigator, martial arts expert Detective Ash.
Doctor Dracula (1978)
, 1h28Directed by Al Adamson
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Dracula films, Vampires in film
Actors John Carradine, Larry Hankin, Al Adamson, Don "Red" Barry, Regina Carrol, Norman Pierce
Rating31%
Un éminent auteur prétend être la réincarnation de l'esprit contrôleur Svengali. En utilisant la magie noire, pendant un rituel de sacrifice il évoque une confrontation avec l'étrange M. Gregorio, qui est en fait le comte Dracula !
Black Samurai (1977)
, 1h28Directed by Al Adamson
Origin USA
Genres Martial arts, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Jim Kelly, Marilyn Joi, Roberto Contreras, Felix Silla, Essie Lin Chia, Regina Carrol
Rating47%
Robert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations), is playing tennis on his vacation with a beautiful black girl, when his commanding officers ask him to save a Chinese girl named Toki who happens to be Sand's girlfriend, and the daughter of a top Eastern Ambassador. The ransom for the abduction was the secret for a terrific new weapon - the freeze bomb - but the 'Warlock' behind the deed is also into the business of drug dealing and Voodoo ritual murders. The search takes him from Hong Kong to California through Miami, and plenty of action, against bad men, bad girls, and bad animals.
Black Heat (1976)
, 1h34Directed by Al Adamson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Timothy Brown, Regina Carrol, Russ Tamblyn, Al Adamson
Rating42%
Kicks Carter is a streetwise policeman whose beat is Las Vegas. A crime gang is running guns, selling drugs, loan-sharking, and running a prostitution ring out of an upscale hotel in the city and Kicks is trying to put them out of business. But the interference of a woman reporter is making his job more difficult.
Blazing Stewardesses (1975)
, 1h35Directed by Al Adamson
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, Don "Red" Barry, Robert Livingston, Harry Ritz, Regina Carrol, Jimmy Ritz
Rating26%
The Dynamite Brothers (1974)
Directed by Al Adamson
Origin USA
Genres Martial arts, Comedy, Action, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Timothy Brown, Alan Tang, Aldo Ray, James Hong, Carol Speed, Lam Ching Ying
Rating36%
Larry Chin, a Chinese martial arts expert, sneaks into the United States at a San Francisco port, looking for his brother Wei Chin who had disappeared several years prior, shortly after Larry's wife died in an accident. Larry is waylaid by men working for the crooked police officer Burke, who was told to watch for his arrival, but Larry is able to overwhelm the group and escapes. Larry convinces his cousin for an address in Watts, Los Angeles where his brother had last been seen, unaware that his cousin has been warned not give that information and is later killed in a car bomb.
Girls for Rent (1974)
, 1h32Directed by Al Adamson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Georgina Spelvin, Kent Taylor, Rosalind Miles, Robert Livingston, Addison Randall, Regina Carrol
Rating44%
Donna Taylor is a young prostitute recruited by a criminal organization known as "The Syndicate" to help blackmail their latest target, a politician. She agrees to carry out their plan of meeting him in his hotel room, drugging his drink, and having pictures taken of him while he is unconscious. She soon finds out the drug she administered was not a simple sedative as she had been told by Sandra and Erica, the two members of the Syndicate accompanying her, but a lethal poison. They threaten to kill Donna if she does not stay silent about the murder. After they depart to dispose of the body, Donna arranges to use the friend's place in Mexico to hide out. Unknown to her, the Syndicate is monitoring the hotel room.
Angel's Wild Women (1972)
, 1h25Directed by Al Adamson
Genres Action, Horror
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Ross Hagen, Kent Taylor, Regina Carrol
Rating38%
A group of good motorcyclists fight against an evil hippie cult based on the murderous Charles Manson "family".
The Female Bunch (1971)
, 1h26Directed by Al Adamson
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Western
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films
Actors Russ Tamblyn, Lon Chaney, Jr., Regina Carrol, John Cardos
Rating43%
After a string of bad times with men, Sandy tries to kill herself. Co-waitress Libby saves her and takes her to meet some female friends of hers who live on a ranch in the desert. Grace, the leader of the gang, puts Sandy through her initiation and they get on with the real job of running drugs across the Mexican border, hassling poor farmers, taking any man they please, and generally raising a little hell. Soon Sandy becomes unsure if this is the life for her, but it may be too late to get out.
Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
, 1h30Directed by Al Adamson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films about magic and magicians, Films based on science fiction novels, Dracula films, Frankenstein films, Vampires in film, Cyberpunk films
Actors J. Carrol Naish, Lon Chaney, Jr., Anthony Eisley, Regina Carrol, Forrest J Ackerman, Greydon Clark
Rating35%
A mad scientist (J. Carrol Naish) descended from the original Dr. Frankenstein takes to murdering young women for experimentation in hopes of reviving his ancestor's creation, with help from his mute assistant Groton (Lon Chaney, Jr.). Dracula (played by Roger Engel under the pseudonym "Zandor Vorkov") comes to the scientist promising to revive Frankenstein's monster in return for a serum which will grant him immortality.