William Castle
Birthday: 1914-04-25
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: William Castle (April 24, 1914 – May 31, 1977) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Castle was known for directing films with many gimmicks which were ambitiously promoted, despite being reasonably low budget B-movies. Castle began directing films in the early 1940s, and later television, before moving on to the "gimmick films". Description above from the Wikipedia article William Castle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Movies
The Spirit Is Willing
When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed fo...
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Let's Kill Uncle
A 12-year-old orphan who has just inherited a fortune is trapped on an island with his uncle, a form...
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Hollywood Rated 'R'
A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman'...
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Homicidal
A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We so...
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Shanks
Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband,...
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The Lady in Question
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son....
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The Sex Symbol
A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and ho...
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It's a Small World
Harry Musk is one in a million. That means that he's the one out of a million children who is perfec...
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He Stayed for Breakfast
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker ...
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The Tingler
A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of...
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13 Ghosts
The reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his sprawling mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. ...
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How to Plan a Movie Murder
The writer, director and star of the 1964 horror film Strait-Jacket in a humorous featurette in whic...
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Shampoo
A Beverly Hills hairdresser runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to ...
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Zotz!
Jonathan Jones, a professor of ancient languages, comes into possession of an ancient coin. He trans...
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Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who becam...
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The Day of the Locust
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the l...
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Hollywood Story
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the uns...
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When Strangers Marry
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a m...
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Rosemary's Baby
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...
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Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'
A look back at the classic 1964 film of horror and suspense starring Joan Crawford as an axe-murdere...
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Mr. Sardonicus
In 1880, Sir Robert Cargrave, a London physician known for his experimental work in paralysis treatm...
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