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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Albert Glasser (January 25, 1916 – May 4, 1998) was a composer, conductor and arranger of film music, primarily in the realm of B-movies, during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. He scored approximately 200 films during his career, many for American International Pictures and director Bert I. Gordon. For the US War Department, Glasser composed for Frank Capra's Special Services Unit and for Office of War Information radio shows for overseas broadcasts. For television, he composed the score for the early western The Cisco Kid. For radio, he composed scores for Hopalong Cassidy, Clyde Beatty, and Tarzan. Glasser joined ASCAP in 1950, and his popular song compositions include "Urubu", "The Cisco Kid", "Someday" and "I Remember Your Love".
Born
January 25, 1916
Died
May 4, 1998 (age 82)
Birthplace
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Filmography
89 films


The Naked Monster
2005 · 1h 40m · US
Using soundtracks and extensive footage from many old movies, this spoof/homage of 1950's science-fiction films brings back many favorite actors from these classic movies, some reprising their former roles, to help destroy a giant stop-motion monster that is threatening to destroy Los Angeles.


The Cremators
1972 · 1h 12m · US
An alien life form, resembling glowing rocks, summons forth a huge, rolling ball of fire, whenever threatened, that incinerates people.


20,000 Eyes
1961 · 1h 1m · US
An investment counselor turns jewel thief when the gangster he embezzled funds from demands to be paid back.


Tormented
1960 · 1h 15m · US
A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head.


The Boy and the Pirates
1960 · 1h 22m · US
Jimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a wish and suddenly finds himself aboard Blackbeard's ship. Soon he realizes that being a pirate isn't what he expected.


Oklahoma Territory
1960 · 1h 7m · US
Temple Houston (Sam Houston's son) who is the DA with a sense of Justice. He is located in Fort Smith, Ark and works with Judge Parker in 1872. His area includes the Oklahoma Territory which was the Indian territory at that time. Chief Buffalo Horn who is falsely accused of murder.


Inside the Mafia
1959 · 1h 12m · US
A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.


The Beat Generation
1959 · 1h 35m · US
A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.


When Hell Broke Loose
1958 · 1h 18m · US
Near the end of the war in Germany, GI Steve Boland, a self-described "sharp-operator", meets a German girl, Ilsa, and they fall in love. Ilsa's brother Karl, whom she has not seen in three years, and his fellow Nazi Ludwig visit Ilsa. Karl proudly informs her that he and Ludwig are "Werewolves", a group of Nazi assassins parachuted behind Allied lines for the purpose of killing Allied High Command officers. She and Steve go to Army Intelligence with their information, where Steve is immediately arrested for being A.W.O.L. Captain Melton of Army G-2 intervenes on Steve's behalf, as G-2 has had a suspicion about the existence of the "Werewolves" but no concrete info before now.


The Mugger
1958 · 1h 14m · US
A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.


Cop Hater
1958 · 1h 15m
Members of the 87th Precinct search for a cop killer who has already murdered two of their own.


Earth vs. the Spider
1958 · 1h 13m · US
Teenagers from a small town and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider, living in a cave nearby and getting hungry.


Teenage Cave Man
1958 · 1h 5m · US
Roger Corman's post-holocaust quickie about an adolescent tribesman who dares to explore the feared "forbidden zone."


War of the Colossal Beast
1958 · 1h 9m · US
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very angry.


Attack of the Puppet People
1958 · 1h 19m · US
A deranged scientist creates a ray that can shrink people down to doll size.


High School Confidential!
1958 · 1h 25m · US
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.


Giant from the Unknown
1958 · 1h 18m · US
A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scientist whom he dislikes. Together with a former professor and the professor's pretty daughter, the scientist sets about solving the crimes and discovers the killer is an oversized 16th century conquistador, resurrected by a lightning bolt from his mountain grave.


The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent
1957 · 1h 6m · US
A group of Viking women build a ship and set off across the sea to locate their missing menfolk, only to fall into the clutches of the barbarian Grimolts who hold their men captive and worship the sea serpent which overturned their ship.


The Amazing Colossal Man
1957 · 1h 20m · US
Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast and although he sustains burns over 90% of his body, he survives. Then he begins to grow, but as he grows he starts losing his mind. By the time he stops he is 50 ft tall, insane and is on the rampage.


Street of Sinners
1957 · 1h 20m · US
A rookie New York cop has to deal with juvenile delinquents, his superiors, and blame for the suicide of a woman who jumped to her death while he was in her apartment.


Valerie
1957 · 1h 22m · US
After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.


The Cyclops
1957 · 1h 6m · US
A test pilot is missing and a search party is sent out in the jungles of Mexico; however, while searching they uncover a monster in the jungle who became this way due to a dose of radioactivity.


The Buckskin Lady
1957 · 1h 6m · US
Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced by circumstances to align herself with outlaw Slinger. But Angela has never gotten over her love for honest frontier doctor Bruce Merritt, and at the first opportunity she redeems herself by catching a bullet intended for the doc. Henry Hull delivers the film's most memorable performance as Angela's drunken wretch of a father. Per the title, Buckskin Lady affords the viewer ample opportunity to see Patricia Medina in form-fitting western garb.


Beginning of the End
1957 · 1h 13m · US
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?


Monster from Green Hell
1957 · 1h 11m · US
A test rocket carrying wasps to outer space, to study the effects on them of weightlessness and radiations, crashes out of control back to Earth, into the jungles of Africa. The two astrobiologists in charge of the test mount an expedition to the Darkest Continent to retrieve their experiment, only to find the wasps have grown to giant size which are panicking all forms of life as they quest for food.


Bailout at 43,000
1957 · 1h 18m · US
An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a dangerous test in a new aircraft.


The Big Caper
1957 · 1h 24m · US
A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.


Four Boys and a Gun
1957 · 1h 14m · US
The moving story of four young men struggling against overwhelming odds to remain honest. When their crooked employer shorts their earnings; they turn to crime, their first theft ending in tragedy.


The Boss
1956 · 1h 29m · US
A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power.


Huk!
1956 · 1h 24m · US
After 14 years in the United States, Greg Dickson returns to his family's plantation in the Philippines to settle his slain father's estate. Boyhood friend Bart Rogers and his wife Cindy meet Greg's plane at Manila, but he dismisses their warnings about the marauding Huks, fanatic guerrillas who are plundering nearby plantations. They repulse a Huk attack on the way to the plantation and are met by Stephen Rogers, Bart's father and the village schoolteacher. With him is Philippine Army Major Balatbat who tells Greg that Kalak, leader of the Huks and murderer of Greg's father, is also after him.


Please Murder Me
1956 · 1h 18m · US
A lawyer tries to exact justice on a woman he defended in court -- a woman whom he found out was guilty after getting her off.


Murder Is My Beat
1955 · 1h 17m · US
Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.


The Neanderthal Man
1953 · 1h 18m · US
A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous results.


Port Sinister
1953 · 1h 5m · US
A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all.


Invasion, U.S.A.
1952 · 1h 13m · US
A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union.


Paradise for Buster
1952 · 37m · US
Buster leaves his job after learning that he inherited a farm from an old relative.


Geisha Girl
1952 · 1h 7m
Two American G.I.s visiting Tokyo find themselves mixed up with espionage, a pretty flight attendant, a mad scientist, geisha girls, and a goofy magician-hypnotist and his white rabbits.


The Bushwhackers
1951 · 1h 7m · US
Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, intending never again to use a gun. He finds that rancher Artemus Taylor and his henchmen are forcing out the settlers in order to claim their land for the incoming railroad.


Tokyo File 212
1951 · 1h 24m · JP
A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. A U.S. secret agent, posing as a reporter, is dispatched to Tokyo to put a stop to these nefarious activities.


The Bandit Queen
1950 · 1h 10m · US
Zara Montalve, half Spanish and half America, returns to her native California in time to see her parents murdered for their hacienda and gold by Sheriff Jim Harding and his gang. Posing as Lola Belmont, an American visiting from Detroit, teams up with Joaquin Murietta, posing as Carlos Del Rio, to form a Robin-Hood type band that takes vengeance on the gang and restores stolen gold to its rightful owners, aided by militia leader Dan Hinsdale.


The Girl from San Lorenzo
1950 · 58m · US
Cisco and Pancho set out to clear their names in a series of stage robberies committed by two thugs who are impersonating them.


Apache Chief
1949 · 1h · US
When his tribesmen begin killing off white settlers, Young Eagle is opposed to the carnage. In order to assure a lasting peace, however, the chief must deal with renegade Apache Black Wolf.


Satan's Cradle
1949 · 1h · US
Satan's Cradle was the fourth of producer Phil Krasne's "Cisco Kid" programmers for United Artists. This time, Cisco takes on a frontier megalomaniac, shyster lawyer Steve Gentry, who has taken over a mining town. Gentry's confederate is dancehall girl Lil who is as deadly as she is beautiful. When itinerant preacher Henry Lane is beaten to a pulp by Gentry's goons, Cisco and Pancho move in for the kill.


Omoo-Omoo the Shark God
1949 · 58m · US
The curse of a shark god follows a group of people who have violated a sacred jungle idol.


I Shot Jesse James
1949 · 1h 21m · US
Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend Cynthy. The guilt-stricken Ford soon finds himself greeted with derision and open mockery throughout town. He travels to Colorado to try his hand at prospecting in hopes that marriage with Cynthy is still in the cards.


Last of the Wild Horses
1948 · 1h 24m · US
A cowboy must clear himself of a murder he did not commit.


Urubu
1948 · 1h 6m · US
Planning to make an expedition into the Matto Grosso jungle, George Breakston and Yorke Coplen fly from Los Angeles to Brazil. Their Brazilian guide is explorer Mike Roginsky.


Assigned to Danger
1948 · 1h 6m · US
Insurance investigator Dan Sullivan registers at a lodge, posing as a doctor, in hopes of catching a group of bank robbers who have pulled off a huge payroll heist.


The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
1947 · 1h 2m · US
The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.


Philo Vance Returns
1947 · 1h 4m · US
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.


Abilene Town
1946 · 1h 29m · US
Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with the cattlemen and cowboys having one end of town to themselves, while townspeople occupied the other end. Mitchell liked it this way, it made things easier for him, and kept problems from arising between the two factions. However…


The Cisco Kid Returns
1945 · 1h 4m · US
After several years' dormancy, the "Cisco Kid" western-film series returned to the screen with Monogram's The Cisco Kid Returns. Duncan Renaldo, actually Rumanian, starred as the Mexican "Robin Hood of the Old West", with Martin Garralaga as his corpulent sidekick Pancho. In the tradition of 20th Century-Fox's earlier "Cisco" efforts, our hero comes to the aid of an orphaned child, clears himself of a kidnapping charge, and proves that a "solid citizen" is in fact a criminal mastermind.


The Kid Sister
1945 · 56m · US
A madcap comedy about a kid sister who tries to steal her older sister's boyfriend. Her plan involves joining forces with a burglar to rob the unfortunate suitor's home.


Call of the Jungle
1944 · 1h · US
A beautiful white girl resident of Ta'Pu, Tana, is determined to clear Harley, who is suspected of stealing sacred jewels.


The Monster Maker
1944 · 1h 2m · US
Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.


Klondike Kate
1943 · 1h 4m · US
A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name.