
Edward L. Cahn
Directing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward L. Cahn (February 12, 1899 – August 25, 1963) was an American film director. He is best known for directing Our Gang comedies from 1939-1943, and a long line of other short subjects and B-movies afterward. He is also known for directing the 1958 film It! The Terror from Beyond Space, that inspired the 1979 film Alien. He made a number of films for American International Pictures. His brother was film editor Philip Cahn.
Known For

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
The Man Who Laughs

Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father. At the police station, Laura identifies Jackie as the murderer, but the policeman in charge of the case, Lt. Brewster, lets him go, citing a lack of corroborating evidence. Outraged, Laura worms her way into the unsuspecting Jackie's heart, trying to snare him and mob-connected club owner Armitage in her trap.
Destination Murder

A sheriff goes in pursuit of an escaped convict who is bent on paying back the people responsible for his imprisonment.
Gun Street

The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
It! The Terror from Beyond Space

A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
The She-Creature

Curse turns a handsome prince into a Beast at night. A princess tries to help him, while his enemies plot to take his throne.
Beauty and the Beast
Spanky and the Our Gang kids go to battle over pranks with a rival gang.
Fightin' Fools

A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.
Vice Raid

The Our Gang kids worry that Darla's new stepmother will be an evil stepmother like of fairy tale fame.
Wedding Worries

A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
Confidential

Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity unless all the nations of earth surrender immediately. Sequestered in an impregnable laboratory trying to find the aliens' weakness, Penner, his daughter, a no-nonsense army major and a squeamish scientist are attacked from outside by the aliens, who have occupied the bodies of the recently deceased.
Invisible Invaders

In this detective drama, a gumshoe must find a priceless hunk of jade. His several leads evaporate when the police succeed in killing all of the suspects.
Bungalow 13
Inspired by his soldier brother, Spanky decides to organize a military unit among his friends, collecting odds and ends for the war effort.
Helping Hands

The gang is going fishing and wants to get an early start, but they end up causing all sorts of problems for the passengers of a city bus.
Goin' Fishin'

A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...
Curse of the Faceless Man

A fortune hunter leads a search for diamonds guarded by undead sailors off the coast of Africa.
Zombies of Mora Tau

A Soviet nurse helps a U.S. pilot, his buddies and a scientist escape from North Korea. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Suicide Battalion".
Jet Attack

Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bullets which strike them. A police doctor's investigation of the deaths leads to the discovery of an army of dead criminal musclemen restored to life, remotely controlled by a vengeful former crime boss and a former Nazi scientist, from the latter's laboratory hidden in the suburbs.
Creature with the Atom Brain

A troublemaker returns to town only to find his old tearaway pals have joined a supervised motorcycle club. Friction erupts between him and the new leader about this goody-goody setup, and about the charms of gang moll Terry.
Motorcycle Gang

Aliens equipped with venomous claws invade a small town, but the town's teenage population is mobilized to fight the menace.