Stage actor/director Victor Halperin was producer, director, and scripter of several low-budget film dramas and melodramas over a two-decade period. Halperin's first talkie was the Douglas Fairbanks Jr. starrer Party Girl (1929). He usually worked in collaboration, most often with his brother Edward. The Halperin Brothers were responsible for a group of murky, inexpensive horror films of the 1930s, produced independently and released by distributors ranging from mighty Paramount to less mighty Grand National. Their best work (at least, the one most frequently revived) was the eerie Bela Lugosi chiller White Zombie (1932); their oddest was A Nation Aflame (1937), an anti-racism piece based on a work by pro-racist Thomas Dixon. Victor Halperin spent his last creative years as a director at lower-rung PRC studios. He retired in 1942, then completely dropped out of sight; it can be assumed that he's since died, but no one seems to know when.
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The Lone Star Trail
Screen Story |
1943 | |||
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Girls' Town
Director |
1942 | |||
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Buried Alive
Director |
1939 | |||
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Torture Ship
Director |
1939 | |||
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Nation Aflame
Director, Producer |
1937 | |||
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I Conquer the Sea
Director, Producer |
1936 | |||
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Revolt of the Zombies
Director, Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Bachelor Bait
Screen Story |
1934 | |||
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Supernatural
Director, Producer |
1933 | |||
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White Zombie
Director |
1932 | |||
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Ex-Flame
Director |
1931 | |||
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Party Girl
Director, Screenwriter |
1930 | |||
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Party Incorporated
Director |
1929 | |||
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She Goes to War
Producer |
1929 | |||
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Convoy
Producer |
1927 | |||
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Dance Magic
Director |
1927 | |||
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In Borrowed Plumes
Director |
1926 | |||
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School for Wives
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1925 | |||
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The Unknown Lover
Director, Supervisor/Manager |
1925 | |||
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Greater Than Marriage
Director |
1924 | |||
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When a Girl Loves
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1924 | |||
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Tea With A Kick
Producer, Screenwriter, Supervisor/Manager |
1923 | |||
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The Danger Point
Screenwriter |
1922 |
