Movies by Joseph H. Lewis
As a director:
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Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly …
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
A wealthy oil baron (Sebastian Cabot) finds his strong-arm plans thwarted by a Scandinavian whaler (Sterling Hayden) who comes to town to visit his father's ranch. Hayden gives an…
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The Big Combo (1955)
Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy …
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
Police Lt. Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is obsessed with nabbing the notorious Mr. Brown (Richard Conte), a man he's suspected of wrongdoing for years yet has never been able to snare. But…
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A Lawless Street (1955)
Cast: Randolph Scott, Angela Lansbury, Warner Anderson …
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
Hardworking Marshall Calem Ware (Randolph Scott) is torn between ridding the town of bad guys and saving his troubled marriage in this classic Western. Ware's estranged wife, Tally…
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Gun Crazy (1949)
Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger …
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
A searing forerunner to Bonnie and Clyde, this film tells the story of a gun-obsessed twosome who meet at a carnival, run off to get married and then commit a string of daring robberies…
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Breakfast in Hollywood / Minstrel Man (1944)
Cast: Benny Fields, Nat King Cole, Judy Clark …
Directed by: Harold D. Schuster, Joseph H. Lewis
This double-header of long-lost 1940s musicals, both insider takes on the world of early 20th-century showbiz, features performances from the likes of Nat King Cole and his Trio as well as…
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Bombs Over Burma (1943)
Cast: Anna May Wong, Noel Madison, Leslie Denison …
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
Chinese schoolteacher Lin Yung (Anna May Wong) helps ensure the safety of Allied forces along the Burma Road in this World War II drama from legendary B-movie director Joseph H. Lewis. After…
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Boss of Hangtown Mesa (1942)
Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, William Farnum …
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
After her uncle is murdered by thugs with a beef against modern communications, brave Betty Wilkins (Helen Deverell) steps up to run the show at the local telegraph office. But a villain…
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Secrets of a Co-ed (1942)
Cast: Otto Kruger, Tina Thayer, Rick Vallin …
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
A college coed gets mixed up with dangerous criminals in this vintage B drama. When his university-going daughter Brenda (Tina Thayer) begins seeing a gangster named Nick (Rick Vallin),…
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Invisible Ghost (1941)
Cast: Polly Ann Young, Betty Compson, Bela Lugosi …
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
Horror movie icon Bela Lugosi stars in this atmospheric tale as Charles Kessler, an upstanding doctor who is unwittingly transformed into a menacing killer every time he's visited by the…
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The East Side Kids: Pride of the Bowery (1941)
Cast: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, David Gorcey …
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
In this early East Side Kids feature, boxer Muggs (Leo Gorcey) is preparing for a fight, and manager Danny (Bobby Jordan) sends him upstate to a training camp, which turns out to be a…
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The East Side Kids: That Gang of Mine (1940)
Cast: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Clarence Muse …
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
When Kentucky horseman Ben (Clarence Muse) brings his veteran thoroughbred Bluenight to New York, the East Side boys craft a makeshift stable for the horse and persuade Algy's dad to pay…
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The East Side Kids: Boys of the City (1940)
Cast: Dave O'Brien, Forrest Taylor
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
When their car breaks down on the way to a summer camp in the mountains, the East Side Kids find lodging at the spooky mansion of a disgraced judge (Forrest Taylor). Unfortunately, their host…
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The Man from Tumbleweeds (1940)
Cast: Bill Elliott, Iris Meredith, Dub Taylor …
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
In this fast-paced oater from director Joseph H. Lewis, ex-convict gunfighters team with Wild Bill Elliott to round up a band of outlaws -- but little does he know that there's a…
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Bob Baker: Classic Westerns Collection (1937)
Cast: Bob Baker, Marjorie Reynolds, Joan Barclay …
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis, George Waggner
Crooning cowboy Bob Baker stars in four vintage Westerns. In Singing Outlaw, Baker plays a cowpoke who finds himself in a heap of trouble when he impersonates a marshal to bring down a gang…