Joseph H. Lewis

Joseph H. Lewis

Total Credits at Criticker: 40 (Director), 1 (Writer)

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    Gun Crazy
    Since he was a child, Bart Tare has always loved guns. After leaving the army, his friends take him to a carnival... (imdb)
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    Invisible Ghost
    The town's leading citizen becomes a homocidal maniac after his wife deserts him. (imdb)
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    The Big Combo
    Police Lt. Diamond is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown because it's costing the department too much money with no results. Diamond makes one last attempt to uncover evidence against Brown by going to Brown's girlfriend, Susan Lowell. (imdb)
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    Terror in a Texas Town
    A Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land. (imdb)
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    A Lady Without Passport
    Lamarr plays Marianne Lorress, an Eastern European concentration-camp survivor who waits with other refugees in Havana, Cuba, for the American Immigration Department to provide a visa so she can enter the United States.
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    My Name Is Julia Ross
    Julia Ross (Nina Foch) secures employment, through a rather-noisy employment agency, with a wealthy widow, Mrs. Hughes (Dame May Whitty), and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity. (imdb)
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    So Dark the Night
    The story of a detective, Henri Cassin from Paris, who falls in love with an innkeeper's daughter Nanette while on a long overdue vacation. She's a country girl with a jealous boyfriend. Nonetheless, the cop becomes engaged to her. (wikipedia)
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    The Undercover Man
    Treasury Department agent Frank Warren takes on the case of a mob leader who has evaded paying taxes on his ill-gotten gains. (imdb)
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    A Lawless Street
    A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town. (imdb)
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    7th Cavalry
    An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custer's body after Little Big Horn. (imdb)
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    The Falcon in San Francisco
    The Falcon and his friend Goldie Locke check into what appears to be a silk-smuggling racket in San Francisco. (imdb)
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    The Mad Doctor of Market Street
    When his experiments with keeping humans in suspended animation go awry, a San Francisco-based mad scientist goes on the run from the cops and continues his bizarre scientific pursuits on a remote tropical island where the natives are restless indeed. (TCM.com)
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    Boys of the City
    Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house. (imdb)
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    Pride of the Bowery
    Danny, managing boxer Mugs, books him into a Civilian Conservation Corps camp for training. Mugs' arrogant manner soon alienates him from the other boys. When one boy, Willie, announces that he needs money for his ill mother, Mugs enters a boxing tournament in town. When Mugs loses, the boy resorts to robbing the camp safe. Mugs is accused, but Danny clears him by capturing Willie. (imdb)
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    That Gang of Mine
    A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees. (imdb)
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    Desperate Search
    The family and friends of two children lost in the wilderness mount a desperate search before incoming bad weather arrives and the children die of exposure. (imdb)
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    The Halliday Brand
    As a man returns home to see his dying father, the story of the alienation between father and son is told in flashback. Purposely letting his daughter's lover get lynched, shooting the lynched man's father when he threatens him with a gun, and the bullying tactics used by him as a Sheriff causes the son to leave. The son now plans to ruin his father and get his Sheriff's badge removed. (imdb)
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    Retreat, Hell!
    During the Korean War, a U.S. Marine battalion must fight its way out of a frozen mountain pass despite diminishing supplies, freezing temperatures and constant attacks by overwhelming numbers of Chinese soldiers. (imdb)
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    Cry of the Hunted
    A fugitive is pursued by a lawman who is obsessed with his capture. (imdb)
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    The Return of October
    In this whimsical fantasy, a young girl suddenly discovers that her horse is really a reincarnation of her beloved uncle. When the girl's relatives learn of her beliefs, they greedily try to have her declared incompetent so they can get a hold of her estate. Fortunately, October the horse intervenes. (allrovi.com)
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    Arizona Cyclone
    Crenshaw and Randolph are competing freight haulers and Randolph's lead man Tom Baxter has given him an advantage. A big hauling contract is coming up that requires a large deposit. Crenshaw has Randolph killed and the banker, who is actually Crenshaw's boss, then refuses to lend the money for the deposit to the new owner, Randolph's daughter. (imdb)
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    Blazing Six Shooters
    Karsin and Lash are after the Kenyon and Rawlins ranches where they have spotted silver ore. When Lash robs Rawlins and kills Kenyon, Jeff suspects them and makes a plan to nab the two. He sells the ranch to Karsin and as suspected, Karsin pays with the stolen bills. But Lash is suspicious of his partner and arrivers to re-take the money by force and flee. (imdb)
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    Border Wolves
    Just after Carson's gang murder members of a wagon train, Rusty and Clem come along and are arrested. Knowing they are innocent Judge Coleman breaks them out and sends them after Carson. They join Carson's gang to learn of their next raid but the Marshal arrests them for the wagon train murders. (imdb)
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    Boss of Hangtown Mesa
    Judge Ezra Barnes, crooked-lawyer Clint Ranier and saloon-owner Flash Hollister control the town of Hangtown Mesa. The completion of the Rocky Mountain Telegraph Company will loosen and break their hold and they send for the Utah Kid to work for them against the telegraph company. On the way, the wanted Utah Kid encounters Steve Collins, an engineer heading for the company camp, and forces him to change clothes with him. Steve arrives in Hangtown and is mistaken for the Kid and jailed. (imdb)
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    The Swordsman
    A couple tries a hand at romance while their respective families are busy feuding. (tcm.com)
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    Courage of the West
    Rangers go after bandits holding up Wells Fargo offices. (imdb)
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    Criminals Within
    A scientist is murdered by foreign agents after having developed a powerful new explosive. The scientist's brother, an army corporal, goes AWOL to discover the identities of the killers. Army intelligence officers are looking for him, as they believe he has a list of scientists who helped his brother develop the new weapon, putting them in danger. The spy ring is also after him, but they want the list for a different reason. (imdb)
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    Navy Spy
    A federal agent and a female reporter team up to catch a criminal gang that has kidnapped a scientist in order to get his formula for a new type of poison gas. (imdb)
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    The Gold Racket
    At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government. (imdb)
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    The Last Stand
    Tip Douglas is sent after cattle rustlers, the same rustlers that murdered his father. Posing as a notorious outlaw, he is able to join the gang. Learning that the gang's boss Thorn Evans killed his father, he and sidekick Pepper set a trap when he learns of their next raid. (imdb)
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    The Man from Tumbleweeds
    Powder Kilgore (Ray Bennett as Raphael Bennett) kills freighter Jeff Cameron (Edward LeSaint) and the latter's daughter, "Spunky" (Iris Meredith), sends for gunfighter Wild Bill Saunders (Bill Elliott, in another of his more than 195 films in which he was never, not once, billed as William 'Wild Bill' Elliott. (imdb)
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    Minstrel Man
    The story of a singer in a minstrel show, from his career highs to the tragedies in his personal life. (imdb)
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    Bombs Over Burma
    Chinese girl risks her life on espionage mission against Japanese in World War 2. (imdb)
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    Texas Stagecoach
    The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he has both projects sabotaged pitting the friends against each other and running them out of money. (imdb)
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    The Rifleman
    The Rifleman (1958) - TV Series
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    The Silver Bullet
    A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible. (imdb)
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    The Spy Ring
    Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.
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    The Return of Wild Bill
    To get possession of choice ranch lands, Matt and Jake Kilgore frame Sam Griffin for stealing cattle from Lige Saunders, set themselves up as vigilantes and then hang him. Then they urge Ol' Mitch, who has taken in Griffin's daughter, Sammy Lou, to take revenge against Saunders. Turning about, the brothers incite Saunders to go gunning first.
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    Secrets of a Co-Ed
    A free-spirited college girl insists on carrying on her romance with a young mobster, scandalizing the town and going against the wishes of her father, the town's most prominent attorney--and who has his own reasons for not wanting to attract too much attention to him and his family.
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    The Big Valley
    The Big Valley (1965) - TV Series
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