Joseph H. Lewis

Joseph H. Lewis

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph H. Lewis  (April 6, 1907–August 30, 2000), was an American B-movie film director. Although he worked with both Béla Lugosi (The Invisible Ghost) and Lionel Atwill in early 1940s horror, he is best known for his work in film noir from the late 40s and the 1950s. His most acclaimed feature, Gun Crazy (1949), is a dark romance about gun-obsession, and notable for its use of location photography. At the dawn of his career (1937–1940), when Lewis was directing inexpensive westerns, he earned the derogatory nickname "Wagon-Wheel Joe" from the studio editors, because of his tendency to use wagon-wheels for constructing interesting visual compositions within the frame. Lewis's offbeat and eye-catching compositions added style and value to inexpensive productions. His 1944 musical Minstrel Man, starring singer Benny Fields, is quite possibly the finest film ever made by low-budget PRC Pictures. Industry insiders noticed, prompting Columbia Pictures to hire Lewis to film the musical sequences for its blockbuster musical The Jolson Story. Toward the end of Lewis's career, he worked in television, directing mostly westerns: The Rifleman, Bonanza, The Big Valley, Gunsmoke, and the pilot for Branded. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph H. Lewis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title: Joseph H. Lewis
  • Popularity: 5.132
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1907-04-06
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Joseph H. Lewis Movies

  • 1997
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    Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula

    Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula

    8 1997 HD

    Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula uncovers the life and career of legendary actor Bela Lugosi, examining his early life in Hungary and Germany through his...

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  • 1950
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    A Lady Without Passport

    A Lady Without Passport

    5 1950 HD

    An undercover U.S. Immigration agent falls in love with an immigrant attempting to enter the United States through Havana, Cuba in an illegal...

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  • 1955
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    The Big Combo

    The Big Combo

    7 1955 HD

    Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's...

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  • 1941
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    Invisible Ghost

    Invisible Ghost

    5.2 1941 HD

    The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

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  • 1949
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    The Undercover Man

    The Undercover Man

    6.2 1949 HD

    Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal...

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  • 1940
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    Pride of the Bowery

    Pride of the Bowery

    6.1 1940 HD

    Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain...

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  • 1957
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    The Halliday Brand

    The Halliday Brand

    6.1 1957 HD

    Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.

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  • 1953
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    Cry of the Hunted

    Cry of the Hunted

    5.8 1953 HD

    A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.

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  • 1946
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    So Dark the Night

    So Dark the Night

    6 1946 HD

    Inspector Cassin, a renowned Paris detective, departs to the country for a much-needed break. There he falls in love with the innkeeper’s...

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  • 1942
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    The Mad Doctor of Market Street

    The Mad Doctor of Market Street

    5.2 1942 HD

    A fugitive doctor tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.

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  • 1945
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    My Name Is Julia Ross

    My Name Is Julia Ross

    6.7 1945 HD

    Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather-noisy employment agency, with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she...

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  • 1956
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    7th Cavalry

    7th Cavalry

    5.813 1956 HD

    An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.

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  • 1955
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    A Lawless Street

    A Lawless Street

    5.414 1955 HD

    A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

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  • 1936
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    Sharad of Atlantis

    Sharad of Atlantis

    4.4 1936 HD

    Crash Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, and Diana, a go-getting reporter, join Professor Norton for a search for the source of a string of...

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  • 1958
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    Terror in a Texas Town

    Terror in a Texas Town

    6.7 1958 HD

    Armed with a harpoon, a Swedish whaler is out for revenge after the death of his father. A greedy oil man trying to buy up the Swede's land might be...

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  • 1945
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    The Falcon in San Francisco

    The Falcon in San Francisco

    6.1 1945 HD

    While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl whose nurse has been recently murdered.

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  • 1950
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    Gun Crazy

    Gun Crazy

    7.474 1950 HD

    Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a...

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  • 1942
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    Bombs Over Burma

    Bombs Over Burma

    5 1942 HD

    The film tells the story of Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during Early in World War II, Chungking schoolteacher Lin Yang...

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  • 1940
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    Boys of the City

    Boys of the City

    5.364 1940 HD

    Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.

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  • 1952
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    Desperate Search

    Desperate Search

    5.7 1952 HD

    A man (Howard Keel), his wife (Jane Greer) and his famous-aviator ex-wife (Patricia Medina) search for their two children lost with a cougar.

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  • 1935
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    Hitch Hike Lady

    Hitch Hike Lady

    6.8 1935 HD

    Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind...

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  • 1952
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    Retreat, Hell!

    Retreat, Hell!

    6.3 1952 HD

    During the Korean War, a U.S. Marine battalion must fight its way out of a frozen mountain pass despite diminishing supplies, freezing temperatures...

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  • 1935
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    The Adventures of Rex and Rinty

    The Adventures of Rex and Rinty

    6.7 1935 HD

    A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought from the island of Sujan, where he is worshiped as...

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  • 1948
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    The Return of October

    The Return of October

    6.4 1948 HD

    A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.

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  • 1941
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    Criminals Within

    Criminals Within

    6.5 1941 HD

    A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.

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  • 1937
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    Navy Spy

    Navy Spy

    2 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1937
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    The Gold Racket

    The Gold Racket

    4 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1940
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    The Man from Tumbleweeds

    The Man from Tumbleweeds

    3 1940 HD

    Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.

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  • 1942
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    The Silver Bullet

    The Silver Bullet

    4 1942 HD

    A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible.

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  • 1942
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    Bombs Over Burma

    Bombs Over Burma

    5 1942 HD

    The film tells the story of Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during Early in World War II, Chungking schoolteacher Lin Yang...

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  • 1940
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    The Return of Wild Bill

    The Return of Wild Bill

    1 1940 HD

    When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father...

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  • 1938
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    The Singing Outlaw

    The Singing Outlaw

    1 1938 HD

    A rodeo rider finds himself accused of the murder of a U.S. marshal.

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  • 1948
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    The Swordsman

    The Swordsman

    1 1948 HD

    Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.

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  • 1942
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    Secrets of a Co-Ed

    Secrets of a Co-Ed

    2 1942 HD

    An attorney's immature college-student daughter becomes romantically involved with a mobster, unaware that a nightclub singer also loves him - or...

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  • 1940
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    Texas Stagecoach

    Texas Stagecoach

    1 1940 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    Arizona Cyclone

    Arizona Cyclone

    4 1941 HD

    Crenshaw and Randolph are competing freight haulers and Randolph's lead man Tom Baxter has given him an advantage....

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  • 1939
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    Two-Fisted Rangers

    Two-Fisted Rangers

    3 1939 HD

    Thad Lawson arrives in Oak Valley to avenge the murder of his brother, the local sheriff. He learns that Jack Rand, powerful overlord of the town is...

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  • 1935
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    Streamline Express

    Streamline Express

    4.7 1935 HD

    A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he...

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  • 1940
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    That Gang of Mine

    That Gang of Mine

    5.6 1940 HD

    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...

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  • 1944
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    Minstrel Man

    Minstrel Man

    5 1944 HD

    Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields. The star is...

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  • 1935
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    Waterfront Lady

    Waterfront Lady

    5.5 1935 HD

    When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he...

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  • 1938
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    The Spy Ring

    The Spy Ring

    5 1938 HD

    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...

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  • 1940
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    Blazing Six Shooters

    Blazing Six Shooters

    1 1940 HD

    The story revolves around a valuable silver deposit, located between two ranches. Villain Lash Bender cooks up a scheme to gain control of both...

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  • 1942
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    Boss of Hangtown Mesa

    Boss of Hangtown Mesa

    1 1942 HD

    It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by the talented Joseph H. Lewis. Boss of Hangtown...

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  • 1938
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    The Last Stand

    The Last Stand

    1 1938 HD

    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....

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  • 1938
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    Border Wolves

    Border Wolves

    1 1938 HD

    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...

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  • 1937
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    Courage of the West

    Courage of the West

    1 1937 HD

    Rangers go after bandits holding up Wells Fargo offices.

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  • 1955
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    Man on a Bus

    Man on a Bus

    4 1955 HD

    Six people who have emigrated to Israel from different countries are all on a bus traveling through the Negev Desert. They find themselves stranded...

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    The Investigators is a short-lived American adventure/drama television series that aired on CBS from October 5, to December 28, 1961.

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  • 1970
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    6.5 1970 HD

    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take...

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  • 1970
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    6.9 1970 HD

    Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck,...

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  • 1970
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    6.4 1970 HD

    Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night 8:30 p.m. Eastern...

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It...

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  • 1970
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    5.6 1970 HD

    The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The...

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