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Tag Archives: Joseph H. Lewis
A Lady Without Passport (1950) Joseph H. Lewis, Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig

There is a problem with foreign nationals using Cuba as a convenient jumping off point for illegal entry into the United States. Read More »
The Undercover Man (1949) Joseph H. Lewis, Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore

Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Read More »
The Return of October (1948) Joseph H. Lewis, Glenn Ford, Terry Moore, Albert Sharpe

This is the warm-hearted story of a wholesome Terry Moore, whose late uncle Willie (James Gleason) is reincarnated as a thoroughbred horse. Read More »
The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942) Joseph H. Lewis, Lionel Atwill, Una Merkel, Claire Dodd

A mad scientist is forced to leave San Francisco when his experiments become known. Read More »
The Man from Tumbleweeds (1940) Joseph H. Lewis, Bill Elliott, Iris Meredith, Dub Taylor, Western

In the third of his four Wild Bill Saunders Westerns, Bill Elliott, “the Peaceable Man,” is assigned by Governor Dawson (Don Beddoe) to put a stop to the reign of terror, including cold-blooded murder, perpetrated by Powder Kilgore (Raphael Bennett). When the state legislature refuses to fund a legitimate rangers organization, Wild Bill instead enlists a group of tough convicts, whom he promises freedom if they help capture Kilgore and his chief lieutenant, Lightning Barlow (Francis Walker). Unfortunately, one of the convicts, Shifty (Ernie Adams), lives up to his name by betraying his comrades in arms to Kilgore but after a furious gun battle at the gang’s shootout, Wild Bill manages to bring peace to the area. Nevertheless, when asked to captain the newly founded rangers organization, the hero instead promotes his new friend, former convict Honest John (Al Hill), and heads off to new adventures.
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The Halliday Brand (1957) Joseph H. Lewis, Joseph Cotten, Viveca Lindfors, Betsy Blair, Drama, Western

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.
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The Swordsman (1948) Joseph H. Lewis, Larry Parks, Ellen Drew, George Macready

In the eighteenth century, in Scotland, families and Glowan McArden support a violent and long enmity. Alexander, an attractive member of the clan McArden, falls for the beautiful lady Barbara Glowan. Quickly, their relationship arouses anger Barbara’s cousin, Robert Glowan, trying to destroy the enemy forever family. Groom, anxious to marry his sweetheart, try the two irreconcilable positions coexist peacefully.
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