Directing

Sam Newfield

Born December 6, 1899 · New York City, New York, USA

Died November 10, 1964 · aged 64

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sam Newfield, born Samuel Neufeld, (December 6, 1889 – November 10, 1964) also known as Sherman Scott or Peter Stewart, was an American B-movie director, with over two hundred and fifty feature films to his credit. To such production several shorts and TV series episodes shall be added. Because of this massive output, sometimes releasing nearly twenty movies…

Known For

Roarin' Lead

Roarin' Lead · 1936

The Three Mesquiteers fight cattle rustlers.

Lady Chaser

Lady Chaser · 1946

MovieComedyCrime

A poisoned aspirin creates headaches for a woman who received the deadly pill from a stranger, then passed it on to her uncle.

Arizona Gunfighter

Arizona Gunfighter · 1937

Arizona Gunfighter

When Colt kills the men that murdered his father, he escapes his pursuers and joins Wolf and his outlaw gang. After two years Wolf breaks up the gang, deeds his ranch to Colt, and turns himself in. Now an honest rancher, things are going fine for Colt until Wolf's old gang shows up under a new leader. Colt get the Governor to release Wolf claiming the two of them can bring in the gang.

Roarin' Guns

Roarin' Guns · 1936

Tim Corwin- an agent for the Cattlemen's Association- is assigned to look into a range war between settlers and powerful cattle baron Walton.

Hi-Jacked

Hi-Jacked · 1950

MovieCrimeDrama

A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers.

Harvest Melody

Harvest Melody · 1943

Farmer Tommy and his girl Jane come in from the country for a night at the Hollywood Trocadero. There, they meet Chuck, Hollywood's Number One press agent, and his Girl Friday, Daisie. Hearing of the hardships imposed down on the farm by the war-related labor shortage, Chuck offers the help of his clients, movie star Gilda Parker, heavyweight boxer Canvas, and Eddie Le Baron and his whole orchestra, to help harvest the crops.

Border Roundup

Border Roundup · 1942

In this " Lone Rider" B-Western series entry, Tom Cameron and his pal Fuzzy Jones are deputy sheriffs helping their friend Sheriff Smoky Moore rid the territory of a nasty claim jumper, Blackie.

Texas Justice

Texas Justice · 1942

Tom Cameron and Fuzzy Q. Jones come to the aid of their old friend Smoky, who is having trouble with power hungry cattle rancher Huxley.

Filmography

Sort

Roarin' Lead

Roarin' Lead · 1936

The Three Mesquiteers fight cattle rustlers.

Director

Lady Chaser

Lady Chaser · 1946

MovieComedyCrime

A poisoned aspirin creates headaches for a woman who received the deadly pill from a stranger, then passed it on to her uncle.

Director

Arizona Gunfighter

Arizona Gunfighter · 1937

Arizona Gunfighter

When Colt kills the men that murdered his father, he escapes his pursuers and joins Wolf and his outlaw gang. After two years Wolf breaks up the gang, deeds his ranch to Colt, and turns himself in. Now an honest rancher, things are going fine for Colt until Wolf's old gang shows up under a new leader. Colt get the Governor to release Wolf claiming the two of them can bring in the gang.

Director

Roarin' Guns

Roarin' Guns · 1936

Tim Corwin- an agent for the Cattlemen's Association- is assigned to look into a range war between settlers and powerful cattle baron Walton.

Director

Hi-Jacked

Hi-Jacked · 1950

MovieCrimeDrama

A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers.

Director

Harvest Melody

Harvest Melody · 1943

Farmer Tommy and his girl Jane come in from the country for a night at the Hollywood Trocadero. There, they meet Chuck, Hollywood's Number One press agent, and his Girl Friday, Daisie. Hearing of the hardships imposed down on the farm by the war-related labor shortage, Chuck offers the help of his clients, movie star Gilda Parker, heavyweight boxer Canvas, and Eddie Le Baron and his whole orchestra, to help harvest the crops.

Director

Border Roundup

Border Roundup · 1942

In this " Lone Rider" B-Western series entry, Tom Cameron and his pal Fuzzy Jones are deputy sheriffs helping their friend Sheriff Smoky Moore rid the territory of a nasty claim jumper, Blackie.

Director

Texas Justice

Texas Justice · 1942

Tom Cameron and Fuzzy Q. Jones come to the aid of their old friend Smoky, who is having trouble with power hungry cattle rancher Huxley.

Director

Swing Hostess

Swing Hostess · 1944

MovieComedyDrama

An out-of-work band singer gets a job at a jukebox company and makes a hit.

Director

Lost Continent

Lost Continent · 1951

MovieScience FictionAdventure

When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, taboo mountain.

Director

Marked Men

Marked Men · 1940

MovieActionCrime

A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.

Director

Border Caballero

Border Caballero · 1936

Border Caballero

Tex Weaver is working under cover to bring in a gang of bank robbers. When he is killed, Tim Ross, a marksman with Doc Shaw's traveling show, takes over. Posing as a Mexican he lays a trap for the gang.

Director

Desert Patrol

Desert Patrol · 1938

When a fellow ranger (Julian Madison) is brutally murdered, the Captain sends Dave Austin to investigate the crime, only to stumble upon a money-laundering scheme in the works. With one eye on the killer (Ted Adams), Austin tries to unravel the racket. But keeping his true identity under wraps could be a problem. Rex Lease and Marion Weldon co-star in this classic Western from prolific director Sam Newfield.

Director

Lightnin' Crandall

Lightnin' Crandall · 1937

Lightnin' Crandall

MovieRomanceWestern

Cowboy with a reputation as the fastest gun in Texas heads to Arizona to leave his past behind, but it keeps catching up to him.

Director

Aces and Eights

Aces and Eights · 1936

Aces and Eights

MovieWesternAction

A card sharp steps in when a Mexican family's ranch is threatened by swindlers and cheats.

Director

I Accuse My Parents

I Accuse My Parents · 1944

I Accuse My Parents

MovieDramaCrime

Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. The judge cites parental neglect in the case of a teenager (John Miljan) charged with murder.

Director

Border Badmen

Border Badmen · 1945

As a 32nd cousin of the recently deceased Silas Stockton, Fuzzy heads for the reading of the will. The bad guys are after the Stockton estate and plan to kidnap Helen Stockton, the primary heir, and replace her with a stooge. When the henchmen catch her she is with Billy and Fuzzy so they kidnap them also. But the three escape and Billy then heads out to find the culprits.

Director

The Traitor

The Traitor · 1936

To prevent a lynching, Ranger Tim lets two outlaws go saying he will get them later. This gets him kicked out of the Rangers and he goes across the border and joins Big George's gang who are running contraband. But the outlaw Jimmy overhears Tim tell his sister that the dismissal was a fake. Big George and his gang then go after Tim and trap him in a cabin.

Director

Ghost Patrol

Ghost Patrol · 1936

MovieWesternScience Fiction

A Professor has an invention that will bring down planes causing them to crash and Dawson is forcing him to use it on those carrying money. When Tim arrives to investigate he is mistaken for a noted outlaw. So he assumes that identity to force Dawson to make him a partner. But just as a plane bringing Tim help is arriving, his true identity is revealed and while he is a prisoner, Dawson forces the Professor to start his machine.

Director

Colorado Kid

Colorado Kid · 1937

When Hines kills the Colonel for his money, the Colorado Kid is arrested and then found guilt of the murder. Bibben beaks him out of jail and later identifies some of the bills spent by Hines to have been part of the money stolen from the Colonel. The Kid now knows he is the one he is after and heads out to get a confession.

Director

Prairie Rustlers

Prairie Rustlers · 1945

Prairie Rustlers

Billy Carson is accused of the crimes committed by his dead-ringer, outlaw cousin Jim Slade, and barely escapes a lynching. With the aid of his pal Fuzzy Jones, Billy catches up with his cousin and clears his own name.

Director

Paroled - To Die

Paroled - To Die · 1938

Paroled - To Die

MovieActionWestern

Meline is taking money from his own bank to drill an oil well. When he finds Doug Redfern's bandana, he has his gang rob his bank and uses the bandana to frame Doug. When Doug is convicted but immediately paroled, Meline has another plan that he thinks will put him away permanently.

Director

Marrying Widows

Marrying Widows · 1934

Marrying Widows

After the death of her sewing machine tycoon husband, a young woman is cold-shouldered by her grasping in-laws. She heads to New York City and meets a man, falls in love and gets married. Unknown to her, her new husband is after what he thinks to be her fortune, in revenge for the theft of his father's patents that made the sewing machine profits. Discovering that she is in fact penniless, they both reconcile.

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Rustlers' Hideout

Rustlers' Hideout · 1945

Rustlers' Hideout

A cowboy and his sidekick fight evil guys who want to rustle cattle in order to get hold of land.

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Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans

Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans · 1957

Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans

SeriesWesternDrama

Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans was set in New York's Hudson Valley during the French and Indian war in the 1750's and depicted the adventures of Hawkeye and his Indian blood brother Chingachgook, the last member of the Mohican tribe. The series based on stories by James Fenimore Cooper.

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