Directing
Sidney Lanfield
Born April 20, 1898
Died June 20, 1972 · aged 74
Sidney Ivanovich Lanfield (April 20, 1898 – June 20, 1972) was an American film director known for directing romances and light comedy films and later television programs.
Known For
Three Girls Lost · 1931Three Girls Lost
★ 8.01931
MovieDrama
Architect Gordon Wales finds fellow apartmenthouse resident Joan Marsh locked out and flirts with her. When she is murdered evidence points to him.
Love and Hisses · 1937Love and Hisses
★ 10.01937
MovieComedy
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
Little Amy · 1962Little Amy
1962
MovieComedy
Nine-year-old Amy has decided that klutzy neighbor Arthur is the one she's going to marry. However, Arthur is too busy trying, and failing miserably, to get a place on the football team to pay any attention to her. So she comes up with what she thinks are foolproof schemes to get him to succeed, which will give him more time to spend with her. Complications ensue.
Society Girl · 1932Society Girl
★ 7.51932
MovieDrama
Johnny is training for a championship fight. Judy distracts him, so his manager Briscoe walks out on him. Then so does Judy.
Wake Up and Live · 1937Wake Up and Live
★ 6.21937
MovieMusic
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
Happy Days · 1929Happy Days
★ 6.31929
MovieMusic
In Fox's contribution to the all-star revue cycle of early talkies, showboat singer Margie, hearing that the show is in arrears, goes to New York to gather all of the former stars to stage a minstrel show as a benefit.
The Hound of the Baskervilles · 1939The Hound of the Baskervilles
★ 7.11939
MovieMysteryCrime
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Big Time · 1929Big Time
★ 7.51929
MovieDrama
The relationship between a male dancer and his actress girlfriend is threatened by a scheming chorister.
Movies
Three Girls Lost · 1931Three Girls Lost
★ 8.01931
MovieDrama
Architect Gordon Wales finds fellow apartmenthouse resident Joan Marsh locked out and flirts with her. When she is murdered evidence points to him.
Love and Hisses · 1937Love and Hisses
★ 10.01937
MovieComedy
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
Little Amy · 1962Little Amy
1962
MovieComedy
Nine-year-old Amy has decided that klutzy neighbor Arthur is the one she's going to marry. However, Arthur is too busy trying, and failing miserably, to get a place on the football team to pay any attention to her. So she comes up with what she thinks are foolproof schemes to get him to succeed, which will give him more time to spend with her. Complications ensue.
Society Girl · 1932Society Girl
★ 7.51932
MovieDrama
Johnny is training for a championship fight. Judy distracts him, so his manager Briscoe walks out on him. Then so does Judy.
Wake Up and Live · 1937Wake Up and Live
★ 6.21937
MovieMusic
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
Happy Days · 1929Happy Days
★ 6.31929
MovieMusic
In Fox's contribution to the all-star revue cycle of early talkies, showboat singer Margie, hearing that the show is in arrears, goes to New York to gather all of the former stars to stage a minstrel show as a benefit.
The Hound of the Baskervilles · 1939The Hound of the Baskervilles
★ 7.11939
MovieMysteryCrime
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Big Time · 1929Big Time
★ 7.51929
MovieDrama
The relationship between a male dancer and his actress girlfriend is threatened by a scheming chorister.
Hat Check Girl · 1932Hat Check Girl
★ 7.51932
MovieComedy
Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her girlfriend Jessie.
Station West · 1948Station West
★ 6.41948
MovieWestern
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.
Bring on the Girls · 1945Bring on the Girls
★ 6.31945
MovieComedyMusic
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
The Lemon Drop Kid · 1951The Lemon Drop Kid
★ 6.51951
MovieComedyCrime
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
Swanee River · 1939Swanee River
★ 7.01939
MovieDramaMusic
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
Follow the Sun · 1951Follow the Sun
★ 6.31951
MovieDrama
A biographical film of Ben Hogan, from his start as a golf caddy to being considered one of golf's greatest players.
Half Angel · 1936Half Angel
★ 7.51936
MovieComedyDrama
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
The Lady Has Plans · 1942The Lady Has Plans
★ 6.01942
MovieDramaComedy
Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.
Sorrowful Jones · 1949Sorrowful Jones
★ 6.61949
MovieComedy
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
My Favorite Blonde · 1942My Favorite Blonde
★ 6.41942
MovieComedy
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
Skirts Ahoy! · 1952Skirts Ahoy!
★ 5.81952
MovieComedy
Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small boat, but their love life.
Where There's Life · 1947Where There's Life
★ 6.41947
MovieComedyThriller
In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.
You'll Never Get Rich · 1941You'll Never Get Rich
★ 6.51941
MovieComedyMusic
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.
Thin Ice · 1937Thin Ice
★ 6.81937
MovieComedyRomance
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
Standing Room Only · 1944Standing Room Only
★ 5.71944
MovieComedyRomance
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms. In desperation, they pretend to be married and hire themselves out as a butler and maid in order to secure lodgings. Comedy.
Second Fiddle · 1939Second Fiddle
★ 5.11939
MovieComedy
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
TV Shows
Wagon Train · 1957Wagon Train
★ 6.61957
SeriesWesternDrama
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series.
The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
The Deputy · 1959The Deputy
★ 6.51959
SeriesWestern
The Deputy is an American western series that aired on NBC from September 1959, to July 1961. The series stars Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry of the Arizona Territory and Allen Case as Deputy Clay McCord, a storekeeper who tried to avoid using a gun.
Burke's Law · 1963Burke's Law
★ 6.31963
SeriesDrama
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
The Addams Family · 1964The Addams Family
★ 8.01964
SeriesComedyFamily
A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.
M Squad · 1957M Squad
★ 5.41957
SeriesCrimeDrama
Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption in America's Second City, Chicago.
McHale's Navy · 1962McHale's Navy
★ 6.71962
SeriesComedy
An experienced South Pacific Sea Dog by the name of Quinton McHale, was commissioned as a Lieutenant Commander into the U.S. Navy Reserve at the start of World War II.
McHale was made the Skipper of the Torpedo Patrol (PT) Boat #73 stationed at the U.S. Naval Installation on the island of Taratupa in the Southwest Pacific.
The 73 'Family' included, among others, a con man and amateur Magician, a womanizing hunk, a dedicated Family man, a guitar-playing, moonshine-making Tennessee good ol' boy, and even a deserter from the Japanese Navy, who was an excellent cook.
Checkmate · 1960Checkmate
★ 4.81960
SeriesCrimeDrama
Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, and Lee Marvin, among many other commensurately prominent performers.
The Tall Man · 1960The Tall Man
★ 6.91960
SeriesWestern
The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the gunfighter Billy the Kid that aired seventy-five episodes on NBC from 1960 to 1962, filmed by Revue Productions.
87th Precinct · 196187th Precinct
★ 7.81961
SeriesCrimeDrama
87th Precinct is an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper, which aired on NBC on Monday evenings during the 1961–1962 television season.
Bachelor Father · 1957Bachelor Father
★ 6.21957
SeriesComedyFamily
Bachelor Father is an American sitcom starring John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, and Sammee Tong. The series first premiered on CBS in September 1957 before moving to NBC for the third season in 1959. The series' fifth and final season aired on ABC from 1961 to 1962. A total of 157 episodes were aired. The series was based on "A New Girl in His Life", which aired on General Electric Theater on May 26, 1957.
Bachelor Father is the only primetime series ever to run in consecutive years on the three major televisions networks.
Riverboat · 1959Riverboat
★ 6.51959
SeriesWestern
Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds broadcast on the NBC television network from September 13, 1959 until January 2, 1961. It was produced by Revue Studios.
Johnny Staccato · 1959Johnny Staccato
★ 5.31959
SeriesCrimeDrama
Jazz pianist Johnny Staccato supplements his meager musician's income by working as a private detective. The background for many of the episodes is his friend "Waldo's" jazz club in New York City's Greenwich Village, featuring performances by the Pete Candoli jazz combo which included Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, Red Norvo and Johnny Williams. The theme was composed by Elmer Bernstein.
Rango · 1967Rango
1967
SeriesWesternComedy
Rango is an American Western situation comedy starring comedian Tim Conway which was broadcast in the United States on the ABC television network in 1967.
In Rango, Conway played an inept Texas Ranger who had been assigned to the quietest post the Rangers had, Deep Wells, so as to keep him from creating unnecessary trouble. The Rangers apparently had wanted him removed from the service altogether but were prevented from doing so by the fact that his father was their commander. But he seemed to bring his own trouble with him, as crime suddenly returned to a place that had seen very little of it the prior 20 years.
Also appearing in Rango was the American Indian character Pink Cloud, an overly-assimilated Indian who was very fond of the ways of the whites and whose command of the English language was generally better than theirs.
The theme song co-written by Earle Hagen and sung by Frankie Laine. The series ran for less than a year.
TV Guide ranked the series number 47 on its TV Guide's 50 Worst Shows of All Time list in 2002.
No Time for Sergeants · 1964No Time for Sergeants
★ 1.01964
Series
Pistols 'n' Petticoats · 1966Pistols 'n' Petticoats
★ 7.61966
SeriesComedyWestern
Pistols 'n' Petticoats is an American Western sitcom
General Electric Theater · 1953General Electric Theater
★ 6.81953
SeriesComedyDrama
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
Cimarron City · 1958Cimarron City
★ 6.31958
SeriesWestern
Cimarron City is an American Western television series, starring George Montgomery as Matt Rockford and John Smith as Lane Temple, that aired on NBC from October 11, 1958 until April 4, 1959. The name "Cimarron City" refers to a boom town in Logan County north of Oklahoma City. Rich in oil and gold, Cimarron City aspires to become the capital of the future state of Oklahoma, created in 1907.
Little Amy · 1962Little Amy
★ 8.01962
SeriesComedy
Little Amy is a 1962 failed television pilot written by Norman Paul and starring Debbie Megowan. Other cast members include Bill Leslie, Shary Marshall, and Jack Nicholson in a small part as a football coach.
It was filmed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and was produced by the CBS Television Network. The failed pilot is widely considered to be based on the popular cartoon series Little Audrey.