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1. I Accuse My Parents (1944)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama
James "Jimmy" Wilson, a young man neglected by his parents, goes to work for a bunch of gangsters to impress his nightclub-singer girlfriend.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowell, John Miljan, Vivienne Osborne
Votes: 3,071
2. The Terror of Tiny Town (1938)
Approved | 62 min | Family, Western
An evil gunslinging midget comes to terrorize the good little people of Tiny Town. The townspeople organize to defeat him, and zany antics ensue.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Billy Curtis, Yvonne Moray, 'Little Billy' Rhodes, Billy Platt
Votes: 1,949
3. The Mad Monster (1942)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Johnny Downs, George Zucco, Anne Nagel, Glenn Strange
Votes: 1,944
4. Lost Continent (1951)
Passed | 83 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Major Joe Nolan heads a rescue mission in the South Pacific to recover a downed atomic rocket. The crew crash lands on a mysterious island, and spends much time rock-climbing.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke, Chick Chandler, John Hoyt
Votes: 1,773
5. Dead Men Walk (1943)
Approved | 64 min | Drama, Horror
The twin of a kindly small-town physician returns from the grave for vengeance against his brother, who secretly killed him because the twin served Satan.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Nedrick Young, Dwight Frye
Votes: 1,685
6. The Monster Maker (1944)
Approved | 62 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist injects his enemies with an acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell, Wanda McKay
Votes: 1,266
7. Radar Secret Service (1950)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Crime, Drama
G-men track stolen Uranium-238 shipment using new radar technology; they also recruit the girlfriend of a gang member as an informant. Radar helps, but it takes an undercover blonde to ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: John Howard, Adele Jergens, Tom Neal, Myrna Dell
Votes: 931
8. The Black Raven (1943)
Approved | 61 min | Horror, Mystery
A group of strangers are brought together in an old, dark house and must contend with two murders and $50,000 in stolen money.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: George Zucco, Wanda McKay, Noel Madison, Robert Livingston
Votes: 830
9. White Pongo (1945)
Approved | 71 min | Adventure
Hunters and scientists venture into the jungle to track down a savage albino gorilla, which they believe could be the missing link between man and ape.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Richard Fraser, Maris Wrixon, Lionel Royce, Al Eben
Votes: 699
10. Nabonga (1944)
Passed | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger's young daughter, now fully grown, and with a gorilla protector.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Fifi D'Orsay, Barton MacLane, Julie London
Votes: 684
11. The Flying Serpent (1946)
Approved | 59 min | Horror
The demented archaeologist Dr. Andrew Forbes discovers a living, breathing serpent-creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl, the Killer Bird God. Tragically, he causes his wife's death ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: George Zucco, Ralph Lewis, Hope Kramer, Eddie Acuff
Votes: 565
12. Wild Weed (1949)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Lila Leeds, Alan Baxter, Lyle Talbot, Mary Ellen Popel
Votes: 504
13. Apology for Murder (1945)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a reporter helps his girlfriend murder her rich husband, an innocent man gets the blame and faces execution.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Hugh Beaumont, Ann Savage, Russell Hicks, Charles D. Brown
Votes: 448
14. The Lady Confesses (1945)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 year disappearance to prevent her husband from marrying his new love, and someone kills her.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Mary Beth Hughes, Hugh Beaumont, Edmund MacDonald, Claudia Drake
Votes: 444
15. The Gambler and the Lady (1952)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A social-climbing American with a business in illegal gambling falls in love with a blue blood, but gangsters and a jealous ex-girlfriend stand in the way of happiness.
Directors: Patrick Jenkins, Sam Newfield | Stars: Dane Clark, Kathleen Byron, Naomi Chance, Meredith Edwards
Votes: 354
16. Money Madness (1948)
Approved | 73 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town, where he gets a job as a cab driver. He meets a young girl who is caring for her ill but wealthy aunt. He courts ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Hugh Beaumont, Frances Rafferty, Harlan Warde, Cecil Weston
Votes: 312
17. Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957)
Approved | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Nat Cutler, known as Hawkeye, is a fur trader. With his faithful Indian companion Chingachgook, the last of the Mohican tribe, he fights to protect settlers against the raiding Huron Indians.
Stars: John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr., Bill Walsh, John Vernon
Votes: 272
18. Outlaw Women (1952)
Passed | 75 min | Western
This rather unusual 50s western is set in a town where men may not enter. The town is controlled by a woman gambler who eventually succumbs to the allure of a handsome and persistent cowboy.
Directors: Sam Newfield, Ron Ormond | Stars: Marie Windsor, Richard Rober, Carla Balenda, Jackie Coogan
Votes: 248
19. Ghost Patrol (1936)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Western
A professor invents a radium tube that makes internal combustion engines stop running. He and his invention are captured by a gang of robbers. A federal agent is sent to rescue him.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Tim McCoy, Claudia Dell, Walter Miller, Wheeler Oakman
Votes: 242
20. Adventure Island (1947)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Travelers find themselves marooned on an island with a maniacal self-made ruler.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Rhonda Fleming, Paul Kelly, John Abbott
Votes: 227
21. Western Pacific Agent (1950)
Approved | 65 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Detectives for the Western Pacific Railroad investigate several murders, including one of a railroad payroll agent.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Kent Taylor, Sheila Ryan, Mickey Knox, Morris Carnovsky
Votes: 227
22. Aces and Eights (1936)
Approved | 62 min | Western
A cardsharp comes to the aid of a Mexican family.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Tim McCoy, Luana Walters, Rex Lease, Wheeler Oakman
Votes: 223
23. Swing Hostess (1944)
Passed | 76 min | Action, Comedy, Music
Rags-to-riches-to-rags story features Benny Goodman vocalist Martha Tilton as an unemployed big band singer who takes a job as an operator at a jukebox company. After falling in love with a... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Martha Tilton, Iris Adrian, Charles Collins, Cliff Nazarro
Votes: 221
24. Jungle Siren (1942)
Approved | 68 min | Adventure
A woman who was raised in the jungle helps a man fight Nazis who are trying to start a native uprising.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Ann Corio, Buster Crabbe, Evelyn Wahl, Paul Bryar
Votes: 220
25. Billy the Kid Trapped (1942)
Approved | 59 min | Western
Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of his men can impersonate them for the robberies and murders he has planned.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart, Anne Jeffreys
Votes: 220
26. Scotland Yard Inspector (1952)
Not Rated | 73 min | Mystery
An English woman asks an American detective visiting London to help find her brother's killer.
Directors: Sam Newfield, Pat Jackson | Stars: Cesar Romero, Lois Maxwell, Bernadette O'Farrell, Geoffrey Keen
Votes: 210
27. State Department: File 649 (1949)
Passed | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
U.S. Foreign Service officer matches wits with a Chinese warlord to try to save American citizens threatened with execution.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: William Lundigan, Virginia Bruce, Jonathan Hale, Frank Ferguson
Votes: 207
28. Marked Men (1940)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Bill, a wrongly imprisoned doctor, escapes jail and finds refuge in an Arizona town, but his freedom is threatened when the gangster who framed him forces Bill to guide his criminal crew across the desert.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Warren Hull, Isabel Jewell, John Dilson, Paul Bryar
Votes: 205
29. Fingerprints Don't Lie (1951)
Passed | 57 min | Drama
The killing of Mayor Palmer is being placed on Paul Moody by fingerprint expert Jim Stover as Moody's prints were found on the murder weapon. When reporter Brad Evans places doubt in ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Richard Travis, Sheila Ryan, Sid Melton, Tom Neal
Votes: 204
30. Gigantis, the Fire Monster (1959)
78 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
The heavily re-edited American version of Godzilla Raids Again. A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
Directors: Hugo Grimaldi, Motoyoshi Oda, Jack Bernhard, Ishirô Honda, Sam Newfield, Hal Roach Jr., Hal Roach | Stars: Minoru Chiaki, Shôichi Hirose, Miyoko Hoshino, Toku Ihara
Votes: 196
31. Hold That Woman! (1940)
Not Rated | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A skip tracer repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang has stashed stolen diamonds inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: James Dunn, Frances Gifford, George Douglas, Rita La Roy
Votes: 189
32. Oath of Vengeance (1944)
Passed | 57 min | Western
Fuzzy opens a store only to find that everyone buys on credit. The absence of cash is due to the range war between the cattlemen and the farmers started by Kinney. The Sheriff being worthless, Billy is quickly drawn into the conflict.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Falcon, Al St. John, Mady Lawrence
Votes: 185
33. Go-Get-'Em, Haines (1936)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Reporter Steve Haines (Boyd), on the trail of a business tycoon, follows his subject onto an ocean liner and gets wound up in a cruise full of intrigue, romance and murder.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: William Boyd, Sheila Terry, Eleanor Hunt, Lloyd Ingraham
Votes: 182
34. Hitler: Beast of Berlin (1939)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, War
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Roland Drew, Steffi Duna, Greta Granstedt, Alan Ladd
Votes: 162
35. Frontier Gambler (1956)
Approved | 71 min | Western
A marshal investigating the death of a woman who owned a gambling house finds that he's developing an attraction to the image of the dead woman, and then she shows up very much alive.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: John Bromfield, Coleen Gray, Kent Taylor, Jim Davis
Votes: 159
36. The Invisible Killer (1939)
Approved | 63 min | Mystery
A fiendish killer uses sound waves to commit his murders.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Grace Bradley, Roland Drew, William Newell, Alex Callam
Votes: 153
37. The Adventures of Tugboat Annie (1957– )
30 min | Adventure, Comedy
Tugboat Annie makes her living piloting her tugboat through the treacherous waters of the Pacific Northwest. As if the forces of nature didn't make her job difficult enough, she must also ... See full summary »
Stars: Minerva Urecal, Walter Sande, Don Orlando, Eric Clavering
Votes: 151
38. Motor Patrol (1950)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A police officer masquerades as a criminal to get information on a gang of car thieves.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Don Castle, Jane Nigh, William Henry, Gwen O'Connor
Votes: 149
39. Blonde for a Day (1946)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A newspaper reporter, Tim Rourke (Paul Bryar) keeps writing articles attacking the police department for its failure to solve a chain of murders, and this nearly leads to the reporter's ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Hugh Beaumont, Kathryn Adams, Cy Kendall, Marjorie Hoshelle
Votes: 146
40. Hi-Jacked (1950)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A truck driver stops on a rainy road at night to help a stranded motorist, but it turns out to be a ruse--he is attacked, knocked out and his truck stolen. Since he has a criminal record, ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Jim Davis, Marcia Mae Jones, Sid Melton, David Bruce
Votes: 143
41. His Brother's Ghost (1945)
Approved | 58 min | Western
Thorne and his gang are wiping out the ranchers. When they get to the Jones ranch they wound Andy. When he dies Billy Carson has his brother Fuzzy become Andy's ghost. They then set out to bring in the gang.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Charles King, Karl Hackett
Votes: 140
42. Bulldog Courage (1935)
Approved | 60 min | Western
A miner who was swindled out of his mine by a banker turns to robbing stagecoaches. Several years after he is tracked down and killed, his son comes to town to tangle with the banker.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Tim McCoy, Joan Woodbury, Karl Hackett, John Cowell
Votes: 139
43. I Take This Oath (1940)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama
The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Gordon Jones, Joyce Compton, Craig Reynolds, J. Farrell MacDonald
Votes: 139
44. Wild Horse Phantom (1944)
Passed | 56 min | Western
A lawman stages a prison break so a gang of imprisoned robbers will lead him to their hidden loot.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Falcon, Al St. John, Janet Warren
Votes: 139
45. Death Rides the Range (1939)
Passed | 58 min | Western
This film finds Ken Baxter and his two pals, Pancho and Panhandle, finding Professor Wahl, injured and wandering on the range.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Fay McKenzie, Ralph Peters
Votes: 135
46. Branded a Coward (1935)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Western
Johnny Hume witnesses the slaughter of his family at age six. When he grows into manhood, will he be able to seek his vengeance?
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Billie Seward, Syd Saylor, Lloyd Ingraham
Votes: 133
47. Sheriff of Sage Valley (1942)
Approved | 57 min | Western
Billy and his pals, on the run from the law again, travel to Sage Valley where Billy is made Sheriff. The local outlaw gang is run by Kansas Ed who closely resembles Billy. Ed captures ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Dave O'Brien, Maxine Leslie
Votes: 131
48. The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Marjorie Lord, Robert Shayne, Pierre Watkin, James Seay
Votes: 130
49. Gangster's Den (1945)
Passed | 55 min | Western
Black is after both Taylor's saloon and the Lane ranch. Fuzzy takes the gold from his and Billy's mine and buys Taylor's saloon. This puts him and Billy in conflict with Black and his gang.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Falcon, Al St. John, Sydney Logan
Votes: 130
50. Ghost of Hidden Valley (1946)
Approved | 56 min | Western
Dawson is running rustled cattle across the abandoned Trenton ranch and has given it the reputation of a ghost ranch to keep people away. When Henty Tenton arrives from England to take over... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Jean Carlin, John Meredith
Votes: 129