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Lew Landers (January 2, 1901 - December 16, 1962) was a prolific American film and television director.
Born Louis Friedlander in New York City, Lew Landers began his movie career as an actor. In 1914 he appeared in two features, D. W. Griffith's drama The Escape and the comedy short Admission – Two Pins, opposite Glen White, under his birth name. He began making films in the 1930s, one of his first being the Boris Karloff / Bela Lugosi thriller The Raven (1935). After directing a few more features, he changed his name to Lew Landers and went on to direct more than 100 films in a variety of genres, including westerns, comedy and horror films. He worked for every major film studio—and many minor ones—during his career. In the 1950s he began to alternate his film work with directing television series, including two episodes of Adventures of Superman that were shot in black and white in under a week.
On December 16, 1962, Landers died of a heart attack. His grave is located at Chapel of the Pines Crematory.
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08 August 1938
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office.
08 July 1935
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
11 November 1943
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster.
10 November 1949
U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off the pirates as to what's being shipped where.
07 January 1938
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
20 November 1953
With the help of Pocahontas, Captain John Smith overcomes the treachery of some of his men and resentment of the local Native Americans to establish the colony of Jamestown.
20 May 1938
A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.
02 April 1937
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father.
06 January 1950
It's 1848 and a wagon train with an Army escort is heading west through Indian territory, It's scout is Davy Crockett, nephew of his more famous namesake.
11 March 1946
A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.
09 February 1944
Song and comedy revue, featuring Western talents, along with a theatrical troupe taking their vacation on the Lazy B Ranch run by Steve Bradley.
04 June 1942
On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor.
28 January 1938
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Meek, Samuel S.
26 November 1942
An English refugee and a street thug go to military school together.
20 May 1954
When Captain Kidd is reprieved from the gallows by a greedy nobelman who wants to know the location of his buried treasure, he sets off across the seven seas with faithful slave girl Eva Gabor in tow.
14 February 1951
A tough sergeant has to teach a hotshot young soldier how to be a team player.
01 May 1963
A masked lunatic kills off people in a haunted house.
09 April 1953
Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the prison hospital.
29 October 1942
An intrepid radio reporter sets out to track down and expose Nazi agents.
06 July 1951
Advance man Brass McGannon is nearly arrested for passing counterfeit money while promoting his circus' next stop.
01 April 1943
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
22 October 1942
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
07 August 1947
The fourth film in Columbia's "Rusty" series is a lecture against gossiping. A young army veteran comes to town, and Danny and his friends learn that he had spent time in a military stockade for an infraction of a regulation.
02 July 1942
American naval forces are using a port in Iceland as a base for anti-submarine patrols to protect North Atlantic convoys from Nazi subs.
25 December 1953
After carrier pilot Lt Bingham is rescued at sea by a submarine when he crashes, he applies for submarine duty.
01 October 1948
Ted Daniels, a ranch hand working for a rodeo, captures a magnificent wild horse that he tames and trains.
01 June 1947
Marvin Hayden returns to find his ranch is about to be sold at auction and the Hayden Jorth feud still going strong.
22 April 1934
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians.
23 February 1939
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
04 May 1950
Marian Medford Woodstock gave up a chance twenty years ago to compete for the Miss USA beauty title in order to marry Jeffrey Woodstock.
10 November 1938
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head Webb re-hire disgraced publicity agent Morgan for her personal appearance tour.
04 October 1951
Football player Bob Miller, played by an actual football player, is lost in the jungle. Who else to find him but Jungle Jim.
29 January 1943
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort.
23 March 1950
A cowhand becomes involved in a war between a road construction crew and the greedy toll-owner hoping to thwart the new project.
18 October 1951
With the aid of a magic carpet, the true heir to an Arabian caliphate leads an uprising against the pretender oppressing his people.
04 July 1952
The period is the 1840s and California is part of Mexico. Many of the citizens wish to become part of the United States.
04 June 1937
The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendship and wisdom of a kind and patient rancher.
06 May 1938
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connection
01 April 1946
A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his wife.
18 March 1938
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
18 December 1936
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive.
15 April 1945
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
07 October 1943
According to Doughboys in Ireland, there were those who sang their way through WW2. Radio tenor Kenny Baker plays Manhattan orchestra leading Danny O'Keefe, who is drafted into the army along with a Ritz Brothers-like quartet called The Jesters.
20 August 1937
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.
19 October 1952
Mike Wein, an Alaskan bush pilot operating the the Bering Sea area, makes friends with John W. Wetherby, posing as a wealthy United States businessman.
08 April 1948
Faithful dog Rusty helps his master's father win a mayoral race.
15 June 1939
An outlaw kidnaps a dancer and her lover in order to win a bet.
15 August 1946
A dance hall girl is murdered and her body robbed of a quantity of gold obtained illegally. The killer flees into Death Valley and encounters the rightful owner of the gold and her sweetheart.
22 November 1943
Deerslayer, a white man who was brought up by the Mohicans, helps his old tribe when the Hurons steal Princess Wah Tah, the betrothed of his friend Jingo-Good.
28 October 1956
The story of a bunch of hard-drinking steeplejacks.
15 August 1945
In this crime drama, a sorority girl is photographed hanging around with known criminals in illicit gambling dens.
31 October 1944
A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
14 April 1935
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
22 October 1936
At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.
18 April 1940
A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.
25 October 1950
Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a British invasion during the War of 1812.
01 August 1947
A stagecoach owner goes to jail to catch a holdup gang.
18 November 1937
An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.
13 November 1945
Scott Elliott, a discharged WWII Navy officer and a film executive in civilian life, passes through a small Arkansas town, and meets Bob Burns, a farmer, and his daughter.
