Joseph M. Newman

Directing

Joseph M. Newman

Born — Died

1909-08-07 — 2006-01-23

Place of birth

Logan, Utah, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

​​From Wikipedia Joseph M. Newman was an American film director most famous for his 1955 film This Island Earth. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the now defunct category of Assistant Director, for David Copperfield (1935) and San Francisco (1936). Newman's credits include episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour television series.

Known for

Love Nest poster
5.5

Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.

Love Nest

1951

The Gunfight at Dodge City poster
5.7

Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is killed by hired guns of the corrupt incumbent Bat is determined to settle the score with violence but he is convinced by the townspeople that the best way to avenge his brother's death is by taking Ed's place on the ballot. Bat agrees and wins the election but his new role on the right side of the law will lead him to unexpected confrontations as he finds himself torn between his loyalties to his friends and his duties as sheriff.

The Gunfight at Dodge City

1959

No artwork available
NR

The story of Carlo Pozzo di Borgo, a boyhood friend of Napoleon Bonaparte's who later turned against him.

Vendetta

1942

This Island Earth poster
6.0

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

This Island Earth

1955

Tarzan, the Ape Man poster
4.5

An English colonel's daughter meets the lord of the jungle who makes her his mate.

Tarzan, the Ape Man

1959

Fort Massacre poster
6.2

New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been relentlessly decimated by the Apaches, attempt to reach Fort Crain. On their way through a hostile land, the obsessive and ruthless Sergeant Vinson takes to the limit the battered will of the troopers under his command.

Fort Massacre

1958

Film credits

Behind the camera

Love Nest poster
5.5

Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.

Love Nest

1951

The Gunfight at Dodge City poster
5.7

Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is killed by hired guns of the corrupt incumbent Bat is determined to settle the score with violence but he is convinced by the townspeople that the best way to avenge his brother's death is by taking Ed's place on the ballot. Bat agrees and wins the election but his new role on the right side of the law will lead him to unexpected confrontations as he finds himself torn between his loyalties to his friends and his duties as sheriff.

The Gunfight at Dodge City

1959

No artwork available
NR

The story of Carlo Pozzo di Borgo, a boyhood friend of Napoleon Bonaparte's who later turned against him.

Vendetta

1942

This Island Earth poster
6.0

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

This Island Earth

1955

Tarzan, the Ape Man poster
4.5

An English colonel's daughter meets the lord of the jungle who makes her his mate.

Tarzan, the Ape Man

1959

Fort Massacre poster
6.2

New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been relentlessly decimated by the Apaches, attempt to reach Fort Crain. On their way through a hostile land, the obsessive and ruthless Sergeant Vinson takes to the limit the battered will of the troopers under his command.

Fort Massacre

1958

A Thunder of Drums poster
5.6

Captain Maddocks will never be promoted beyond Captain because of a mistake that he made in the past. Lt. McQuade is a green rookie who is now under the command of the tough Captain and he does not seem to be able to do anything right. Lt. McQuade also has trouble with Tracey, but it will be the renegade Indians that will test him and teach him the importance of following orders.

A Thunder of Drums

1961

The Human Jungle poster
5.6

Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.

The Human Jungle

1954

The George Raft Story poster
5.6

The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft.

The George Raft Story

1961

Dangerous Crossing poster
6.4

A honeymoon aboard an ocean liner is cut short when the bride finds herself suddenly alone, and unable to convince anyone of her husband’s existence.

Dangerous Crossing

1953

Pony Soldier poster
6.3

Duncan MacDonald, a 19th-century Royal Canadian Mountie, has to escort a group of Cree Indians back to their above-the-border reservation. His guide in this endeavor is the not-too-trustworthy half-breed Natayo.

Pony Soldier

1952

The Lawbreakers poster
6.4

The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner '​s efforts to investigate homicides that take place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and police department.

The Lawbreakers

1961

Flight to Hong Kong poster
7.3

On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony, a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes over whether he should stick with his girlfriend or pursue Pamela, an intriguing novelist with whom he's instantly infatuated. Viewing Tony's dastardly deeds as great material for her new book, Pamela gladly encourages him to continue his criminal behavior.

Flight to Hong Kong

1956

Flight to Hong Kong poster
7.3

On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony, a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes over whether he should stick with his girlfriend or pursue Pamela, an intriguing novelist with whom he's instantly infatuated. Viewing Tony's dastardly deeds as great material for her new book, Pamela gladly encourages him to continue his criminal behavior.

Flight to Hong Kong

1956

Flight to Hong Kong poster
7.3

On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony, a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes over whether he should stick with his girlfriend or pursue Pamela, an intriguing novelist with whom he's instantly infatuated. Viewing Tony's dastardly deeds as great material for her new book, Pamela gladly encourages him to continue his criminal behavior.

Flight to Hong Kong

1956

The Great Dan Patch poster
5.5

David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's horse-trainer, Ben Lathrop, whose daughter, Cissy, has left high school to help her father. Palmer marries and becomes wealthy through an invention, and is able to indulge his socially-ambitious wife. His father dies and Palmer returns to Indiana, where his interest in harness-racing is rekindled, as is his interest in Cissy Lathrop.

The Great Dan Patch

1949

Red Skies of Montana poster
6.0

When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest Service, is flown to the scene from their regional headquarters in Missoula, Montana. The Forest Rangers, under Cliff Mason, put out the blaze, but several of the fire-fighters are killed. Ed Miller, son of one of the dead rangers, thinks he died because Mason was a coward, and sets out to prove it.

Red Skies of Montana

1952

The Outcasts of Poker Flat poster
6.4

Four undesirables run out of a mining town and become marooned in a deserted mountain cabin during a raging snowstorm.

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

1952

Buyer Beware poster
6.5

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.

Buyer Beware

1940

The Guy Who Came Back poster
6.2

Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, but a chance to play in a charity football game helps him see his life in a new light.

The Guy Who Came Back

1951

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein poster
6.4

Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein

1961

711 Ocean Drive poster
6.4

A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.

711 Ocean Drive

1950

The Big Circus poster
6.6

A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.

The Big Circus

1959

Death in Small Doses poster
5.1

A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.

Death in Small Doses

1957

Twenty Plus Two poster
6.8

A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress?

Twenty Plus Two

1961

Abandoned poster
6.2

A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.

Abandoned

1949

Respect the Law poster
7.0

Shows how so-called "minor" lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals.

Respect the Law

1941

Easy to Get poster
9.0

U.S. Army training film about avoiding venereal disease, intended primarily for Black servicemen.

Easy to Get

1947

Northwest Rangers poster
6.3

Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.

Northwest Rangers

1942

The Story That Couldn't Be Printed poster
7.0

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of John Peter Zenger, who in Colonial New York was tried for sedition based on what he printed in his newspaper.

The Story That Couldn't Be Printed

1939

The Luckiest Guy in the World poster
6.5

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man destroys his life through gambling debts and stealing company funds.

The Luckiest Guy in the World

1947

The Story of Alfred Nobel poster
7.0

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established the Nobel Prize.

The Story of Alfred Nobel

1939

No artwork available
8.0

An examination of the role played by dogs over the years in scientific research.

Man's Greatest Friend

1938

Don't Talk poster
6.4

This Crime Does Not Pay series entry dramatizes the idea that during wartime, people should not discuss anything related to their work when in public. A casual remark can be overheard by an enemy agent and used to sabotage the war effort. In this short, the story involves shipments of parts to a defense plant.

Don't Talk

1942

Coffins on Wheels poster
6.5

Unscrupulous car dealers foist faulty and dangerous cars on an unsuspecting public.

Coffins on Wheels

1941

Kiss of Fire poster
5.5

In 1700, a Spanish princess travels from New Mexico to California with ruthless outlaw El Tigre as guide.

Kiss of Fire

1955

Jungle Patrol poster
6.7

Eight fighter pilots hold off constant Japanese attacks during the construction of an airstrip in New Guinea.

Jungle Patrol

1948

Know Your Money poster
8.2

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.

Know Your Money

1940

Money to Loan poster
6.8

The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it. The loan sharking business has that want for money on both sides. He tells the story of one such loan shark, Stephen Hanley, who tried to pass his company off as a legitimate loan business, but who charged exorbitant rates, and used extortion and fraud to get out of his customers even more than what they may have owed on paper.

Money to Loan

1939

I'll Get You for This poster
6.6

Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.

I'll Get You for This

1951