Lewis D. Collins

Directing

Lewis D. Collins

Born — Died

1899-01-12 — 1954-08-24

Place of birth

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lewis D. Collins, often known as Lew Collins or Cullen Lewis (12 January 1899–24 August 1954), was an American film director. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Collins' career began in the silent era of the 1920s, in 1922, continuing into the sound era, and he directed about 120 films between then and his death in Hollywood 1954. He directed films such as The Desert Trail in 1935, working with actors such as John Wayne and Paul Fix. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lewis D. Collins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Behind the camera

Trigger Trail poster
7.0

The tale of Clint Farrell, an aspiring lawyer who must use both his wits and his brawn to save his town from being taken over by a villainous railroad financier.

Trigger Trail

1944

Hot Rod poster
6.3

A young man builds a hot rod despite the disapproval of his father, a Juvenile Court judge. Circumstantial evidence points to the innocent teenager when his car is involved in a hit-and-run accident and he must reconcile with his father.

Hot Rod

1950

Reformatory poster
6.5

A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.

Reformatory

1938

The Marksman poster
7.0

Mike Martin becomes a deputy marshal and takes on a gang of cattle rustlers.

The Marksman

1953

Jungle Goddess poster
2.9

When a plane carrying the daughter of a millionaire crashes in an African jungle, two pilots set out to collect the reward. They discover that she has become the goddess of a primitive tribe. An insurgent witch doctor and fierce wild animals make escape from the jungle difficult for the trio.

Jungle Goddess

1948

Colorado Ambush poster
7.5

As was customary in his late Monogram westerns, Johnny Mack Brown plays an undercover agent in Colorado Ambush. Brown is sent to Colorado to stem the activities of a particularly vicious outlaw gang

Colorado Ambush

1951

Young Desire poster
7.0

A carnival sideshow dancer falls in love with a handsome young man.

Young Desire

1930

Danger Woman poster
8.0

A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.

Danger Woman

1946

Oklahoma Justice poster
9.0

Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a lady bank robber in this average Mack Brown series late-entry from Monogram. The lady, played by Barbara Allen, is of course called "Ma." In order to get the goods on "Ma" and her "brood," Mack Brown must masquerade as a lone bandit.

Oklahoma Justice

1951

Crime Takes a Holiday poster
9.0

A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.

Crime Takes a Holiday

1938

Secret Agent X-9 poster
6.2

American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.

Secret Agent X-9

1945

The Brand of Hate poster
5.6

Trouble starts when Bill Larkins and his two sons move in with his brother Joe. They start rustling cattle and then kill Rod's father with Joe's gun. The Sheriff and Rod think they did it and are after proof.

The Brand of Hate

1934

Junior G-Men of the Air poster
6.3

A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.

Junior G-Men of the Air

1942

The Return of Jimmy Valentine poster
10.0

A wisecracking newspaper reporter comes up with what he believes to be the ultimate publicity stunt: have the newspaper offer a $5000 prize to whoever can find Jimmy Valentine, a once notorious safecracker who seemed to have just disappeared from the scene, supposedly retired, but the reporter decides to try to collect the prize himself.

The Return of Jimmy Valentine

1936

Mystery of the Riverboat poster
6.5

A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.

Mystery of the Riverboat

1944

Fargo poster
6.6

The brother (House Peters Jr.) of rancher Bill Martin (Bill Elliott) is killed in a stampede started by cattleman. Bill returns to the Fargo country to take his brother's place and is welcomed by law-abiding cattleman MacKenzie (Jack Ingram)) and his daughter Kathy (Phyllis Coates). The leader of the ruthless cattle interests are townsman Austin (Arthur Space) and his henchmen Red (Myron Healey), Link (Robert J. Wilke) and Albord (Terry Frost). Bill has the idea of putting up barbed wire to keep the herds from been driven over the land cultivated by the farmers. He, aided by Tad Sloan (Fuzzy Knight), produces the wire by make-shift methods, but it proves effective. The cattleman charge in court that the wire is dangerous to their herds but lose the case. Austin orders his men to seize Bill, bale him in strands of the wire, and throw him on the stage of the town hall during a fall festival. Bill doesn't take kindly to this and it precipitates open war.

Fargo

1952

Last Date poster
8.0

Jeanne, a high school girl, dumps her dull boyfriend Larry for Nick, a local thug and hot-rodder she finds exciting. Nick terrifies everyone with his dangerous and reckless driving, but that only turns Jeanne on even more. Until one night, zooming around the countryside terrorizing motorists, Nick and Jeanne smash into another car...

Last Date

1950

The Great Plane Robbery poster
9.0

Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.

The Great Plane Robbery

1940

Two Guns and a Badge poster
10.0

In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim is appointed deputy sheriff of a wide-open cattle town. Playing along, our hero gets down to business -- and by the time his true identity is revealed, it hardly matters, since most of the bad guys are pushing up daisies on boot hill.

Two Guns and a Badge

1954

The Great Alaskan Mystery poster
6.0

The obsessive scientist Dr. Miller is working on a matter-transmitter invention called the Paratron; a conspiratorial team of spies and no-goods pursue him to Alaska, trying to steal the device.

The Great Alaskan Mystery

1944

The Royal Mounted Rides Again poster
7.2

In time-honored fashion, a couple of supporting players -- George Dolenz and Bill Kennedy -- found themselves elevated to starring roles in this minor Universal serial. They played Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers investigating the murder of a miner. The story, of course, was less important than speed and action, which directors Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins delivered in typical slap-dash Universal style. Starlet Daun Kennedy did not make much of an impression as the imperiled leading lady, and former star Robert Armstrong (of King Kong fame) was wasted in a subordinate role. Rondo Hatton, a non-actor whose grotesque appearance (caused by acromegaly, the so-called "Elephant Man" disease) was tastelessly exploited by Universal in the '40s, appeared as one of the outlaws.

The Royal Mounted Rides Again

1945

Wild Stallion poster
6.2

A young orphan grows into adulthood, all the while searhing for his beloved white horse that disappeared years earlier.

Wild Stallion

1952

Texas Lawmen poster
7.0

A Texas Ranger goes up against the Morrow outlaw gang.

Texas Lawmen

1951

The Desert Trail poster
4.7

Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City.

The Desert Trail

1935

The Spanish Cape Mystery poster
5.6

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

The Spanish Cape Mystery

1935

Trapped in the Sky poster
8.0

In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor wants to sell his invention to other countries but his government will only allow it if the test flights fail. The prototype is sabotaged and crashes on the first test, killing the pilot. The commanding officer shoulders the blame and ends up court-martialed. He then goes to the enemy agents and wins their trust.

Trapped in the Sky

1939

Lost City of the Jungle poster
6.5

A movie serial in 13 chapters, and Lionel Atwill's final film: Following the end of WWII, war-monger Sir Eric Hazarias sets the wheel in motion for WWIII. His search for Meteorium 245, the only practical defence against the atomic bomb, leads him to mythical Pendrang. Obstructing his sinister plan to rule the world are Rod Stanton, United Peace Foundation investigator, Tal Shan , Pendrang native, and Marjorie Elmore, daughter of scientist Dr. Elmore, unwilling assistant to Sir Eric.

Lost City of the Jungle

1946

Raiders of Ghost City poster
7.0

During the latter stages of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill), raid all gold shipments destined for Washington from Oro Grande, California. Can they be brought to justice?

Raiders of Ghost City

1944

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5.3

Greek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.

Down to the Sea

1936

The Strange Case of Dr. Meade poster
6.5

In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works for prefers traditional herbs to modern medicine.

The Strange Case of Dr. Meade

1938

Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground poster
9.0

In order to obtain a stage coach mail contract, a new road must be built. A gang of outlaws try to prevent the building of the road.

Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground

1943

The Man from Hell poster
5.7

A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere.

The Man from Hell

1934

Heading for Heaven poster
5.6

A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.

Heading for Heaven

1947

The Hoosier Schoolmaster poster
4.3

Right after the Civil War, an ex-Union soldier sets out to become a schoolmaster in his small town, even though many locals still harbor a resentment against "Yankees". He goes up against the town bully, who both want the same girl, and his troubles multiply when a vicious band of nightriders set out to drive him out of town.

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

1935

Don Winslow of the Coast Guard poster
10.0

Don Winslow (titular hero of the serial "Don Winslow of the Navy") is reassigned to the United States Coast Guard, to guard the coast against saboteurs and sneak attacks.

Don Winslow of the Coast Guard

1943

Adventures of the Flying Cadets poster
6.7

Four youthful cadets are implicated in a series of murders, and must attempt to clear themselves of suspicion.

Adventures of the Flying Cadets

1943

Ticket to a Crime poster
6.0

After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the private eye, aided by his comely secretary, vies with a bumbling police detective to find the murderer among several suspects, including the dead man's daughter, her current husband, her former husband, and an ex-convict.

Ticket to a Crime

1934

Outside the Three-Mile Limit poster
5.7

Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfeit money that seemingly is originating for a gambling ship, moored off-shore beyond the three-mile limit and operated by gangster Dave Reeves.

Outside the Three-Mile Limit

1940

Sing Sing Nights poster
4.2

A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him. Three different men are arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but only one can be the actual killer. A criminologist sets out to find who is really guilty.

Sing Sing Nights

1934

Trapped by G-Men poster
7.0

Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.

Trapped by G-Men

1937