Lewis R. Foster

Writing

Lewis R. Foster

Born — Died

1898-08-05 — 1974-06-10

Place of birth

Brookfield, Missouri, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

41 titles

Lewis Ransom Foster (August 5, 1898 – June 10, 1974) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lewis R. Foster, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Bacon Grabbers poster
6.4

Two debt collectors try to repossess a console radio.

Bacon Grabbers

1929

Angora Love poster
6.5

Stanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of their suspicious landlord.

Angora Love

1929

Billboard Girl poster
4.6

Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's penpal, a billboard model, goes to school. Little does he know he's being pranked by one of her male classmates.

Billboard Girl

1932

Movie Night poster
6.7

A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...

Movie Night

1929

The More the Merrier poster
7.0

It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.

The More the Merrier

1943

Jamaica Run poster
5.8

Promoter William Montague wants to buy the estate owned by the Daceys, Mrs. Dacey and her daughter Ena and son Todd, in order to build a resort hotel. When they turn him down, he produces a couple of distant relatives, Janice and Robert Clayton, and sets about to prove that the estate rightfully belongs to them. The identity of the rightful heirs is thought to be buried in a sunken ship off of the Jamaican shore and the search begins, led by a schooner skipper, Patrick Fairlie, who is in love with Ena.

Jamaica Run

1953

Film credits

Behind the camera

Bacon Grabbers poster
6.4

Two debt collectors try to repossess a console radio.

Bacon Grabbers

1929

Angora Love poster
6.5

Stanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of their suspicious landlord.

Angora Love

1929

Billboard Girl poster
4.6

Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's penpal, a billboard model, goes to school. Little does he know he's being pranked by one of her male classmates.

Billboard Girl

1932

Movie Night poster
6.7

A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...

Movie Night

1929

The More the Merrier poster
7.0

It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.

The More the Merrier

1943

Jamaica Run poster
5.8

Promoter William Montague wants to buy the estate owned by the Daceys, Mrs. Dacey and her daughter Ena and son Todd, in order to build a resort hotel. When they turn him down, he produces a couple of distant relatives, Janice and Robert Clayton, and sets about to prove that the estate rightfully belongs to them. The identity of the rightful heirs is thought to be buried in a sunken ship off of the Jamaican shore and the search begins, led by a schooner skipper, Patrick Fairlie, who is in love with Ena.

Jamaica Run

1953

Jamaica Run poster
5.8

Promoter William Montague wants to buy the estate owned by the Daceys, Mrs. Dacey and her daughter Ena and son Todd, in order to build a resort hotel. When they turn him down, he produces a couple of distant relatives, Janice and Robert Clayton, and sets about to prove that the estate rightfully belongs to them. The identity of the rightful heirs is thought to be buried in a sunken ship off of the Jamaican shore and the search begins, led by a schooner skipper, Patrick Fairlie, who is in love with Ena.

Jamaica Run

1953

Special Agent poster
9.0

A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.

Special Agent

1949

The Sign of Zorro poster
7.5

In this film, edited from eight episodes of Disney's hit TV series, Don Diego returns home to find his town under the heel of a cruel dictator, Capitan Monastario. Diego dons the mask of Zorro to fight the evil commandant's tyranny, and, with the help of his mute servant Bernardo, free the pueblo from his oppression.

The Sign of Zorro

1958

Double Whoopee poster
6.8

Stan and Ollie wreak havoc at an upper class hotel in their jobs as footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel). They partially undress blonde bombshell Jean Harlow (in a brief appearance) and repeatedly escort a stuffy nobleman into an empty elevator shaft.

Double Whoopee

1929

Tonka poster
6.3

Young Indian brave White Bull captures and tames a wild stallion and names him Tonka. But when White Bull's cruel cousin claims Tonka for his own and mistreats the horse, White Bull sets him free. Tonka finally finds a home with Capt. Keogh and the 7th Calvary, and in 1876, rides into the Battle of Little Big Horn with General Armstrong Custer, becoming its only survivor.

Tonka

1958

Tonka poster
6.3

Young Indian brave White Bull captures and tames a wild stallion and names him Tonka. But when White Bull's cruel cousin claims Tonka for his own and mistreats the horse, White Bull sets him free. Tonka finally finds a home with Capt. Keogh and the 7th Calvary, and in 1876, rides into the Battle of Little Big Horn with General Armstrong Custer, becoming its only survivor.

Tonka

1958

The Last Outpost poster
6.1

The cavalry defend a small town from indians.

The Last Outpost

1951

Berth Marks poster
6.8

Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.

Berth Marks

1929

Tropic Zone poster
4.8

A fugitive from the police helps a beautiful farmer run her struggling banana plantation.

Tropic Zone

1953

Tropic Zone poster
4.8

A fugitive from the police helps a beautiful farmer run her struggling banana plantation.

Tropic Zone

1953

El Paso poster
6.0

Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once there he finds the judge has become a drunk and a laughing stock, doing the bidding of local magnate Bert Donner and his running dog, Sheriff La Farge. Just as Clay starts straightening out the town's problems, events occur which force him to abandon the legal system and instead adopt the murderous tactics of a vigilante.

El Paso

1949

El Paso poster
6.0

Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once there he finds the judge has become a drunk and a laughing stock, doing the bidding of local magnate Bert Donner and his running dog, Sheriff La Farge. Just as Clay starts straightening out the town's problems, events occur which force him to abandon the legal system and instead adopt the murderous tactics of a vigilante.

El Paso

1949

Top of the World poster
6.5

A team of Air Force servicemen become stranded after setting up a weather station on an island of ice in Alaska.

Top of the World

1955

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now poster
7.5

A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

1947

Million Dollar Legs poster
6.0

At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?

Million Dollar Legs

1939

The Bold and the Brave poster
6.2

An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944.

The Bold and the Brave

1956

She's Dangerous poster
7.0

A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.

She's Dangerous

1937

Some Like It Hot poster
7.6

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.

Some Like It Hot

1939

The Farmer's Daughter poster
5.3

Broadway producer Nicksie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well until the leading man falls for the farmer's daughter, Patience Bingham.

The Farmer's Daughter

1940

Manhandled poster
5.2

Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.

Manhandled

1949

Manhandled poster
5.2

Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.

Manhandled

1949

The Eagle and the Hawk poster
5.9

Texas Ranger Todd Crayden is assigned a suicide mission South of the Border, to smuggle a government agent into Mexico...

The Eagle and the Hawk

1950

The Eagle and the Hawk poster
5.9

Texas Ranger Todd Crayden is assigned a suicide mission South of the Border, to smuggle a government agent into Mexico...

The Eagle and the Hawk

1950

Two in a Crowd poster
8.0

When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, and so does sportsman Larry Stevens. Since compromise will serve neither of their needs, they are stalemated - until complications arise.

Two in a Crowd

1936

Stolen Harmony poster
8.0

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.

Stolen Harmony

1935

Unaccustomed as We Are poster
7.0

Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.

Unaccustomed as We Are

1929

Those Redheads from Seattle poster
5.6

A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.

Those Redheads from Seattle

1953

Those Redheads from Seattle poster
5.6

A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.

Those Redheads from Seattle

1953

Crashout poster
6.7

Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by foot, car, train and truck to retrieve Duff's bank loot. En route, as they touch the lives of "regular folks," each has his own rendezvous with destiny.

Crashout

1955

Crashout poster
6.7

Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by foot, car, train and truck to retrieve Duff's bank loot. En route, as they touch the lives of "regular folks," each has his own rendezvous with destiny.

Crashout

1955

No artwork available
NR

Knockabout comedy in which woman marries widower each having a child of their own which the other knows nothing about.

Second Hand Kisses

1931

The Man Who Cried Wolf poster
7.0

An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.

The Man Who Cried Wolf

1937

Cheating Blondes poster
5.0

A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.

Cheating Blondes

1933

No artwork available
10.0

Comedy spoof of THE CAT AND THE CANARY. A female athlete and her entourage take refuge on a stormy night in a strange hotel that seems to be haunted.

The Itching Hour

1931