Sam Newfield

Directing

Sam Newfield

Born — Died

1899-12-06 — 1964-11-10

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sam Newfield, born Samuel Neufeld, (December 6, 1889 – November 10, 1964) also known as Sherman Scott or Peter Stewart, was an American B-movie director, with over two hundred and fifty feature films to his credit. To such production several shorts and TV series episodes shall be added. Because of this massive output, sometimes releasing nearly twenty movies in a single year, he has been called the most prolific director of the sound era. Most of Newfield's movies were created for PRC Pictures. This was a film production company that he operated in association with his brother Sigmund Neufeld. The films they produced were mostly low budget productions,…

Known for

Arizona Gunfighter poster
4.8

When Colt kills the men that murdered his father, he escapes his pursuers and joins Wolf and his outlaw gang. After two years Wolf breaks up the gang, deeds his ranch to Colt, and turns himself in. Now an honest rancher, things are going fine for Colt until Wolf's old gang shows up under a new leader. Colt get the Governor to release Wolf claiming the two of them can bring in the gang.

Arizona Gunfighter

1937

Roarin' Guns poster
7.7

Tim Corwin- an agent for the Cattlemen's Association- is assigned to look into a range war between settlers and powerful cattle baron Walton.

Roarin' Guns

1936

Ghost Patrol poster
4.8

A Professor has an invention that will bring down planes causing them to crash and Dawson is forcing him to use it on those carrying money. When Tim arrives to investigate he is mistaken for a noted outlaw. So he assumes that identity to force Dawson to make him a partner. But just as a plane bringing Tim help is arriving, his true identity is revealed and while he is a prisoner, Dawson forces the Professor to start his machine.

Ghost Patrol

1936

Texas Justice poster
9.0

Tom Cameron and Fuzzy Q. Jones come to the aid of their old friend Smoky, who is having trouble with power hungry cattle rancher Huxley.

Texas Justice

1942

Frontier Outlaws poster
6.8

Billy Carson, looking for rustlers, kills Bradley in a gun fight. Arrested, the judge finds him innocent but jails him anyway. When the rustling resumes he is released and posing as a Mexican cattle buyer he hopes to trap the culprits.

Frontier Outlaws

1944

Lady Chaser poster
7.0

A poisoned aspirin creates headaches for a woman who received the deadly pill from a stranger, then passed it on to her uncle.

Lady Chaser

1946

Behind the camera

Arizona Gunfighter poster
4.8

When Colt kills the men that murdered his father, he escapes his pursuers and joins Wolf and his outlaw gang. After two years Wolf breaks up the gang, deeds his ranch to Colt, and turns himself in. Now an honest rancher, things are going fine for Colt until Wolf's old gang shows up under a new leader. Colt get the Governor to release Wolf claiming the two of them can bring in the gang.

Arizona Gunfighter

1937

Roarin' Guns poster
7.7

Tim Corwin- an agent for the Cattlemen's Association- is assigned to look into a range war between settlers and powerful cattle baron Walton.

Roarin' Guns

1936

Ghost Patrol poster
4.8

A Professor has an invention that will bring down planes causing them to crash and Dawson is forcing him to use it on those carrying money. When Tim arrives to investigate he is mistaken for a noted outlaw. So he assumes that identity to force Dawson to make him a partner. But just as a plane bringing Tim help is arriving, his true identity is revealed and while he is a prisoner, Dawson forces the Professor to start his machine.

Ghost Patrol

1936

Texas Justice poster
9.0

Tom Cameron and Fuzzy Q. Jones come to the aid of their old friend Smoky, who is having trouble with power hungry cattle rancher Huxley.

Texas Justice

1942

Frontier Outlaws poster
6.8

Billy Carson, looking for rustlers, kills Bradley in a gun fight. Arrested, the judge finds him innocent but jails him anyway. When the rustling resumes he is released and posing as a Mexican cattle buyer he hopes to trap the culprits.

Frontier Outlaws

1944

Lady Chaser poster
7.0

A poisoned aspirin creates headaches for a woman who received the deadly pill from a stranger, then passed it on to her uncle.

Lady Chaser

1946

Border Badmen poster
6.5

As a 32nd cousin of the recently deceased Silas Stockton, Fuzzy heads for the reading of the will. The bad guys are after the Stockton estate and plan to kidnap Helen Stockton, the primary heir, and replace her with a stooge. When the henchmen catch her she is with Billy and Fuzzy so they kidnap them also. But the three escape and Billy then heads out to find the culprits.

Border Badmen

1945

Roarin' Lead poster
5.7

The Three Mesquiteers fight cattle rustlers.

Roarin' Lead

1936

Border Roundup poster
8.0

In this " Lone Rider" B-Western series entry, Tom Cameron and his pal Fuzzy Jones are deputy sheriffs helping their friend Sheriff Smoky Moore rid the territory of a nasty claim jumper, Blackie.

Border Roundup

1942

Texas Renegades poster
8.0

Marshal Tim Smith is sent to Rawhide to battle rustlers. When the outlaw gang attempts to kill the new Marshal, they get the wrong man. Tim puts his identification on the dead man and poses as a known outlaw. This gets him into the gang where he is given the job of posing as the new Marshal.

Texas Renegades

1940

Stagecoach Outlaws poster
7.0

Kirby sends his henchmen to break killer Matt Brawley out of jail. But Brawley has already broken out and they return with Fuzzy instead. Realizing they think he's Brawley, Fuzzy plays the part. He and Bill plan to round up the gang but Fuzzy is in trouble when the real Brawley shows up to expose the hoax.

Stagecoach Outlaws

1945

Harvest Melody poster
6.5

Farmer Tommy and his girl Jane come in from the country for a night at the Hollywood Trocadero. There, they meet Chuck, Hollywood's Number One press agent, and his Girl Friday, Daisie. Hearing of the hardships imposed down on the farm by the war-related labor shortage, Chuck offers the help of his clients, movie star Gilda Parker, heavyweight boxer Canvas, and Eddie Le Baron and his whole orchestra, to help harvest the crops.

Harvest Melody

1943

Marked Men poster
5.6

A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.

Marked Men

1940

Lost Continent poster
3.6

When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, taboo mountain.

Lost Continent

1951

Hi-Jacked poster
5.4

A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers.

Hi-Jacked

1950

The Traitor poster
8.0

To prevent a lynching, Ranger Tim lets two outlaws go saying he will get them later. This gets him kicked out of the Rangers and he goes across the border and joins Big George's gang who are running contraband. But the outlaw Jimmy overhears Tim tell his sister that the dismissal was a fake. Big George and his gang then go after Tim and trap him in a cabin.

The Traitor

1936

Federal Agent poster
8.0

A federal agent sets out to track down his partner's killers.

Federal Agent

1936

Desert Patrol poster
9.0

When a fellow ranger (Julian Madison) is brutally murdered, the Captain sends Dave Austin to investigate the crime, only to stumble upon a money-laundering scheme in the works. With one eye on the killer (Ted Adams), Austin tries to unravel the racket. But keeping his true identity under wraps could be a problem. Rex Lease and Marion Weldon co-star in this classic Western from prolific director Sam Newfield.

Desert Patrol

1938

I Take This Oath poster
5.8

The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.

I Take This Oath

1940

Marrying Widows poster
8.0

After the death of her sewing machine tycoon husband, a young woman is cold-shouldered by her grasping in-laws. She heads to New York City and meets a man, falls in love and gets married. Unknown to her, her new husband is after what he thinks to be her fortune, in revenge for the theft of his father's patents that made the sewing machine profits. Discovering that she is in fact penniless, they both reconcile.

Marrying Widows

1934

Border Caballero poster
6.2

Tex Weaver is working under cover to bring in a gang of bank robbers. When he is killed, Tim Ross, a marksman with Doc Shaw's traveling show, takes over. Posing as a Mexican he lays a trap for the gang.

Border Caballero

1936

Lightnin' Crandall poster
4.0

Cowboy with a reputation as the fastest gun in Texas heads to Arizona to leave his past behind, but it keeps catching up to him.

Lightnin' Crandall

1937

Swing Hostess poster
6.8

An out-of-work band singer gets a job at a jukebox company and makes a hit.

Swing Hostess

1944

Undercover Men poster
6.3

For showing cowardice during a holdup, bank teller Bob Hunter is fired. He joins the Mounties and is assigned to look for those robbers. To have him work undercover, the Inspector's scheme is to have Bob supposedly kicked out of the Mounties.

Undercover Men

1934

The Lone Rider in Cheyenne poster
8.0

Tom Cameron must prove himself innocent after he is wrongfully charged with the murder of a prison guard.

The Lone Rider in Cheyenne

1942

Colorado Kid poster
6.0

When Hines kills the Colonel for his money, the Colorado Kid is arrested and then found guilt of the murder. Bibben beaks him out of jail and later identifies some of the bills spent by Hines to have been part of the money stolen from the Colonel. The Kid now knows he is the one he is after and heads out to get a confession.

Colorado Kid

1937

Guns in the Dark poster
7.0

When Johnny and Mendez argue, the lights go out, and in the ensuing gunfight Johnny thinks he killed his friend Dick. Now refusing to wear a gun he crosses the border. But it is not long before he runs into Mendez and more trouble.

Guns in the Dark

1937

The Gambler and the Lady poster
5.6

A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.

The Gambler and the Lady

1952

Mask of the Dragon poster
5.3

A private eye and his girlfriend avenge his buddy, stabbed over a jade dragon.

Mask of the Dragon

1951

Outlaw Women poster
4.8

A old west town run by women. All the town's business is controlled by a woman gambler who tries not to succumb to the allure of a handsome and persistent cowboy.

Outlaw Women

1952

Fingerprints Don't Lie poster
5.8

A fingerprint expert figures out who killed the mayor.

Fingerprints Don't Lie

1951

I Accuse My Parents poster
2.9

Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. The judge cites parental neglect in the case of a teenager (John Miljan) charged with murder.

I Accuse My Parents

1944

Three on a Ticket poster
6.0

A private detective, who has been shot, stumbles into the office of Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont), and dies before Shayne can question him. Shayne finds a baggage ticket in his hand. He claims it and finds the checked-bag contains the loot from a robbery. Now, he has about fifty minutes left of the running time to find the crooks, bring them to justice and return the money to the rightful owners. And needs all of it.

Three on a Ticket

1947

Thoroughbred poster
10.0

An out-of-work reporter wins a horse in a dice game. The horse turns out to be a champion runner. His girlfriend helps him get the horse into professional racing, but they get mixed up with gamblers.

Thoroughbred

1935

Lady in the Fog poster
6.5

In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspicious and so begins roaming the London streets in search of the killer.

Lady in the Fog

1952

The Lone Rider Ambushed poster
5.0

The Lone Rider Tom assumes a former outlaw's identity (Keno) to learn where the gold from his last big heist is hidden. He tries to get the info from Blackie Dawson, but Blackie gets suspicious.

The Lone Rider Ambushed

1941

Am I Guilty? poster
9.0

A young black doctor sets out to establish a free clinic in Harlem.

Am I Guilty?

1940

Rustlers' Hideout poster
6.3

A cowboy and his sidekick fight evil guys who want to rustle cattle in order to get hold of land.

Rustlers' Hideout

1945

Hitler: Beast of Berlin poster
4.7

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 information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.

Hitler: Beast of Berlin

1939

Northern Frontier poster
8.0

A Mountie sets out to infiltrate and break up a gang of counterfeiters.

Northern Frontier

1935