Joseph NewmanFilmography

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Second Wife

Crew: Director

Actors: June Lockhart, John Anderson, Alice Backes, Eve McVeagh, Jim Boles

Synopsis: Lonely spinster Martha (June Lockhart) and taciturn coffin maker Luke (John Anderson) meet each other via a mail-order lonely hearts club. Agreeing to wed Luke sight unseen, Martha subsequently discovers that she is her new husband's second wife; it seems that wife number one died under very Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Beast in View

Crew: Director

Actors: Joan Hackett, Kathleen Nolan, George Furth, Kevin McCarthy, Brenda Forbes

Synopsis: Helen Clarvoe (Joan Hackett) informs her lawyer, Paul Blackshear (Kevin McCarthy), that she has been the victim of threatening phone calls. Helen insists that her tormentor is Dorothy Johnson (Kathy Nolan), the embittered former fiancée of Helen's brother. Using evidence provided by Helen, Paul Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Gentleman Caller

Crew: Director

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Ruth McDevitt, Diane Sayer, Naomi Stevens, Juanita Moore

Synopsis: Elderly eccentric Emmy Rice (Ruth McDevitt) is charmed by the attentions of her much-younger gentleman caller, a fellow named Gerald Musgrove (Roddy McDowall). This is quite agreeable to Musgrove, a safecracker who has hidden 100,000 dollars in stolen money in Emmy's voluminous collection of old Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Body in the Barn

Crew: Director

Actors: Lillian Gish, Maggie McNamara, Peter Lind Hayes, Patricia Cutts, Kent Smith

Synopsis: There's no love lost between small-town busybody Bessie Carnby (Lillian Gish) and her neighbors Henry and Samantha Wilkins (Peter Lind Hayes, Patricia Cutts) -- nor does Bessie's daughter, Camilla (Maggie McNamara), make a secret of her dislike for the mousy Henry. Eventually, Bessie decides to Read More

The Twilight Zone: Black Leather Jackets

Crew: Director

Actors: Lee Kinsolving, Shelley Fabares, Michael Forest, Denver Pyle

Synopsis: Three leather-jacketed motorcyclists converge upon a small town and immediately take up residence in a vacant house. Though everyone considers the cyclists to be nice, quiet boys, they are in fact the vanguard of an invading army from a hostile planet. Things get dicey when one of the "boys" (Lee Kinsolving Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Bewitchin' Pool

Crew: Director

Actors: Mary Badham, Joseph Newman, Earl Hamner, Tim Stafford, Georgia Simmons, William Froug, Dee Hartford

Synopsis: Written by Earl Hamner, Jr., this late Twilight Zone episode shows evidence of production difficulties and post-production tampering, as indicated by the curious repetition of several key scenes and the decision to dub the voice of child actress Mary Badham (of To Kill a Mockingbird fame) with Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Three Wives Too Many

Crew: Director

Actors: Teresa Wright, Dan Duryea, Jean Hale, Linda Lawson, Steve Gravers

Synopsis: Marion Brown (Teresa Wright) of Cleveland, OH, travels to Newark, NJ, there to meet and murder Bernice Brown (Jean Hale). It seems that Marion has discovered that her traveling-salesman husband (Dan Duryea) is a bigamist, and she is determined to knock off not only his "second" wife but also his Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Misadventure

Crew: Director

Actors: Lola Albright, Barry Nelson, George Kennedy, Michael Bregan

Synopsis: Married to a middle-aged tightwad named Henry (George Kennedy), the promiscuous Eva (Lola Albright) yearns for the day that she can separate her husband from his money so that she can run off with her latest boyfriend. Enter George (Barry Nelson), who claims to be the gas man in order to gain Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: See the Monkey Dance

Crew: Director

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roddy McDowall, Patricia Medina, George Pelling, Shari Lee Bernath

Synopsis: While traveling by train to a clandestine meeting with his married mistress, London stockbroker George (Roddy McDowall) befriends another passenger (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.). It soon develops that the other fellow is traveling to London for a rendezvous with his own married girlfriend -- and this Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Death of a Cop

Crew: Director

Actors: Victor Jory, Peter Brown, Lawrence Tierney, Paul Hartman, John Marley

Synopsis: Victor Jory stars as veteran police officer Paul Reardon, who vows to avenge the murder of his rookie-cop son, Philip (Peter Brown). Although ordered by the higher-ups to lay off, Paul is determined to bring drug kingpin Herbie Lane (Lawrence Tierney), the man responsible for Peter's death in a Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Last Night of a Jockey

Crew: Director

Actors: Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: In the tradition of his earlier Alcoa/Goodyear Theater episode "Eddie," Mickey Rooney delivers a tour de force solo performance in the Twilight Zone playlet "The Last Night of a Jockey." Barred from the track for life, crooked jockey Grady (Rooney) boozily expresses the wish to escape his Read More

The Twilight Zone: In Praise of Pip

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Klugman, Bill Mumy, Bill Diamond, Connie Gilchrist, S. John Launer

Synopsis: After a brief flirtation with the 60-minute form, Twilight Zone wisely returned to its original half-hour format with the first episode of the series' fifth season, "In Praise of Pip." Upon learning that his beloved son Pip is dying in a field hospital in South Vietnam, two-bit bookie Max Philips (Jack Klugman Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Dear Uncle George

Crew: Director

Actors: Gene Barry, John Larkin, Patricia Donahue, Dabney Coleman, Lou Jacobi

Synopsis: Gene Barry stars as journalist John Chambers, who under the nom de plume "Uncle George" writes a daily newspaper advice column. One of John's readers is Mrs. Weatherley (Charity Grace), who sends a letter to "Uncle George" telling him that her next-door neighbor is cheating on her husband. Read More

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

Crew: Director

Actors: Dan O'Herlihy, David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Jack Carson, Diana Dors, Mickey Shaughnessy, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: David Janssen is hardly perfect casting for the role of 1920s gambling king Arnold Rothstein (Rod Steiger or Gene Barry may have been better choices), but the sure-handed direction of Joseph Newman smooths over all the rough spots in this fanciful biopic. Set up in the gambling business by crooked Read More

Twenty Plus Two

Crew: Director

Actors: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill, Agnes Moorehead, Jacques Aubuchon

Synopsis: Sounding something like a standard '40s police story, this talkative but interesting murder mystery stars David Janssen of TV's The Fugitive series. Janssen plays Tom Alder, a gumshoe looking into the murder of the secretary of a shady Hollywood film star when he discovers that the murder is Read More

A Thunder of Drums

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Boone, George Hamilton, Luana Patten, Arthur O'Connell, Charles Bronson

Synopsis: In this western, an idealistic and naive rookie cavalry officer is assigned to work with a cruel captain. He immediately gets on the crabby captain's bad side by trying to restart an affair with his ex-sweetheart. The woman is engaged to another who ends up getting killed by the Indians. This Read More

The George Raft Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Ray Danton, Jayne Mansfield, Julie London, Barrie Chase, Barbara Nichols, Neville Brand

Synopsis: This is an interesting biography of the actor known for his gangster roles in films, and though Ray Danton plays the part of George Raft without looking like him in the least, he is still convincing in his mannerisms. Without getting into any in-depth plumbing of the actor's life, the story begins Read More

The Lawbreakers

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Warden, Robert Douglas

Synopsis: In this crime drama, Jack Warden stars as a police detective who makes it his business to track down wrongdoers who have been able to escape punishment. Vera Miles also appears as a secretary employed by a corrupt attorney; she teams up with Warden to bring her boss and his clients to justice. Read More

Tarzan, the Ape Man

Crew: Director

Actors: Denny Miller, Robert Douglas, Joanna Barnes, Thomas Yangha

Synopsis: This remake of the 1932 version of the popular jungle adventure features UCLA basketball ace Denny Miller in the title role. His Jane is played by Joanna Barnes. An all-around low-budget effort from MGM, the film is largely comprised of footage from King Solomon's Mines. The film also recycle's Read More

The Gunfight at Dodge City

Crew: Director

Actors: Joel McCrea, Julie Adams, John McIntire, Nancy Gates, Richard Anderson

Synopsis: With Gene Barry already riding the video range as legendary gunfighter-turned-lawman Bat Masterson, independent producer Walter Mirisch hired old-timer Joel McCrea to play a rather less-dandified version in this routine Western released in Cinemascope. When his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) is Read More

The Big Circus

Crew: Director

Actors: Victor Mature, Red Buttons, Rhonda Fleming, Kathryn Grant, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre

Synopsis: Victor Mature, in one of his last leading man performances, plays Hank Whirling, the owner of a financially shaky circus who is trying to get back on his feet, despite cutthroat competition from a rival organization. He also has a younger sister (Kathryn Grant) to watch out for. After arranging Read More

Fort Massacre

Crew: Director

Actors: Joel McCrea, Forrest Tucker, Susan Cabot, John Russell, Anthony Caruso

Synopsis: In this western, an embittered cavalry sergeant must take over his regiment after their commanding officer is killed during an ambush. To save them, he leads the troop through Apache territory because it is the quickest way to reach the fort. The members of the regiment do not trust their new Read More

Death in Small Doses

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Graves, Mala Powers, Chuck Connors, Merry Anders, Roy Engel

Synopsis: Pill poppin' truckers provide the focus of this anti-drug drama. Much of the story centers upon an investigator for the US Food and Drug Department who has been assigned to stop all truckers from taking amphetamines while they drive. The drivers take the pills to help them stay awake on Read More

Flight to Hong Kong

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Barbara Rush, Dolores Donlon, Soo Yong, Patrick Conway

Synopsis: Tony Dumont (Rory Calhoun) is none too trustworthy at the beginning of Flight to Hong Kong. A dealer in contraband goods, Dumont is the bane of his girlfriend Jean Blake's (Dolores Donlon) existence. She wants him to go straight, but the other woman in his life, novelist Pamela Vincent (Barbara Rush Read More

Kiss of Fire

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Palance, Barbara Rush, Rex Reason, Martha Hyer, Leslie E. Bradley

Synopsis: Barbara Rush is at her most exotically beautiful in the lush costumer Kiss of Fire. Based on Jonreed Lauritzen's novel The Rose and the Flame, the film stars Ms. Rush as Lucia, princess of Spain, who while residing in New Mexico discovers that the king is dying and that she must return home Read More

This Island Earth

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller, Russell Johnson

Synopsis: For reasons that defy logic, the excellent This Island Earth was held up for ridicule as an allegedly bad movie in the film version of TV's Mystery Science Theater. If not the best science-fiction film of the 1950s, Earth is certainly one of the most intelligent and elaborate. The story begins Read More

The Human Jungle

Crew: Director

Actors: Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling, Paula Raymond, Emile G. Meyer, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: In the tradition of Dragnet and The Lineup, this is devoted to a typically busy day at a police precinct station house. Despite the presence of such recognizable actors as Gary Merrill and Regis Toomey, the film successfully adopts a documentary approach. The plot concerns a new police chief (Gary Merrill Read More

Dangerous Crossing

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie, Casey Adams, Carl Betz, Mary Anderson

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, based on a John Dickson Carr novel, blissfully happy newlywed Ruth Bowman (Jeanne Crain) boards a transatlantic ocean liner with her new husband John (Carl Betz). A few days later, however, John suddenly disappears. Ruth quickly discovers that her cruise ticket was made Read More

Red Skies of Montana

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Widmark, Constance Smith, Jeffrey Hunter, Richard Boone, Warren Stevens, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Richard Widmark plays a firefighter for the US Forestry Service, a brave man who nevertheless does not believe in taking foolish risks. Widmark is branded a coward by a rookie fireman (Jeffrey Hunter) who holds Widmark responsible for the forest-fire death of the rookie's father. All passions are Read More

Pony Soldier

Crew: Director

Actors: Tyrone Power, Cameron Mitchell, Thomas Gomez, Penny Edwards, Robert Horton

Synopsis: Generous helpings of stock footage from the 1944 film Buffalo Bill help make Pony Soldier seem far more expensive and ambitious than it actually is. Tyrone Power stars as 19th-century Royal Canadian Mountie Duncan MacDonald, whose job it is to escort a group of Cree Indians back to their Read More

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Crew: Director

Actors: Anne Baxter, Dale Robertson, Miriam Hopkins, Cameron Mitchell, Craig Hill

Synopsis: This last of several movie adaptations of Bret Harte's The Outcasts of Poker Flat stars Cameron Mitchell as a murderous western outlaw, Anne Baxter as his wife, Dale Robertson as a disgraced gambler and Miriam Hopkins as a faded dance hall floozie. All these characters (with a few other socially Read More

The Guy Who Came Back

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Douglas, Joan Bennett, Linda Darnell, Don DeFore

Synopsis: The title character (Paul Douglas) is a pro football player of the early 1940s at the end of his career. Douglas is offered a coaching job, but he stubbornly turns it down in hopes of making a comeback. Day after day he sits in his den watching movies of his past gridiron triumph, much to the Read More

Lucky Nick Cain

Crew: Director

Actors: George Raft, Coleen Gray, Charles Goldner, Walter Rilia

Synopsis: George Raft plays Lucky Nick Cain, a successful American gambler who acts as an advance man for a posh Italian casino. Colleen Gray is a tourist who loses all her money at the casino, but Cain falls in love with her and tries to make good her debts. Cain and the girl find themselves in jeopardy Read More

Love Nest

Crew: Director

Actors: June Haver, William Lundigan, Frank Fay, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Paar

Synopsis: Love Nest is a thoroughly likeable formula comedy with a most engaging cast. William Lundigan plays Jim Scott, an aspiring writer who, together with his wife Connie (June Haver), moves into the basement of an apartment building that they've bought. Scott's hopes to keep financially solvent are Read More

711 Ocean Drive

Crew: Director

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, Don Porter, Sammy White, Otto Kruger, Dorothy Patrick

Synopsis: Edmond O'Brien plays a telephone repairman whose electronic savvy earns him a job with a bookmaking concern. O'Brien's bookie boss Barry Kelly wants to get instant results from the nation's racetracks, and to this end O'Brien illicitly plugs into several communication centers. The wealthier O'Brien Read More

The Great Dan Patch

Crew: Director

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell, Ruth Warrick, Charlotte Greenwood, Henry Hull

Synopsis: Though occasionally hampered by its tiny budget, The Great Dan Patch is a reasonably satisfying horse story. The title character was, of course, one of the greatest harness-race horses that ever drew breath. But since Dan Patch couldn't deliver dialogue or conduct an acceptable on-screen romance Read More

Abandoned

Crew: Director

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Gale Storm, Jeff Chandler, Meg Randall, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Viewers who know Gale Storm only through her chaotic comic performances on TV's My Little Margie and Oh Susanna will be surprised by her subdued dramatic performance in Abandoned. Storm plays Paula Consodine, who comes to Los Angeles in search of her missing sister. Newspaperman Mark Sitko (Dennis O'Keefe Read More

Jungle Patrol

Crew: Director

Actors: Kristine Miller, Arthur Franz, Ross Ford, Tommy Noonan, Gene Reynolds

Synopsis: In this war drama, set in New Guinea circa 1943, a squadron of fliers, stationed near Port Moresby must keep the Japanese at bay until a permanent air base can be built. They successfully shoot down 100 Japanese planes without losing one of their own. The men, realizing that they cannot beat the Read More

The Luckiest Guy in the World

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This film has the distinction of being the last in the long line of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series. It shows how fate dictates the life of a man who gets caught up in several crimes. He is given a perfect alibi that leaves him free and untouched. This film was nominated for an Academy Award as Read More

Northwest Rangers

Crew: Director

Actors: James Craig, William Lundigan, Patricia Dane, Jack Holt

Synopsis: In this North western, Indians orphan two boys who are then raised by a Mountie. The boys are different as night and day: one wants to be a Mountie; the other is drawn to gambler. During one unprofitable outing the gambler swears vengeance upon the crooked proprietor of the local casino. Years Read More

Women in Hiding

Crew: Director

Actors: Marsha Hunt