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Lew Landers (January 2, 1901 – December 16, 1962) was a prolific American independent film and television director.
Born Louis Friedlander in New York City, he began his movie career as an actor. In 1914 he appeared in two features, D. W. Griffith's drama The Escape and the comedy short Admission – Two Pins, opposite Glen White, under his birth name. He began making films in the 1930s, one of his first being the Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi thriller The Raven (1935). After directing a few more features, he changed his name to Lew Landers and went on to direct more than 100 films in a variety of genres, including westerns, comedy and horror films. He worked for every major film studio—and many minor ones—during his career. In the 1950s he began to alternate his film work with directing television series, including two episodes of Adventures of Superman that were shot in black and white in under a week.
On December 16, 1962, Landers died of a heart attack. His grave is located at Chapel of the Pines Crematory.
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian-American actor, famous for portraying Count Dracula in the original 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films.
He had been playing small parts on the stage in his native Hungary before making his first film in 1917, but had to leave the country after the failed Hungarian Communist Revolution of 1919. He had roles in several films in Weimar Germany before arriving in the United States as a seaman on a merchant ship.
In 1927, he appeared as Count Dracula in a Broadway adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel. He later appeared in the classic 1931 film Dracula by Universal Pictures. Through the 1930s, he occupied an important niche in popular horror films, with their East European setting, but his Hungarian accent limited his repertoire, and he tried unsuccessfully to avoid typecasting.
Meanwhile, he was often paired with Boris Karloff, who was able to demand top billing. To his frustration, Lugosi was increasingly restricted to minor parts, kept employed by the studio principally for the sake of his name on the posters. Among his pairings with Karloff, only in The Black Cat (1934), The Raven (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939) did he perform major roles again, and, even in The Raven, Karloff received top billing despite Lugosi performing the lead role. By this time, Lugosi had been receiving regular medication for sciatic neuritis, and he became addicted to morphine and methadone. This drug dependence was noted by producers, and the offers eventually dwindled down to a few parts in Ed Wood's low-budget movies, most notably Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Actors: Chuck Jones (actor), Corey Feldman (actor), Jerry Goldsmith (actor), Bob Holt (actor), Bob Bergen (actor), Edward Andrews (actor), Zach Galligan (actor), Scott Brady (actor), Bob Holt (actor), Harry Carey Jr. (actor), Peter Cullen (actor), Peter Cullen (actor), Bob Bergen (actor), Jonathan Banks (actor), Nicky Katt (actor),
Plot: Minature green monsters tear through the small town of Kingston Falls. Hijinks ensue as a mild-mannered bank teller releases these hideous loonies after gaining a new pet and violating two of three simple rules: No water (violated), no food after midnight (violated), and no bright light. Hilarious mayhem and destruction in a town straight out of Norman Rockwell. So, when your washing machine blows up or your TV goes on the fritz, before you call the repair man, turn on all the lights and look under all the beds. 'Cause you never can tell, there just might be a gremlin in your house.
Keywords: 1980s, animal-cruelty, animal-in-cast-credits, bank, bank-teller, bar, black-comedy, blockbuster, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, broken-ruleActors: Dick Miller (actor), Dee Wallace (actress), Noble Willingham (actor), John Sayles (actor), Slim Pickens (actor), Kenneth Tobey (actor), Meshach Taylor (actor), Forrest J Ackerman (actor), Patrick Macnee (actor), John Carradine (actor), Kevin McCarthy (actor), Roger Corman (actor), Dennis Dugan (actor), John Sayles (writer), Robert Picardo (actor),
Plot: Television newswoman Karen White takes some much-needed time off after a traumatic incident with a serial killer. Hoping to conquer her inner demons, she heads for The Colony, a secluded retreat where the creepy residents are a little too eager to make her feel at home. Also, there seems to be a bizarre connection between Eddie Quist and this supposedly safe haven. And when, after nights of being tormented by unearthly cries, Karen ventures into the forest and makes a terrifying discovery. Now she must not only fight for her life... but for her very soul! Helped launch the short-lived werewolf craze in the early 1980s.
Keywords: 1980s, acid, adult-bookstore, adultery, alone, amnesia, arson, attraction, awakening, axeA man accidentally kills his fiancée as he exits a train. Just as the train pulls out, he drops her body on the rear platform. No one saw him do it, but someone does see him at the otherwise deserted station: a mischievous, freckle-faced boy. Later, he's walking along a road when the town's newspaper editor stops and gives him a lift. The editor tells his passenger that a flood has washed out the bridge. For now, there's no way out of town, so he takes the stranger to a boarding house. Fate decrees that of all houses, this is the one where the boy lives. The boy thinks he recognizes the new boarder. The new boarder thinks it's time to get rid of the boy. And a sexy blonde living at the house thinks it's time to run off with a man she knows is a murderer. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040472...
Stars Charles Russell (Harold Dunlap), Mary Beth Hughes (Jean Maxwell), Dale Belding (Mike Bennett), Billy House (McFee), Fritz Leiber (Dr. Valonius), Nana Bryant (Mrs. Mitchell), Lee Patrick (Ruth Bennett), Roscoe Ates (Willie), Eddie Parks (Barney), and Eve Miller (Marie Kembar). http://sketchbook.ercles.com/stuff/play.html Our noir playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHk3ld-slPI_6wV8NhSYBd51Z0gUbNoar
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Director: Lew Landers Writers: Ben Markson (screenplay), Paul Yawitz (story), Stars: Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane
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Directed by Lew Landers. Never released on VHS or DVD | Source: www.rarefilmm.com
Ted Daniels, a ranch hand working for a rodeo, captures a magnificent wild horse that he tames and trains. As Ted is recovering from an accident that happened during a rodeo, the rodeo ... Director: Lew Landers Writer: Matthew Rapf (screenplay) Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Audrey Long, Fuzzy Knight
A brilliant surgeon obsessed with Poe saves the life of a beautiful dancer and goes mad when he can't have her.
The town of Pitchfork (Arkansas) makes national headlines when "Esmeralda the sow" gives birth to 18 piglets. Among tons of visitors to the small town are a troupe of showgirls hoping to entertain the visitors and a folk music group returning to their home after their touring is through. Also a meat packing company sends two men to investigate the secret why Esmeralda give birth to so many piglets and to bring the results back to increase meat production.
Boston Blackie rescues a women being attacked by two men. She turns out to be Geraldine "Gerry", his old flame. She begs him to help protect her baby from her recently paroled husband John. When John sees them together, he thinks the child is Blackie's and gets his gun out.
http://www.westernsontheweb.com Directed by Lew Landers and starring Bill Williams, Don Diamond, William Tannen and John L. Cason. Kit and El Toro help a minister with cleaning up a mining town that is terrorized by an outlaw gang. Hosted by Bob Terry. Watch hundreds of free western movies and TV show episodes online on Westerns On The Web.
Bahaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead Footages from : - The Mark of the Vampire by Tod Browning 1935 - Chandu The Magician by William Cameron Vanzies and Marcel Vanel - The Raven by Lew Landers 1935 - Spooks Run Wild by Phil Rosen 1941 - The Devil Bat by Jean Varbrough 1941 - White Zombie by Victor Halperin 1932 - Dracula by Tod Browning 1931 - Night of Terror by Benjamin Stoloff 1933 - Return of the Vampire by Lew Landers 1943 - Vampyr by Theodore Dreyer 1932 No commercial purpose
Director: Lew Landers Writers: Malcolm Stuart Boylan (additional dialogue), Jack Boyle (character), Stars: Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane
The Call of the Savage (1935) is a Universal serial based on the story Jan of the Jungle by Otis Adelbert Kline. It was directed by Lew Landers and released by Universal Pictures.
Credits : "The shining", Stanley Kubrick "A bucket of blood", Roger Corman "Frankenstein's daughter", Richard E. Cunha "The return of Dracula", Paul Landres "The screaming skull", Alex Nicol "Raw deal", Anthony Mann "Inner sanctum", Lew Landers "Indestructible man", Jack Pollexfen "The ghosts of Hanley House", Louise Sherrill "Invisible ghost", Joseph H. Lewis "Dementia", John Parker
Sample from the Nostalgia Archive - available at: http://www.nostalgiaarchive.com/ Director: Lew Landers Stars: Gloria Henry, Marjorie Lord, Ann Doran, Barbara Billingsley Genre: Action/Adventure/Drama Country: USA Language: English Source: VHS The Hansen School for Air Hostesses, operated by Celia Hansen, welcomes a new group of students; a librarian named Ruth Jackson; Lorraine Carter, a nurse; and Jennifer White, whose husband was an aviator killed in World War II. Ruth meets a smart-alec pilot, Dennis Hogan, but complications arise as Lorraine also has an interest in him. Jennifer meets a war-buddy of her husband, Fred MacCoy. All three women, with each other's help, makes it through to graduation day. -imdb
"Hot Rod Gang" Directed by Lew Landers. Written by Lou Rusoff. Original Music by Ronald Stein. Cast: John Ashley, Jody Fair, Steve Drexel. Year: 1958. *Indio Productions. *American International Pictures.
Very rare film clip from the motion picture, "The Magic Carpet" starring Lucille Ball, John Agar and Raymond Burr. Directed by Lew Landers. Written by David Matthews. 1951, Color - Adventure/Fantasy
Ted Daniels, a ranch hand working for a rodeo, captures a magnificent wild horse that he tames and trains. As Ted is recovering from an accident that happened during a rodeo, the rodeo ... Director: Lew Landers Writer: Matthew Rapf (screenplay) Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Audrey Long, Fuzzy Knight
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Plot: Ted Daniels (Cameron Mitchell) is a traveling rodeo hand who is attached to very little besides Gallant Bess, the wild horse that he has trained with patience and dedication. Director: Lew Landers Actors: Cameron Mitchell, Audrey Long, Fuzzy Knight, James Millican, John Harmon, Edward Gargan, Harry Cheshire, Cliff Clark, Evelyn Eaton Based on: Nothing
Inner Sanctum is a 1948 American film noir directed by Lew Landers based on the Simon & Schuster book series of the same name and the Inner Sanctum Mystery radio series. A previous film series of the show had been done by Universal Pictures until 1945. It is the first and only film of M.R.S. productions, the initials of Richard B. Morros, Samuel Rheiner and Walter Shenson. Plot SUMMARY The film follows a murderer who is on the run and hiding out in a small town. As the story progresses, a boy who is sharing his room with the stranger realizes he has witnessed the man killing a woman. CAST Charles Russell as Harold Dunlap Mary Beth Hughes as Jean Maxwell Dale Belding as Mike Bennett Billy House as McFee Fritz Leiber, Sr. as Doctor Valonius, the Seer Nana Bryant as Thelma Mitchell Lee Patr...