Movies by Joseph H. Lewis

The Big Combo

The Big Combo

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

My Name Is Julia Ross

My Name Is Julia Ross

Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather-noisy employment agency, with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity.

A Lawless Street

A Lawless Street

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

That Gang of Mine

That Gang of Mine

A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees.

The Return of Wild Bill

The Return of Wild Bill

When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father shot by Matt's brother. When the brother is killed in his fight with Bill, Matt sends two fake Deputies to arrest Bill whom he then plans to hang. But Matt's sister, attracted to Bill, overhears the plan and rides for help.

Arizona Cyclone

Arizona Cyclone

Crenshaw and Randolph are competing freight haulers and Randolph's lead man Tom Baxter has given him an advantage....

Boys of the City

Boys of the City

Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.

Blazing Six Shooters

Blazing Six Shooters

The story revolves around a valuable silver deposit, located between two ranches. Villain Lash Bender cooks up a scheme to gain control of both ranches so that he may have a clear field to the silver lode.

Criminals Within

Criminals Within

A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.

The Man from Tumbleweeds

The Man from Tumbleweeds

Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.

Boss of Hangtown Mesa

Boss of Hangtown Mesa

It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by the talented Joseph H. Lewis. Boss of Hangtown Mesa may not be in the same league as the Brown-Lewis classic Arizona Cyclone, but it comes awfully close. This time around, hero Steve Collins (Brown) comes to the aid of Betty Wilkins (Helen Deverell), who has taken over the telegraph-line business established by her uncle John (Henry Hall). The latter was murdered by outlaws who don't cotton to having the territory linked up electronically with...

The Spy Ring

The Spy Ring

Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.

The Return of October

The Return of October

A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.

Courage of the West

Courage of the West

Rangers go after bandits holding up Wells Fargo offices.

The Swordsman

The Swordsman

Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.

Secrets of a Co-Ed

Secrets of a Co-Ed

An attorney's immature college-student daughter becomes romantically involved with a mobster, unaware that a nightclub singer also loves him - or that her father is secretly the mob's leader.

Border Wolves

Border Wolves

Just after Carson's gang murder members of a wagon train, Rusty and Clem come along and are arrested. Knowing they are innocent Judge Coleman breaks them out and sends them after Carson. They join Carson's gang to learn of their next raid but the Marshal arrests them for the wagon train murders.