Lewis Seiler — Director (20)
cover

Movie

If I'm Lucky (1946) IMDb TMDB
If I'm Lucky
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Vivian Blaine / Perry Como …
Out of work swing band maneuvers a gig working for a political campaign, by drawing in and entertaining prospective voters at rallies. The candidate is really a stooge for a corrupt political machine, which discovers the band's handsome and appealing singer would make a better stooge. Meanwhile, romance blossoms between the band's singers. When election day approaches, the band's singer wants out of the campaign, but the machine threatens to smear him and his pals in the band if he quits.
cover

Movie

The True Story of Lynn Stuart (1958) IMDb TMDB
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Betsy Palmer / Jack Lord …
other title: La vera storia di Lynn Stuart / Dans les Griffes du Gang
When the nephews of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of narcotics, she persuades Police Lieutenant Jim Hahan to use her as an undercover agent.
cover

Movie

The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926) IMDb TMDB
The Great K&A Train Robbery
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Tom Mix / Tony the Horse …
other title: El asalto al tren expreso
Cullen has hired Tom to try and stop the robberies on his railroad. Knowing Cullen's secretary Holt is tipping off the gang, Tom works undercover by posing as a highwayman. To help him bring in the gang he enlists the help of the hobo DeLuxe Harry.
cover

Movie

Doll Face (1945) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Doll Face
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Vivian Blaine / Dennis O'Keefe …
other title: Cara de Muñeca
Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography. He hires a ghost writer to do all the work, but doesn't count on the possibility that Doll Face and her collaborator might have more than a book on their minds.
cover

Movie

It All Came True (1940) IMDb TMDB
It All Came True
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Humphrey Bogart / Ann Sheridan …
other title: Ein Nachtclub für Sarah Jane / Rendez-vous à minuit
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
cover

Movie

You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB
You Can't Get Away with Murder
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Humphrey Bogart / Gale Page …
other title: La bolgia dei vivi / Le Châtiment …
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
cover

Movie

King of the Underworld (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB
King of the Underworld
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Humphrey Bogart / Kay Francis …
other title: El rey del hampa / Hommes sans loi
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
cover

Movie

The Smiling Ghost (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Smiling Ghost
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Wayne Morris / Brenda Marshall …
other title: Verlobung mit dem Tod / El fantasma sonriente
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
cover

Movie

Pittsburgh (1942) IMDb TMDB
Pittsburgh
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Marlene Dietrich / Randolph Scott …
other title: La febbre dell'oro nero / Sangue Negro …
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.
cover

Movie

Over-Exposed (1956) IMDb TMDB
Over-Exposed
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Cleo Moore / Richard Crenna …
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.
cover

Movie

Hell's Kitchen (1939) IMDb TMDB
Hell's Kitchen
director: E.A. Dupont / Lewis Seiler actor: Margaret Lindsay / Ronald Reagan …
other title: Acciaio umano
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
cover

Movie

Crime School (1938) IMDb TMDB
Crime School
director: Lewis Seiler / William Clemens actor: Humphrey Bogart / Gale Page …
other title: Schule des Verbrechens / L'Ecole du crime
In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.
cover

Movie

The Big Shot (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Big Shot
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Humphrey Bogart / Irene Manning …
other title: Il terrore di Chicago / Der große Gangster …
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
cover

Movie

Operation Secret (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Operation Secret
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Cornel Wilde / Steve Cochran …
other title: L'altra bandiera / Guantes grises …
After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder and subversive activities by former colleagues. Based on the actual exploits of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz.
cover

Movie

Dust Be My Destiny (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dust Be My Destiny
director: Lewis Seiler actor: John Garfield / Priscilla Lane …
other title: Weg aus dem Nichts / Defiendo mi vida …
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.