Sam Newfield (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 films to his credit. Events 1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. A B movie is a motion picture made on a low or modest budget Originally the term was used for films intended for distribution as the less-publicized second half of a Double A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. 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. [1]
Most of Newfield's movies were created for Producers Releasing Corporation, PRC Pictures. Producers Releasing Corporation was one of the more humble Hollywood Film studios on Poverty Row in the late 1930s-mid-1940s 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, the majority being westerns, with an occasional horror film or crime drama. The Western is a fiction Genre seen in Film, Television, Radio, Literature, Painting and other Visual arts. Horror films are Movies that strive to elicit Fear, Horror and terror responses from viewers The police procedural is a sub-genre of the mystery story which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a Police force as they investigate Crimes
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Sam Newfield was credited as Sherman Scott and as Peter Stewart on various films. He used these names in order to hide the fact that one person was responsible for so many of the PRC films. Producers Releasing Corporation was one of the more humble Hollywood Film studios on Poverty Row in the late 1930s-mid-1940s [2]
Partial Director Filmography
- The Mad Monster (1942)
- I Accuse My Parents (1944)
- Scotland Yard Inspector (1952)
- The Gambler and the Lady (1952)
- Outlaw Women (1952)
- Thunder over Sangoland (1955)
- The Wild Dakotas (1956)
- The Three Outlaws (1956)
- Frontier Gambler (1956)
- Last of the Desperadoes (1956)
- Wolf Dog (1958)
- Flaming Frontier (1958)
As Sherman Scott
- Hitler, Beast of Berlin (1939)
- I Take This Oath (1940)
- Billy the Kid's Gun Justice (1940)
- Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals (1941)
- Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns (1942)
- The Flying Serpent (1946)
- Lady at Midnight (1948)
- The Strange Mrs. The Mad Monster is a 1942 film It is a Mad scientist Horror Film that uses a Werewolf as the main character This is a list of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes. Each entry starts with a code which represents its episode ("experiment" number Sam Newfield ( December 6, 1889 - November 10, 1964) also known as Sherman Scott or Peter Stewart, was an American Hitler Beast of Berlin ( 1939) was one of the most popular "hiss and boo" films of the World War II era based on the novel Goose Step Crane (1948)
- The Wild Weed (1949)
As Peter Stewart
- Adventure Island (1947)
- The Counterfeiters (1948)
- Black Mountain Stage (1940)
References
- The Complete Films of Sam Newfield
- Sam Newfield at All Movie Guide
- Sam Newfield Filmography at The New York Times
- Sam Newfield at the Internet Movie Database
External links
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