Lewis Seiler — Director (14)
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If I'm Lucky (1946) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
If I'm Lucky
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Vivian Blaine / Perry Como …
other title: 鸿运歌王
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.
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International Squadron (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
International Squadron
director: Lewis Seiler / Lothar Mendes actor: Ronald Reagan / Olympe Bradna …
other title: なぐり込み戦闘機隊
The true story of the exploits of the RAF's (Royal Air Force) foreign legion battling the German Luftwaffe (Nazi Germany's Air Force) during the early months of 1941 during WWII before America officially entered the war at the end of the year when Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan and Hitler declared war on the United States. The United States then drafted all of their airmen and fighter pilot aces into the United States Air Force for their own combat missions against the Luftwaffe
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Ginger (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ginger
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Jane Withers / O. P. Heggie …
Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and father, Ginger looks after her uncle, gives him lectures, loves him, defends him and keeps house for him. But, through a meddling do-gooder, she is placed in the home of the Parkers, and clashes immediately with the pampered young son, Hamilton.
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Hell's Kitchen (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hell's Kitchen
director: Lewis Seiler / E.A. Dupont actor: Margaret Lindsay / Ronald Reagan …
other title: 地獄廚房 / El refugio infernal
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.
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Breakthrough (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Breakthrough
director: Lewis Seiler actor: David Brian / John Agar …
other title: 6.6. 6 Uhr 30 – Durchbruch in der Normandie / Le grand assaut …
Filmed with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army, Breakthrough is a lean, no-nonsense war film set during the 1944 invasion of the continent.
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Pittsburgh (1942) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pittsburgh
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Marlene Dietrich / Randolph Scott …
other title: Sangue Negro / La Fièvre de l'or noir …
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.
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Doll Face (1945) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Doll Face
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Vivian Blaine / Dennis O'Keefe …
other title: 舞海狂欢 / 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.
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Dust Be My Destiny (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dust Be My Destiny
director: Lewis Seiler actor: John Garfield / 普莉希拉·莱恩 …
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.
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Charlie Chan in Paris (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Charlie Chan in Paris
director: Lewis Seiler / Hamilton MacFadden actor: Warner Oland / Mary Brian …
other title: 陈查理在巴黎 / 陳查理巴黎探案 …
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.
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Crime School (1938) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Crime School
director: Lewis Seiler / William Clemens actor: 亨弗莱·鲍嘉 / 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.