THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN

Sam Newfield

(New York, Usa, 1899 – Los Angeles, Usa, 1964) (aged 64), also known as Sherman Scott or Peter Stewart, was an American B-movie director, one of the most prolific in American film history. He is credited with directing over 250 feature films in a career which began during the silent era. In addition to his staggering feature output, he also directed one-and two-reel comedy shorts, training films, industrial films, TV episodes. Because of this massive output – he would sometimes direct more than 20 films in a single year – he has been called the most prolific director of the sound era. Many of Newfield’s films were made for PRC Pictures (Producers Releasing Corporation), the smallest and least prestigious of the Hollywood film studios of the 1940s, headed by his brother Sigmund Neufeld. The films PRC produced were low-budget productions, the majority being westerns, with an occasional horror film or crime drama. Sam Newfield was credited as Sherman Scott and Peter Stewart on a number of films he made for PRC, in order to hide the fact that one person was responsible for so many of PRC’s films.

FILMOGRAFIA

The Important Witness (1933), Big Time or Bust (1933), Under Secret Orders (1933), Marrying Widows (1934), Beggar’s Holiday (1934), Undercover Men (1934), Northern Frontier (1935), Code of the Mounted (1935), Branded a Coward (1935), Trails of the Wild (1935), Racing Luck (1935), Timber War (1935), Bulldog Courage (1935), Roarin’ Guns (1936), Border Caballero (1936), Federal Agent (1936), Lightnin’ Bill Carson (1936), Crashing Through Danger (1936), Thoroughbred (1936), Burning Gold (1936), Aces and Eights (1936), Go-Get-’Em’ Haines (1936), The Lion’s Den (1936), Ghost Patrol (1936), The Traitor (1936), Roarin’ Lead (1936), Stormy Trails (1936), The Gambling Terror (1937), Lightnin’ Crandall (1937), Trail of Vengeance (1937), Melody of the Plains (1937), Bar-Z Bad Men (1937), Guns in the Dark (1937), Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin (1937), A Lawman Is Born (1937), Doomed at Sundown (1937), Boothill Brigade (1937), Ridin’ the Lone Trail (1937), Arizona Gunfighter (1937), Moonlight on the Range (Il cavaliere dell’uragano, 1937), The Fighting Deputy (1937), The Colorado Kid (1937), Harlem on the Prairie (1937), Paroled - To Die (1938), The Rangers’ Round-Up (1938), Thunder in the Desert (1938), Knight of the Plain (I predoni di El Paso, 1938), Songs and Bullets (Gli sparvieri del Texas, 1938), Code of the Rangers (1938), The Feud Maker (1938), Phantom Ranger (1938), Gunsmoke Trail (1938), Desert Patrol (1938), Durango Valley Raiders (1938), Frontier Scout (1938), Lightning Carson Rides Again (1938), Six-Gun Trail (1938), The Terror of Tiny Town (1938), Trigger Pals (1939), Six-Gun Rhythm (1939), Code of the Cactus(1939), Texas Wildcats (1939), Outlaws’ Paradise (1939), Straight Shooter (1939), The Fighting Renegade (1939), Hitler’ Beast of Berlin (Belve su Berlino, 1939), Trigger Fingers (1939), Flaming Lead (1939), Fighting Mad (1939), The Invisible Killer (1939), Death Rides the Range (1939), Texas Renegades (1940), The Sagebrush Family Trails West (1940), Secrets of a Model (1940), I Take This Oath (1940), Frontier Crusader (1940), Am I Guilty? (1940), Hold That Woman! (Acciuffate quella donna, 1940), Billy the Kid Outlawed (1940), Gun Code (1940), Arizona Gang Busters (1940), Marked Men (1940), Billy the Kid in Texas (1940), Riders of Black Mountain (1940), Billy the Kid’s Gun Justice (1940), The Lone Rider Rides On (1941), Billy the Kid’s Range War (1941), Outlaws of the Rio Grande (1941), The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio (1941), Billy the Kid’s Fighting Pals (1941), Phantom of Chinatown (Il cavaliere della città fantasma, 1941), Billy the Kid in Santa Fe (1941), The Texas Marshal (1941), The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury (1941), The Lone Rider Ambushed (1941), Billy the Kid Wanted (1941), The Lone Rider Fights Back (Il bandito fantasma, 1941), Billy the Kid Round Up (Il convegno dei banditi, 1941), Texas Man Hunt (1942), The Lone Rider and the Bandit (1942), Raiders of the West (1942), Billy the Kid Trapped (Il mistero dei tre sosia, 1942), The Lone Rider in Cheyenne (1942), Rolling Down the Great Divide (1942), Billy the Kid’s Smoking Guns (Fermi tutti!, 1942), The Mad Monster (Mostro pazzo, 1942), Lone Rider in Texas Justice (Fiamme sul Messico, 1942), Tumbleweed Trail (1942), Jungle Siren (La sirena della giungla, 1942), Law and Order (1942), Sheriff of Sage Valley (1942), Prairie Pals (1942), Border Roundup (1942), Along the Sundown Trail (1942), Girl of the Golden West (La corriera dell’ovest, 1942), The Mysterious Rider (1942), Queen of Broadway (La signora di Broadway (1942), Outlaws of Boulder Pass (1942), The Kid Rides Again (1943), Dead Man’s Walk (Il vampiro, 1943), Wild Horse Rustlers (1943), Fugitive of the Plains (1943), Death Rides the Plains (1943), Western Cyclone (Ciclone del West, 1943), The Black Raven (1943), Wolves of the Range (1943), Cattle Stampede (1943), Danger! Women at Work (1943), The Renegade (1943), Blazing Frontier (1943), Tiger Fangs (I misteri della jungle, 1943), Raiders of Red Gap (1943), Devil Riders (I cavalieri del diavolo, 1943), Harvest Melody (1943), Nabonga (1944), Frontier Outlaws (1944), Thundering Gun Slingers (1944), The Monster Maker (Il fabbricante di mostri, 1944), Valley of Vengeance (La valle della vendetta, 1944), The Contender (1944), The Drifter (Tarzan contro Tarzan, 1944), Fuzzy Settles Down (1944), Swing Hostess (1944), Wild Horse Phantom (1944), I Accuse My Parents (1944), Oath of Vengeance (1944), His Brother’s Ghost (1945), The Kid Sister (1945), Shadows of Death (1945), The Lady Confesses (1945), Gangster’s Den (1945), Stagecoach Outlaws (1945), Rustlers’ Hideout (1945), Apology for Murder (1945), The White Pongo (La sfida di King Kong, 1945), Border Badmen (1945), Fighting Bill Carson (1945), Prairie Rustlers (1945), Lightning Raiders (1946), The Flying Serpent (1946), Murder Is My Business (1946), Gentlemen with Guns (1946), Terrors on Horseback (1946), Larceny in Her Heart (1946), Ghost of Hidden Valley (1946), Blonde for a Day (1946), Prairie Badmen (1946), Queen of Burlesque (1946), Overland Riders (1946), Outlaws of the Plains (1946), Gas House Kids (1946), Lady Chaser (1946), Mantan Messes Up (1946), House-Rent Party (1946), Fight That Ghost (1946), Three on a Ticket (1947), Jungle Flight (1947), Adventure Island (La figlia del pirata, 1947), Money Madness (1948), The Counterfeiters (1948), Lady at Midnight (1948), Miraculous Journey (S.O.S. jungla, 1948), The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948), State Department File 649 (Il mongolo ribelle, 1949), Wild Weed (1949), Radar Secret Service (1950), Western Pacific Agent (1950), Motor Patrol (1950), Hi-Jacked (1950), Three Desperate Men (Le furie del West, 1951), Fingerprints Don’t Lie (1951), Mask of the Dragon (1951), Skipalong Rosenbloom (1951), Lost Continent (Il continente scomparso, 1951), Leave It to the Marines (1951), Sky High (1951), Outlaw Women (Donne fuorilegge, 1952), Lady in the Fog (1952), Thunder Over Sangoland (1955), The Pathfinder and the Mohican (1957), Along the Mohawk Trail (1957), Wolf Dog (1958), Flaming Frontier (1958), The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk (1964).