Direction: Leslie Goodwins

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Leslie Goodwins. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


6.0

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My Favorite Martian (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Oscar Rudolph · Leslie Goodwins · John Erman · David Alexander

Cast Ray Walston · Bill Bixby · Pamela Britton · Alan Hewitt

Synopsis A sarcastic Martian comes to live with a hapless young Terran on Earth.

5.8

149 votes

5.8

149 votes

Gilligan's Island (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold · Leslie Goodwins · Gary Nelson · Jerry Hopper

Cast Bob Denver · Alan Hale Jr. · Jim Backus · Natalie Schafer

Synopsis TV Series (1964-1967). 3 Seasons. 98 episodes. Gilligan's Island was an American TV sitcom originally produced by United Artists Television. The show followed the comic adventures of seven castaways as they attempted to survive and ultimately escape from a previously...

5.7

290 votes

5.7

290 votes

The Mummy's Curse

1944 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · Peter Coe · Virginia Christine · Kay Harding

Synopsis An irrigation project in the rural bayous of Louisiana unearths Kharis the living mummy (Lon Chaney Jr.), who was buried in quicksand 25 years earlier.

5.4

100 votes

5.4

100 votes

Lassie (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine · Hollingsworth Morse · Lesley Selander · Philip Ford

Cast Jon Provost · June Lockhart · Hugh Reilly · Jan Clayton

Synopsis TV Serie (1954-1973). 19 Seasons. 591 Episodes. In 1954, the long running, Emmy winning television series Lassie debuted, and, over the next 19 years, a succession of Pal's descendants appeared on the series. The "Lassie" character has appeared in radio,...

5.0

1K votes

5.0

1K votes

My Hero (TV Series)

1952 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins · Oscar Rudolph · Harold Daniels

Cast Robert Cummings · John Litel · Julie Bishop · Arthur Q. Bryan

Synopsis TV Series (1952-1953). 1 seasons. 33 episodes. A well-meaning but bumbling real-estate agent always getting into trouble with his boss and has to be constantly rescued by his secretary, who loves him.

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China Smith (TV Series)

1952 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Pierson · Edward Mann · Robert Aldrich · Gene Fowler Jr.

Cast Dan Duryea · Douglass Dumbrille · Myrna Dell · Clarence Lung

Synopsis China Smith was a 1950s television adventure series starring Dan Duryea. The television show takes place in Singapore. Much of the cast and crew also worked on the film World for Ransom, which is considered an extension of the television...

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The Girl from Mexico

1939 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Lupe Velez · Donald Woods · Leon Errol · Linda Hayes

Synopsis In the first entry of an unintended-series that turned into a long-running series for RKO, Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless...

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Crime Ring

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Allan Lane · Frances Mercer · Clara Blandick · Inez Courtney

Synopsis Newspaper reporter Joe Ryan and District Attorney Thomas Redwine strike a deal. In exchange for having access to jailed actress Judy Allen, Joe must help Thomas on a tough racketeering case.

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Dragnet

1947 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Henry Wilcoxon · Mary Brian · Douglass Dumbrille · Virginia Dale

Synopsis Wilcoxon, a Scotland Yard inspector, travels to New York to investigate the activities of an international band of jewel thieves.

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The Life of Riley (TV Series)

1949 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Herbert I. Leeds · Leslie Goodwins · Irving Brecher · Edward Stevens

Cast Jackie Gleason · Rosemary DeCamp · Lanny Rees · Sid Tomack

Synopsis TV Series (1949-1950). 1 season. 26 episodes. Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems. His stock answer to every...

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Parachute Battalion

1941 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Robert Preston · Nancy Kelly · Edmond O'Brien · Harry Carey

Synopsis In this pre-Pearl Harbor recruiting poster, colonel's estranged son Bill Burke, football hero Donald Morse, and hillbilly Jeff Hollis enlist in the paratroopers. Their training at Fort Benning, Georgia is followed in semi-documentary style, with time out for personal dramas...

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Better Behave (S)

1928 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Poodles Hanneford · Betty Walsh · Harry Martell · Roger Moore

Synopsis A series a plotless gags including the famous clown Poodles Hanneford, part of a legendary British circus family and beauteous, heavily daddy-guarded Betty.

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Lock Up (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Otto Lang · Jack Herzberg · Henry S. Kesler · Leslie Goodwins

Cast Macdonald Carey · John Doucette · Joan Granville · Olive Carey

Synopsis Cases taken from the files and case histories of renowned Philadelphia defense attorney Herbert L. Maris.

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Mexican Spitfire

1940 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Lupe Velez · Leon Errol · Donald Woods · Linda Hayes

Synopsis Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.

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The Lone Wolf in London

1947 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Gerald Mohr · Nancy Saunders · Eric Blore · Evelyn Ankers

Synopsis Michael Lanyard (Gerald Mohr) is suspected of stealing two fabulous diamonds from a vault in Scotland Yard, where they were being held for safekeeping, but the Yard can't prove he did it. Later, Lanyard is summoned by a member of...

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Sued for Libel

1939 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Kent Taylor · Linda Hayes · Lilian Bond · Morgan Conway

Synopsis The trial of Albert Pomeroy on the charge of murdering Edward Webster,arouses interest because Webster's widow, Muriel insists Pomeroy is innocent. Meanwhile, back to radio station NYEB, owned by the Evening Bulletin, Steve Lonegan waits for a flash from Smiley...

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