Joseph M. Newman

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.

Four undesirables run out of a mining town and become marooned in a deserted mountain cabin during a raging snowstorm.

A honeymoon aboard an ocean liner is cut short when the young bride finds herself suddenly alone, and unable to convince anyone of her...

Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.

The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up...

Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also...

Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further...

A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.

A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did...

New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been relentlessly decimated by the Apaches, attempt to...

Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is...

Captain Maddocks will never be promoted beyond Captain because of a mistake that he made in the past. Lt. McQuade is a green rookie who is now under...

In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the...

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man destroys his life through gambling debts and stealing company funds.

When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest...

The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft.

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of...

This Crime Does Not Pay series entry dramatizes the idea that during wartime, people should not discuss anything related to their work when in...

A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show...

In 1700, a Spanish princess travels from New Mexico to California with ruthless outlaw El Tigre as guide.

U.S. Army training film about avoiding venereal disease, intended primarily for Black servicemen.

Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino....

On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony, a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes over whether he should stick with his girlfriend or...

An English colonel's daughter meets the lord of the jungle who makes her his mate.

Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.

David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the gentlemanly life and masterful counterfeiting exploits of Everett Nordill, one of the...

Eight fighter pilots hold off constant Japanese attacks during the construction of an airstrip in New Guinea.

Duncan MacDonald, a 19th-century Royal Canadian Mountie, has to escort a group of Cree Indians back to their above-the-border reservation. His guide...

Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, but a...

A short film by Joseph M. Newman.

Harold Russell, an American soldier who lost his hands in a training accident, tells the story of his medical rehabilitation at Walter Reed Army...

The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner '​s efforts to investigate homicides that...

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only...

The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the...

An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.

On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony, a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes over whether he should stick with his girlfriend or...

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a...

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb...

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.

Shows how so-called "minor" lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals.

Unscrupulous car dealers foist faulty and dangerous cars on an unsuspecting public.

On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony, a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes over whether he should stick with his girlfriend or...

An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.

Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established the Nobel Prize.

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of John Peter Zenger, who in Colonial New York was tried for sedition based on what he...

An examination of the role played by dogs over the years in scientific research.