Lewis R. Foster Movies
Lewis R. Foster started out as a newspaper journalist then joined the Hal Roach studios as a gag man in 1923. Foster was promoted to director for the 1929 Charley Chase 2-reeler Movie Night. He went on to direct several Laurel & Hardy shorts, including the team's first talkie, Unaccustomed as We Are (1929). Foster left Roach to free-lance in 1930, directing his first feature, the low-budget... (read more) Love Letters of a Star, in 1936. Though he kept his hand in directing until his retirement in 1959, Foster's most lasting movie achievements were in the field of screenwriting. In 1939, he won an Academy Award for writing the original story of Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Lewis Foster's last directorial work was at Disney, where he helmed the 1958 feature Tonka and several episodes of the TV series Zorro ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Billy Jack Goes to Washington
PG 1977
The fourth film starring Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack, Billy Jack Goes To Washington was a loose remake of Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes To Washington. The story...
The Swamp Fox: A Woman's Courage
1961
In the seventh episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) has rescued his sweetheart {%Mary...
The Swamp Fox: Horses for Greene
1961
In the final episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War patriot Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) and his fellow guerillas have...
Disneyland: Daniel Boone: The Wilderness Road
1961
In the third episode of Walt Disney's four-part miniseries based on the life of frontiersman Daniel Boone, the Cumberland Gap has been successfully negotiated, and Daniel...
Disneyland: Daniel Boone: The Promised Land
1961
In the concluding episode of Walt Disney's four-part miniseries based on the life of frontiersman Daniel Boone, several members of Boone's wagon train are angered when...
The Swamp Fox: Tory Vengeance
1960
In the third episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) must pretend to despise his...
The Swamp Fox: Day of Reckoning
1960
In the fourth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Continental Army guerilla leader Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) feels responsible when his...
The Swamp Fox: Redcoat Strategy
1960
In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, the guerilla forces under the leadership of Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) have succeeded...
The Swamp Fox: A Case of Treason
1960
In the sixth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, 18th century American guerilla leader Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) has again succeeded in...
Disneyland: Daniel Boone: The Warrior's Path
1960
In the first episode of Walt Disney's four-part miniseries based on the life of frontiersman Daniel Boone, a fast-talking salesman convinces Daniel (Dewey Martin), a...
Disneyland: Daniel Boone: And Chase the Buffalo
1960
In the second episode of Walt Disney's four-part miniseries based on the life of frontiersman Daniel Boone, it has been 12 years since Daniel (Dewey Martin) and his...
The Sign of Zorro
1960
Taken from the Walt Disney "Zorro" television series, this film was created from a number of episodes starring the popular masked hero (Guy Williams). ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi...
The Swamp Fox: The Birth of the Swamp Fox
1959
One of producer Walt Disney's more blatant efforts to duplicate the success of his early TV miniseries Davy Crockett, the eight-part Swamp Fox featured another flamboyant...
The Swamp Fox: Brother Against Brother
1959
In the second episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, the Redcoats have retaliated against the raids of Colonel Francis Marion's guerillas by...
Disneyland: The Saga of Andy Burnett: Land of Enemies
1958
In this 4th episode of Walt Disney's six-part miniseries The Saga of Andy Burnett, Andy (Jerome Courtland) and the Mountain Men have struck out for the New Mexico outpost...
Disneyland: The Saga of Andy Burnett: The Big Council
1958
In the final episode of Walt Disney's six-part miniseries The Saga of Andy Burnett, Andy (Jerome Courtland and his friends are still the "guests" of Kiasak (Abel...
Disneyland: The Saga of Andy Burnett: The White Man's Medicine
1958
In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's six-part miniseries The Saga of Andy Burnett, Andy (Jerome Courtland and his fellow Mountain Men have been captured by the Blackfeet...
Tonka
1958
This Disney adventure differed from many films of its era in that it depicted an unusually humanistic view of Native Americans as it tells the story of a young Sioux who finds a...
Disneyland: The Saga of Andy Burnett: Andy's Love Affair
1957
In this third episode of Walt Disney's six-part miniseries The Saga of Andy Burnett, Andy (Jerome Courtland, Joe Crane (Jeff York) and the other Mountain Men have...
Disneyland: The Saga of Andy Burnett: Andy's First Chore
1957
In this second episode of Walt Disney's six-part miniseries The Saga of Andy Burnett, easterner Andy (Jerome Courtland) and his trapper pal Joe Crane (Jeff York) have...