Sidney Lanfield

Sidney Lanfield

April 20, 1898 · 128 years old

Sidney Ivanovich Lanfield (April 20, 1898 – June 20, 1972) was an American film director known for directing romances and light comedy films and later television programs.

Known For

7 titles
1
The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1939 · 1h 20m · Movie

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.

7.4
2
You'll Never Get Rich

You'll Never Get Rich

1941 · 1h 28m · Movie

In order to cover up his philandering ways, a married Broadway producer sets one of his dancers up on a date with a chorus girl for whom he had bought a gift, but the two dancers fall in love for real.

6.7
3
The Princess and the Pirate

The Princess and the Pirate

1944 · 1h 34m · Movie

A cowardly actor and a runaway princess are voyaging on a ship that is captured by a notorious pirate who recently buried his treasure on a secretly mapped island.

6.8
4
My Favorite Blonde

My Favorite Blonde

1942 · 1h 18m · Movie

Karen Bentley, an English secret agent, links up with Larry Haines and his star penguin Percy in an attempt to outwit German spies.

7.0
5
Station West

Station West

1948 · 1h 37m · Movie

After two U.S. cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, U.S. Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.

6.6
6
Sorrowful Jones

Sorrowful Jones

1949 · 1h 28m · Movie

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. Her father disappears and he learns that taking care of her cramps his free-wheeling life. Sorrowful must evade gangsters and do some horse-thi...

6.9
7
Thin Ice

Thin Ice

1937 · 1h 19m · Movie

A Swiss hotel's ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.

6.3