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American second feature director who arrived in California aboard the SS Mongolia (bound from New York) on which he served as a bellboy. Sherman began his career in the movie business in the mail room at Warner Brothers before working his way up to assistant director. By 1937, he had graduated to directing in his own right under contract with Republic. Sherman specialised almost exclusively in B-westerns, (including the "Three Mesqueteers" series, which featured a young John Wayne), with occasional forays into action and horror themes. He often achieved a sense of style over substance. Indeed, as to his handling of the 'Mesqueteers', Variety commented on his imparting a "poetry in motion" to his "unified timing of cowboys mounting, riding, wheeling, galloping and dismounting of steeds" (July 2 1939). From 1940, Sherman also served as associate producer on many of his films.
The diminutive (five foot) Sherman turned out reliable low-budget fare for Columbia between 1945 and 1948, then moved on to do the same at Universal for another eight years. Thereafter, he turned to free-lancing and working in television. The only A-grade films to his credit were two westerns, starring John Wayne: The Comancheros (1961), as producer; and Big Jake (1971), as director.
Date of Birth 14 July 1908, New York City, New York
Date of Death 15 March 1991, Los Angeles County, California
Most Popular George Sherman Trailers
Total trailers found: 119
24 December 1952
In the 18th century, the pirates of Madagascar, lords of the Republic of Libertatia and masters of the Indian Ocean, live in an impregnable natural fortress, killing, robbing and plundering with impunity, so the British Navy hatches a daring plan to destroy them.
28 May 1943
A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.
25 November 1941
Don "Red" Barry is unjustly accused of being a Missouri Outlaw. The real bad guys are a gang of crooks who've been conning the local merchants and farmers out of their hard-earned dollars.
29 June 1940
In this old-time Western from director George Sherman, peaceable cowpoke Jack Summers takes the job of sheriff to help his adopted town in its bid to beat out a nearby settlement for a lucrative railroad contract.
13 January 1942
A crooked gambler poses as a descendant of a noble Spanish family has successfully secured court validation of a counterfeit land grant, and proceeds to drive out ranchers already settled on the land with high taxes, road tolls and violent tactics.
10 April 1964
A businessman comes up with a scheme to make money by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" that's destined to fail, thus giving him some major tax breaks.
24 June 1941
The irrepressible Donald Barry is twice falsely accused of murder in this typical low-budget but well-mounted Republic Western.
27 June 1939
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.
15 January 1943
A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II.
23 November 1943
A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective.
28 May 1937
Just after Kramer goes to Wyoming to start his protection racket, cowboy actor Jeff Carson finishes a picture and goes camping.
06 January 1941
A former outlaw becomes a Wells Fargo guard, but when the stagecoach is robbed, he becomes a wanted man once again.
18 November 1938
The Mesquiteers capture a horse thief who escapes justice through a crooked judge. They gather signatures urging the governor to investigate but a friend with the petition is murdered.
24 August 1949
First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
04 November 1942
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty.
22 November 1940
A lawyer by training, Bob Millburne (Don "Red" Barry) believes in relying on the legal system to exact justice.
15 June 1938
Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid cowboys known as the Three Mesquiteers; Stony (Robert Livingston), Tucson (Ray Corrigan) and Lullaby (Max Terhune) are on the case when rancher Peg Garth's (Maude Eburne) prize racehorse is abducted by bookie Rod Stevens (Tom London) and a secret cohort to prevent it from winning an important race.
01 October 1955
A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.
03 August 1966
A cowboy named Clint bonds with a beautiful wild stallion that he trains, but after the two are separated and the horse ends up in a rodeo, Clint is determined to set it free.
25 June 1969
Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his family to take advantage of the offer.
06 January 1954
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in this lawless place?
31 July 1942
A well-acted, well-paced entry in the Don "Red" Barry Western series from Republic Pictures, The Sombrero Kid featured the diminutive Barry as Jerry Holden, the apparent son and heir of veteran lawman Tom Holden (Robert Homans).
20 September 1938
After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out.
13 April 1943
Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection.
28 August 1938
The first of eight "Three Mesquiteers" Westerns to star John Wayne.
30 September 1951
The Princess of Samarkand and an English knight confront the armies of Genghis Khan.
11 November 1940
The Mesquiteers try to help their friend build a telegraph system, despite a local newspaper editor's attempts to sabotage the lines.
12 May 1939
Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott.
16 December 1961
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
09 May 1952
Steve Kostain, nephew of the owner, begins working at a steel mill to learn the business from the bottom up.
22 December 1938
The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw.
20 May 1953
Zachary Hallock and his son Joshua are farmers who live in a frontier town that suffers the assaults of a band of outlaws.
13 June 1946
The daughter of a prominent citizen marries an outlaw's son.
31 May 1942
A young doctor rejects his older outlaw brother Johnny who put him through medical school by dubious means.
01 December 1959
Director George Sherman's 1959 circus drama stars Michael Callan as a cocky aerialist causing romantic problems under the Big Top.
16 October 1944
A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.
26 March 1939
Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage.
02 November 1956
New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent.
01 February 1965
The fictionalized story of Joaquin Murrieta, a real life Mexican bandit who terrorized California with his gang of raiders and cutthroats during the first half of the 19th century.
26 May 1971
An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
12 April 1939
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay.
08 August 1946
An Army veteran finds his re-entry into civilian life easier through the efforts of his younger brother and a donkey.
16 March 1937
Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps.
29 December 1964
Sixteen-year-old Marisol sings her way across Spain with her father, chasing dreams and survival. On a sunlit campsite in Mallorca, she meets two students and dares to perform at a bullfighting event—hoping to be discovered.
18 October 1960
OSS agent, working with the French underground, ambushes Nazi convoy with high-ranking general, who escapes.
02 April 1935
Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his men arrive to retrieve the money, they also kidnap Bonnie.
29 November 1939
Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.
17 April 1944
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
22 April 1940
Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, the Three Mesquiteers, are returning from Mexico and are stopped at the border by Army officials, who are attempting to apprehend smugglers who are buying cheap silver in Mexico and smuggling it into the States, where they can take advantage of a silver stabilizing measure and sell it at a high price.
06 October 1953
Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader Mustapha to unite the hill tribes and overthrow the emperor.
20 June 1936
When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire him to watch over her.
01 November 1951
A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt.
01 August 1947
A family-oriented adaption of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." As the French-Indian War rages across the untamed territory of the Great Northwest, the embattled wilderness gives birth to a legend -- the proud legend of "The Last of the Red Men.
09 April 1941
A notorious outlaw is recruited by a cattle buyer, secret boss of a gang of cattle rustlers, to impersonate the town sheriff, who is the outlaw's twin brother; and complications ensue, as the sheriff, now a hostage, is on the eve of his marriage while the outlaw's cantina-dancer girlfriend has followed him to town and is at risk of exposing him.
01 August 1938
In this entry in the long-running series of westerns, the Three Mesquiteers transform their ranch into a prison farm to provide a model for prison reform.
12 March 1943
German expatriate Fritz Kortner plays the largest role, as an anti-Nazi schoolmaster who helps a downed American flyer (John Archer) reached Allied lines with vital war information.
01 April 1955
When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in the sacred Lakota burial ground.
01 February 1960
When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers.
16 August 1940
A protegee of notorious outlaw Montana (Beery), young Tom Benton decides to stay on the good side of the Law upon reaching maturity.
26 September 1941
Ambushed by the Vigilantes, a dying friend gets Johnny who was only passing through to take up the fight.
