Storm, and 711 Ocean Drive, which starred Edmond O'Brien. Newman directed George Raft in Lucky Nick Cain (1951) aka I'll Get You For This in England, distributed by Fox. 20th Century Fox Newman went to Fox where he directed The Guy Who Came Back (1951); Love Nest (1952), featuring an early supporting role for Marilyn Monroe. The studio were impressed and assigned him to larger budgeted films: Red Skies of Montana (1952) with Richard Widmark; and The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952). Fox picked up his option and he directed Pony Soldier (1952) with Tyrone Power; and Dangerous Crossing (1953) with Michael Rennie. In 1952 it was announced he would form Joe Newman Productions to make Island in the Sky but the film ended up being made by others. In 1953 Newman set up his own production company, Sabre Productions. Their first productions were to be This Island Earth and Tehran. Newman directed The Human Jungle (1954) for Allied Artists. Sabre Productions Newman made This Island Earth for Universal. It starred Rex Reason as a scientist and jet pilot who is transported to another world by beings from a dying civilization who secretly intend to invade and take over his home planet. The film attracted a cult following that increased decades later when the television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 spoofed it in 1996 in its first feature-film venture. Also at Universal he directed Kiss of Fire (1955). He did Flight to Hong Kong (1956) for Sabre, then Death in Small Does (1957). Two of actor Joel McCrea's final westerns followed for the director, Fort Massacre (1958) and The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959). Newman directed The Big Circus (1959) for Irwin Allen at Allied Artists then went to MGM to do Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959). Television Newman went into television directing "Meeting at Appalachia" for Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse and "The High Cost of Fame" for Dan Raven, "The Lady and the Lawyer" for The Asphalt Jungle. Newman did some films for Allied Artists, The Big Bankroll (1961), and The George Raft Story (1962). In between he made It Started in Tokyo (1961), The Lawbreakers (1961) and A Thunder of Drums (1961). His final years as a director were for TV, doing episodes of The Great Adventure, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and The Big Valley. He did several Twilight Zone episodes including "In Praise of Pip", "The Last