Highest rated movie: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Lowest rated movie: Three Hours to Kill (1954)
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Looking for reviews of films directed by Alfred L. Werker? Cinafilm has a total of 129 reviews across 11 movies directed by Alfred L. Werker.
Movies from this director have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average rating of 59%.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is Alfred L. Werker's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 56 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Alfred L. Werker is Three Hours to Kill, with a score of 44% based on 1 reviews.
Alfred L. Werker (December 2, 1896 – July 28, 1975) was a film director whose work in movies spanned from 1917 through 1957. After a number of film production jobs and assistant directing, Werker co-directed his first film, Ridin' the Wind in 1925 alongside director Del Andrews. He was brought in by Fox Film Corporation executives to re-shoot and re-edit Erich von Stroheim's film Hello, Sister! (1933), co-starring Boots Mallory and ZaSu Pitts. Most of Werker's work is unremarkable, but a few were well received by critics. Those films included House of Rothschild (1934) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939); the latter film is considered one of the best in the Sherlock Holmes series. During the early 1940s, he directed a number of comedies including Laurel & Hardy's A-Haunting We Will Go (1942). In the late 1940s, Werker worked for the B-picture film studio Eagle-Lion Films. Notable films from that period include the unique mystery thriller Repeat Performance and He Walked by Night. The latter film, however, was taken over by uncredited director Anthony Mann. Werker was nominated in 1949 for the Locarno International Film Festival's Best Police Film category for He Walked by Night (1948) and won. The following year, Alfred was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for Lost Boundaries (1949) but was unsuccessful.
Alfred L. Werker has directed films starring Whit Bissell, John Dehner, Richard Basehart and Harry Cording.
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