[5] In April Levin was hired to work as dialogue director on The Clock Struck Twelve (later titled Passport to Suez) with Warren William, one of the Lone Wolf films.

He followed it with Sergeant Mike (1944) with Larry Parks, Dancing in Manhattan (1944), a documentary The Negro Sailor (1945) and I Love a Mystery (1945), based on the radio show.

Levin directed a swashbuckler The Fighting Guardsman (1945) and was called in to do some work on The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946), a Robin Hood movie that was hugely popular.

[8][9] Levin helped direct Mr. Soft Touch (1949) with Ford, and had the biggest hit of his career with Jolson Sings Again (1949) starring Parks.

He made a romantic comedy And Baby Makes Three (1949) then replaced Vidor another time on a musical with Joan Caulfield, The Petty Girl (1950).

His first film for them was meant to be Mabel and Me[10] Instead he did Belles on Their Toes (1952); The President's Lady (1952) a biopic of Andrew Jackson with Charlton Heston; The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953) with Betty Grable; Mister Scoutmaster (1953) with Clifton Webb; Three Young Texans (1954), a Western with Jeffrey Hunter; and The Gambler from Natchez (1954) a Western with Dale Robertson.

[12] At Paramount he did a Western with Jack Palance, The Lonely Man (1957),[13] then Fox called him back to do Boone's second film, April Love (1957).

[14] He went to England to do a film for Fox, A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958), then back in Hollywood did two with Clifton Webb, The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959) and Holiday for Lovers (1959).

Webb was also meant to be in Levin's Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) but fell ill and was replaced by James Mason; Pat Boone co-starred and the film was a huge hit.