Allan Dwan — Director (29)
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While Paris Sleeps (1932) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
While Paris Sleeps
director: Allan Dwan actor: Victor McLaglen / Helen Mack …
other title: Mientras París duerme
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
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The River's Edge (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The River's Edge
director: Allan Dwan actor: Ray Milland / Anthony Quinn …
other title: L'ultima riva / Matar para Viver …
A murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert into Mexico. Accompanying them is the rancher's wife, who happens to be the killer's former girlfriend.
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Black Sheep (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Black Sheep
director: Allan Dwan actor: Edmund Lowe / Claire Trevor …
other title: Compañeros de viaje
On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his son he's not seen since infancy.
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A Modern Musketeer (1917) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Modern Musketeer
director: Allan Dwan actor: Douglas Fairbanks / Marjorie Daw …
other title: El moderno mosquetero / Douglas le nouveau D'Artagnan …
A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. So in hopes of becoming a modern D'Artagnan, he mounts his steed (a Model T Ford) and sets out across the West in search of excitement and adventure.
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Up in Mabel's Room (1944) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Up in Mabel's Room
director: Allan Dwan actor: Dennis O'Keefe / Marjorie Reynolds …
other title: Nella camera di Mabel / Un casado en apuros …
Newly-married Gary Ainsworth once gave his former sweetheart Mabel a sexy negligee with his initials embroidered in the lacework. It is Gary's unenviable task to retrieve the incriminating undergarment from Mabel's room before his wife Geraldine gets wise.
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Getting Gertie's Garter (1945) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Getting Gertie's Garter
director: Allan Dwan actor: Dennis O'Keefe / Marie McDonald …
other title: La liga de Gertie / Nozze agitate
Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend, exotic dancer Marie McDonald, has in her possession an expensive, jeweled garter given to her by O'Keefe in his bachelor days. McDonald intends to show the garter to O'Keefe's suspicious wife, so Our Hero must retrieve the embarrassing accouterment without tipping off the missus.
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Tennessee's Partner (1955) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Tennessee's Partner
director: Allan Dwan actor: John Payne / Ronald Reagan …
other title: La jungla dei temerari / Todesfaust …
A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. But he's saved from murder by a lonesome cowpoke ('My friends call me Cowpoke'), in town to meet his fiancée Goldie on the steamboat. When she arrives, there's a mysterious undercurrent between Goldie and Tennessee, whose newfound friendship with Cowpoke is destined to be severely tried...
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Frontier Marshal (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Frontier Marshal
director: Allan Dwan actor: Randolph Scott / Nancy Kelly …
other title: Gli indomabili / L'Aigle des frontières
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Silver Lode (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Silver Lode
director: Allan Dwan actor: John Payne / Lizabeth Scott …
other title: La campana ha suonato / Stadt der Verdammten …
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.
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Calendar Girl (1947) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Calendar Girl
director: Allan Dwan actor: Jane Frazee / William Marshall …
other title: Musique aux étoiles
Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune. They both fall in love with the same girl, Patricia O'Neill. The artist paints a picture of her which outrages her father's sensibilities; but, as a result of the picture, she wins a chance to star in a Broadway play. She soon learns that the artist is just a trifler; and she turns to the composer, who loves her sincerely
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Surrender (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Surrender
director: Allan Dwan actor: Vera Ralston / John Carroll …
other title: Il diavolo nella carne
Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler Gregg Delaney but marries his best friend, Johnny Hale, when she discovers Hale is the richest man in Texas. This loses her the respect of her sister, Janet, who loves Hale, and Delaney, who loves Violet. Meanwhile, town sheriff Bill Howard is working hard to get Delaney to confess to a murder.
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Woman They Almost Lynched (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Woman They Almost Lynched
director: Allan Dwan actor: John Lund / Brian Donlevy …
other title: La donna che volevano linciare / Am Tode vorbei …
Led by its female mayor, a neutral town on the Arkansas-Missouri border during the Civil War attempts to stay peaceful. A newcomer looking for her brother is pulled into the town’s violence.
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The Inside Story (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Inside Story
director: Allan Dwan actor: Marsha Hunt / William Lundigan …
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it is returned.
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Montana Belle (1952) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Montana Belle
director: Allan Dwan actor: Jane Russell / George Brent …
other title: La regina dei desperados / Die Schönste von Montana …
Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who falls for her. So do gang member Mac and wealthy saloon owner Tom Bradfield, who's enlisted in a bankers' scheme to trap the Daltons. Discord among the gang and Bradfield's ambivalence complicates things, as Belle demonstrates her prowess with shootin' irons and horses, and as a surprisingly racy saloon entertainer.