Allan Dwan — Playwright (5)
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.
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.
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.
Fifty-Fifty (1916) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Fifty-Fifty
director: Allan Dwan actor: Norma Talmadge / Jack W. Johnston
Naomi is a young aspiring artist known to her Bohemian friends as "The Nut." Naomi's alleged nuttiness does not in any way impede the efforts by wealthy Frederick Harmon to make the unworldly heroine his bride. When their first baby is born, Naomi becomes so obsessed with motherhood that she completely ignores poor Harmon, who, to offset his loneliness, begins squiring the vampish Helen Carew. Helen manages to convince Harmon that Naomi has been unfaithful, leading inevitably to divorce-court litigation.
Robin Hood (1922) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Robin Hood
director: Allan Dwan actor: Douglas Fairbanks / Enid Bennett
other title: Robin des Bois / Robin de los Bosques
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, with Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swashbuckling feats and cliffhanging perils!