Direction: Allan Dwan

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Allan Dwan. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


High Tension

1936 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Brian Donlevy · Glenda Farrell · Norman Foster · Helen Wood

Synopsis Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.

7.3

25 votes

7.3

25 votes

Woman They Almost Lynched

1953 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast John Lund · Brian Donlevy · Audrey Totter · Joan Leslie

Synopsis Kate Quantrill (Audrey Totter), wife of infamous Confederate raider Quantrill (Brian Donlevy), and Sally Maris (Joan Leslie), virginal sister of Kate's ex-lover, saloonkeeper Bitteroot Bill (Reed Hadley). Sally herself falls in love with Lance Horton (John Lund), ostensibly a mine...

7.3

47 votes

7.3

47 votes

Frontier Marshal

1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Randolph Scott · Nancy Kelly · Cesar Romero · Binnie Barnes

Synopsis Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral (e.g., Doc is killed by Curley before the actual battle and Earp must do the job alone).

7.1

97 votes

7.1

97 votes

Silver Lode

1954 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast John Payne · Lizabeth Scott · Dan Duryea · Dolores Moran

Synopsis Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarthy, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and...

7.0

724 votes

7.0

724 votes

Driftwood

1947 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Ruth Warrick · Walter Brennan · Dean Jagger · Charlotte Greenwood

Synopsis Six-year-old Jenny rescues a collie dog, the only survivor of a plane wreck. A tag on the dog's neck states that it is en route to a medical laboratory where its blood will be used for spotted fever vaccine. Dr....

6.9

40 votes

6.9

40 votes

The Iron Mask

1929 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Marguerite De La Motte · William Bakewell · Nigel de Brulier

Synopsis King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has...

6.9

221 votes

6.9

221 votes

The Inside Story

1948 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Marsha Hunt · William Lundigan · Charles Winninger · Gail Patrick

Synopsis 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...

6.9

38 votes

6.9

38 votes

I Dream of Jeanie

1952 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Ray Middleton · Bill Shirley · Muriel Lawrence · Eileen Christy

Synopsis In 1849 the song Oh, Susannah is a nationwide hit—but bookkeeper Stephen Foster has given his work to several music houses without charge and without credit. His refined true love Inez McDowell, a classically trained singer, despises popular music, especially...

6.9

24 votes

6.9

24 votes

The Good Bad Man

1916 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Sam De Grasse · Pomeroy Cannon · Joseph Singleton

Synopsis An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.

6.9

31 votes

6.9

31 votes

While Paris Sleeps

1932 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Victor McLaglen · Helen Mack · William Bakewell · Jack La Rue

Synopsis Fifteen years after Jacques Costaud, a French war veteran and a recipient of France's prestigous Croix de Guerre, kills a man and is sentenced to life in prison, he escapes from a penal colony in French Guyana. Jacques is chased...

6.8

22 votes

6.8

22 votes

Slightly Scarlet

1956 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast John Payne · Rhonda Fleming · Arlene Dahl · Kent Taylor

Synopsis Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison in custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" political candidate Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. But after falling...

6.7

416 votes

6.7

416 votes

Robin Hood

1922 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Wallace Beery · Sam De Grasse · Enid Bennett

Synopsis 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...

6.7

447 votes

6.7

447 votes

6.7

291 votes

Manhandled

1924 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Gloria Swanson · Tom Moore · Lilyan Tashman · Ian Keith

Synopsis When her boyfriend, Jimmy, forgets a date, Tessie McGuire, a department store clerk, attends a party at the studio of Robert Brandt where she makes a hit with impersonations...

6.5

25 votes

6.5

25 votes

Tennessee's Partner

1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast John Payne · Ronald Reagan · Rhonda Fleming · Coleen Gray

Synopsis 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'),...

6.5

239 votes

6.5

239 votes

Most Dangerous Man Alive

1961 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Ron Randell · Debra Paget · Anthony Caruso · Elaine Stewart

Synopsis Flamboyant mob chief Eddie Candell (Ron Randell), who was framed for murder by jealous associate Andy Damon (Anthony Caruso), makes a break while on his way to the death house. Fleeing across the desert, he suddenly finds himself on an...

6.4

45 votes

6.4

45 votes

Stage Struck

1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Gloria Swanson · Lawrence Gray · Gertrude Astor · Oliver Sandys

Synopsis Gloria Swanson comedy about a hapless waitress (Swanson) who'll do anything to catch the eye of handsome wheat-cake flipper (Lawrence Gray), who calls her "Mouse."

6.4

34 votes

6.4

34 votes

Suez

1938 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Tyrone Power · Loretta Young · Annabella · J. Edward Bromberg

Synopsis De Lesseps is a young aristocrat who conceives the idea for the Suez Canal. When Napoleon fails him, the British show interest. Though the production values make the film entertaining its historical content is generally agreed to be awful.

6.3

225 votes

6.3

225 votes

Brewster's Millions

1945 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Helen Walker · June Havoc · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

Synopsis Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relative. But there's a catch: he must spend $1 million of that money in...

6.2

66 votes

6.2

66 votes

Sands of Iwo Jima

1949 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast John Wayne · John Agar · Adele Mara · Forrest Tucker

Synopsis John Marion Stryker is the ultimate Marine, a tough rifle squad leader who in 1943 is assigned a squad of new recruits saddled with three veterans and an old enemy of Stryker's from previous duties in the Far East. One...

6.0

745 votes

6.0

745 votes