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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

6.7

447 votes

6.7

447 votes

The River's Edge

1957 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

6.7

291 votes

6.7

291 votes

Manhandled

1924 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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....

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

6.0

745 votes

6.0

745 votes