Search results for "Allan Dwan"
Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima
IMDb: 7
100

Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they…

Genre: Drama, War
The Inside Story

The Inside Story

The Inside Story
IMDb: 6.7
87

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…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Driftwood

Driftwood

Driftwood
IMDb: 7.1
88

An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.

Genre: Drama, Family
Brewster’s Millions

Brewster’s Millions

Brewster’s Millions
IMDb: 6.6
79

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…

Genre: Comedy
Up in Mabel’s Room

Up in Mabel’s Room

Up in Mabel’s Room
IMDb: 6.1
76

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…

Genre: Comedy
Look Who’s Laughing

Look Who’s Laughing

Look Who’s Laughing
IMDb: 6.1
79

Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistful Vista. Based on the…

Genre: Comedy
Young People

Young People

Young People
IMDb: 6.3
79

Wendy Ballantine’s parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show…

Genre: Drama
The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers
IMDb: 5.9
73

A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D’Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king’s Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of…

The Gorilla

The Gorilla

The Gorilla
IMDb: 4.8
68

When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards….

Frontier Marshal

Frontier Marshal

Frontier Marshal
IMDb: 6.6
71

Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Genre: Western
Suez

Suez

Suez
IMDb: 6.6
104

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it’s just the place for a canal.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
IMDb: 7
80

Rebecca’s Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for…

Genre: Drama, Family, Music
Heidi

Heidi

Heidi
IMDb: 7.2
88

Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into…

Genre: Drama, Family, Music
High Tension

High Tension

High Tension
IMDb: 5.6
63

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

Genre: Comedy
Black Sheep

Black Sheep

Black Sheep
IMDb: 6.8
76

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…

Genre: Drama
Hollywood Party

Hollywood Party

Hollywood Party
IMDb: 5.9
68

Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Chances

Chances

Chances
IMDb: 6.4
72

Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Iron Mask

The Iron Mask

The Iron Mask
IMDb: 7
103

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…

Stage Struck

Stage Struck

Stage Struck
IMDb: 6.8
84

Daydreaming waitress Jennie Hagen fantasizes about becoming a famous actress, while in reality she and her cook boyfriend, Orme Wilson, hope to one day own their own diner. Although Orme…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Manhandled

Manhandled

Manhandled
IMDb: 6.7
63

A comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Zaza

Zaza

Zaza
IMDb: 6.6
84

Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Robin Hood
IMDb: 7
133

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…

Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages

Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages

Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages
IMDb: 7.6
197

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Genre: Drama, History
The Good Bad-Man

The Good Bad-Man

The Good Bad-Man
IMDb: 6.6
50

An outlaw calling himself Passin’ Through halts his “evil” ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.

Genre: Western
The Half-Breed

The Half-Breed

The Half-Breed
IMDb: 6.6
72

In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama written by Anita Loos and directed with…

Genre: Western
The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation
IMDb: 6.1
193

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era…

Genre: Drama, History, War