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Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker, Arthur Franz, Wally Cassell

From director Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima is a drama set during the Second World War and follows John Stryker (John Wayne), a relentlessly tough Marine sergeant as he trains a squad of naïve, rebellious recruits at a New Zealand military station in 1943. Recently left by his wife, Stryker has become exceedingly bitter and tough, leading his ...

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Heidi

Heidi (1937) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley, Pauline Moore

Johanna Spyri's perennial children's favorite Heidi was retailored to the talents of Shirley Temple, resulting in one of her best vehicles. Orphaned early in the proceeding, Heidi is left in the care of her bitter, misanthropic grandfather Adolph Kramer (Jean Hersholt). It doesn't take long before the sweet little child has melted grandpa's ...

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart, Helen Westley, Phyllis Brooks

Previously filmed in 1917 and 1932, Kate Douglas Wiggins' bucolic novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is herein refashioned--and completely, totally, utterly rewritten--as a vehicle for 10-year-old Shirley Temple. Unable to land a radio contract for himself and his niece Rebecca Winstead (Temple), fly-by-night vaudevillian Henry Kipper (William ...

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Young People

Young People (1940) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Shirley Temple, Jack Oakie, Charlotte Greenwood, Arleen Whelan, George Montgomery

"Over the hill" at the tender age of 12, Shirley Temple closed out her 20th Century-Fox contract with the musical seriocomedy Young People. After years of trodding the boards in vaudeville, Wendy Ballantine (Temple) and her adoptive parents Joe (Jack Oakie) and Kit (Charlotte Greenwood retire) to a small town so that the youngster can receive a ...

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Robin Hood

Robin Hood (1922) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Sam de Grasse, Enid Bennett, Paul Dickey, William Lowery

Robin Hood, Douglas Fairbanks' biggest (though not necessarily best) production of the silent era, represents the first time that many familiar of the elements of the Robin Hood legend were presented on screen. To bring the project to full fruition, Fairbanks and his wife Mary Pickford purchased the old Jesse Hampton studio in Santa Monica, and on ...

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Cattle Queen of Montana

Cattle Queen of Montana (1954) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller, Anthony Caruso, Jack Elam

Filmed on location at Montana's Glacier National Park, Cattle Queen of Montana makes excellent use of the diverse talents of Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan. Stanwyck is cast as Sierra Nevada Jones, who hopes to stake her claim in the cattle business despite opposition from hostile land barons. She is helped along by government agent Farrell, ...

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Tennessee's Partner

Tennessee's Partner (1954) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring John Payne, Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Coleen Gray, Anthony Caruso

Another winning collaboration between producer Benedict Bogeaus and director Allan Dwan, Tennessee's Partner is the third film version of the same-named Bret Harte story. The plotline is motivated by the curious friendship between slick gambler Tennessee (John Payne) and gunslinging Cowpoke (Ronald Reagan). Setting up shop in California gold-rush ...

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The Iron Mask

The Iron Mask (1929) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Douglas Fairbanks, Belle Bennett, Nigel de Brulier, Marguerite de la Motte, Dorothy Revier, Rolfe Sedan, Vera Lewis

The Iron Mask was Douglas Fairbanks' sequel to his popular 1921 vehicle The Three Musketeers. Fairbanks returns to his original role of D'Artagnan, while Marguerite de La Motte and Nigel De Brulier briefly reprise their Musketeers roles as, respectively, Constance and Cardinal Richelieu. After tying up loose plot ends from the first film, the ...

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The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (1939) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Don Ameche, The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry], Binnie Barnes, Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Pauline Moore

Allan Dwan's comedic musical adaptation of the classic Dumas story sticks close to the original tale, yet it augments it with healthy doses of humor and songs. Don Ameche stars as D'Artagnan and the Ritz Brothers play his two other musketeers. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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The Gorilla

The Gorilla (1939) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Jimmy Ritz, Anita Louise, Harry Ritz, Al Ritz, Patsy Kelly

When Fox bought the rights to Ralph Spence's warhorse stage mystery-comedy The Gorilla for the Ritz Brothers, they walked out en masse, refusing to work on the picture until their contracts were renegotiated and the script heavily rewritten. The finished product features an escaped circus gorilla apparently perpetrating a series of murders. ...

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I Dream of Jeanie (1952) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Ray Middleton, Bill Shirley, Muriel Lawrence, Eileen Christy, Dick Simmons, Lynn Bari

The life of Stephen Foster, one of America's greatest and best-loved songwriters of the 19th century, sets the stage for this musical biography. Foster (Bill Shirley) is a shy bookkeeper who writes songs in his spare time. He is madly in love with Inez McDowell (Muriel Lawrence), but she isn't interested in him, and she eventually gives him the ...

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The River's Edge (1957) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget, Harry Carey, Jr., Chubby Johnson

A bank robber's avarice and obsessive quest for freedom lead to his downfall in this adventure-packed crime drama that was shot on location in Mexico. After lifting a cool million from a U.S. bank, the crook is anxious to sneak across the border into Mexico, but to do so he must hire an experienced wilderness guide. He goes to the guide's ranch ...

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Hollywood Party (1934) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan, Charles "Chuck" Riesner, Edmund Goulding, George Stevens, Richard Boleslawski, Roy Rowland, Sam Wood
featuring Jimmy Durante, Charles Butterworth, Lupe Velez, Polly Moran

Hollywood Party was planned as a lavish, star-studded MGM musical titled Hollywood Revue of 1933 . Under the less-than-sterling guidance of "kicked upstairs" MGM producer Harry Rapf, production dragged on interminably, using up the talents of five directors (none of whom were credited) and seven writers. The "all star" cast lineup slowly dwindled ...

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Silver Lode (1954) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring John Payne, Lizabeth Scott, Dan Duryea, Dolores Moran, Emile G. Meyer, Frank Sully

Next to Slightly Scarlet, Silver Lode is the best of the many 1950s collaborations between producer Benedict Bogaeus and director Allan Dwan. Clearly inspired by High Noon, the story covers three hours in the lives of a group of westerners. As the townsfolk prepare for the Fourth of July celebration, stranger Dan Duryea rides into view, followed ...

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Passion (1954) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Yvonne De Carlo, Cornel Wilde, Raymond Burr, Lon Chaney, Jr., Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta

The winning combination of producer Benedict Bogeaus and director Allan Dwan once more struck box-office gold with Passion. Set in 19th century California, the film stars Cornel Wilde as a young rancher seeking vengeance for the murders of his wife Yvonne de Carlo and his parents. The guilty parties are a group of terrorists, headed by Rodolpho ...

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Calendar Girl (1947) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Charles Arnt, Jane Frazee, James Ellison, William Marshall, Gail Patrick, Kenny Baker, Janet Martin, Victor McLaglen

In this Republic musical, all heck breaks loose when the girlfriend of an aspiring composer becomes a model for the starving artist who lives next door. The story takes place at the turn of the 19th century and is set in Miss Rich's boardinghouse, the temporary home of many young artists and performers hoping to make it big in New York. Songs ...

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Up in Mabel's Room (1944) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Marjorie Reynolds, Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Patrick, Mischa Auer, Charlotte Greenwood

Up in Mabel's Room was one of a mid-1940s series of profitable film revivals of venerable theatrical comedies, all produced by Edward Small and directed by Allan Dwan. Previously filmed in 1925, this rusty-dusty stage perennial was written by Otto Harbach and Willson Collison; Tom Reed was the scenarist hired to bring the play's creaky plot ...

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Surrender (1950) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Vera Ralston, John Carroll, Walter Brennan, Francis Lederer, William Ching

Of the many attempts by Republic Pictures' CEO Herbert J. Yates to turn his lady friend Vera Ralston into a star, Surrender is one of the better efforts. Ralston plays a conscienceless "femme fatale" who works out a complex scheme to secure her financial comfort. The plan, enacted in a western border town, involves bigamy, betrayal, and ultimately ...

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Forbidden Fire (1919)

directed by Allan Dwan

Vampy Louise Glaum is surrounded by class in this Arabian drama -- along with having Allan Dwan as director, C. Gardner Sullivan as writer, and Victor Schertzinger arranger of music. Mignon revels in the attention she receives from the men of Paris, and her extravagant ways finally break her husband, John Stanley (Matt Moore). He is compelled to ...

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A Modern Musketeer (1917) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan

Douglas Fairbanks Sr. stars as Ned Thacker, who is born during a Kansas cyclone (coincidentally the same manner in which Fairbanks' real-life contemporary Buster Keaton came into the world!) and is thus imbued with the spirit of adventure. Having been virtually weaned on Alexandre Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers, Ned grows up dedicated to old ...

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Slightly Scarlet (1956) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring John Payne, Arlene Dahl, Rhonda Fleming, Kent Taylor, Ted de Corsia

This little film noir is freely adapted from James M. Cain's novel Love's Lovely Counterfeit, the story of a gangster working for a powerful Don who is fighting to retain control of the city's criminal activities when an honest mayoral candidate launches a strong anti-crime campaign. In a desperate attempt to derail his career, the Don assigns the ...

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Northwest Outpost (1947) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Joseph Schildkraut, Elsa Lanchester

Backed by the "American GI Chorus", Nelson Eddy made his final screen appearance in the unusually elaborate Republic musical Northwest Outpost. The story is set in the 1830s, when a good portion of California was owned by Russia. US cavalry officer James Laurence (Nelson Eddy) arrives at one of the Russian colonies to pave the way for the eventual ...

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Pearl of the South Pacific (1955) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Virginia Mayo, Dennis Morgan, David Farrar, Murvyn Vye, Lance Fuller

Refreshingly, the tropical melodrama Pearl of the South Pacific never takes itself too seriously. Virginia Mayo heads the cast as a phony missionary, in cahoots with crooks Dennis Morgan and David Farrar. The trio intend to make off with a fortune in black pearls, which rests in an underwater shrine guarded by a huge octopus. On the verge of ...

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Angel in Exile (1948) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan, Philip Ford
featuring John Carroll, Adele Mara, Thomas Gomez, Alfonso Bedoya

Angel in Exile represents a one-time-only directorial collaboration between cult favorite Allan Dwan and B-western workhouse Philip Ford. Upon his release from jail, hardened criminal Charlie Dakin (John Carroll) heads to Mexico in search of his stolen gold, hidden in a mine shaft by Dakin's confederates. Posing as an honest prospector, Dakin ...

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Look Who's Laughing (1941) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan
featuring Edgar Bergen, Dummy: Charlie McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Lucille Ball

Several popular radio personalities converge in the RKO Radio "comedy salad" Look Who's Laughing. Taking a vacation from his radio series, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen sets out in his private plane, accompanied by his dummy Charlie McCarthy. Developing engine trouble, Bergen makes a forced landing in the town of Wistful Vista, home of Fibber McGee ...

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