Allan Dwan
Allan Dwan (April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan moved with his family to the United States when he was 11 years old. At the University of Notre Dame, he trained as an engineer and began working for a lighting company in Chicago. However, he had a strong interest in the fledgling motion picture industry and when Essanay Studios offered him the opportunity to become a scriptwriter, he took the job. At that time, some of the East Coast movie makers began to spend winters in California where the climate allowed them to continue productions requiring warm weather. Soon, a number of movie companies worked there year-round and, in 1911, Dwan began working part time in Hollywood. While still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association. Dwan operated Flying A Studios in La Mesa, California from August, 1911 to July, 1912. Flying A was one of the first motion pictures studios in California history.
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Escape to Burma
"Tropic heat… and human hate!" squealed the posters for this entertainingly off-the-cuff B-movie, which finds a quartet of film noir veterans (director Allan Dwan, cinematographer John Alton and stars Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Ryan) tearing loose amidst an old-fashioned adventure yarn set in...Watch Movie -
Silver Lode
A stranger in town becomes the target of a lynch mob in Allan Dwan's feverish Western noir, made at the height of the nation's "Red Scare" witch hunts and now acclaimed as one of the most concise anti-McCarthy parables ever made by Hollywood. About to marry the lovely Rose (Lizabeth Scott) on the...Watch Movie -
Tennessee's Partner
"You're rotten Tennessee, dirty. And, what’s more, you like it that way!" cries a local brothel owner to a unrepentant professional gambler in Allan Dwan's surprisingly illicit Western, set "when the West was a shameless young hussy!," as the original poster memorably stated....Watch Movie -
Cattle Queen of Montana
Barbara Stanwyck stars as "a woman of fire… in a land aflame!!!" in Allan Dwan's tough-as-nails 1954 Western, gorgeously shot in Montana’s scenic Glacier National Park. "Stripping off her petticoats and strapping on her guns" (as the original press material screamed),...Watch Movie
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Pearl of the South Pacific
B-movie legend Allan Dwan continued his odyssey through all the genres that Hollywood possesses in this jovial piece of South Seas hokum, one of three titles he released in 1955. Three treasure hunters (Virginia Mayo, Dennis Morgan and David Farrar) of varying levels of...Watch Movie -
Passion
Set in Old Spanish California of the 1800s, a dashing young rancher (Cornel Wilde) seeks vengeance for the murder of his wife (Yvonne de Carlo). Her identical twin (also played by Yvonne de Carlo) accompanies the rancher on their hunt for outlaw (Rodolfo Acosta) and his gang. Will lawman Castro...Watch Movie
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Tennessee's Partner
"You're rotten Tennessee, dirty. And, what’s more, you like it that way!" cries a local brothel owner to a unrepentant professional gambler in Allan Dwan's surprisingly illicit Western, set "when the West was a shameless young hussy!," as the original poster memorably stated....Watch Movie

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