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Co-written and produced by its leading man, Robin Hood might just be the greatest of Douglas Fairbanks’s star vehicles. Directed by the prolific Allan Dwan—here at the height of his silent-movie powers—this epic swashbuckling adventure lends heart and scale to the immortal romantic legend.
Surrender is a 1950 American Western film directed by Allan Dwan, written by James Edward Grant and Sloan Nibley, and starring Vera Ralston, John Carroll, Walter Brennan, Francis Lederer, William Ching, Maria Palmer and Jane Darwell. It was released on September 15, 1950, by Republic Pictures.
Starring a mesmerizing, 17-year-old Lois Moran, Allan Dwan's Padlocked is a work of great grace and complexity, putting Moran's character, Edith Gilbert, through the wringer as she battles her distant, moralistic father (Noah Beery Sr. as Henry Gilbert), the loss of her mother, reform school, and an ever-present, predatory older man before coming out on the other side more mature, but with her ...
After his retirement, Dwan lived in obscurity until interest in his career was revived among film critics and historians by two books: British film historian Kevin Brownlow’s study of silent-era Hollywood, The Parade’s Gone By (1968), which devoted a chapter to his reminiscences, and American film critic and director Peter Bogdanovich’s extensive interview Allan Dwan: The Last Pioneer ...
: Allan Dwan, Arlene Dahl et le directeur de la photographie John Alton, sur le tournage de Deux rouquines dans la bagarre ( 1956 ). Allan Dwan est un réalisateur , scénariste et producteur américain né le 3 avril 1885 à Toronto ( Canada ), mort le 28 décembre 1981 à Woodland Hills ( Los Angeles ).
Man to Man - (Original Trailer) A young man attempts to overcome the memory of his father, who was sent to jail for committing a murder in Man to Man (1931) directed by Allan Dwan. Sands of Iwo Jima - (Original Trailer) During World War II a marine sergeant must turn his recruits into fighting men in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), directed by Allan Dwan and starring John Wayne.
Motion-Picture Director. One of the rugged pioneers of Hollywood's silent era. A native of Toronto and an engineer by training, Dwan was first employed by the Cooper-Hewitt Company, where he helped develop the mercury-vapor arc (the forerunner of neon lighting). To earn extra income he began selling stories to...
