Zaza
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 will fall for her. But during one performance, while Zaza is singing on a swing, her rival cuts the rope and she falls. Zaza is badly injured and she makes Dufresne's acquaintance. A romance quickly springs up and he installs her in a villa. Their happiness is marred, however, when his wife appears.
Manhandled
A comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
The Inside Story
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 hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it is returned.
Suez
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.
Driftwood
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
Frontier Marshal
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Slightly Scarlet
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.
Heidi
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 mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.
Sands of Iwo Jima
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 begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
The River's Edge
A murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert into Mexico. Accompanying them is the rancher's wife, who happens to be the killer's former girlfriend.
Stage Struck
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 loves Jennie, he also has a weakness for stage stars -- so when a riverboat theatrical crew comes to their town, he is smitten by lead actress Lillian Lyons. Desperate to keep Orme, Jennie insists on going onstage to best Lillian, but is soon out of her depth.
The Iron Mask
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 the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever.
Woman They Almost Lynched
Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.
Robin Hood
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 by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, with Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swashbuckling feats and cliffhanging perils!
Brewster's Millions
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 catch: he must spend $1 million of that money in less than two months before his 30th birthday in order to inherit the rest.
The Half-Breed
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 flair by Allan Dwan. Fairbanks stars as Lo Dorman, who has been ostracized from society because of this mixed ethnicity - his Native American mother was abandoned by his white father. When Lo catches the eye of the rich white debutante Nellie (Jewel Carmen), he becomes a target for the racist Sheriff Dunn (Sam De Grasse), who wants to break them up and take Nelli for his own. This love triangle becomes a quadrangle with the arrival of Teresa (Alma Rubens), who is on the run from the law. Through fire and fury Lo must decide who and what he truly loves.
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Allan Dwan
Director
Mary Thurman
as
Florianne
Riley Hatch
as
Rigault
Gloria Swanson
as
Zaza
Arthur Housman
as
Chip Thorndyke
Tom Moore
as
Jim Hogan
Ian Keith
as
Robert Brandt
Allen Jenkins
as
Eddie
Frank Ferguson
as
Eph - Editor of 'The Bugle'
Gene Lockhart
as
Horace Taylor
William Haade
as
Rocky
Leonard Mudie
as
Campaign Manager
Sidney Blackmer
as
Marquis Du Brey
Ellen Corby
as
Excitable Woman
Mary Field
as
Mrs. White
Tom London
as
Townsman
Jack Kenny
as
Barfly
Walter Baldwin
as
(scenes deleted)
Ward Bond
as
Town Marshal
Murray Alper
as
Hood
Rhonda Fleming
as
June Lyons
Jean Hersholt
as
Adolph Kramer / Grandfather
Arthur Treacher
as
Andrews
Mady Christians
as
Dete
William Hudson
as
Marine
Forrest Tucker
as
Pfc. Al Thomas
John Agar
as
Pfc. Peter Conway
Hal Baylor
as
Pvt. 'Sky' Choynski
Harry Carey Jr.
as
Chet
Ray Milland
as
Nardo Denning
Francis McDonald
as
Fisherman
William Bakewell
as
Louis XIV / Twin Brother
Minerva Urecal
as
Mrs. Stuart
Forbes Murray
as
Townsman
Richard Crane
as
Yankee Lieutenant
Enid Bennett
as
Lady Marian Fitzwalter
Alan Hale
as
Little John
Ruth Hiatt
as
Minor Role
Ann Doran
as
Page to Richard
Barbara Pepper
as
Cab Driver
William Forrest
as
Yacht Captain
Elmo Lincoln
as
The Doctor
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