Directed by Allan Dwan • 1935 • United States
Starring Edmund Lowe, Claire Trevor, Tom Brown
Crime and comedy mingle aboard an ocean liner in this delightfully snappy caper cowritten by director Allan Dwan. The crackling chemistry between stars Edmund Lowe and Claire Trevor propels the tale of a professional gambler who discovers his long-lost son aboard a cruise ship and sets out to save him from being framed by a woman for a jewel theft he didn’t commit.
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High Tension
Directed by Allan Dwan • 1936 • United States
Starring Brian Donlevy, Glenda Farrell, Norman FosterA romantic comedy with an edge, this dizzyingly paced blend of screwball laughs and action thrills casts Brian Donlevy and ’30s spitfire Glenda Farrell as, respectively, a rugged deep-sea engineer...
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One Mile from Heaven
Directed by Allan Dwan • 1937 • United States
Starring Claire Trevor, Sally Blane, Douglas FowleyAn unusually complex and empathetic treatment of race from 1930s Hollywood, this fascinating and long-overlooked drama marked the last screen appearance of trailblazing actor and activist Fredi Wash...
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Frontier Marshal
Directed by Allan Dwan • 1939 • United States
Starring Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Cesar RomeroFamously remade by John Ford as MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (with some scenes taken almost directly from this film), FRONTIER MARSHAL was one of the the first of Hollywood’s many dramatizations of the Wyat...
