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Lewis Allen

Lewis Allen

Lewis Allen (25 December 1905 – 3 May 2000) was an English film and television director. Allen worked mainly in the United States, directing 18 feature films between 1944 and 1959. From the mid-1950s he moved increasingly into television and worked on a number of the most popular shows of the time in the U.S.

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Movies Made By Lewis Allen (23)

Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove (2013)

When Olivia Lockhart is given the opportunity for a federal judgeship, she must face the challenging decision, and while tempting, she risks losing her new romance and leaving the town and people she loves most. ...

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Decision at Midnight (1963)

Adaptation of the play Music at Midnight, set in the Iron Curtain. ...

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Whirlpool (1959)

The ex-girlfriend of a German fugitive hides with the captain and crew of a ship on the Rhine. ...

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Another Time, Another Place (1958)

In England during WWII, an American news correspondent's affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of his death, she travels to Cornwall to mourn with his family without ...

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Man on the Ledge (1955)

Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up. Bragan tries to talk the man, Robert Cosick, down from his threatening perch and in the process learns the reasons for the Robert ...

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Illegal (1955)

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes. ...

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A Bullet for Joey (1955)

Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead. ...

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Suddenly (1954)

The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes ...

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At Sword's Point (1952)

France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize power. As a last resort, Queen Anne summons the heirs of the original Musketeers to her aid...including Clair ...

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Valentino (1951)

Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves. ...

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Appointment with Danger (1950)

Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective. ...

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Chicago Deadline (1949)

On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so. ...

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The Great Gatsby (1949)

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy. ...

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Sealed Verdict (1948)

John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to the American investigating Major (Ray Milland), claiming mitigating circumstances, and providing the names ...

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So Evil My Love (1948)

In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter. ...

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Desert Fury (1947)

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them. ...

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The Perfect Marriage (1947)

A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court. ...

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The Imperfect Lady (1946)

A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London. ...

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Those Endearing Young Charms (1945)

A soldier loses his girlfriend to his best buddy. ...

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The Unseen (1945)

David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her miss ...

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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944)

In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures. ...

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The Uninvited (1944)

A pair of siblings from London [Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey] purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, England. Only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price, and soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triang ...

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Freedom Comes High (1943)

A young wife learns that freedom must sometimes be paid for in lives, when her husband's ship is struck during battle. ...

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Persistence of Vision (1984)

A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons are interviewed, and films preserved by Anthology are spotlighted. ...

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