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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03 November 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.
08 March 1951
Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves.
12 January 1961
John Baylor is summoned to the home of a friend of his fathers. The man is dying and wishes to leave everything to one of his two daughters.
05 November 1948
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II.
19 June 1945
A soldier loses his girlfriend to his best buddy.
01 March 1959
The ex-girlfriend of a German fugitive hides with the captain and crew of a ship on the Rhine.
15 August 1947
The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.
24 February 1944
A pair of siblings from London [Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey] purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, England.
17 September 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.
09 October 1955
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent.
06 June 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.
07 April 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.
02 May 1958
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action.
24 January 1947
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.
01 January 1943
A young wife learns that freedom must sometimes be paid for in lives, when her husband's ship is struck during battle.
22 April 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.
28 December 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.
02 August 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.
29 November 1946
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
12 May 1945
David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion.
02 November 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.
01 January 1984
A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse.
15 April 1955
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist.
12 December 1963
Adaptation of the play Music at Midnight, set in the Iron Curtain.
03 June 1956
In the spring, when one gentleman's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of a former love, his wife decides to take drastic action.
