The best Allan Lane’s drama movies

Allan Lane

Allan Lane

22/09/1909- 27/10/1973
Today we present the best Allan Lane’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Allan Lane’s movies.
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Air Force

Air Force
7/10
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

One Way Passage

One Way Passage
7.5/10
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.

The Spellbinder

The Spellbinder
6.3/10
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?

The Famous Ferguson Case

The Famous Ferguson Case
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1932
  • Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglers", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.

The Crash

The Crash
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/10/1932
  • Character: Geoffrey's Associate
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.

Expensive Women

Expensive Women
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/10/1931
  • Character: Party Boy with Bobby (uncredited)
A wealthy young woman struggles to find love while surrounded by possible suitors.

Night Train to Memphis

Night Train to Memphis
7.1/10
A mountain community is thrown into turmoil as the townspeople debate the advantages and disadvantages of having a railroad.

Crime Ring

Crime Ring
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/07/1938
  • Character: Joe Ryan
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.

The 3,000 Mile Chase

The 3,000 Mile Chase
5.6/10
Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to cover 3,000 dangerous miles, because the drug mob wants to kill them at any price.

Winner Take All

Winner Take All
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/07/1932
  • Character: Monty - Joan's Friend (uncredited)
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?

The Forward Pass

The Forward Pass
5.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/01/1929
  • Character: Ed Kirby
Marty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for punishment, and he swears to his pal, Honey Smith, and to Coach Wilson that he will quit the game forever. Ed Kirby, who dislikes Reid, calls him yellow, and Wilson gets Patricia Carlyle, the college vamp, to induce Reid to play. At a sorority dance, where only football players can cut in, Kirby persecutes Reid by dancing with Pat, and as a result Reid does apply to play in the game.

Conspiracy

Conspiracy
5.6/10
American Steve Kendall, a freighter's radio officer, discovers seaman Carlson sending an unauthorized message ashore as the ship approaches his war-poised homeland. Carlson is shot in cold blood when he jumps ship and Kendall, implicated in the espionage, swims ashore to avoid arrest. A woman he meets at the dock hides him in her apartment, where he learns Carlson was her brother, and they both work in a sabotage ring. Nedra is a singer at Tio's Cafe, and she approaches Tio for help when both the saboteurs and the secret police try to capture Steve.

Carson City Raiders

Carson City Raiders
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 13/05/1948
  • Character: Rocky Lane (as Allan 'Rocky' Lane)
Carson City Raiders is a western film directed by Yakima Canutt in 1948. Rocky Lane (Allan Lane) wants to help Nugget Clark (Eddy Waller) save his freight line. Meanwhile, Dave Starky (Harold Goodwin) is impersonating the outlaw Fargo Jack (Steve Darrell). But why? There's a lot of confusion in Carson City in this Western about hidden identities. Who is truly behind the gang of stagecoach robbers?

Panama Lady

Panama Lady
5.8/10
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.

Twelve Crowded Hours

Twelve Crowded Hours
5.5/10
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

Laughing at Trouble

Laughing at Trouble
6.7/10
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.

A Successful Calamity

A Successful Calamity
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/09/1932
  • Character: Polo Player (uncredited)
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.

Honor of the Family

Honor of the Family
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/10/1931
  • Character: Joseph
Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.

Code of the Silver Sage

Code of the Silver Sage
7/10
Arizona Territory is in the grip of outlaw terror and killer outlaws, secretly organized by Hulon Champion, who covers his power ambitions with the guise of a respectable firearms merchant. Hoping to eradicate the lawlessness plaguing the newspaperman Fred Gately prints a letter asking the president to visit the area. But Fred's killed by secret gang leader Champion, who also plans to assassinate the president. Undercover officer Rocky Lane teams with his assistant, Nugget, and Fred's spunky daughter to combat Champion's head gunslinger.

A Guy Could Change

A Guy Could Change
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/01/1946
  • Character: Michael 'Mike' Hogan
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.

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