Allan Dwan
Sands of Iwo Jima (B&W)
A Marine Sergeant takes his anger out on his men, but as the battle for Iwo Jima intensifies, everyone learns some invaluable lessons.
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Driftwood
Martin Scorsese Presents REPUBLIC REDISCOVERED—over 20 rarely seen films from the storied Republic Pictures library, restored and remastered by Paramount and personally curated by Martin Scorsese. In Driftwood young Natalie Wood stars as an orphan who helps a doctor (Dean Jagger) fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
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The Inside Story
Martin Scorsese Presents REPUBLIC REDISCOVERED—over 20 rarely seen films from the storied Republic Pictures library, restored and remastered by Paramount and personally curated by Martin Scorsese. In The Inside Story a stack of cash miraculously finds its way to a small town struggling during the Depression. The incident affects the lives of everyone who finds it, with various results. A heartwarming lesson in economics from director Allan Dwan (Heidi).
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Panikk
Walter Huston stars as an idealistic bank president who has been making loans to depositors without sufficient collateral. When there's a run on his bank, his loyal staff rallies local small businessmen to make more deposits which moves the directors to keep the bank afloat. Released shortly after FDR's New Deal, this film whole-heartedly espoused Roosevelt's ideals.
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