An Interview with Silent Movie Pioneer Allan Dwan, December 1980.Dwan was one of the most important silent directors, working at Paramount with Gloria Swanson and Douglas Fairbanks on that studios most prestigious films.In the sound era, he worked on major projects with major stars, directing Shirley Temples two best films, Heidi and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; Tyrone Power and Loretta Young in Suez; Natalie Wood in her first film Driftwood; and John Wayne in The Sands of Iwo Jima. But from the mid1930s he mostly worked for B studios like Republic and RKO, adding his distinctive touch parody and pathos as critic Roger McNiven called it to a wide variety of genre films from musicals to westerns to film noirs.

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