Harry Allen Movies

In this romantic comedy, a woman is utterly bored by her nice life and devoted husband, so she decides to find a lover. She chooses her husband's best friend, and together they plan to elope to a mountain cottage. But unbeknownst to her, the best friend is more loyal than he looks for soon after they arrive to their retreat, the husband appears and begins wooing her in earnest. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cowboy star Bob Steele looks embarrassed throughout most of Headin' North, as well he should. The film begins conventionally enough, with Steele once again accused of a murder he didn't commit. Hoping to remain in hiding until he can expose the real killer, our hero disguises himself as a vaudeville entertainer, complete with a loud and vulgar "city slicker" outfit. Heroine Barbara Luddy (later a prolific radio actress) speaks for the entire audience when she gives Steele the once-over and exclaims "Where did you get those funny clothes?" Fortunately, Steele regains most of his dignity in a climactic fistfight with the villain. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Set during World War I, The Dawn Patrol is a study of the pressures and pitfalls of authority. A British Royal Flying Corp squadron commander (Neil Hamilton) is compelled by the higher-ups to send his boys out in dangerous, rickety aircraft. He is tormented by the responsibility, but does his duty as prescribed, and is branded a "butcher" by his top pilot (Richard Barthelmess). Hamilton is transferred, and with grim glee hands his command over to Barthelmess. Suddenly Barthelmess finds himself as much an unwilling "butcher" as a predecessor, and in exercising his authority he is alienated from his pilot buddies. Things come to a head when Barthelmess sends the brother of his best friend (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) on a suicide mission. The lad is killed, and the friendship is shattered. To make amends, Barthelmess gets Fairbanks drunk and flies the next mission himself--and is shot down while in battle with the fearsome German ace Von Richter. Now more understanding of his fallen companion, Fairbanks takes over command of the squadron. Because of the 1938 remake of the same title, the 1930 Dawn Patrol has been retitled Flight Commander for television. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this western, set aboard a California bound stagecoach, a man and woman passenger begin a flirtation that is interrupted when an robber band attacks the stage. They are saved by dashing cowboy who immediately wins the heart of the woman, much to the consternation of the man. Not willing to give up so easily, the man invites the woman, her father, a gambler, and the handsome cowpoke to his father's home. The evening becomes tense when the men begin a game of poker that explodes when the man's father loses his ranch to the gambler. It is soon revealed that several years ago the gambler had stolen the ranchers wife and daughter. This is quite a shock for the man who suddenly realizes that he has been flirting with his own sister. The evening closes on a tragic note when a gunfight between the man and the cowboy erupts. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Blond Helen Foster, who was 22 at the time, played the title role in this moralistic silent drama about teenaged Cynthia Perry, who despite warnings from older sister Patricia (Gertrude Olmstead) falls madly in love with handsome scoundrel Howard de Hart (Gladden James). To save her sister, the demure Patricia risks her own reputation in the bounder's apartment but is saved in the nick of time from a fate worse than death by her sweetheart (Reginald Sheffield). A 1929 WAMPAS Baby Star, Helen Foster later starred in both silent and sound versions of the exploitation melodrama The Road to Ruin. She later became an extra. Co-star Gertrude Olmstead became the second wife of director Robert Z. Leonard and retired. Grandly released as an "Imperial Photoplay," Sweet Sixteen bore all the trademarks of bargain-basement company Trem Carr Productions. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

Produced and directed by poverty row regular Duke Worne, this silent Northwest melodrama starred Napoleon (who, of course, bore the "last name" of Bonaparte), one of Rin-Tin-Tin's less successful imitators. Before leaving to search for gold, Bud Taylor (Robert Frazer) presents his girlfriend Mary Stoddard (Edna Murphy) with a German shepherd pup. The pooch (Napoleon) takes an instant dislike to Bud's rival, Wade Burton (Ernest Hilliard), later saving both his master and Mary from Burton's greed. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a fiancée who promptly leaves him. Licking his wounds in solitude, he meets a young woman named Laura (May McAvoy). They fall in love and agree to marry, but unexpected and magical events occur inside The Enchanted Cottage where they have agreed to spend their wedding night. The film was based on a 1921 play by Arthur Wing Pinero. Although no prints of this silent film are believed to exist, it was remade in 1945 with Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide