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  • Fallen Angel
  • Fallen Angel review by from london
    Rated - 5.0 stars Sleepwalking the nightmare 21 May 2004
    ... he is in Walton, in the middle of nowhere. And that's were the trouble starts. Dana Andrews is a perfect casting as nearly unlikeable, tough-talking representation of amb...   Read customer review
  • Where The Sidewalk Ends
  • Where The Sidewalk Ends review by A customer from Yorkshire
    Rated - 4.0 stars Great film noir detective story. 18 August 2004
    ...ctive drama, recommended for fans of The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, etc. Dana Andrews is a great lead for this sort of film, equal to Bogie (though far less well kno...   Read customer review
  • The Best Years Of Our Lives
  • The Best Years Of Our Lives review by from Derby, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Classic American Film 3 November 2004
    ...ir lives. The stellar cast includes Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright and Dana Andrews - all who give touching and human performances. My only slight complaint (an...   Read customer review

Dana Andrews - filmography


  • In Harm's Way on DVD (1965)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Kirk Douglas,  Patricia Neal
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it was shown on network television in prime time, it was broken into two very full nights). On the morning of December 7, 1941, a heavy cruiser, commanded by Captain Rockwell ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 382 members
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  • The Loved One (1965)
    Starring: Robert Morse,  Rod Steiger,  Jonathan Winters
    Director: Tony Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Outrageous black comedy, promoted as "the motion picture with something to offend everyone!," stars Robert Morse as a British poet who visits California and, after his uncle's death, is introduced to the seamier side of the funeral industry.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 18 members
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  • Beyond a Reasonable Doubt on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Joan Fontaine,  Sidney Blackmer
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Hoping to expose fatal flaws in the legal system, a writer (DANA ANDREWS, Laura) places a bet that he can have himself convicted of murder on purely circumstantial evidence by planting false clues at a crime scene, before sensationally revealing his trick at the last minute. However, a series of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 116 members
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  • Smoke Signal on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Piper Laurie
    Director: Jerry Hopper
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dana Andrews and Piper Laurie star in this gripping drama set during the unforgiving time and the merciless surroundings of the Wild West. When an isolated cavalry fort is besieged by Indians, a small group of survivors are left with only one route of escape - the uncharted rapids of the wild ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 10 members
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  • Elephant Walk on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Elizabeth Taylor,  Dana Andrews,  Peter Finch
    Director: William Dieterle
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When Ruth agrees to marry plantation owner John, she is filled with excitement. The excitement is short lived, however, as she soon begins to feel trapped within her banal life. When Dick Carver visits the plantation, she immediately falls in love, but it's not long before tragedy strikes...
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 138 members
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  • Sealed Cargo on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Carla Balenda,  Claude Rains
    Director: Alfred Werker
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    During the height of the Second World War, the whaler Daniel Webster sights a shell-damaged Danish schooner eerily adrift in the waters off Newfoundland. Unable to gain any response from the schooner s crew Pat Bannon (Dana Andrews) boards the helpless ship and finds its Captain (Claude Rains) ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 26 members
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  • Where The Sidewalk Ends on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Gene Tierney,  Gary Merrill
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Dana Andrews stars as brutal cop Mark Dixon who previously had been in trouble with his superiors for his brutal methods. When Dixon accidently kills a murder suspect he knows his career will be over if he is discovered. He decides to dispose of the body and pin the murder on someone else. However ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 751 members
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  • My Foolish Heart (1949)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Susan Hayward
    Director: Mark Robson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 6 members
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  • The Best Years Of Our Lives on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Virginia Mayo,  Fredric March,  Myrna Loy
    Director: William Wyler
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Perhaps the most memorable film about the aftermath of World War II, it unfolds with the homecoming of three veterans to the same small town. The leads all touch emotional truths: Loy seems able to express longing, joy, fear and surprise - mostly with her back turned - in a particularly poignant ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2,354 members
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  • Fallen Angel on DVD (1945)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Alice Faye,  Linda Darnell
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews), is a down-on-his-luck press agent who isliving in a small Californian town and begins to frequent a diner called "Pop's Eats" , where he meets a beautiful waitress by the name of Stella (Linda Darnell). He falls for Stella but she is not interested in him. Eric decides ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 541 members
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  • State Fair on DVD (1945)
    Starring: Jeanne Crain,  Dana Andrews,  Dick Haymes
    Director: Walter Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In this rousing celebration of love and laughter in America's heartland, each member of the Frake family is out for a different prize when they attend their state fair. Father wants a blue ribbon for his favourite pet pig. First prize, and only first prize, will do for Mom's entry in the pie-baking ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 388 members
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  • A Walk In The Sun on DVD (1945)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Richard Conte,  George Tyne
    Director: Lewis Milestone
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The setting is WWII Italy, with Dana Andrews starring as Sgt. Tyne, one of the officers leading a platoon in an attempt to take a farmhouse in the Italian countryside, which is now a German stronghold. As the troops prepare to attack, they contemplate the lives that have led them to this place and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 120 members
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  • Wing And A Prayer on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Don Ameche,  Dana Andrews,  William Eythe
    Director: Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A story of a Pacific-based aircraft carrier set in the early days of the war, charting the frustrations of the crew as the boat evades warfare on its mission simply as a decoy. Jerome Cady was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, but Glen MacWilliams' cinematography (which ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 82 members
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  • The Purple Heart on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Richard Conte,  Farley Granger
    Director: Lewis Milestone
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    One of Hollywood's most striking films of World War II has very little war in it, yet it whips up a fearsome power. A U.S. bomber that took part in the Doolittle raid on Tokyo crash-lands in Japanese-occupied China afterward. Captured, the officers and crew are hauled before a Japanese court and ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 39 members
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  • Crash Dive on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Tyrone Power,  Anne Baxter,  Dana Andrews
    Director: Archie Mayo
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In this thrilling, Academy Award-winning WWII drama (Best Special Effects, 1943), Tyrone Power plays Navy Lieutenant Ward Stewart, a crewmember aboard a sub responsible for investigating a suspicious tanker in the Atlantic. Initially Stewart takes a liking to his commander - Dewey Connors (Dana ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 40 members
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  • The Ox-Bow Incident on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Henry Fonda,  Dana Andrews,  Mary Beth Hughes
    Director: William A. Wellman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 349 members
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  • Ball Of Fire on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Gary Cooper,  Barbara Stanwyck,  Oskar Homolka
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Professor Bertram Potts is the youngest of eight bookish academics assembling a dictionary of slang. They find a perfect "research associate" in the curvaceous form of strip-tease dancer Kathryn "Sugar Puss" O'Shea, who has hidden out at the professors' domicile to escape Joe Lilac, her gangster ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 107 members
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  • Swamp Water on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Walter Brennan,  Dana Andrews
    Director: Jean Renoir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A hunter encounters a young girl living with her fugitive father in the swamps of Georgia. He falls in love with her and tries to persuade the fugitive to move with his daughter back into town.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 99 members
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  • December 7th on DVD
    Starring: Walter Huston,  Harry Davenport,  Dana Andrews
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    During World War II, director John Ford joined the ranks of the many Hollywood actors and filmmakers who participated in the war's film propaganda effort. At the behest of the United States' military, John Ford and legendary cinematographer Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane, The Grapes of Wrath) mounted ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1 member
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Dana Andrews facts

5 most recent films

Good Guys Wear Black - 2.5 stars
Johnny Reno - 2.0 stars
Battle Of The Bulge - 3.5 stars
In Harm's Way - 3.5 stars
The Loved One - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Night Of The Demon / Curse Of The Demon - 4.0 stars
Laura - Gene Tierney Collection - 3.5 stars
Ball Of Fire - 3.5 stars
The Ox-Bow Incident - 3.5 stars
Battle Of The Bulge - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Belle Starr - The Bandit Queen - 2.0 stars
Johnny Reno - 2.0 stars
My Foolish Heart - 2.0 stars
The Purple Heart - 2.5 stars
December 7th - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Henry Fonda - 3 times - show films
Gene Tierney - 3 times - show films
Hoagy Carmichael - 2 times - show films
Susan Hayward - 2 times - show films
Jeanne Crain - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Otto Preminger - 4 times - show films
William A. Wellman - 2 times - show films
Lewis Milestone - 2 times - show films
John Ford - 2 times - show films
Jacques Tourneur - 2 times - show films