
Directing
Dwain Esper
Born — Died
1894-10-07 — 1982-10-18
Place of birth
Washington, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
21 titles
Dwain Atkins Esper (October 7, 1894 – October 18, 1982) was an American director and producer known for his work in the exploitation genre during the 1930's.
Known for
4.0An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.
Maniac
1934
3.0A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is torn between the prospect of a slow, intensive but proven therapy and a supposed miracle cure.
Sex Madness
1938
9.0An account of Adolf Hitler's rise and fall, his relationship with Eva Braun and their days of leisure at the Berghof, their Bavarian residence.
Will It Happen Again?
1948
3.0The easing of domestic tensions is the cover story for this little number. After history’s most uncomfortable bridge game, two couples retire to their respective homes where the wives each undress incrementally before stepping in the bath. While one harangues her husband about his losing bridge game and failing career, the other offers her man reassuring compliments and soothing come ons.
How to Take a Bath
1937
3.3A "Peeping Tom" likes to look through windows at women undressing. We see him as he sneaks a peek at two subjects. The first, a woman dressed in lingerie, is young, shapely and attractive. The second, to be charitable, isn't. That doesn't stop him, and the viewer, from getting an eyeful.
How to Undress in Front of Your Husband
1937
7.0The March of Crime (1936) was a series of exploitation stories produced by Dwain Esper of famous gangsters of the 1930s.
The March of Crime
1936
Behind the camera
4.0An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.
Maniac
1934
4.0An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.
Maniac
1934
3.0A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is torn between the prospect of a slow, intensive but proven therapy and a supposed miracle cure.
Sex Madness
1938
3.0A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is torn between the prospect of a slow, intensive but proven therapy and a supposed miracle cure.
Sex Madness
1938
9.0An account of Adolf Hitler's rise and fall, his relationship with Eva Braun and their days of leisure at the Berghof, their Bavarian residence.
Will It Happen Again?
1948
9.0An account of Adolf Hitler's rise and fall, his relationship with Eva Braun and their days of leisure at the Berghof, their Bavarian residence.
Will It Happen Again?
1948
3.0The easing of domestic tensions is the cover story for this little number. After history’s most uncomfortable bridge game, two couples retire to their respective homes where the wives each undress incrementally before stepping in the bath. While one harangues her husband about his losing bridge game and failing career, the other offers her man reassuring compliments and soothing come ons.
How to Take a Bath
1937
3.0The easing of domestic tensions is the cover story for this little number. After history’s most uncomfortable bridge game, two couples retire to their respective homes where the wives each undress incrementally before stepping in the bath. While one harangues her husband about his losing bridge game and failing career, the other offers her man reassuring compliments and soothing come ons.
How to Take a Bath
1937
3.3A "Peeping Tom" likes to look through windows at women undressing. We see him as he sneaks a peek at two subjects. The first, a woman dressed in lingerie, is young, shapely and attractive. The second, to be charitable, isn't. That doesn't stop him, and the viewer, from getting an eyeful.
How to Undress in Front of Your Husband
1937
3.3A "Peeping Tom" likes to look through windows at women undressing. We see him as he sneaks a peek at two subjects. The first, a woman dressed in lingerie, is young, shapely and attractive. The second, to be charitable, isn't. That doesn't stop him, and the viewer, from getting an eyeful.
How to Undress in Front of Your Husband
1937
7.0The March of Crime (1936) was a series of exploitation stories produced by Dwain Esper of famous gangsters of the 1930s.
The March of Crime
1936
3.8A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns while skinny dipping in the ocean. Burma and her boyfriend go to work for the pusher in order to make money so they can get married. However, during a drug deal her boyfriend is killed leaving Burma to fend for herself. Burma then becomes a major narcotics pusher in her own right after giving up her baby for adoption.
Marihuana
1936
3.8A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns while skinny dipping in the ocean. Burma and her boyfriend go to work for the pusher in order to make money so they can get married. However, during a drug deal her boyfriend is killed leaving Burma to fend for herself. Burma then becomes a major narcotics pusher in her own right after giving up her baby for adoption.
Marihuana
1936
5.7Early "shockumentary", apparently shot in Egypt, which documents the habits of opium addicts. The interiors of drug dens are shown, and at the conclusion the film an addict is shown collapsing on a sand dune; the booming voice of the narrator informs us that the addict has perished. Footage used is from the silent film Dope Fiends.
Sinister Harvest
1930
3.7A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.
Narcotic
1933
3.7A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.
Narcotic
1933
3.3You shall not commit adultery. Also known as Sins of Love.
The Seventh Commandment
1932
3.3You shall not commit adultery. Also known as Sins of Love.
The Seventh Commandment
1932
5.3Basically a travelogue featuring footage of Angkor Wat (in Cambodia) shot by a couple of explorers in the WWI years, with additional footage shot on a set in Hollywood by George M. Merrick.
Angkor
1935
9.0A group of Ubangi women and their chief on an exhibit in 1932.
Curse of the Ubangi
1946
Crime short from Louis Sonney.
You Can't Beat the Rap
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