Dwain Esper

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

Maniac poster
4.0

An 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

Sex Madness poster
3.0

A 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

Will It Happen Again? poster
9.0

An 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

How to Take a Bath poster
3.0

The 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

How to Undress in Front of Your Husband poster
3.3

A "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

The March of Crime poster
7.0

The 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

Maniac poster
4.0

An 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

Maniac poster
4.0

An 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

Sex Madness poster
3.0

A 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

Sex Madness poster
3.0

A 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

Will It Happen Again? poster
9.0

An 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

Will It Happen Again? poster
9.0

An 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

How to Take a Bath poster
3.0

The 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

How to Take a Bath poster
3.0

The 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

How to Undress in Front of Your Husband poster
3.3

A "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

How to Undress in Front of Your Husband poster
3.3

A "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

The March of Crime poster
7.0

The 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

Marihuana poster
3.8

A 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

Marihuana poster
3.8

A 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

Sinister Harvest poster
5.7

Early "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

Narcotic poster
3.7

A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.

Narcotic

1933

Narcotic poster
3.7

A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.

Narcotic

1933

The Seventh Commandment poster
3.3

You shall not commit adultery. Also known as Sins of Love.

The Seventh Commandment

1932

The Seventh Commandment poster
3.3

You shall not commit adultery. Also known as Sins of Love.

The Seventh Commandment

1932

Angkor poster
5.3

Basically 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

Curse of the Ubangi poster
9.0

A group of Ubangi women and their chief on an exhibit in 1932.

Curse of the Ubangi

1946

No artwork available
NR

Crime short from Louis Sonney.

You Can't Beat the Rap

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