romantic comedy The Perfect Marriage (1947) with David Niven and Loretta Young; The Imperfect Lady (1947) with Ray Milland and Teresa Wright and Desert Fury (1947), a noir-ish Western drama starring Lizabeth Scott and Burt Lancaster. In 1948 Allen returned to Britain to film So Evil My Love, a lavishly mounted, melodramatic period thriller set in Victorian London, which reunited him with Milland, playing an out-and-out bad lot ruining the lives of Ann Todd and Geraldine Fitzgerald. Allen later said that he found Milland a pleasure to work with, and the two teamed up again in Sealed Verdict (1948), a topical drama dealing with the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the American-occupied zone of post-war Germany. Allen did some second unit directing on The Great Gatsby (1949) with Alan Ladd. He then made a pair of Alan Ladd vehicles, Chicago Deadline (1950) and Appointment with Danger (1951). RKO hired Allen to direct a swashbuckler At Sword's Point, filmed 1949 and released 1951. He was borrowed by Edward Small to direct the biopic Valentino (1951). He then left Paramount. Television Allen began directing TV, episodes of Your Favorite Story (1953–54) (which he also produced) and Meet Corliss Archer. In 1954 he directed the tense and claustrophobic Frank Sinatra vehicle Suddenly which became, alongside The Uninvited, his most widely known and highly regarded film. In 1955 Allen directed two Edward G. Robinson films, A Bullet for Joey and Illegal. He continued to direct episodes of TV, such as I Led 3 Lives, Mr. District Attorney, Screen Directors Playhouse, The Ford Television Theatre, The 20th Century-Fox Hour, Telephone Time, Goodyear Theatre, Alcoa Theatre and Decision. He directed the DuMont television series Ethel Barrymore Theater, filmed in 1953 and shown in syndication as Stage 8 in 1958. In Britain, he produced and directed Sean Connery and Lana Turner in the soapy melodrama Another Time, Another Place (1958). He directed Whirlpool (1959), a woman-on-the-run drama made for the Rank Organisation but filmed on location in Germany. Later career Allen's later career was focused on television, where he directed episodes of The David Niven Show, Bonanza, The Rifleman, Zane Grey Theater, Route 66, Perry Mason, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, The Detectives, The Dick Powell Theatre, Checkmate, and Target: The Corruptors. His last film as director was Decision at Midnight (1963) which he also produced. Later TV credits included Arrest and Trial, Burke's Law, The Rogues,