Bob Allen

Nacimiento : 1925-04-10, New Zealand.

Muerte : 2006-06-18

Películas

Hostage
Sound Recordist
Set in 1980's Australia, this is the true story of a woman whose husband eventually reveals to her that he is an active member of the Nazi party. A real nightmare begins for her.
Architect Athfield
Sound
Examines the practical philosophy, the achievements and frustrations of one of New Zealand's most lively and innovative architects, Ian Athfield. The film provides a portrait of the architect and his work both in New Zealand and his project to design housing for 140,000 squatters from the Tondo area of Manila in the Philippines, for which Athfield won an international competition in 1975.
Regreso al hogar
Sound Recordist
la historia transcurre en la sala de estar de una vieja casa londinense, a la que Teddy lleva a su mujer para presentársela a sus parientes. La revelación de un oscuro secreto familiar reabrirá viejas heridas.
Chacal
Sound Recordist
La OAS, un grupo ultra francés, contrata a un asesino profesional, cuya verdadera identidad nadie sabe, conocido como Chacal para que acabe con la vida del general De Gaulle, Presidente de la República Francesa. La policía francesa descubre el plan e inicia una operación contrarreloj para localizar y detener al asesino.
El visitante nocturno
Sound Mixer
Tras ser injustamente acusado de un asesinato que no ha cometido, Salem es recluido durante varios años en un sanatorio mental. Los responsables de la acusación fueron sus propias hermanas y su cuñado Antón, que fue quien en realidad cometió el crimen. Un día, Salem consigue fugarse del sanatorio y llegar hasta la granja donde vive su familia. Su intención es llevar a cabo una cruel venganza contra los que han arruinado su vida.
King Lear
Sound Recordist
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
The Girls
Sound
A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Sound Recordist
Jamie McGregor (Barry Evans) is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local supermarket, but he is more interested in other matters - Mary, Linda, Paula and Caroline. He tries to seduce the girls of his dreams in the swinging sixties.
Marat/Sade
Sound Recordist
Con motivo de la visita de unos aristócratas, el asilo mental de Charenton organiza una función teatral, representada por algunos pacientes y escrita y dirigida por el Marqués de Sade, también recluido allí. El núcleo central del argumento es el asesinato del líder de la Revolución Francesa, Jean-Paul Marat, a manos de Charlotte Corday y plantea un debate acerca de las relaciones entre políticos, la sexualidad y la violencia. Basada en una obra teatral de Peter Weiss que, Peter Brook, maestro del teatro inglés contemporáneo, además de cineasta, supo trasladar con acierto a la gran pantalla.
The Party's Over
Sound Recordist
This once controversial British movie that was filmed in ‘62 but released in ‘65 involves the fiancé of a depressed American heiress searching for her whereabouts amongst the Chelsea “beatnik” scene. Answers are hard to come by from the nihilistic hedonist youth that know her - but they provide mysterious hints to wild parties, sex, death and necrophilia.
The Caretaker
Sound Recordist
Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies, an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston's brother, Mick - a taunting, quasi-sadist - harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders...
Eagle Rock
Sound
A young lad attempts to climb Eagle Rock by himself and learns the hard way that sometimes teamwork is the best way to do things.
The War Game
Sound Editor
Two boys quarrel over a toy pistol in an ever escalating game.
Girl on Approval
Sound Recordist
Sheila's fourteen. Her father abandoned her as a baby, her mum's in jail and she's stuck in a children's home. Every family that's tried to look after her has found her too difficult. Now Anne and John Howland want to foster Sheila. But if they can't make a home for her, her future looks bleak.
Journey for Three
Sound
Three Brits travel and settle down in New Zealand, and the film records their hopes, jobs, challenges, and adventures in the new country.