Allen Rivkin

Nascimento : 1903-11-20,

Morte : 1990-02-17

Filmes

Sindicato de Vigaristas
Screenplay
A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. The eclectic cast includes Mickey Rooney, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Jay North, Vampira, Charles Chaplin Jr., Jackie Coogan and Norman Grabowski.
Live Fast, Die Young
Screenplay
A teenager finds her wayward sister running with thieves in San Francisco.
Girls on the Loose
Story
A nightclub operator (Mara Corday), her sister (Barbara Bostock), a beautician (Lita Milan) and two other women rob a payroll.
Renegado Impiedoso
Screenplay
The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. He gets a job and all is well until his brother shows up and takes a job that puts them on opposite sides of the law.
Gigante dos Mares
Screenplay
Biografia do contra-almirante John M. Hoskins (Sterling Hayden) focada em sua luta para continuar na ativa depois de perder uma perna em um acidente num porta-aviões na Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Timberjack
Screenplay
A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timber barons who also seek to control lumber mills. Based on the novel of the same name.
Prisoner of War
Writer
American soldiers, captured by North Korean's, are periodically brainwashed into giving up their capitalist ways to join the communist movement.
Campo de Batalha
Story
A young Army nurse, Lt Ruth McGara, newly assigned to the 66th MASH during the Korean War, attracts the sexual attention of the unit's commander Dr. (MAJ) Jed Webbe. Webbe, who has a drinking problem, at first wants a "no strings" relationship. McGara is warned by the other nurses of Webbe's womanizing ways. Despite these initial handicaps, their love flourishes against a background of war, enemy attacks, death and injury. The relationship deepens and uplifts both characters.
No Palco da Vida
Story
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston resident becomes angry when the census forgets to record her presence. Another sketch chronicles the achievements of African Americans while still another pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Texas.
Amei e Errei
Writer
Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder.
Grounds for Marriage
Screenplay
Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett.
Gambling House
Screenplay
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Tensão
Screenplay
Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman, Warren can no longer bear it. He decides to assume a new identity in order to murder his wife's lover without leaving a trace. Along the way, his plans are complicated by an attractive neighbor, as well as a shocking discovery that opens up a new world of doubts and accusations.
Meus Sonhos Te Pertencem
Adaptation
O pretensioso cantor Garry Mitchell (Lee Bowman) recusa a renovação de seu contrato com a rádio. Então o agente Doug Blake (Jack Carson) decide encontrar uma nova estrela para substituir Garry. Em Nova York encontra Martha Gibson (Doris Day), uma mãe solteira com uma grande voz. Ele promove a mudança dela para Hollywood, mas tem problemas ao tentar vendê-la para o patrocinador do show Felix Hofer (S.Z. Sakall). Doug tenta todos os truques que pode pensar para fazer de Martha uma estrela, e como os dois trabalham muito juntos, ele acaba se apaixonando por ela. O que complica ainda mais as coisas é quando Martha conhece Garry e fica atraída por ele.
The Farmer's Daughter
Writer
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
The Guilt of Janet Ames
Writer
A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.
Confissão
Adaptation
Um soldado foge ao invés de receber a Medalha de Honra. Então o seu amigo recebe permissão para investigar o caso. E amor e morte logo surgem na história. Ele não confia em ninguém... especialmente em mulheres!
The Thrill of Brazil
Screenplay
Steve, revue producer in Rio de Janeiro, is still in love with his ex-wife Vicki, his star Linda is in love with Steve and Tito is in love with Linda. Because of this they all get small problems.
Belezas Entre Feras
Writer
Ma Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers), comes to stay for a visit, college dropout Ken Burke (William Lundigan) and Swedish janitor Ole (Dan Dailey Jr.) immediately fall for her charms. Ken considers going back to college for Judy, but his fight promoter is less than thrilled with this idea. Meanwhile, Ole is determined to meet Ken in the ring to vie for Judy's heart.
Um Assassino de Luvas
Screenplay
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
Cumpre o Teu Dever
Screenplay
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
Highway West
Screenplay
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Singapore Woman
Producer
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
Singapore Woman
Screenplay
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
Nas Asas da Dança
Screenplay
Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal. Destitute, the troupe plans to return home when Mac, the stage doorman, offers to allow four of the men, Phil, Dandy, Jack and Ted, to use the theater for a boardinghouse. After accepting Mac's offer, the men improvise bedrooms out of the set pieces and meet amateur actress Lorie Fenton from Cleveland, who is eager to audition for them. When the men learn she recently received a small inheritance, they allow her to audition, hoping she will back the show.
Typhoon
Screenplay
Two men searching for black pearls are marooned on an island when their crew mutinies. There they run into a beautiful girl who had been washed up on the island in her childhood. They must fight angry natives and a typhoon in order to survive.
It Could Happen to You
Writer
In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers. His boss doesn't even seem to see him. The ad man's wife pushes her husband into confronting his boss during a party. Unfortunately, the timid fellow finds himself accused of murder after a corpse is found in the trunk of his car. He is quickly incarcerated for the crime. Meanwhile his wife begins investigating in an attempt to prove his innocence.
Let Us Live
Screenplay
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
Straight, Place and Show
Screenplay
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
Love Under Fire
Writer
A supense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
A Força do Coração
Screenplay
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
A Força do Coração
Story
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Love Is News
Additional Writing
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Half Angel
Writer
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
Champagne Charlie
Screenplay
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
Bad Boy
Screenplay
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
Black Sheep
Screenplay
On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his son he's not seen since infancy.
A Nossa Garota
Screenplay
Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become attracted to one another. Don and Elsa decide to get a divorce, unaware of the effect their problems are having on their daughter Molly. When Elsa announces plans to remarry, Molly runs away from home.
Cheating Cheaters
Writer
The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves plotting to rob the Lazarres.
Amor de Dançarina
Screenplay
Janie ama dançar e Tod Newton ajuda-a a encontrar um emprego como dançarina em um musical da Broadway, que será dirigido por Patch Gallagher. Mas não será tão fácil quando ela se deparar com o diretor Patch, que acha que ela deve usar seu talento e não sua beleza para conseguir o que quer.
Meet the Baron
Screenplay
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Headline Shooter
Screenplay
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Picture Snatcher
Adaptation
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
The Devil Is Driving
Screenplay
Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works for is actually a front for a stolen car ring, Gabby soon finds himself mixed up in both murder and a liaison with the boss's girl.
Madison Square Garden
Writer
Eddie Burke ( Jack Oakie) is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When his manager Doc Williams (William Collier Sr.) is offered the opportunity to stage a match at Madison Square Garden, but only if he gets rid of his stable of fighters, Eddie fabricates an alibi and stages a walkout on Doc.
70,000 Witnesses
Additional Dialogue
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
Is My Face Red?
Theatre Play
Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from showgirl pal his gal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.
Night World
Story
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
Are These Our Children?
Minor Role
A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding himself on trial for murder committed during a robbery.