Cast: Allen Jenkins
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Allen Jenkins. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Front Page
1974 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Billy Wilder
Cast Jack Lemmon · Walter Matthau · Susan Sarandon · Vincent Gardenia
Plot Chicago, 1929. Hildy Johnson, a reporter of a Chicago newspaper, wants to quit and get married, but the editor of the newspaper, Walter Burns, asks her to stay and write...
8.1
24K votes
8.1
24K votes
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
1932 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Paul Muni · Glenda Farrell · Helen Vinson · Preston Foster
Plot James Allen (Paul Muni), just back from World War I, is unjustly convicted of a crime and sentenced to 10 years of bruisingly unfair treatment on a chain gang. He...
8.0
2K votes
8.0
2K votes
Destry Rides Again
1939 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast Marlene Dietrich · James Stewart · Irene Hervey · Mischa Auer
Plot Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck has Sheriff Keogh killed when he asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game that gives Kent a stranglehold over the local...
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
Dead End
1937 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Sylvia Sidney · Joel McCrea · Humphrey Bogart · Wendy Barrie
Plot Dead End is the prototypical social-problem drama about a Manhattan slum in the 1930s. Lillian Hellman's engaging script, based on Sidney Kingsley's hit play, finds the neighborhood residents struggling to...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
42nd Street
1933 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Dick Powell · Ruby Keeler · Warner Baxter · Ginger Rogers
Plot A sickly Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter) puts his all into what may be his last show, only to face a disaster when leading lady Dorothy Brock (Bebe Daniels) sprains her...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
The Inside Story
1948 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Marsha Hunt · William Lundigan · Charles Winninger · Gail Patrick
Plot A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a...
6.9
38 votes
6.9
38 votes
Marked Woman
1937 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Bette Davis · Humphrey Bogart · Lola Lane · Isabel Jewell
Plot Set in the underworld of Manhattan, Marked Woman tells the story of a woman who dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters. The women of...
6.8
881 votes
6.8
881 votes
Pillow Talk
1959 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Rock Hudson · Doris Day · Tony Randall · Thelma Ritter
Plot Brad Allen, a song writer, is being financed by Jonathan Forbes, millionaire Broadway producer who would like Jan Morrow to be his third wife. Brad doesn't know that the woman...
6.7
3K votes
6.7
3K votes
Five Came Back
1939 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Chester Morris · Lucille Ball · Wendy Barrie · John Carradine
Plot After their airplane crashes in the South American jungle, the passengers and crew must survive until the repairs can be made. Apart from the two pilots there is an elderly...
6.5
90 votes
6.5
90 votes
Three on a Match
1932 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Virginia Davis · Joan Blondell · Anne Shirley · Ann Dvorak
Plot Three women who were childhood schoolmates take different paths in life. Vivian marries a very wealthy lawyer and has an adorable boy. Mary, on the other hand, takes the hard...
6.5
150 votes
6.5
150 votes
A Slight Case of Murder
1938 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jane Bryan · Allen Jenkins · Ruth Donnelly
Plot Remy Marco announces he's going legit with the end of Prohibition. His fortune declines because the beer he makes tastes terrible. His daughter falls in love with a rich man's...
6.5
75 votes
6.5
75 votes
Wonder Man
1945 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Vera-Ellen · Donald Woods
Plot Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in...
6.4
309 votes
6.4
309 votes
Hard to Handle
1933 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast James Cagney · Mary Brian · Allen Jenkins · Ruth Donnelly
Plot Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest...
6.4
42 votes
6.4
42 votes
Eyes in the Night
1942 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Edward Arnold · Ann Harding · Donna Reed · Stephen McNally
Plot Blind detective Duncan Maclain is visited by old friend Norma Lawry, looking for help in getting rid of one of her old beaus, who is courting Norma's 17-year old step-daughter....
6.4
48 votes
6.4
48 votes
Brother Orchid
1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sothern · Donald Crisp
Plot Gangster Little John Sarto (Edward G. Robinson) is a man fed up with the racket who travels across Europe in the hopes of finding class. When he returns, he finds...
6.3
169 votes
6.3
169 votes
The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse
1938 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Anatole Litvak
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Claire Trevor · Humphrey Bogart · Allen Jenkins
Plot Dr. Clitterhouse is fascinated with the working of the criminal mind. His interest is so deep that he finds the best way to observe criminals in action is to become...
6.3
270 votes
6.3
270 votes
The Mayor of Hell
1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo · Michael Curtiz
Cast James Cagney · Madge Evans · Arthur Byron · Allen Jenkins
Plot Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed...
6.2
85 votes
6.2
85 votes
Dive Bomber
1941 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Errol Flynn · Fred MacMurray · Ralph Bellamy · Alexis Smith
Plot A new flight surgeon (Flynn) and a Navy pilot (MacMurray) overcome personal differences to work on solving the problem of Altitude Sickness which causes blackouts at high altitude. The real...
5.9
204 votes
5.9
204 votes
Jimmy the Gent
1934 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast James Cagney · Bette Davis · Allen Jenkins · Alan Dinehart
Plot Unscrupulous Jimmy Corrigan (James Cagney) runs an agency that searches for heirs of those who have died without leaving a will and often provides phony claimants in order to collect...
5.9
60 votes
5.9
60 votes
Racket Busters
1938 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Humphrey Bogart · George Brent · Gloria Dickson · Allen Jenkins
Plot Manhattan gangster Pete Martin enters the trucking business in an effort to control the produce market. When he catches popular trucker Danny Jordan robbing the gang's office to provide for...
5.9
51 votes
5.9
51 votes