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