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Irving Allen (born Irving Applebaum, November 24, 1905 – December 17, 1987) was an Austro-Hungarian–born American theatrical and cinematic producer and director. He received an Academy Award in 1948 for producing the short movie Climbing the Matterhorn.
IRWIN ALLEN PRODUCTION INDEX. Click on the thumbnails or links to find out more about each Irwin Allen movie and television production. With Oscar winning movies such as Sea Around Us, The Towering Inferno and the Poseidon Adventure, the Irwin Allen movie productions are a major part of cinema history.
Irving Allen. Producer: Climbing the Matterhorn. Irving Allen started his film career in 1929 as an editor. He turned to directing in the 1940s, and two shorts he directed, Forty Boys and a Song (1941) and Climbing the Matterhorn (1947), won Academy Awards.
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Allen's first film as producer was Where Danger Lives (1950) with Robert Mitchum, directed by John Farrow and written by Charles Bennett. Allen produced it with Irving Cummings, Jr.
View full company info for Irving Allen Productions. 1. New Mexico (1951) Approved | 76 min | Drama, Western. 5.6. Rate this. A cavalry captain has great difficulty keeping the peace between his tyrannical colonel and an Indian chief bent on revenge. Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Lew Ayres, Marilyn Maxwell, Andy Devine, Robert Hutton. Votes: 198.
Producer: Climbing the Matterhorn. Irving Allen started his film career in 1929 as an editor. He turned to directing in the 1940s, and two shorts he directed, Forty Boys and a Song (1941) and Climbing the Matterhorn (1947), won Academy Awards.
Irving Allen was one of the busier, if not always one of the classier, movie producers of the post-World War II era, with a string of successful action-adventure films stretching from the end of the 1940s into the early '70s.
