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Corey Allen is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 29 june 1934 at Cleveland (USA)
Corey Allen (June 29, 1934 – June 27, 2010) was an American film and television director, writer, producer, and actor. He began his career as an actor but eventually became a television director. He may be best known for playing the character Buzz Gunderson in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955). He was one of the last surviving cast members of the film.
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Birth name Alan Cohen
Nationality USA
Birth 29 june 1934 at Cleveland (USA)
Death 27 june 2010 (at 75 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 29 june 1934 at Cleveland (USA)
Death 27 june 2010 (at 75 years) at Hollywood (USA)
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Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
, 2hDirected by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams
Actors Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Rip Torn, Shirley Knight, Mildred Dunnock
Roles Scotty
Rating70%
Handsome, young Chance Wayne returns to his hometown of St. Cloud, Florida, accompanied by a considerably older movie star, Alexandra Del Lago. She is needy and depressed, particularly about a film she has just finished making, and speaks of retiring from the acting world forever.
The Chapman Report (1962)
, 2h5Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom, Ty Hardin, Glynis Johns, Efrem Zimbalist II
Roles Walsh Dillon
Rating55%
Los Angeles psychologist Chapman (Andrew Duggan) and his assistant Paul Radford (Efrem Zimbalist Jr) are looking for volunteers for their sex survey, and four women volunteer: Sarah Garnell (Shelley Winters), a middle-aged woman who is having an affair with young theater director Fred Linden (Ray Danton); Teresa Harnish (Glynis Johns), a happily married woman who becomes attracted to brawny football player Ed Kraski (Ty Hardin); Naomi Shields (Claire Bloom), an alcoholic nymphomaniac who takes up with an unsavory jazz musician; and Kathleen Barclay (Jane Fonda), a young widow who thinks she is frigid.
Key Witness (1960)
Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Dennis Hopper, Jeffrey Hunter, Pat Crowley, Susan Harrison, Joby Baker, Corey Allen
Roles Magician
Rating61%
An average Los Angeles citizen witnesses a gang murder when he stops to use a telephone. Aware that he is the only witness against them, the gang members seek out his identity and terrorize him and his family to keep him from testifying against them. Only by psychologically playing one gang member against the others is the man able to bring the police to his rescue.
Private Property (1960)
Directed by Leslie Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Warren Oates, Corey Allen, Jerome Cowan
Roles Duke
Rating66%
Duke et Boots, deux amis vagabonds, errent sur la côté californienne. Ils volent quelques boissons dans une station service et obligent un automobiliste à les prendre en stop. Duke propose alors à Boots, qui est vierge, de séduire pour lui une belle femme blonde qui conduit une autre voiture. Ils la suivent jusque chez elle et occupent la maison voisine, vide, afin de l'espionner.
Darby's Rangers (1958)
, 2h1Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Political films
Actors James Garner, Jack Warden, Stuart Whitman, Etchika Choureau, Edd Byrnes, Venetia Stevenson
Roles Tony Sutherland
Rating62%
The US Army has decided to form an elite strike force similar to the British Commandos. Major William Darby (James Garner), a staff officer, gets command of the 1st Ranger Battalion, to be formed entirely from volunteers.On June 19, 1942 the 1st Ranger Battalion was sanctioned, recruited, and began training in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. Darby and Master Sergeant Saul Rosen (Jack Warden), who also narrates the film, select a variety of men for training in Scotland by British Commando veterans. Darby tells his men that the Commandos are the best soldiers in the world, but in time they (the Rangers) will be. The Americans are quartered in Scottish homes and several of the Rangers pair off with local lassies: Rollo Burns (Peter Brown) with Peggy McTavish (Venetia Stevenson), the daughter of the fearsome but humorous Scottish Commando instructor, Sergeant McTavish (Torin Thatcher), and vagabond Hank Bishop (Stuart Whitman) with the proper Wendy Hollister (Joan Elan).
Party Girl (1958)
, 1h39Directed by Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith, Claire Kelly
Roles Cookie La Motte
Rating69%
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending Chicago mobsters in court. At a party for mob boss Rico Angelo, he meets chorus girl Vicki Gaye, who accepted $100 to attend the party and another $400 from another gangster, Louis Canetto, from his gambling winnings.
The Big Caper (1957)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Rory Calhoun, Mary Costa, James Gregory, Corey Allen, Paul Picerni, Robert H. Harris
Roles Roy
Rating64%
His portion of the loot from a recent heist squandered, minor-league criminal Frank Harper talks his boss, Flood, into a more lucrative project: on the weekend before a Monday payday, break into a San Felipe, California bank, which will be holding a million-dollar payroll for the Marine Base at Camp Pendleton. Flood plans the operation, sending his moll Kay with Frank to become established in the community at San Felipe and to lay the groundwork for the heist.
The Shadow on the Window (1957)
, 1h16Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Philip Carey, Betty Garrett, John Drew Barrymore, Corey Allen, Eve McVeagh, Jerry Mathers
Roles Gil Ramsey
Rating60%
Upon seeing his mother Linda terrorized by three thugs, young Petey (Jerry Mathers) is traumatized and wanders off. Truck drivers find him and the boy is brought to police headquarters, where he is recognized as the son of detective Tony Atlas (Philip Carey).
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
, 1h51Directed by Nicholas Ray, Don Alvarado, Gary Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Transport films, Films about automobiles
Actors James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Ann Doran, William Hopper, Rochelle Hudson
Roles Buzz Gunderson
Rating75%
Behind the opening credits, the film opens on a suburban Los Angeles street with teenager Jim Stark (Dean) drunkenly lying down on a sidewalk. He is arrested and taken to the juvenile division of the police station for "plain drunkenness". At the station he meets John "Plato" Crawford (Mineo), who was brought in for shooting a litter of puppies with his mother's gun, and Judy (Wood), who was brought in for curfew violation (she was wearing a bright red dress with matching lipstick and was mistaken for being a streetwalker). The three each separately reveal their innermost frustrations to officers; all three of them suffer from problems at home:
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
, 1h33Directed by Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum, Terry Sanders
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Films about capital punishment
Actors Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Billy Chapin, Peter Graves
Rating79%
In the 1930s West Virginia, along the Ohio River, Reverend Harry Powell, a serial killer, flees the scene of his latest victim. Powell is a self-anointed preacher with a penchant for switchblade knives; a misogynist who is both attracted to and repulsed by women. He travels rural roads, preaching in small towns, and seems to believe he is doing God's work. The letters "L-O-V-E" are tattooed on one hand and the letters "H-A-T-E" on the other, which Powell uses as symbols in impromptu sermons. In one small town, police arrest Powell for driving a stolen car and sentence him to jail, unaware that he is a murderer.
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
, 1h42Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Romance
Themes Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors William Holden, Mickey Rooney, Fredric March, Grace Kelly, Robert Strauss, Charles McGraw
Roles Enlisted Man
Rating66%
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Harry Brubaker (William Holden) is a Naval Reserve officer and Naval Aviator who was called back to active duty from his civilian profession as an attorney to fly fighter-bombers in the Korean War. Returning from a mission with battle damage, he is forced to ditch into the sea and is rescued by a Sikorsky H-5 helicopter manned by Chief Petty Officer (NAP) Mike Forney (Mickey Rooney) and Airman (NAC) Nestor Gamidge (Earl Holliman).
The Mad Magician (1954)
, 1h12Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, John Emery, Patrick O'Neal, Donald Randolph
Roles Gus a Stagehand (uncredited)
Rating65%
Don Gallico (Vincent Price) is a magician, master of disguise, and inventor of stage-magic effects in the late 1800s aspiring to become a star magician under the stage name Gallico the Great. Disguised as The Great Rinaldi, a headlining rival magician, Mr. Gallico performs a number of magic tricks successfully, building up to the reveal of his latest invention, the buzz-saw, an illusion that "severs" the head of the magician's assistant Karen Lee (Mary Murphy). Before Mr. Gallico can perform the buzz-saw illusion, the curtains come down to stop the performance. Businessman Ross Ormond (Donald Randolph) and his lawyer serve Mr. Gallico a cease and desist order against the performance of the buzz-saw trick much to the anger of Mr. Gallico. Ms. Lee's boyfriend, police detective Lt. Alan Bruce (Patrick O'Neal), is asked by her to intervene in the dispute between Mr. Gallico and Mr. Ormond. Mr. Gallico informs the detective that he signed a contract to Mr. Ormond's Illusions, Inc., a magician's trick provider, to invent new tricks, the issue is that Mr. Ormond owns all work created by Mr. Ormond, not just the ones produced for Illusions, Inc., Mr. Gallico's understanding.
A Time Out of War (1954)
, 20minutesDirected by Denis Sanders
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Corey Allen, Barry Atwater
Roles Connor
Rating65%
Le film se déroule pendant la guerre de Sécession. Des soldats de l'Union négocient une trêve des combats avec les confédérés.
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The Last Fling (1987)
, 1h35Directed by Corey Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors John Ritter, Connie Sellecca, Randee Heller, John Bennett Perry, Paul Sand, Scott Bakula
Rating60%
Attorney Phillip Reed is tired of one-night stands. He then meets a woman at the zoo, Gloria, who is getting married the next week. When she meets Phillip, she lies to him and tells him her name is Marsha Lyons. The two hit it off right, away and Gloria/Marsha tells Phillip she'll call him. Gloria/Marsha doesn't plan on ever calling him back, but when she calls her soon-to-be groom and a woman whom he presumably slept with answers, Gloria/Marsha decides to call Phillip. She asks him to go to Mexico with her, and the two have an adventure getting there when the car they rented breaks down and catches fire. Then they hitch a ride with some local farm workers. Finally, they make it to a beautiful home that is owned by Gloria/Marsha's parents. They have a blast in Mexico, dining and dancing, eventually winding up in bed together. The next morning Phillip gets up looking for Gloria/Marsha who's already left. Phillip finds out via a videotape explanation left by Gloria/Marsha that she's getting married tomorrow and that he was supposed to be her last fling. Phillip then tries to find her. When he finally does, he tries to stop the wedding and convince Gloria that they belong together. In the end, Gloria leaves her groom at the altar, and she and Phillip go for a walk in the zoo where they first met.
I-Man (1986)
, 1h36Directed by Corey Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Scott Bakula, Ellen Bry, Joey Cramer, John Bloom, Herschel Bernardi, John Anderson
Rating2%
The film tells the story of widowed father Jeffrey Wilder (Scott Bakula), who works as a cab driver, and his son Eric (Joey Cramer), as they are unexpectedly hurled into the adventure of a lifetime. When a NASA truck carrying a space canister crashes near their home, Jeffrey and Eric rush inside the wrecked vehicle to recover the helpless driver and a few scientists. However, near the end of the rescue, the truck violently explodes, and Jeffrey is rushed to the hospital, 90% of his body covered in second- and third-degree burns. As the doctors watch in shock, Jeffrey's badly burnt body miraculously heals itself before their eyes, and he walks out, confused and amazed.