Alan Rivkin Movies
American screenwriter Allen Rivkin was steadily employed in Hollywood from 1932 to 1958. Hopscotching from Fox to Columbia to Warners to Republic and back again, Rivkin specialized in rapidly paced newspaper and crime yarns. During the early '40s, he scripted two of MGM's most celebrated B-pictures, Kid Glove Killer (1941) and Joe Smith American (1942). His later... (read more) A-efforts included RKO's The Farmer's Daughter and Columbia's Dead Reckoning. One of the earliest organizers of the Screen Actors' Guild, the politically moderate Allen Rivkin decided he didn't care for the left-wing stance of many of his colleagues, making his opinions public in the early '50s when he headed the strongly anti-communist Motion Picture Industry Council. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
The Big Operator
1959
Mickey Rooney plays labor racketeer Little Joe Braun in this fast-paced and surprisingly violent drama about one man's determination to clean up his union. Bill Gibson (Steve...
Live Fast, Die Young
1958
In this low-budget crime drama a runaway girl joins a gang of jewel thieves and finds herself leading an exciting luxurious life until her older sister shows up during a caper and...
Girls on the Loose
1958
Actor Paul Henried's directorial efforts always tended to be on the sensationalistic side, and Girls on the Loose was no exception. Mara Corday stars as Vera Parkinson, the...
The Road to Denver
1955
Though running 90 minutes, Road to Denver moves along at a much faster clip than most Republic "A" westerns. John Payne and Skip Homeier star as the Mayhew brothers,...
Timberjack
1955
Republic's Trucolor process is shown off to good advantage in the outdoors actioner Timberjack. Sterling Hayden and David Brian star as Chipman and Brunner, a pair of rugged...
The Eternal Sea
1955
One of Republic's most elaborate productions of the 1950s, The Eternal Sea is the biography of American admiral John M. Hoskins. Sterling Hayden delivers a superbly...
Prisoner of War
1954
The horrors suffered by American prisoners of war at the hands of the North Koreans during the Korean war provide the basis of this drama. Allegedly based on the true stories of...
Battle Circus
NR 1953
In his only MGM film, Humphrey Bogart plays the commanding officer of a M*A*S*H unit during the Korean War. Bogart runs his operation by the book, though he can take time...
The Strip
1951
Mickey Rooney returned to his "home" studio MGM, after a three-year absence, in the location-filmed melodrama The Strip. Rooney is cast as Stanley Maxton, an aspiring...
Grounds for Marriage
1950
Grounds for Marriage is another attractively packaged sausage from the MGM assembly line. Van Johnson is a doctor, while Kathryn Grayson is an opera singer. They marry,...
Gambling House
1950
Gambling House is a low-key remake of the 1943 Cary Grant vehicle Mr. Lucky. Victor Mature stars as Marc Fury, a foreign-born gambler who is currently facing...
It's a Big Country
1950
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and...
Tension
1949
Warren Quimby (Richard Basehart) has a problem that he won't admit to: his wife, Claire (Audrey Totter), wants more fun and excitement out of life than the quiet,...
My Dream Is Yours
1949
My Dream Is Yours is a Technicolor remake of the jaunty 1934 Warner Bros. musical Twenty Million Sweethearts. But there's a significant difference here: whereas in the...
Dead Reckoning
NR 1947
In Dead Reckoning, Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) recites the film's plotline to a priest in the confessional. Murdock and Johnny Drake (William Prince) are...
The Guilt of Janet Ames
1947
In this drama, a soldier's widow, whose husband died a hero in WW II, begins a quest to find the five men whose lives were saved when her husband sacrificed his own life by taking...
The Farmer's Daughter
1947
When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd been in films since 1928, sighed "At long last!"...
The Thrill of Brazil
1946
This A-minus musical stars Evelyn Keyes in the uncharacteristically comic role of Vicki Dean, the divorce-bound wife of theatrical impresario Steve Farraugh (Keenan Wynn)....
Till the End of Time
NR 1946
Sometimes dismissed as a derivation of Samuel Goldwyn's The Best Years of Our Lives, RKO Radio's superb Till the End of Time was actually based on Niven Busch's novel They...
This Man's Navy
1945
Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his non-existent son. His friendship with widow {%Maude...