Allen Jenkins’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Allen Jenkins has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang.
Recurring themes

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
Comedy · Drama

Holiday
1938
Comedy · Romance

After the Thin Man
1936
Comedy · Mystery

The Thin Man
1934
Comedy · Mystery

The Longest Yard
1974
Comedy · Drama

Shall We Dance
1937
Comedy · Romance

Design for Living
1933
Comedy · Romance

Love Actually
2003
Comedy · Romance

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · With Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka

Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
Dir. Michael Gordon · With Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall

Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Dir. George Marshall · With James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Mischa Auer

Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.
Dir. Lloyd Bacon · With Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent

The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
Dir. William Wyler · With Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart

Top Cat, known as T.C. to his alley cat friends, is a mischievous prankster who lives in a trash can in the alley ways of New York City. He and his alley-cat cohorts think of get rich schemes and assorted pranks which are mostly involving and aimed at Officer Dibble, their nemesis and friend. T.C. manages to get out of his tight situations with hilarity and charm and even helps Dibble on occasion who is underscored by his overbearing sergeant...
Dir. Joseph Barbera, William Hanna · With Arnold Stang, Maurice Gosfield, Leo De Lyon