Dede Allen

Dede Allen

Dorothea Carothers "Dede" Allen (December 3, 1923 – April 17, 2010) was an American film editor. Allen is known for having edited classic films such as The Hustler (1961), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and Reds (1981). She had an extended collaboration with director Arthur Penn, and over the years had worked with other distinguished directors including Sidney Lumet, Robert Wise, Elia Kazan, and George Roy Hill. She received three Academy Award nominations for her work on Dog Day Afternoon, Reds, and Wonder Boys (2001).

  • Title: Dede Allen
  • Popularity: 0.143
  • Known For: Editing
  • Birthday: 1925-12-03
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Dede Allen Movies

  • 1970
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    Editors on Editing

    Editors on Editing

    1 1970 HD

    Film editing initially began as a woman's art in France. As veteran film editor, Dede Allen, tell it, "They thought that women were good at little details, like sewing." Before editing became a craft, women were the earliest technicians. Today, the long tradition of women editors carries on.

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  • 2003
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    Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    7.115 2003 HD

    The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and gripping story of the last golden age of American cinema, an exalted celebration of creativity and experimentation; but also of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll: a turbulent and dark tale of ambition, envy, betrayal, hatred and self-destruction.

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  • 2008
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    Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

    Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

    4.6 2008 HD

    The making-of documentary of Bonnie and Clyde.

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  • 2006
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    The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'

    The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'

    7.8 2006 HD

    A documentary chronicling the making of the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon."

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  • 2014
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    Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

    Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

    6.5 2014 HD

    Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts.

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  • 2006
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    Witness to 'Reds'

    Witness to 'Reds'

    6 2006 HD

    Cast and crew of "Reds" revisit their memories and stories while making the film.

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  • 2004
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    The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

    The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

    6.997 2004 HD

    Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

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  • 1975
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    Dog Day Afternoon

    Dog Day Afternoon

    7.842 1975 HD

    Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.

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  • 1961
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    The Hustler

    The Hustler

    7.68 1961 HD

    Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.

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  • 1967
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    Bonnie and Clyde

    Bonnie and Clyde

    7.482 1967 HD

    In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

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  • 1991
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    The Addams Family

    The Addams Family

    7.065 1991 HD

    When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.

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  • 1985
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    The Breakfast Club

    The Breakfast Club

    7.7 1985 HD

    Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.

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  • 1969
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    Alice's Restaurant

    Alice's Restaurant

    6.25 1969 HD

    After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump but finds it closed for the holiday, so he dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested and sends him on a bizarre journey.

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  • 2000
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    Wonder Boys

    Wonder Boys

    6.8 2000 HD

    Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.

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  • 1970
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    Little Big Man

    Little Big Man

    7.464 1970 HD

    Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.

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  • 2004
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    The Final Cut

    The Final Cut

    6.067 2004 HD

    Set in a world with memory implants, Alan Hakman is a 'cutter'—someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories—but his latest assignment puts him in great danger.

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  • 1977
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    Slap Shot

    Slap Shot

    6.799 1977 HD

    To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.

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  • 2008
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    Fireflies in the Garden

    Fireflies in the Garden

    6.2 2008 HD

    The semi-autobiographical story centers on the complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced with an unexpected tragedy.

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  • 1973
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    Serpico

    Serpico

    7.532 1973 HD

    New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

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  • 2002
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    John Q

    John Q

    7.129 2002 HD

    John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.

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  • 1978
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    The Wiz

    The Wiz

    6 1978 HD

    Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home.

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  • 1975
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    Night Moves

    Night Moves

    6.687 1975 HD

    Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case - a former Hollywood actress wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.

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  • 1959
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    Odds Against Tomorrow

    Odds Against Tomorrow

    6.8 1959 HD

    An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

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  • 1958
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    Terror from the Year 5000

    Terror from the Year 5000

    3.5 1958 HD

    Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life. And on the sly, Victor's been trying to get a living visitor. Does the future need help, or is the present in danger?

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  • 1976
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    The Missouri Breaks

    The Missouri Breaks

    6.504 1976 HD

    When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, Logan's gang decides to get even by purchasing a small farm next to Braxton's ranch. From there the rustlers begin stealing horses, using the farm as a front for their operation. Determined to stop the thefts at any cost, Braxton retains the services of eccentric sharpshooter Robert E. Lee Clayton, who begins ruthlessly taking down Logan's gang.

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  • 1970
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    Story of a Woman

    Story of a Woman

    1 1970 HD

    Karin studies music in Rome and falls in love with Bruno. She learns that he is married and therefore returns to Sweden. She meets David. They marry and have a daughter. David is sent to Rome. Karin meets Bruno again.

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  • 2007
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    Have Dreams, Will Travel

    Have Dreams, Will Travel

    7.546 2007 HD

    West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents in order to escape their unhappy and emotionally unsatisfying family life.

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  • 1981
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    Reds

    Reds

    6.874 1981 HD

    An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.

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  • 1981
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    Reds

    Reds

    6.874 1981 HD

    An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.

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  • 1990
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    Henry & June

    Henry & June

    6.025 1990 HD

    While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.

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  • 1984
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    Mike's Murder

    Mike's Murder

    5.4 1984 HD

    Betty has a crush on her tennis instructor Mike. He promises to call her for a date, but never does – she doesn’t know he sells drugs on the side. After botching a deal on someone else’s turf, Mike has to disappear for a while. He contacts Betty – then he’s killed before they can meet. Betty tries to find out what happened, leading her straight into a hornet's nest of vice.

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  • 1972
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    Slaughterhouse-Five

    Slaughterhouse-Five

    6.5 1972 HD

    Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

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  • 1984
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    Harry & Son

    Harry & Son

    5.8 1984 HD

    Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina as he does not approve of her husband. When Harry is fired from his job, his life changes drastically as he is made to focus on the relationships around him.

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  • 1948
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    Because of Eve

    Because of Eve

    3.667 1948 HD

    A doctor uses films about venereal disease and the human reproductive system to educate a young married couple.

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  • 1963
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    America America

    America America

    6.9 1963 HD

    A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.

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  • 1968
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    Rachel, Rachel

    Rachel, Rachel

    6.5 1968 HD

    Rachel is a 35-year-old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.

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  • 1973
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    Visions of Eight

    Visions of Eight

    7 1973 HD

    Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include Lelouch's take on Olympic losers and their struggle to remain dignified even in the face of bitter disappointment and defeat; Zetterling's dramatic exploration of the world of weightlifting; and Pfleghar's piece on young Russian gymnast Ludmilla Tourischev's majestic performance on the uneven bars.

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  • 1986
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    Off Beat

    Off Beat

    4.7 1986 HD

    Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.

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  • 1988
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    The Milagro Beanfield War

    The Milagro Beanfield War

    6.5 1988 HD

    The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.

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  • 1989
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    Let It Ride

    Let It Ride

    6.297 1989 HD

    An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose, no matter how he bets; and he has an incredible day.

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  • 1961
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    The Fisherman and His Soul

    The Fisherman and His Soul

    1 1961 HD

    Set in Brazil, this drama is based on a short story by Oscar Wilde about a fisherman who meets and falls in love with a mermaid, giving up his soul in the process.

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