Directing

Irving Reis

Born May 7, 1906 · New York City, New York, USA

Died July 3, 1953 · aged 47

Irving Reis (May 7, 1906 – July 3, 1953) was a radio program producer and director, and a film director. Born into a Jewish family, Reis began his career as a motion picture photographer. The most notable of his screen efforts was being one of the photographers for The Hollywood Revue of 1929. A 1931 notice in Variety declared that he was transitioning into a playwright. By 1933, Variety took not…

Known For

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer · 1947

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

MovieComedyRomance

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.

All My Sons

All My Sons · 1948

During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter.

The Falcon Takes Over

The Falcon Takes Over · 1942

The Falcon Takes Over

MovieCrimeMystery

While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.

The Big Street

The Big Street · 1942

MovieRomanceDrama

Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.

Dancing in the Dark

Dancing in the Dark · 1949

Dancing in the Dark

MovieComedyRomance

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.

Enchantment

Enchantment · 1948

MovieDramaRomance

Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and her subsequent romance with Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple doesn't make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.

The Gay Falcon

The Gay Falcon · 1941

Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.

Crack-Up

Crack-Up · 1946

MovieThrillerMystery

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

Filmography

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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer · 1947

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

MovieComedyRomance

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.

Director

All My Sons

All My Sons · 1948

During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter.

Director

The Falcon Takes Over

The Falcon Takes Over · 1942

The Falcon Takes Over

MovieCrimeMystery

While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.

Director

The Big Street

The Big Street · 1942

MovieRomanceDrama

Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.

Director

Dancing in the Dark

Dancing in the Dark · 1949

Dancing in the Dark

MovieComedyRomance

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.

Director

Enchantment

Enchantment · 1948

MovieDramaRomance

Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and her subsequent romance with Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple doesn't make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.

Director

The Gay Falcon

The Gay Falcon · 1941

Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.

Director

Crack-Up

Crack-Up · 1946

MovieThrillerMystery

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

Director

Grand Jury Secrets

Grand Jury Secrets · 1939

Grand Jury Secrets

MovieDramaMystery

A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he eavesdrops on a jury room session.

Story

A Date with the Falcon

A Date with the Falcon · 1942

A Date with the Falcon

MovieCrimeMystery

In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.

Director

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 · 1929

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

MovieComedyMusic

An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.

Director of Photography

The Spanish Earth

The Spanish Earth · 1937

The Spanish Earth

MovieDocumentary

Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the war to bread, land, and survival. Produced by the writers’ collective Contemporary Historians, edited by Helen van Dongen, scored by Marc Blitzstein, and narrated in its U.S. version by Ernest Hemingway (after an initial Orson Welles track), it blends frontline reportage with persuasion against Franco’s forces and their German–Italian backers.

Sound Director

New Mexico

New Mexico · 1951

Captain Hunt of the cavalry is trying to promote good relations with the Indian chief Acoma. But Hunt's superiors in the military insist on pursuing policies that will provoke a conflict, and Chief Acoma is not willing to let himself be insulted.

Director

King of Alcatraz

King of Alcatraz · 1938

King of Alcatraz

A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.

Writer

The Whirlwind

The Whirlwind · 1922

A strong wind blows a city slicker and a local girl together. A Joe Rock Comedy

Director of Photography

Gambler's Choice

Gambler's Choice · 1944

Gambler's Choice

MovieDramaCrime

Childhood pals, a gambler and a policeman, fall for the same woman in 1910 New York City.

Screenplay

King of Chinatown

King of Chinatown · 1939

King of Chinatown

MovieActionCrime

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.

Screenplay

The Four Poster

The Four Poster · 1952

The Four Poster

MovieComedyDrama

In turn-of-the-century New York, the marriage of John and Abby Edwards unfolds over the years.

Director

I'm Still Alive

I'm Still Alive · 1940

I'm Still Alive

MovieActionAdventure

Hollywood stuntman falls in love with a big name actress but still wants to pursue his risky career. The women gives him a choice-the stunts or her. He chooses the stunts and still manages to get her.

Director

Weekend for Three

Weekend for Three · 1941

Weekend for Three

Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives and turns out to be an insufferable, boorish braggart with bad manners and little self-awareness. That dismay turns to outright annoyance when Jim realizes Randy thinks he has come to stay for the weekend. How much damage to a marriage can one unwanted guest do in the space of one weekend?

Director

Roseanna McCoy

Roseanna McCoy · 1949

It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.

Director

Of Men and Music

Of Men and Music · 1951

Of Men and Music

MovieMusicDocumentary

A documentary featuring musicians including Artur Rubinstein, Jan Peerce-Nadine Conner, and Jascha Heifetz.

Director

Three Husbands

Three Husbands · 1950

MovieComedyRomance

When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.

Director

Time Out for Murder

Time Out for Murder · 1938

Time Out for Murder

MovieMysteryComedy

A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and bank official investigate.

Story