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Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything is a documentary about Angela Allen, a film continuity supervisor whose career spanned decades of Hollywood and international cinema. The film releases on June 24, 2026.
Key features
- ·Documentary feature film
- ·Subject: film continuity supervisor Angela Allen
- ·Career spanning 1940s through 1980s and beyond
- ·Theatrical release June 24, 2026
- ·Covers productions including The Third Man and The Misfits
- ·Collaborators include John Huston, Roman Polanski, Sidney Lumet
FAQ
When does Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything release?
The film releases on June 24, 2026.
Who is Angela Allen?
Angela Allen is a film continuity supervisor who began her career in the late 1940s and worked on productions including The Third Man, The African Queen, The Misfits, and Labyrinth, collaborating closely with directors such as John Huston, John Frankenheimer, and Franco Zeffirelli.
What is a film continuity supervisor?
A continuity supervisor notes every shot and tracks all on-screen details to ensure visual and narrative consistency across a film's scenes.
What films is Angela Allen known for?
Allen is associated with productions including The Third Man, The African Queen, The Misfits, and Labyrinth, among many others spanning several decades.
Is Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything a documentary?
Yes, it is a documentary feature film.
About this release
Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything opens in cinemas on June 24, 2026. The documentary profiles Angela Allen, a film continuity supervisor — known on set as the person responsible for maintaining visual and narrative consistency across every shot — whose career began in 1948 when she was assigned to the second unit in Vienna for Carol Reed's The Third Man.
Allen, who turned 97 in February 2026, worked across productions including The African Queen, The Misfits, and Labyrinth. She served as a close collaborator to director John Huston across 14 films, and worked repeatedly with John Frankenheimer and Franco Zeffirelli. Her broader credits extend to films directed by Tony Richardson, Ken Russell, Roman Polanski, and Sidney Lumet.
The documentary positions Allen as one of the last living witnesses to a significant era of mid-twentieth-century filmmaking, drawing on her firsthand knowledge of the productions, directors, and actors she observed over the course of her career.
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