Allen Adler

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Allen Adler was an American writer, also involved in theater in various ways. With Irving Block he wrote the story for the screenplay for Forbidden Planet, based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, but was a victim of the Second Red Scare and was blacklisted from the film industry.

He was the son of Abe Adler who, in turn, was the son of Yiddish theater star Jacob Adler.

In addition to Forbidden Planet, Adler has a story credit for the film The Giant Behemoth (1958); as of February 2005, this is missing from IMDB. Lulla Rosenfeld's commentary to Jacob Adler's memoir says that Allen Adler "wrote an interesting novel", but she does not name it.

References

• Allen Adler at the Internet Movie Database
• — Writers Guild Announces 21 Credit Corrections For Films Written by Blacklisted Writers
• Adler, Jacob, A Life on the Stage: A Memoir, translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, ISBN 067941351, 386 (commentary).