Hoffman, it was one of the Poverty Row companies of the era turning out low-budget B pictures.
[1] Hoffman established the company in 1931, a year after he had set up another outfit Liberty Pictures.
For Allied, Hoffmann signed up Hoot Gibson, a Western star who had recently been released from his contract at Universal Pictures.
Gibson still had a popular following, and the company used the profits from his films to back more ambitious literary adaptations that Hoffmann wanted to make such as Vanity Fair and Unholy Love.
[4] The company should not be confused with Allied Artists International, an offshoot of another Poverty Row studio Monogram.