Biography: Richard Arlen |
American actor Richard Arlen was working as a messenger boy at Paramount studios in the early 1920s when he was injured in a slight accident; the story goes that Arlen went to the studio heads to thank them for their prompt medical care, whereupon the... more
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When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)
Cast: Betty Grable Jack Oakie
Tags: Showbiz Drama Musical
Length: 98min
Betty Grable and Dan Dailey play a couple of small-time vaudevillians, at least until Dailey gets a big Broadway break. Success swells his head to cataclysmic dimensions; he becomes an alcoholic, loses his stardom and winds up in the drunk ward....
Buffalo Bill Rides Again (1947)
Length: 68min
Produced by Jack Schwartz for low-budget company Screen Guild, this mild Western starring the veteran Richard Arlen was apparently the first entry in a proposed series. Arlen played the title role, here assigned by the army to quell an Indian attack...
Cast: Bobby Driscoll
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 70min
Predating 20th Century-Fox's Somewhere in the Night by at least a year, Identity Unknown is one of the first (if not the first) 1940s melodramas centering around an amenisiac ex-GI. Richard Arlen plays Johnny March, who returns from WW2 with nary a...
Cast: Jean Rogers
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama
Length: 57min
Speed to Spare is an efficient entry from the Pine-Thomas Productions assembly line. Ricard Arlen, who'd been a "regular" with the P-T output since the early 1940s, stars as daredevil auto racer Cliff Jordan. Opting for a safer profession, Jordan...
Cast: Ray Taylor Reed Hadley Patricia Morison
Length: 83min
In this above-average western, a villainous land grabber attempts to force horse ranchers to sell their ranches so he can become king of the horse market. One stubborn rancher refuses to relent and his killed. His two surviving sisters then continue...
Cast: Eduardo Ciannelli Otto Kruger
Length: 86min
Leonard Maltin once observed that Storm Over Lisbon is what Casablanca would have looked like had it been produced by Republic instead of Warner Bros. This wartime meller reunites the cast and director of the successful Republic melodrama Lady and the...
The Lady and the Monster (1944)
Cast: Erich Von Stroheim
Tags: Sci-Fi Horror Horror Science Fiction
Length: 86min
Lady and the Monster was the first film version of the classic Curt Siodmak sci-fi/horror tale -Donovan's Brain. The plot involves the brain of a famous but unscrupulous financier, recently deceased. The brain is kept alive artificially by...
Tags: Detective Film Drama Mystery
Length: 66min
Accomplice was the "pilot" for a proposed PRC series based on Frank Gruber's short-tempered detective hero Simon Lash. Commendably, Richard Arlen plays Lash as written-brusque, nasty, antisocial. The plot gets under way when socialite Joyce Bonniwell...
Tags: Comedy Drama Musical Comedy
Length: 68min
Only at Republic studios would action star Richard Arlen head the cast of a muscial comedy. In That's My Baby, Tim Jones (Arlen) and his girl friend Betty (Ellen Drew) try to pull her dad, the appropriately named R. P. Moody (Minor Watson), out of a...
Cast: George "Gabby" Hayes Richard Arlen Jane Frazee Robert Livingston
Length: 75min
The Big Bonanza was a Republic Studios in-betweener: too elaborate for B picture, not expensive enough for an "A". Richard Arlen stars as an army deserter who heads back to his home town. Unable to hold down a legitimate job, Arlen falls in with...
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