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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Cast: Isabel Jewell
Length: 63min
The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers (Edward Raquello), who is Lucky Luciano in everything but name. Ordering his beautiful charges to shake down the customers,...
Cast: Mary Astor
Tags: Comedy
Length: 63min
A female reporter is faced with a tough decision in this romantic comedy. She is engaged to another reporter. Though they want to marry soon, they are constantly kept apart by widely differing assignments. At last they settle on a wedding date, but...
Cast: Andy Devine
Tags: Adventure
Length: 62min
Tropic Fury is one of several Universal programmers built around the box-office appeal of handsome Richard Arlen and ratchet-voiced Andy Devine. Arlen plays private detective Dan Burton, assigned to prevent enemy agents from taking over an old rubber...
Straight, Place and Show (1938)
Cast: The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry] Darryl F. Zanuck Bernard Herzbrun Richard Arlen David Butler
Length: 66min
In this musical comedy, the Ritz Brothers inherit a racehorse but are unable to make money from him because they cannot come up with the 1,000 needed to enter him in the big race. The two get involved with the race anyway when they overhear a group...
Cast: Beverly Roberts B. Reeves "Breezy" Eason
Tags: Adventure
Length: 70min
In this saccharine Klondike adventure, a brave female reporter who has a rapport with wild animals heads north to cover a story. Included in her animal entourage are a pair of bear cubs, a talking rook, and a homeless collie. After she gets lost, a...
Cast: Jack Benny Raoul Walsh Vincente Minnelli Ida Lupino
Tags: Musical Comedy Comedy Musical
Length: 95min
Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an advertising man trying to hold on to his biggest client, a silver company run by Alan Townshend (Richard Arlen). Elsewhere in...
Murder in Greenwich Village (1937)
Cast: Fay Wray Raymond Walburn
Tags: Whodunit Romance Mystery Comedy
Length: 68min
In this romantic mystery, a defense attorney attempts to get his lovely client acquitted of murder charges. As he and the heiress look into the case they fall in love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Jack Mulhall Norman Willis
Tags: Western
Length: 60min
Released in Great Britain as Gangster's Valley, Secret Valley is a modern western (that is, it takes place in 1937). Richard Arlen plays a Nevada rancher who is compelled to extend his hospitality to headstrong Virginia Grey. She has arrived to...
Cast: Lilli Palmer
Tags: British Empire Film Drama Adventure
Length: 82min
The building of the great Canadian-Pacific Railroad that stretched from Montreal to Vancouver is chronicled in this realistic drama. Amidst the country's wild grandeur, two gambling vagabonds find themselves in a railroad boomtown where they hope to...
The Calling of Dan Matthews (1936)
Length: 65min
The Calling of Dan Matthews is a modernized and sanitized version of Harold Bell Wright's muckraking novel. Minister Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen) wants to rid his community of its seamy "Old Town" district, a breeding ground for prostitution and other...
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