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: Bruce Cabot
Tags: Detective Film Crime Thriller Crime
Length: 90min
Produced independently by Edward Small, this surprisingly realistic gangster yarn stars stalwart Richard Arlen as Mal Stevens, an attorney recruited by the newly organized Federal Bureau of Investigation. After Mal and a couple of fellow recruits, Van...
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...
Cast: Ralph Bellamy James Gleason Richard Arlen
Tags: Drama
Length: 75min
In this drama, an impoverished dreamer saves a group of people during a terrible storm by leading them to shelter in a ghost town containing but one ancient resident. The stranded travelers are surprised by the high-style in which the codger lives....
Cast: Claudette Colbert Mary Boland
Tags: Comedy of Manners Comedy
Length: 77min
Three-Cornered Moon is regarded by many film buffs as the first of the genuine "screwball comedies." Claudette Colbert stars as the only level-headed member of a wacky Brooklyn family. Her mother (Mary Boland) loses the family fortune in the stock...
Length: 77min
In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her boarding school to stay with her retired aunt, a former actress, who try as she might, has never been...
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 71min
This drama is set within a carnival and centers on a young woman who falls in love but is unable to act upon her feelings because she is married. Her husband, the owner of the carnival, is a real louse. The whole mess comes to a head one day when a...
Cast: Ida Lupino
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 67min
Philip Wylie, a writer best known for his "anti-Momism" work A Generation of Vipers, was responsible for the Paramount "leg show" Come on Marines. Lucky (Richard Arlen) and Spud (Roscoe Karns) are among the Marine troops dispatched from San Diego to...
Cast: W.C. Fields Cary Grant Billy Barty Gary Cooper Joseph L. Mankiewicz Dimitri Tiomkin Norman Z. McLeod William Cameron Menzies
Tags: Family Fantasy Children's Fantasy
Length: 90min
This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, -Through the Looking Glass. In England of the 19th century, young Alice finds that the mirror over the library fireplace opens into a...
Cast: Charles Grapewin
Length: 68min
No relation to the 1955 Cold War melodrama of the same title, the confusing 1933 melange Hell and High Water takes place in a tawdry waterfront community. Misogynistic garbage-scow skipper Captain Jericho (Richard Arlen) is none too happy when...
Length: 72min
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Chester Morris stars as ambitious grain trader Chris Martin, who through fair and foul means corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his...
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