Aerial Gunner 1943  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Action
Director: William H. Pine
Cast: Richard Arlen, Chester Morris, Lita Ward, Jimmy Lydon, Keith Richards, Dick Purcell, Robert Mitchum, William "Billy" Benedict, Olive Blakeney, Edward Earle
Real-life action scenes help make this standard World War II propaganda fare worth watching. Rival buddies (Richard Arlen and Chester Morris) go through basic training together, as well as wooing the same woman (Lita Ward). Look for Robert Mitchum in a bit part.
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Alaska Highway 1943  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank McDonald
Cast: Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Ralph Sanford, Joe Sawyer, William Henry, Eddie Quillan, Jack Wegman, Harry Shannon, Edward Earle, Keith Richards
Army engineer Woody (Richard Arlen) is assigned to work on an important project: building the Alaskan Highway. He works with his trouble-loving younger brother, Steve (William Henry), and has had to come to Steve's aid more than once. Matters heat up when Steve shows an interest in Woody's girlfriend, Ann (Jean Parker).
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 Alice in Wonderland 1933 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Family / Fantasy
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: Charlotte Henry, Richard Arlen, Roscoe Ates, Charles Ruggles, Roscoe Karns, Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields, Cary Grant, Sterling Holloway, Edward Everett Horton, Leon Errol, Ned Sparks
This is the Lewis Carroll story brought to the screen with Alice (Charlotte Henry) dealing with the offbeat characters in Wonderland. This is the first full-length film of the story.
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Apache Uprising 1966  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Western
Director: R.G. Springsteen
Cast: Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, John Russell, Lon Chaney Jr., Gene Evans, Richard Arlen, Arthur Hunnicutt, DeForest Kelley, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Parker
A gold robbery and Apache uprising are thwarted by Jim Walker (Rory Calhoun) who waylays danger from his town.
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Artists and Models 1937 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, Richard Arlen, Gail Patrick, Ben Blue, Judy Canova, Cecil Cunningham, Donald Meek, Hedda Hopper, Martha Raye
Paula (Ida Lupino) pretends to be an "upper-cruster" in this film that is a showcase for music and specialty acts. Louis Armstrong's orchestra, Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra, cyclers, jugglers, tumblers, etc., all make for an overall fun movie.
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 The Best Man 1964  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Margaret Leighton, Lee Tracy, Edie Adams, Shelley Berman, Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Kevin McCarthy, Richard Arlen, Mahalia Jackson, Howard K. Smith, John Henry Faulk, George Kirgo, Tyler McVey
The President of the United States Art Hockstader (Lee Tracy) is dying, and political infighting peaks as two Presidential hopefuls William Russell and Joe Cartwell (Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson) seek the President's blessing. They try so hard to outdo each other that, in the process, they do themselves in. Lee Tracy received an Academy Award nomination for his Supporting Actor's Role.
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Black Spurs 1965 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
Director: R.G. Springsteen
Cast: Rory Calhoun, Linda Darnell, Scott Brady, Lon Chaney Jr., Bruce Cabot, Richard Arlen, Terry Moore, Patricia Owens, Jerome Courtland, DeForest Kelley
Bounty hunter Santee (Rory Calhoun) is brought to town to stir up the citizens and divert attention away from a scheming railroad baron.
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The Border Legion 1930  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf
Cast: Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Eugene Pallette, Stanley Fields, E.H. Calvert, Ethan Allen, Syd Saylor, Hank Bell, Jim Corey
This remake of Zane Grey's story uses footage from an earlier silent film as it tells the story of the an outlaw (Jack Holt) who puts his life on the line when he comes to aid of Jim (Richard Arlen) and his love (Fay Wray) after Jim is falsely accused of murder.
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Buckskin 1968 G, 98 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Michael D. Moore
Cast: Barry Sullivan, Joan Caulfield, Wendell Corey, Lon Chaney Jr., John Russell, Barbara Hale, Barton MacLane, Bill Williams, Richard Arlen, Leo Gordon
When cattle baron Rep Marlowe (Wendell Corey) threatens homesteaders, frontier sheriff Chaddock (Barry Sullivan) comes to their aid.
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Call of the Yukon 1938 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: B. Reeves Eason, John T. Coyle
Cast: Richard Arlen, Beverly Roberts, Lyle Talbot, Garry Owen, Mala, Ivan Miller, Jimmy Lono, Emory Parnell, Al St. John, Charles Anthony Hughes
Author Jean (Beverly Roberts)–along with her bear cubs, a collie, and a talking rook–heads to the Yukon to find material for a novel. She meets a trader, Gaston (Richard Arlen), and the two decide to head home when winter conditions deteriorate. The ice breaks and they lose the dog sled. But help is on the way from another traveler, and the adventures and romances continue. Cheap.
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College Humor 1933 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, Richard Arlen, Mary Carlisle, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joe Sawyer, Mary Kornman
Professor Danvers (Bing Crosby) falls for popular co-ed, Barbara (Mary Carlisle), in this film providing a humorous look at academia.
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The Crawling Hand 1963 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Herbert L. Strock
Cast: Peter Breck, Kent Taylor, Rod Lauren, Sirry Steffen, Arline Judge, Alan Hale Jr., Richard Arlen, Allison Hayes, Tristram Coffin, Ross Elliott
A few (unintended) laughs keep this from being a total BOMB as a spacecraft explodes while returning to Earth. The hand of the astronaut falls to the ground where it is picked up by a medical student. Before long he realizes that the hand is possessed by an evil alien. Rip-off of "The Beast with Five Fingers."
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Danger on Wheels 1940 N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Christy Cabanne
Cast: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Peggy Moran, Vinton Haworth, Herbert Corthell, Harry C. Bradley, Sandra King, Landers Stevens, John Holmes, Jack Rice, Mary Treen, Eddy Chandler, Fred Santley, Eddie Fetherston, Harry Strang
"Pop" O'Shea (Herbert Corthell) and his mechanic "Guppy" Wexel (Andy Divine) are working on an experimental oil-fueled auto engine for car racing when their car is in an accident that nearly destroys the engine. Larry Taylor (Richard Arlen) has plans of his own for the oil-fueled engine and secretly installs it in his race car. He enters a race with the engine, wins the race–and the girl (Peggy Moran) as well.
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Identity Unknown 1945  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Walter Colmes
Cast: Richard Arlen, Cheryl Walker, Roger Pryor, Bobby Driscoll, Lola Lane, Ian Keith, John Forrest, Sarah Padden, Forrest Taylor, Harry Tyler, Frank Marlowe, Nelson Leigh
Suffering from amnesia but recovering from a World War II bombing, Johnny March (Richard Arlen) goes AWOL and travels across America searching for his identity. Richard Arlen starred in the silent epic "Wings"–which won the first Academy Award for Best Picture in 1929–and continued his acting career until the 1970s.
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Island of Lost Souls 1933 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Kathleen Burke, Leila Hyams, Arthur Hohl, Stanley Fields, Randolph Scott, Tetsu Komai, Alan Ladd
Adapted from the H.G. Wells story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau," this film is about a mad scientist who turns wild animals into monster humans. Better than the more recent versions, despite its age. That's young Alan Ladd and Randolph Scott as ape-men.
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Kansas Raiders 1950 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy, Marguerite Chapman, Scott Brady, Tony Curtis, Richard Arlen, Richard Long, Dewey Martin, Richard Egan, James Best
Jessie James (Audie Murphy) and his gang team up with Rebel forces to fight the Yankees during the Civil War.
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The Lady and the Monster 1944 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Lady and the Doctor
Tiger Man
Director: George Sherman
Cast: Erich von Stroheim, Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, Mary Nash, Sidney Blackmer, Helen Vinson, William Henry, Charles Cane, Janet Martin, Juanita Quigley, Josephine Dillon, Lane Chandler
This is the first of three films based on Curt Siodmak's novel, "Donovan's Brain." The 1953 version, "Donovan's Brain," is truer to the novel than this one or 1962's "The Brain." Mad scientist Franz (Erich von Stroheim) keeps a ruthless financier's brain alive. The brain takes over the mind of lab assistant Patrick (Richard Arlen) in order to take revenge on those who wronged him.
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The Last Time I Saw Archie 1961 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jack Webb
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jack Webb, Martha Hyer, France Nuyen, Don Knotts, Louis Nye, Richard Arlen, Joe Flynn, Robert Strauss
Archie Hall (Robert Mitchum) is an army private who wheels and deals himself and his buddy, Bill (Jack Webb), into relative lives of ease toward the end of World War II AND they become heroes!
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Law of the Lawless 1964 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William F. Claxton
Cast: Dale Robertson, Yvonne De Carlo, William Bendix, Bruce Cabot, Barton MacLane, John Agar, Richard Arlen, Bill Williams, Lon Chaney Jr., Jody McCrea
A former gunfighter reforms and becomes circuit Judge Clem Roger (Dale Robertson) and brings law and order to the old West in the 1880s.
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Let 'Em Have It 1935 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: False Faces
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Richard Arlen, Virginia Bruce, Alice Brady, Bruce Cabot, Harvey Stephens, Eric Linden, Joyce Compton, Gordon Jones, J. Farrell MacDonald, Bodil Rosing, Paul Stanton, Hale Hamilton
FBI agents (Richard Arlen, Harvey Stephens, and Gordon Jones) go through the rigors of training and then track down gang leader Joe Keefer (Bruce Cabot) who has resorted to plastic surgery in order to disguise himself. Car chases and gun fights abound.
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 The Light of Western Stars 1930 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf
Cast: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Fred Kohler, Harry Green, Regis Toomey, William Le Maire, George Chandler, Syd Saylor, Guy Oliver, Gus Saville
Ranch foreman Dick Bailey's (Richard Arlen) best friend and owner of the ranch was killed, and when the sister (Mary Brian) of his friend arrives to take over the ranch, she fires him and then rehires him to fight the crooked sheriff (Fred Kohler) who has his own plans for the ranch property. Adapted from a Zane Grey story.
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Minesweeper 1943 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Berke
Cast: Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Russell Hayden, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Emma Dunn, Charles D. Brown, Chick Chandler, Douglas Fowley, Frank Fenton, Ralph Sanford, Robert Mitchum, Dub Taylor
Naval officer Richard Houston (Richard Arlen), who had deserted the Navy due to his chronic gambling, reenlists as a seaman under an assumed name when World War II breaks out. He is assigned to a minesweeper where he becomes a hero by destroying a new type of enemy mine. Another film to keep up the morale back home during World War II.
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The Mountain 1956 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor, William Demarest, Richard Arlen, E.G. Marshall, Barbara Darrow, Richard Garrick, Anna Kashfi, Stacy Harris
This dramatic adventure is about brothers Zachary (Spencer Tracy) and Chris (Robert Wagner) Teller whose quest is to scale a treacherous mountain in the Alps to reach an airplane-crash site.
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The Santa Fe Trail 1930 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
aka: The Law Rides West
Director: Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf
Cast: Richard Arlen, Rosita Moreno, Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green, Junior Durkin, Hooper Atchley, Luis Alberni, Lee Shumway, Chief Yowlachie, Blue Cloud, Chief Standing Bear, Jack Byron
Sheep rancher Stan Hollister (Richard Arlen) is falsely accused of murdering an Indian, but two children saw the real killer, which also aids Stan in stopping a land grabber.
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Shepherd of the Hills 1963 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ben Parker
Cast: Richard Arlen, James Middleton, Sherry Lynn, James Collie, Lloyd Durre, Hal Meadows, James Bradford, Reubin Egan, Sherry Lynn, Danny Spurlock
This insightful film thoughtfully relates the problems of a son who seeks revenge on his father for deserting the family. It is a remake of the 1941 movie that starred John Wayne.
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Speed to Spare 1948 N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: William Berke
Cast: Richard Arlen, Jean Rogers, Richard Travis, Roscoe Karns, Nanette Parks, Pat Phelan, Ian MacDonald, Paul Harvey, George Eldredge, Roy Gordon
Stunt car driver Cliff Jordan (Richard Arlen) decides to take a less dangerous job as truck driver for a friend's company. But trouble looms on the road.
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Submarine Alert 1943 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Frank McDonald
Cast: Richard Arlen, Wendy Barrie, Nils Asther, Roger Pryor, Abner Biberman, John Miljan, Dwight Frye, Marc Lawrence, Patsy Nash, Milburn Stone
A radio engineer (Richard Arlen) helps the FBI stop the activities of saboteurs who interfere with radio broadcasts to sink American merchant ships.
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That's My Baby 1944 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Animation / Comedy / Drama / Musical
Director: William Berke
Cast: Richard Arlen, Ellen Drew, Leonid Kinskey, Minor Watson, Richard Bailey, Marjorie Manners, Madeline Grey, Alex Callam, P.J. Kelly, William "Billy" Benedict, Jack Chefe, Mike Riley, Freddie Fisher
For many years, R.P. Moody (Minor Watson) has suffered from depression, and now his daughter Betty (Ellen Drew) and her boyfriend Tim (Richard Arlen) plan to bring vaudevillians into the home to cheer him up. Good singing and dancing add to the fun, but the real highlight of this film is David Fleisher's ("Popeye" animator) animated sequence.
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Tiger Shark 1932 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann, Leila Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Vince Barnett, William Ricciardi, Edwin Maxwell, Henry Armetta, Inez Palange
Mike (Edward G. Robinson) is a tuna fisherman who married Quita (Zita Johann) out of pity for her than love. Her father, who was a friend of Mike, was lost at sea. During that same tragedy, Mike saved his best friend, Pipes (Richard Arlen)–and lost a hand to a shark in the process. Now, it appears that Pipes and Quita are attracted to each other. Good acting and directing result in an excellent film.
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Town Tamer 1965 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lesley Selander
Cast: Dana Andrews, Terry Moore, Pat O'Brien, Lon Chaney Jr., Bruce Cabot, Lyle Bettger, Barton MacLane, Richard Arlen, Richard Jaeckel, Jeanne Cagney
Avenging the death of his wife pays when a man finally tracks down her murderers and settles the score.
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The Virginian 1929 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Tom Forman
Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Mary Brian, Richard Arlen, Eugene Pallette, Chester Conklin, Helen Ware, Jack Pennick, George Chandler, Randolph Scott
Gary Cooper takes on the title role in this early Western. The plot involves the Virginian's predicament when his friend (Richard Arlen) joins forces with an outlaw (Walter Huston).
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Warlock 1959 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Richard Arlen, Regis Toomey, Dolores Michaels, Wallace Ford, Tom Drake, DeForest Kelley
Warlock is a Western town undergoing a metamorphosis from unlawful to peaceful existence. Threatened by a gang of horse thieves, a gunslinger (Henry Fonda) is hired to protect the town residents.
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When My Baby Smiles at Me 1948 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Jack Oakie, June Havoc, James Gleason, Richard Arlen, Robert Emmett Keane, Jean Wallace, George J. Lewis, J. Farrell MacDonald
Dan Dailey was nominated for the Academy Award for his role in this film about a team (Betty Grable and Dailey) who break up but get back together via the stage.
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 Wings 1927 N/R, 139 min.
Genre: Action
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen, Gary Cooper, El Brendel, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Tucker, Henry B. Walthall, Roscoe Karns, Julia Swayne Gordon
"Wings" won the first Academy Award for Best Picture. It is a silent film that depicts the World War I Air Corps aerial flight sequences and an anti-war statement that tells of buddies who fly in the face of danger.
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Young Fury 1965 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Christian Nyby
Cast: Rory Calhoun, Virginia Mayo, Lon Chaney Jr., Richard Arlen, John Agar, William Wellman Jr., William Bendix, Preston Pierce, Merry Anders, Jody McCrea
There are several old-time stars in this Western, which brings a gunslinger (Rory Calhoun) home, after a long absence, with a gang on his tail. His son (Preston Pierce) has his own gang at home and relations are strained as dad tries to make up. After finding out why he left, the son repents and rides to save dad, who's being chased by the gang who has now caught up with him.
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| 1. Aerial Gunner (1943)
2. Alaska Highway (1943)
3. Alice in Wonderland (1933)
4. Apache Uprising (1966)
5. Artists and Models (1937)
6. Beggars of Life (1928)
7. The Best Man (1964)
8. Black Spurs (1965)
9. The Border Legion (1930)
10. Buckskin (1968)
11. Burning Up (1930)
12. Call of the Yukon (1938)
13. College Humor (1933)
14. The Crawling Hand (1963)
15. Danger on Wheels (1940)
16. Identity Unknown (1945)
17. Island of Lost Souls (1933)
18. Johnny Reno (1966)
19. Kansas Raiders (1950)
20. The Lady and the Monster (1944)
aka: The Lady and the Doctor
aka: Tiger Man
21. The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
22. Law of the Lawless (1964)
23. Let 'Em Have It (1935)
aka: False Faces
24. The Light of Western Stars (1930)
25. Minesweeper (1943)
26. The Mountain (1956)
27. Raymie (1960)
28. The Santa Fe Trail (1930)
aka: The Law Rides West
29. Shepherd of the Hills (1963)
30. Speed to Spare (1948)
31. Submarine Alert (1943)
32. That's My Baby (1944)
33. Tiger Shark (1932)
34. Town Tamer (1965)
35. The Virginian (1929)
36. Warlock (1959)
37. When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)
38. Wings (1927)
39. Young Fury (1965)
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