Dick Rich
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1909-02-27
Locus Natus: Kansas City, Kansas, USA
Et ut:
Black Tuesday
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning...
release : 1954.12.31popularis : 2.934
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Four undesirables run out of a mining town and become marooned in a deserted mountain cabin during a raging snowstorm.
release : 1952.11.03popularis : 1.893
Western Union
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot...
release : 1941.02.21popularis : 7.08
Highway West
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
release : 1941.08.07popularis : 2.313
We Do It Because
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short explores the origins of various customs such as shaking hands, kissing, and why ships are christened.
release : 1942.01.24popularis : 1.001
The Crowd Roars
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy...
release : 1938.08.06popularis : 1.679
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
release : 1938.05.13popularis : 15.012
They Won't Forget
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with...
release : 1937.07.14popularis : 6.98
Ransom!
A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.
release : 1956.01.24popularis : 6.153
The Walls of Jericho
In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.
release : 1948.11.22popularis : 8.8
Alcatraz Island
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
release : 1937.10.13popularis : 3.43
Angels Wash Their Faces
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up...
release : 1939.08.26popularis : 3.02
Belles on Their Toes
The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha,...
release : 1952.05.02popularis : 5.942
The Sheepman
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears...
release : 1958.05.01popularis : 7.317
Apache
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the...
release : 1954.07.09popularis : 11.138
Lafayette Escadrille
A hotshot young flyer falls for a French prostitute during World War I.
release : 1958.02.28popularis : 5.285
Let Freedom Ring
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
release : 1939.02.24popularis : 2.813
Hunted Men
Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails...
release : 1938.05.27popularis : 1.97
Broadway Big Shot
This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous...
release : 1942.02.06popularis : 2.386
Ride on Vaquero
The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army...
release : 1941.04.18popularis : 3.526
The Man Who Talked Too Much
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman's...
release : 1940.07.16popularis : 6.458
Strange Alibi
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
release : 1941.04.19popularis : 1.454
Racket Busters
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
release : 1938.07.16popularis : 3.206
Inside Detroit
Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair...
release : 1956.01.01popularis : 1.767
Smashing the Money Ring
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
release : 1939.10.21popularis : 1.972
Devil's Island
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
release : 1939.01.07popularis : 4.385
Blackwell's Island
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
release : 1939.01.24popularis : 4.219
Hell's Kitchen
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the...
release : 1939.07.08popularis : 1.591
Each Dawn I Die
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the...
release : 1939.08.19popularis : 5.986
Sergeant Madden
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
release : 1939.03.24popularis : 1.559
The Cruel Tower
The story of a bunch of hard-drinking steeplejacks.
release : 1956.10.28popularis : 4.95
You, the People
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the...
release : 1940.11.30popularis : 4.569
Danger Ahead
The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold shipment, disappears with driver George Hill...
release : 1940.01.22popularis : 0.9
Lucky Cisco Kid
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his...
release : 1940.06.28popularis : 4.392
Belle of the Yukon
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
release : 1944.12.27popularis : 3.504
The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his...
release : 1940.03.15popularis : 11.41
Ride The High Iron
A recent war veteran accepts a job in public relations, but he becomes increasingly unhappy with his career choice. Originally filmed for TV but...
release : 1956.12.01popularis : 3.13
Her First Romance
A teenager experiences her first crush while attending a summer camp. Director Seymour Friedman's 1951 film stars Margaret O'Brien, Allen Martin Jr.,...
release : 1951.05.04popularis : 4.582
The Ox-Bow Incident
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
release : 1942.12.03popularis : 7.918
Killer at Large
Two newspaper reporters become involved with another killing while investigating a murder, which leads to the involvement of the girl reporter's...
release : 1947.05.31popularis : 1.412
The Unknown Guest
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.
release : 1943.10.22popularis : 2.671
The Blue Bird
An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of...
release : 1940.01.15popularis : 4.419
Crime by Night
A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
release : 1944.09.09popularis : 2.491
It Happened in Flatbush
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
release : 1942.05.28popularis : 2.098
Money to Loan
The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the...
release : 1939.03.11popularis : 3.181
The Sea of Grass
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
release : 1947.04.25popularis : 5.68
Brigham Young
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to...
release : 1940.09.27popularis : 3.513
Dark Command
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local...
release : 1940.04.15popularis : 6.862
Buck Benny Rides Again
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing...
release : 1940.05.31popularis : 2.827
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and...
release : 1940.12.19popularis : 5.013
Somebody Up There Likes Me
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
release : 1956.07.04popularis : 8.903
The Mortal Storm
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided...
release : 1940.06.20popularis : 8.346
Phantom Raiders
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter...
release : 1940.06.07popularis : 4.874
Chad Hanna
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
release : 1940.12.25popularis : 4.067
Johnny Apollo
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's...
release : 1940.04.19popularis : 1.226
Thank Your Lucky Stars
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
release : 1943.09.25popularis : 4.442
Wide Open Faces
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
release : 1938.04.18popularis : 1.847
Escape to Glory
The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by...
release : 1940.05.20popularis : 2.866
The Neanderthal Man
A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous...
release : 1953.06.19popularis : 3.39
Fighting Lawman
A US Marshal hunts down three bank robbers that are living under new identities.
release : 1953.09.20popularis : 1.648
King of the Cowboys
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from...
release : 1943.04.09popularis : 6.234
The Burning Cross
Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which...
release : 1947.09.01popularis : 2
The Soldier and the Lady
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke...
release : 1937.04.09popularis : 2.507
Tear Gas Squad
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
release : 1940.05.04popularis : 1.45
I Wake Up Screaming
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip...
release : 1941.10.31popularis : 8.585
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
release : 1954.07.22popularis : 18.692
Dressed to Kill
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
release : 1941.08.08popularis : 1.647
Rise and Shine
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game
release : 1941.11.21popularis : 6.053
Murder in the Big House
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
release : 1942.04.11popularis : 3.602
For God and Country
The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father Michael O'Keefe, Arnold Miller, and Tom Manning.
release : 1943.05.15popularis : 4.362
Public Deb No. 1
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his...
release : 1940.09.13popularis : 2.198
The Steel Lady
Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps tank which had been buried in the sand since WWII.
release : 1953.10.09popularis : 2.767
Hard to Get
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making...
release : 1938.11.05popularis : 3.406
Private Detective
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.
release : 1939.12.09popularis : 4.702
Rio Rita
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
release : 1942.03.11popularis : 3.169
One Against the World
This short film presents the story of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who came under scrutiny for his pioneering of surgical practices.
release : 1939.08.19popularis : 0.972
Rubber Racketeers
Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in...
release : 1942.06.26popularis : 2.033
Headin' East
A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking their produce shipments.
release : 1937.12.13popularis : 1.133
Maisie Goes to Reno
A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
release : 1944.08.15popularis : 2.828
Fly-By-Night
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just...
release : 1942.01.19popularis : 3.984
A Man Alone
A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the...
release : 1955.10.17popularis : 3.287