Arthur Space Filmography

Hot Rod

Synopsis: A young racer attempts to win a dragstip competition where the outcome has already been fixed by the local mob, in this film alternately known as Hotrod and Rebel of the Road. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Swarm

Actors: Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Killer bees migrate to the United States from Africa via South America in this disaster film produced and directed by the genre's chief architect, Irwin Allen, and written by Stirling Silliphant, scribe of The Poseidon Adventure. Haughty entomologist Brad Crane (Michael Caine) shows up at a secret Read More

The Waltons: The Beau

Synopsis: The recently widowed Grandma Walton (Ellen Corby) is unexpectedly reunited with Marcus Dane (Arthur Space), who had been her sweetheart some 50 years before. Although Grandma is still loyal to Grandpa's memory, Marcus is quite a charmer, and it looks as if she might capitulate -- much to the Read More

Kojak: Letters of Death

Synopsis: Fashion model Janelle Rawlings (Cristina Raines) is being terrorized with anonymous letters, threatening the lives of the people closest to her. Unfortunately, the evidence has been manipulated in such a way that Janelle is convinced that she herself is a murderess. It is up to Kojak (Telly Read More

Mansion of the Doomed

Synopsis: A mad surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter Nancy who lost her own in a traffic accident he caused. The real horror begins when the people he disfigured rise up Read More

Alice: Pilot

Synopsis: Getting a head start on the 1976-1977 TV season, the movie-based sitcom Alice made its debut with a special airing of its pilot episode on August 31, 1976. After the death of her truck driver husband, Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin) decides to resume her career as a piano-bar singer. First, however, she Read More

The Strongest Man in the World

Actors: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden, Cesar Romero, Phil Silvers

Synopsis: Kurt Russell returns as Dexter Riley, the dedicated student of Medfield College who just can't stay out of trouble, in this follow-up to The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and Now You See Him, Now You Don't. In this story, Dexter is trying to devise a formula for a chemistry project that will increase Read More

Emergency!: Prestidigitation

Synopsis: James Gregory guest stars as Neal Brackett, the father of Rampart's chief surgeon Kelly Brackett, who checks into the hosptial to be treated for phlebitis. It's a tense situation, to be sure--but not quite as tense as the one facing the emergency squad as they try to rescue a man from a power Read More

The Bat People

Synopsis: One of the least interesting efforts from American International Pictures, this dreary monster flick involves a scientist who is bitten by a rabid vampire bat while honeymooning in the desert, thereby transforming into a vampire-like creature (well, really more of a "were-bat") and setting out on Read More

Frasier the Sensuous Lion

Actors: Michael Callan, Frank de Kova, Victor Jory, Malachi Throne

Synopsis: Frasier the Sensuous Lion would seem to have been conceived as a racy "answer" to Disney's sugary-sweet animal comedies. The talkative title character is befriended by zoologist Marvin Feldman (Michael Callan). When Frasier's loquaciousness becomes public knowledge, Feldman tries to save the lion Read More

The Folks at Red Wolf Inn

Actors: Linda Gillin, Arthur Space

Synopsis: The Folks at Red Wolf Inn is also known as Club Dead. It's also also known as Terror at Red Wolf Inn. It's also also also known as Terror House. It's also also also also known as Terror on the Menu. Perhaps you're beginning to glom onto the fact that its plotline has something to do with Read More

Ironside: Achilles' Heel

Synopsis: Ironside star Raymond Burr makes his TV directorial debut in this episode, in which Chief Ironside comes to the aid of a troubled Federal judge and the judge's son. Slated to preside over a well-publicized fraud case, Judge Van Buren (William Windom) is approached by "certain parties" and told to Read More

Ironside: Eye of the Hurricane

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) and Mark (Don Mitchell) show up at a prison, ostensibly to receive information about a recent crime. Instead, the pair has been lured into a trap by three desperate convicts who intend to use the Chief's van to make their getaway. How can Ironside turn this situation around Read More

The Shakiest Gun in the West

Actors: Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Don "Red" Barry, Ruth McDevitt

Synopsis: This hilarious oater finds Jesse Heywood (Don Knotts) as a Philadelphia dentist who leaves his home to open a new practice on the western frontier. The hapless dentist is saved by the expert gun handling of Penny (Barbara Rhoades), a reformed bandit trying to earn a pardon by intercepting gun Read More

Ironside: The Macabre Mr. Micawber

Synopsis: It is altogether fitting that Burgess Meredith, who'd played The Penguin on Batman, should guest-star in this episode, which likewise boasts an "avian" theme. A wealthy man has been murdered, and his faithful manservant (Meredith) has been charged with the crime. To get to the truth of the matter Read More

Taggart

Actors: Tony Young, Dan Duryea, Dick Foran, Elsa Cardenas

Synopsis: In this western, the trouble begins when a rancher's mother and father are killed by a young outlaw and his family who want his land. The son returns the favor and slaughters them. As the father lies dying, he manages to hire three gunslingers to track the boy down. The boy is a good shot though Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Paper Bullets

Synopsis: The senatorial campaign between Jason Foster (Richard Anderson) and Randolph Cartwell (Stewart Moss) gets down and dirty when political boss Harry Margis (Patrick McVey) tries to set up Foster's sister as a pawn in a fabricated scandal, using her romance with Cardwell's stepson David (Stewart Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Nebulous Nephew

Synopsis: In the seventh-season opener of Perry Mason, scheming seaman John Brooks (Ron Starr) has concocted what he thinks is a foolproof scheme to pass himself off as Caleb Stone, heir to the fortune possessed by elderly sisters Sophia (Beulah Bondi) and Minevah (Meg Wyllie). The scheme involves Read More

Bonanza: The Jury

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Jack Betts

Synopsis: Eleven of the twelve jurors in the murder trial of Jamie Wrenn (Jack Betts) have voted for a guilty verdict. The sole holdout is Hoss Cartwright, who harbors the old familiar "reasonable doubts." When it appears as though Hoss has received a bribe, his brother Adam takes a hand in the matter. Also Read More

Gunfighters of Abilene

Actors: Barton MacLane, Judith Ames, Arthur Space, Eugenia Paul

Synopsis: One of the busiest directors of westerns at this time, Edward L. Cahn helms this uninspired saddle saga about love and betrayal. Kip (Buster Crabbe) is a gunslinger with a score to settle. Seth (Barton MacLane), a villainous land baron, frames Kip's brother for a crime he never committed and Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Night the Town Died

Synopsis: Released from prison after eight years, Aaron Bell (Barry Cahill) heads to the town where his brother was lynched during the Civil War. Fearing that Bell craves revenge, the nervous townsfolk hire Paladin (Richard Boone) for protection. As it turns out, however, Paladin must protect Bell from the Read More

A Summer Place

Actors: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, Troy Donahue

Synopsis: The Jorgensons are a wealthy family spending the summer on a resort island. Ken (Richard Egan), Helen (Constance Ford) and daughter Molly (Sandra Dee) settle in to a beach house on the island where Ken was a young lifeguard twenty years ago. He rediscovers Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire), with whom he Read More

Leave It to Beaver: Wally's Present

Actors: Ken Osmond, Rusty Stevens, Arthur Space

Synopsis: Beaver (Jerry Mathers) has saved up six dollars and fifty cents to buy Wally (Tony Dow) a new camera as a birthday present (six dollars and fifty cents for a camera? This really is 1959!) Unfortunately, Beaver is led to believe that he's not going to be invited to his brother's birthday Read More

Day of the Outlaw

Actors: Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Alan Marshal, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: Set in an isolated, snow-covered town in the far West, this story has a renegade army officer named Jack Bruhn (Burl Ives) and his henchmen riding into the town threatening their worst to the men and women there. Blaise Starrett (Robert Ryan) decides to agree to Bruhn's demands for someone Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Spanish Cross

Synopsis: On probation for car theft, young Jimmy Morrow (Peter Miles) tries his best to "go straight", only to be accused of stealing a priceless Spanish cross. Worse still, Jimmy is charged with the murder of the relic's owner, Curtis Runyan (Donald Randolph). Out of sympathy for Jimmy's beleagured Read More

Twilight for the Gods

Actors: Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, Arthur Kennedy, Leif Erickson, Charles McGraw

Synopsis: Adapted by Ernest Gann from his own novel, Twilight for the Gods bears traces of Gann's earlier The High and the Mighty. This "psychological adventure" stars Rock Hudson as Captain Bell, who crawls into a bottle after being court-martialed and discharged from the Navy. Reduced to skippering a Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Rolling Bones

Synopsis: The greedy relatives of wealthy Daniel Reed (Edgar Stehli) want to have him committed to a mental institution, using as evidence the fact that he has been issuing $20,000 checks to strangers. Perry is hired by Reed's girlfriend Millie Foster (Kitty Kelly) to prevent the old man from being put Read More

20 Million Miles to Earth

Actors: William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia, John Zaremba, Thomas Brown Henry

Synopsis: One of special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen's pre-Seventh Voyage of Sinbad efforts, 20 Million Miles to Earth borrows a few pages from King Kong. An American spaceship crashlands off the coast of Sicily. The rescue party discovers that the astronauts have inadvertently brought back a curious Read More

The Spirit of St. Louis

Actors: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson, Marc Connelly

Synopsis: A misfire for all concerned, The Spirit of St. Louis can be chalked up as a courageous failure. At age 48, James Stewart was far too old to be convincing as 27-year-old "Lone Eagle" Charles Lindbergh. Director Billy Wilder, a past master of cynical pessimism, was clearly the wrong choice to helm Read More

Away All Boats

Actors: Jeff Chandler, George Nader, Julie Adams, Lex Barker, Keith Andes

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Kenneth M. Dodson, Away All Boats stars Jeff Chandler as a tough Navy captain who takes charge of a group of raw, undisciplined sailors during World War 2. To keep his men from getting on each other's nerves, Chandler makes himself the target of their excess hatred by Read More

A Man Alone

Actors: Ray Milland, Mary Murphy, Ward Bond, Raymond Burr, Lee Van Cleef, Arthur Space

Synopsis: Ray Milland made his directorial debut with the Republic western A Man Alone. Milland also starred in the film, playing fugitive gunslinger Wes Steele. While escaping a lynch mob, Steele stumbles onto an Arizona ranch that has been quarantined due to Yellow Fever. During his enforced stay, he Read More

Foxfire

Actors: Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler, Dan Duryea, Mara Corday, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: For full appreciation of the culture-clash drama Foxfire, it is crucial that the viewer accept Jeff Chandler as a Native American--not much of a stretch, since he'd previously been thoroughly convincing as Cochise in Broken Arrow. Chandler plays Jonathan Dartland, a half-breed Apache mining Read More

The Claw Monsters

Synopsis: The Claw Monsters was the feature-length version of the 1955 Republic serial Panther Girl of the Kongo. The plot has something to do with mad doctor Arthur Space, who while squirreled away in his darkest-Africa laboratory has developed a serum that can change harmless crayfish into hideous Read More

The Spoilers

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler, Ray Danton, Barbara Britton

Synopsis: The Spoilers is the fourth and (very likely) last film version of Rex Beach's rugged Alaskan adventure yarn. Set during the Gold Rush of '98, the film stars Jeff Chandler as mine owner Roy Glennister, cheated out of his claim by gold commissioner Alex McNamara (Rory Calhoun). Though Glennister Read More

The Adventures of Superman: The Seven Souvenirs

Synopsis: A curio dealer named Mr. Willy (Phillips Tead) is enjoying a brisk business selling dozens of souvenir daggers that he claims have been bent out of shape by "man of steel" Superman (George Reeves). Of course, Superman's alter ego Clark Kent knows that the daggers are phony. Why, then, is someone Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Case of Mr. Pelham

Synopsis: Wealthy Walter Pelham (Tom Ewell) finds out that someone is going around impersonating him. Hoping to foil his "double," Pelham goes to great and strenuous lengths, changing his own appearance, his personal habits and quirks, and even his handwriting. Unfortunately, the impostor always seems to be Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Santa and the Tenth Avenue Kid

Synopsis: Barry Fitzgerald, who made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's 1930 theatrical film Juno and the Paycock, guests in this episode as Stretch Sears, a recently paroled thief. With Christmas approaching, Stretch has no trouble landing a job as a Santa at a big department store. But it isn't the Read More

Yankee Pasha

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Rhonda Fleming, Mamie van Doren, Lee J. Cobb, Bart Roberts, Hal March, Benny Rubin, Christiane Martel

Synopsis: Yankee Pasha has the potential for silliness, but is commendably played straight by most of the participants (exceptions being such professional funsters as Hal March and Benny Rubin). Jeff Chandler plays American frontiersman Jason, who springs into action when his sweetheart Roxanna (Rhonda Fleming Read More

Target Earth

Actors: Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Virginia Grey, Richard Reeves, Robert Roark

Synopsis: Target Earth was adapted from Paul W. Fairman's short story Deadly City. Set in, of all places, Chicago, this sci-fier concentrates on four people who've congregated in the deserted city after a sudden and mysterious evacuation. The ill-matched foursome are Vicki Harris (Virginia Grey), a flashy Read More

The Adventures of Superman: Star of Fate

Synopsis: Evil Dr. Barnack (Lawrence Ryle) is determined to get his hands on an ancient Egyptian sapphire that is encased in a sacred box--even though the sapphire carries a "curse" which renders anyone who tries to open the box in a permanent comatose state. Ultimately, reporter Lois Lane (Noel Neill) is Read More

The Last of the Pony Riders

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Kathleen Case, Dick Jones

Synopsis: Last of the Pony Riders was also the last theatrical starring feature of singing cowboy Gene Autry. This time, Autry plays a troubleshooter for the Pony Express who hopes to keep the West safe for the mail riders so that a new stagecoach line can be established. He is opposed by crooked banker Read More

Back to God's Country

Actors: Rock Hudson, Marcia Henderson, Steve Cochran, Hugh O'Brian, Chubby Johnson

Synopsis: The oft-filmed James Oliver Curwood yarn Back to God's Country is given the Technicolor treatment in this 1953 cinemadaptation. Set in the Great White North, the story concerns a romantic triangle consisting of sea captain Peter Keith (Rock Hudson), his wife Dolores (Marcia Henderson), and his Read More

Clipped Wings

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Renie Riano, Todd Karns

Synopsis: When the Bowery Boys go to visit a friend on an Air Force base, they are pulled into an investigation to discover why their friend is being accused of treason. Accidentally enlisting in the service, they continue their investigation and eventually stumble on a Nazi plot. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Read More

Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders [Serial]

Synopsis: This pedestrian chapterplay added William Henry -- renamed Bill Henry for the occasion -- to the long list of lesser known journeymen actors elevated for economy purposes to stardom during the last years of American movie serials. As the title suggests, Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders Read More

Confidentially Connie

Actors: Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern, Walter Slezak, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: Confidentially Connie is an MGM factory product starring Janet Leigh and Van Johnson. Upon learning she is pregnant, Leigh tries to convince her husband Johnson, a humble teacher, to find a better-paying job. But Johnson is a proud man, so much so that he refuses to request money from his wealthy Read More

Jet Job

Actors: Stanley Clements, Elena Verdugo, John Litel, Bob Nichols, Tom Powers

Synopsis: The perfunctorily titled Jet Job is an updated retelling of the old one about the hotshot test pilot who learns the value of being a team player. Stanley Clements stars as Joe Kovak, whose recklessness and refusal to follow orders causes no end of trouble for his superiors. Fired by boss Sam Read More

Sound Off

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Anne James, Sammy White, John Archer, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: Sound Off stars Mickey Rooney as Mike Donnelly, a brash, obnoxious nightclub entertainer who is taken down a peg or two when he's drafted into the army. When not crossing swords with tough sergeant Crockett (Gordon Jones), Mike has to contend with the poison-pen vitriol of columnist Barney Fisher (Arthur Space Read More

Rainbow 'round My Shoulder

Actors: Frankie Laine, Billy Daniels, Charlotte Austin, Arthur Franz, Ida Moore

Synopsis: In this musical, a determined young woman with stars in her eyes defies her auntie and heads for Hollywood where she gets a messenger job at a major studio in hope of being discovered. Her dreams are soon realized and she is signed to appear in an upcoming film. Her snooty aunt is appalled and Read More

Feudin' Fools

Synopsis: In this entry in the long running "Bowery Boys" series, one of the boys is bequeathed a farm in Kentucky. The boys go there and find themselves in the middle of a hillbilly feud between the Smiths and the Joneses. The warring clans unite when bank robbers break into the Jones' house and force the Read More

Fargo

Synopsis: Cowboy hero Wild Bill Elliot (whose trademark was wearing his six-shooters backwards in his holsters) stars in this oater. After his brother is murdered by crooked cattlemen, Elliot is determined to bring honest business to the plains of North Dakota, and he pioneers the use of barbed wire to Read More

Here Come the Marines

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gil Stratton

Synopsis: Believe it or not, those boobish Bowery Boys Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) and Sach Jones (Huntz Hall) are drafted into the Marine Corps (drafted into the Marine Corps?) Because of his father's sterling war record, simple-minded Sach is promoted to sergeant, and has a high old time lording it over his Read More

Because of You

Actors: Loretta Young, Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Frances Dee, Alexander Scourby

Synopsis: Fans of Loretta Young were rather taken aback by the early scenes of Because of You, wherein Young is seen as brash, uninhibited bleach-blonde Christine Carroll. On the verge of marrying gangster Mike Monroe (Alex Nicol), Christine is arrested by the cops, and sent to prison on the strength of Read More

African Treasure

Actors: Johnny Sheffield, Laurette Luez, Leonard Mudie, Arthur Space, Lane Bradford

Synopsis: Number Seven in Monogram's Bomba the Jungle Boy series was African Treasure. This time Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) agrees to help geologist Arthur Space and his team locate a hidden diamond mine. Unfortunately for our hero, Space and his cohorts Lane Bradford and Lyle Talbot are actually jewel Read More

The Barefoot Mailman

Actors: Robert Cummings, Terry Moore, Jerome Courtland, John Russell

Synopsis: To call The Barefoot Mailman episodic would be understating the issue: the film's story stops and starts so often that it appears to be three half-hour TV episodes strung together. No matter, since the premise is workable and the characters appealing. Though Robert Cummings is top-billed as Read More

Three Guys Named Mike

Actors: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Howard Keel, Barry Sullivan, Phyllis Kirk

Synopsis: Pretty stewardess Marcy Lewis (Jane Wyman) must choose between Three Guys Named Mike in this frothy MGM concoction. There's Mike Lawrence (Van Johnson), a science student who moonlights as a bartender. There's Mike Tracy (Barry Sullivan), a wheeler-dealer ad executive. And finally, there's Mike Read More

Tomahawk

Actors: Van Heflin, Yvonne De Carlo, Alex Nicol, Preston S. Foster, Jack Oakie

Synopsis: Tomahawk takes place during the Great Sioux Uprising of the 1860s. Van Heflin stars as famed frontier scout Jim Bridger, who labors valiantly and vainly to orchestrate peace between Indians and whites. Much of the action takes place at Fort Phil Kearney, the scene of one of the bloodiest battles Read More

Utah Wagon Train

Actors: Rex Allen, Penny Edwards, Buddy Ebsen, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: "Arizona Cowboy" Rex Allen and his faithful horse Koko head the cast of Republic's Utah Wagon Train. Allen plays a modern-day cowpoke who agrees to shepherd a group of Easterners along the same route used by a long-ago wagon train. The purpose is to hopefully locate a fortune in gold, left behind Read More

Her First Romance

Actors: Margaret O'Brien, Allen Martin, Jr., Jimmy Hunt, Sharyn Moffett, Ann Doran

Synopsis: Former child star Margaret O'Brien is Betty Foster, the "all growed up" heroine of Her First Romance. Hoping to rendezvous with handsome teenager Bobby Evans (Allen Martin Jr.) at a fancy summer camp, Betty bamboozles her parents into sending her there. Once she's arrived, Betty proves her Read More

The Fuller Brush Girl

Actors: Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Carl Benton Reid, Gale Robbins, Jeff Donnell

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of such Red Skelton slapstick comedies as The Fuller Brush Man and The Yellow Cab Man came The Fuller Brush Girl, starring Lucille Ball in a fascinating dry run for her wacky "Lucy Ricardo" TV character. Unable to hold a job because of her tendency to get into trouble, Sally Read More

Father Is a Bachelor

Actors: William Holden, Coleen Gray, Mary Jane Saunders, Charles Winninger, Stuart Erwin

Synopsis: Father is a Bachelor is a pleasant throwback to the "rural" comedies of the 1930s. William Holden plays Johnny Rutledge, a philosophical hobo to whom fishing is the only reason for living. Rutledge is forced to take a few jolts of responsibility when he crosses the path of five orphans. The kids Read More

The Vanishing Westerner

Actors: Monte Hale, Paul Hurst, Aline Towne, Roy Barcroft, Arthur Space

Synopsis: Despite its somewhat lofty, Zane Grey-flavored title, The Vanishing Westerner is a modest Republic western, off and on the screen in about an hour. Cowboy hero Monte Hale is accused of the murder of sheriff Arthur Space. The principal accuser is Space's look-alike British cousin, who stirs the Read More

The Killer That Stalked New York

Actors: Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop, Dorothy Malone, Lola Albright

Synopsis: A married team of diamond smugglers enter New York to fence their purloined gems unaware that the wife is carrying the highly contagious, deadly smallpox virus. The crooks ensconce themselves in a hotel without realizing that the wife's every move is being monitored by a Treasury agent. The