Richard CraneFilmography

House of the Damned

Synopsis: This unappealing suspense film stars Ronald Foster and Erika Peters as a couple who arrive at a decrepit old mansion only to find that the previous occupants -- a group of circus freaks -- have yet to vacate the premises. Worse, it seems that the mischievous tenants are quite adamant about Read More

Honeymoon of Terror

Synopsis: Cheap and unpleasant horror-exploitation nonsense about a young couple (Doug Leith and Dawn Marlow) on an island honeymoon terrorized by a lumbering, club-footed brute believed to be notorious rapist-murderer "The Ridge Runner." That's basically the extent of the inane plot, which ignores Read More

Boy Who Caught a Crook

Actors: Wanda Hendrix, Roger Mobley, Johnny Seven, Robert Stevenson

Synopsis: In this children's movie, an adorable newsboy, his dog, and his friend the hobo accidently stumble across a briefcase containing $100,000. It belongs to a desperate thief who definitely wants it back. The honest child, not knowing the loot is stolen, looks for its owner. Fortunately the police Read More

13 Fighting Men

Actors: Grant Williams, Brad Dexter, Carole Mathews, Robert Dix, Richard Garland

Synopsis: This action film set just after the Civil War tends to stay on the surface of the story instead of diving deeper into character motivation. A group of Union Army soldiers is charged with protecting a box of gold and getting it to its rightful place within the government coffers. As might be Read More

Battle Flame

Actors: Scott Brady, Elaine Edwards, Robert Blake, Wayne Heffley, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: This routine and somewhat trite war movie develops slowly until a group of five nurses are captured by North Korean troops and quite clearly need to be rescued. At the head of the rescue task force is Lt. Frank Davis (Scott Brady). Frank has a special interest in freeing the women because one of Read More

The Alligator People

Actors: Beverly Garland, George Macready, Richard Crane, Lon Chaney, Jr., Frieda Inescort

Synopsis: A confused horror yarn set in the Deep South, Alligator People stars Richard Crane as a husband who becomes accidently separated from his new wife (Beverly Garland) during a train ride. She tracks him down to the swamplands surrounding his family mansion. Her reunion with her husband is tarnished Read More

Blast-Off

Synopsis: The 75-minute Blast-Off is comprised of three episodes from the 1953 TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. Richard Crane stars as Jones, piloting the atomic-powered "Orbit Jet" on behalf of a 50s version of Star Trek's federation of planets. Accompanying him is copilot Winky (Scotty Beckett) Read More

Playhouse 90: No Time at All

Actors: William Lundigan, Jane Greer, Betsy Palmer, Keenan Wynn, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: Every so often, the prestigious 1950s CBS anthology Playhouse 90 would digress from its "live" format and offer a sumptuously produced film presentation. One of these was the suspenseful 1958 offering No Time at All, a fascinating precursor to the Airport films of the 1970s. On a routine night Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lonely Heiress

Synopsis: Paul Drake (William Hopper) is hired to keep an eye on a lonely-hearts classified ad placed by heiress Marilyn Cartwright (Kathleen Crowley). No, Marilyn isn't looking for love: she's looking for con artist "Country Boy" Barnaby (L.Q. Jones), the man who drove her sister to suicide. All Marilyn Read More

The Deep Six

Actors: Alan Ladd, William Bendix, James Whitmore, Dianne Foster, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker whose sincere pacifist sentiments do not sit well with his crew members. When he refuses to fire upon an unidentified plane, the word spreads that Read More

The Devil's Partner

Synopsis: In this occult obscurity, an old hillbilly named Pete Jensen (Ed Nelson) makes a pact with the Devil and returns to the town of Furnace Flats, NM, as a much younger man. Claiming to be his own nephew, Nick Richards, he romances pretty Nell Lucas (Jean Allison). Her fiancée David (Richard Crane) is Read More

Maverick: The Long Hunt

Synopsis: After a dying outlaw confesses to a crime for which Jedd Ferris (Richard Crane) has been sentenced to jail, Bret (James Garner) sets upon the task of securing Jedd's release. Trouble is, Jedd's wife Martha (Joan Vohs) is coveted by a tough customer named Ben Maxwell (Richard Webb), who will stop Read More

Bail out at 43,000

Actors: John Payne, Karen Steele, Paul Kelly, Richard Eyer, Constance Ford

Synopsis: Newly re-energized in the late 1950s, the venerable Pine-Thomas production company moved from Paramount to United Artists, there to make such actioners as Bailout at 43,000. John Payne stars as a courageous test pilot, who joins a team busily testing jet-bomber ejector seats. But before he can Read More

Guns Don't Argue

Synopsis: The actions of various criminals such as Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face Nelson are reenacted in this film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Beyond the Moon

The Eddy Duchin Story

Actors: Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, Victoria Shaw, James Whitmore, Rex Thompson

Synopsis: Tyrone Power stars in this tear-jerking biography of the beloved but short-lived pianist and bandleader Eddy Duchin. Boston-born Eddy Duchin (Tyrone Power) moves to New York City to pursue a career as a pharmacist. However, Eddy is also a skilled piano player, and when he meets pretty socialite Read More

No Man's Woman

Synopsis: Carolyn Grant (Marie Windsor), a Monterey gallery owner, is playing the field and seems to have one too many men on her string, including her wealthy estranged husband, the local art critic, and even the fiancé of her shop assistant. So when Carolyn is murdered during an apparent break-in at her Read More

The Eternal Sea

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Alexis Smith, Dean Jagger, Ben Cooper, Virginia Grey, Morris Ankrum, John Maxwell

Synopsis: One of Republic's most elaborate productions of the 1950s, The Eternal Sea is the biography of American admiral John M. Hoskins. Sterling Hayden delivers a superbly understated performance as Hoskins, who continued to serve throughout WW2 despite the loss of a leg in the early phases of the Read More

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: Kip's Private War

Crash of the Moons

Synopsis: Crash of Moons consists of three half-hour episodes from the mid-1950s science fiction TV show Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. Richard Crane stars as Jones, spaceship commander for the United Worlds. Scotty Beckett costars as obligatory comedy relief Winky, while Maurice Cass is Professor Newton and Read More

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: Inferno in Space

Manhunt in Space

Actors: Scotty Beckett, Maurice Cass, Sally Mansfield

Synopsis: The syndicated TV sci-fi series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1953) was dual-purposed. Though running 39 episodes, the series consisted of thirteen serialized continuities, each running three weeks. These adventures were later assembled into ersatz "feature films" for theatrical release. One such Read More

Duel in Space

Synopsis: An alien spaceship bent on ruling the skies comes head to head with the Space Rangers. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Forbidden Moon

Synopsis: The feature-length Forbidden Moon consists of three sequential episodes of the popular TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. Richard Crane stars as Rocky Jones, commander of the Orbit Jet. Rocky's space crew includes navigator Vena Ray (Sally Mansfield), cadet Winky (Scotty Beckett) and Professor Read More

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: Blast Off

The Renegade Satellite

Synopsis: In this low-budget but nostalgic sci-fi movie based on an early live television show about space cadets, courageous Rocky takes on those villains who would destroy the United Solar System. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: Vena and the Darnama

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: Crash of the Moons

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: The Cold Sun

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: Forbidden Moon

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: Bobby's Comet

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: Escape into Space

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: The Trial of Rocky Jones

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: Out of This World

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: Beyond the Curtain of Space

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: Rocky's Odyssey

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: Silver Needle in the Sky

The Woman They Almost Lynched

Actors: John Lund, Brian Donlevy, Audrey Totter, Joan Leslie, Ben Cooper

Synopsis: All suspense in The Woman They Almost Lynched would seem to be dissipated by title, but director Allan Dwan holds the viewers spellbound throughout. Part of the tension arises from fact that there are two leading female characters: Kate Quantrill (Audrey Totter), wife of infamous Confederate Read More

The Cold Sun

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film the Space Rangers land upon a "cold sun." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Winning of the West

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Gail Davis, Richard Crane, Robert Livingston

Synopsis: Winning of the West was Gene Autry's first western vehicle for 1953. It was also one of Autry's better offerings, with the star cast as a territorial ranger with an uncharacteristically nasty streak. When a local newspaper publisher is slain by an outlaw gang, Gene hesitates to pull his gun Read More

The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger [TV Series]

Synopsis: Rocky Jones, Space Ranger was an action/adventure television show of the early '50s that followed the trials and tribulations of Rocky Jones, a pilot who flew the spaceship Orbit Jet for the United Worlds. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Beyond the Curtain of Space

Gypsy Moon

The Neanderthal Man

Synopsis: In a mountain home, Dr. Cliff Groves (Robert Shayne) is working hard on the theories that have driven him to the point of overbearing obsession, frightening his sister Jan (Joyce Terry), who lives with him. When the local game warden is shocked to see what looks like a saber-tooth tiger in the Read More

Menace from Outer Space

Actors: Richard Crane, Sally Mansfield

Synopsis: When an alien rocket descends to Earth, an expedition into space to find the origins of the strange device results in a clash between two worlds in this science fiction film that was compiled from three episodes of the Rocky Jones, Space Ranger television series. Upon studying the alien rocket and Read More

Silver Needle in the Sky

Synopsis: Footage from several episodes of the classic 1950s sci-fi adventure show Rocky Jones, Space Ranger were culled to assemble this feature-length presentation. Richard Crane stars in the title role, a futuristic hero assigned to protect a group of dignitaries. Unfortunately, an evil space woman has Read More

Leadville Gunslinger

Actors: Allan Lane, Elaine Riley, Eddy Waller, Grant Withers, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: In this western, a U.S. marshal rides into Leadville to get a prisoner and ends up staying to help a needy friend who is in trouble with the outlaws attempting to oust him from his ranch. To stop them, the lawman poses as a bandit. He then discovers that the town banker is behind it all as he has Read More

Thundering Caravans

Actors: Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, Mona Knox, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: In this western, a US marshal tries to stop a nefarious gang of thieves from harassing the local sheriff and from stealing shipments of gold ore by putting their leader into the jail. The ringleader turns out to be a female newspaper publisher who has been creating all the problems to make sure Read More

The Iron Mistress

Actors: Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Joseph Calleia, Phyllis Kirk, Alf Kjellin

Synopsis: Though its title would seem to indicate a medieval swashbuckler, The Iron Mistress is actually based on the life of American frontiersman Jim Bowie. Alan Ladd stars as the fearless, knife-wielding Bowie, who is first seen arriving in New Orleans to sell a supply of lumber. Bowie falls in love with Read More

Mysterious Island [Serial]

Synopsis: This serial is set during the American Civil War and is based on the Jules Verne story. A Union Army captain is captured by the Confederates and imprisoned in Richmond, Virginia. He and four other men escape in a balloon, but a hurricane blows them off course and they land on an uncharted island. Read More

Cavalry Charge

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Bill Williams, Bruce Bennett, Noah Beery, Jr., Peter Hansen

Synopsis: Paramount's immensely successful Pine-Thomas production unit once more struck box-office gold with The Last Outpost. Ronald Reagan stars as devil-may-care Confederate officer Vance Britton, who leads a band of guerillas on a series of sabotage raids. The Northern Army dispatches Vance's brother Read More

Man in the Saddle

Actors: Randolph Scott, Joan Leslie, Ellen Drew, Alexander Knox, Richard Rober

Synopsis: Rancher Randolph Scott rides right into a romantic triangle in this moody western. He is forced to stand by as his mercenary girl friend (Joan Leslie) is lured away by a wealthy neighboring rancher (Alexander Knox). When the neighbor is killed, Scott is accused of the murder, and spends the Read More

A Lady without Passport

Actors: Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig, George Macready, Steven Geray

Synopsis: A Lady Without Passport stars Hedy Lamarr in the title role. Lamarr plays Marianne Lorress, a concentration-camp refugee who takes up residence in Cuba while waiting permission to enter the U.S. Immigration agent Pete Karczag (John Hodiak) decides to use Marianne as bait to entrap Palinov (George Macready Read More

Dynamite

Actors: William Gargan, Virginia Welles, Richard Crane, Irving Bacon, Mary Newton

Synopsis: Dynamite is a 1949 effort from the Pine-Thomas production mill. William Gargan and Richard Crane star as Gunner and Johnny, troubleshooters for dynamite contractor Hard Rock Mason Frank Ferguson. Though forced to work as a team on the job, Gunner and Johnny fall out when romance enters the picture Read More

Triple Threat

Actors: Richard Crane, Gloria Henry, Mary Stuart, John Litel, Pat Phelan

Synopsis: Two future TV favorites--Rocky Jones' Richard Crane and Dennis the Menace's Gloria Henry-head the cast of Columbia's Triple Threat. Crane plays Don Whitney, an egocentric college football hero who receives a good strong dose of reality when he joins a professional team. Whitney's game really Read More

Angel on the Amazon

Actors: George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Fortunio Bonanova

Synopsis: Angel on the Amazon gives the viewer a pretty good notion of what Lost Horizon or She might have looked like had they been produced by Republic Pictures. Vera Ralston stars as huntress Christine Ridgeway, who embarks on one of her many hunting expeditions in the company of her husband Anthony Brian Aherne Read More

Waterfront at Midnight

Actors: William Gargan, Mary Beth Hughes, Richard Travis, Richard Crane, Cheryl Walker

Synopsis: The Pine-Thomas action/adventure assembly line put together another winner with Waterfront at Midnight. Hoping to put the cuffs on criminal mastermind Socks Barstow (Richard Travis), detective Mike Hanrohan (William Gargan) is stymied by the fact that his younger brother Denny (Richard Crane) has Read More

Arthur Takes Over

Actors: Lois Collier, Richard Crane, Ann E. Todd, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: Pity poor James Clark (Richard Crane). Wed to the lovely Margaret (Lois Collier), Arthur is forced to keep the marriage a secret from Margaret's social-climbing mother (Barbara Brown)-which, of course, results in separate sleeping quarters. Coming to the rescue is Margaret's kid brother Arthur (Skip Homeier Read More

Campus Honeymoon

Actors: Lynn Wilde, Lee Wilde, Adele Mara, Richard Crane, Hal Hackett

Synopsis: The beauteous blonde Wilde Twins -- Lynn and Lee -- star in the Republic musical programmer Campus Honeymoon. Richard Crane and Hal Hackett co-star as a pair of GIs who offer to pose as the sisters' husbands so as to qualify for a couple of bungalows in a Veterans' housing project. The Read More

Behind Green Lights

Actors: Carole Landis, William Gargan, Richard Crane, Mary Anderson, John Ireland

Synopsis: In this police drama, a busy precinct is thrown into chaos when the murdered corpse of a local detective is found in an abandoned car. Now the press is demanding to learn details. Meanwhile, an ambitious officer finds himself sorely tempted to use dishonest means to advance his political career. Read More

Johnny Comes Flying Home

Actors: Richard Crane, Faye Marlowe, Martha Stewart, Charles Russell, Roy Roberts

Synopsis: In this drama, three veteran pilots from WW II decide to start their own air freight business. In order to earn enough money, one of them takes a dangerous job as a test pilot. His very pregnant wife objects, but this does not stop him. Fortunately, another partner scams him and ends up doing the Read More

Captain Eddie

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Lynn Bari, Charles Bickford, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan

Synopsis: Famed WW1 aviator Eddie Rickenbacker once more entered the public's consciousness during WW2 when, while serving as an Air Force officer, he and several other pilots crashed into the Pacific. While the world anxiously awaited news of his fate, Rickenbacker and a handful of survivors floated for 19 Read More

None Shall Escape

Actors: Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers, Erik Rolf, Richard Crane

Synopsis: In this drama, a crippled German veteran of WW I attempts to reconcile his recent experiences with his former ideologies in this drama. After the war he goes back to his hometown on the German-Polish border to his old teaching job. Time passes and he becomes increasingly cynical and bitter; he Read More

Follow the Boys

Actors: George Raft, Vera Zorina, Charles Grapewin, George Macready, Charles Butterworth, Regis Toomey, Grace McDonald

Synopsis: Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars making cameo appearances. Tony West (George Raft), his sister Kitty (Grace McDonald), and their father Nick (Charles Grapewin) tour together as The Three Wests, a failing act Read More

A Wing and a Prayer

Actors: Don Ameche, Dana Andrews, William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis: Former president Ronald Reagan may have genuinely believed that he was referring to a real-life act of selfless wartime bravery whenever repeating his "We'll bring this one down together" anecdote. In fact, he was merely quoting a scene from the above-average World War 2 drama A Wing and a Prayer. Read More

Someone to Remember

Actors: Mabel Paige, John Craven, Dorothy Morris, Charles Dingle, Harry Shannon

Synopsis: Mabel Paige, one of Hollywood's most beloved character actresses, was given her one-and-only starring role in this Republic Pictures tearjerker. Paige plays a wealthy old lady embittered by the long-ago disappearance of her son. She lives alone in a downtown hotel, with only the occasional company Read More

This Is the Army

Actors: George Murphy, Joan Leslie, Ronald Reagan, George Tobias, Alan Hale, Julie Oshins, Charles Butterworth

Synopsis: The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was a reworking of Berlin's WW1 "barracks musical" Yip Yip Yaphank. In both instances, the cast was largely comprised of genuine servicemen, many of them either recently Read More

So Proudly We Hail!

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, George Reeves, Barbara Britton

Synopsis: Paramount's So Proudly We Hail, like MGM's Cry Havoc, is a tribute to the Red Cross nurses trapped behind enemy lines in the early days of the Pacific war. Claudette Colbert is the self-sacrificing head nurse, struggling to minister to the wounded and to keep her staff (including Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake Read More

Riders of the Deadline

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers, Richard Crane, Robert Mitchum

Synopsis: Two newcomers, Robert Mitchum and Richard Crane, take center stage in this lavishly budgeted entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy series. The latter plays Tim Mason, a young hothead about to be inducted into the Texas Rangers on the behest of his good friend, Hoppy (William Boyd). Read More

The Happy Land

Actors: Don Ameche, Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Ann Rutherford, Cara Williams, Richard Crane

Synopsis: An Iowa drugstore owner (Don Ameche) becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence. The grieving father is shown the error of his assumption by the ghost of his Read More

Eagle Squadron

Actors: Robert Stack, Diana Barrymore, John Loder, Eddie Albert, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: With America's Air Force not completely mobilized in mid-1942, Universal paid tribute to those foresighted Yankee flyboys who joined England's Royal Air Force before America's entry into WW2 in Eagle Squadron. Robert Stack stars as Chuck Brewer, one of several US flyers participating in RAF Read More

This Time for Keeps

Actors: Ann Rutherford, Robert Sterling, Guy Kibbee, Irene Rich, Virginia Weidler

Synopsis: This Time for Keeps is a followup to 1940's Keeping Company, with Ann Rutherford repeating her role from the earlier film. Rutherford is cast as newlywed Katherine White, at present undergoing a rocky "period of adjustment" with her husband Lee (Robert Sterling, replacing the original film's John Read More

The Flying Tigers

Actors: John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Mae Clarke, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: The Flying Tigers were a group of American volunteer aviators, flying against the Japanese on behalf of General Claire Chennault and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek in the months just prior to World War II. John Wayne is the most responsible of the bunch, and John Carroll the least. It's bad enough Read More

The Phantom Plainsmen

Actors: Tom Tyler, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, Robert O. Davis, Lois Collier

Synopsis: Republic's The Phantom Plainsman is another in the long-running "Three Mesquiteers" western series. The heroic triumverate are herein portrayed by Bob Steele (as Tucson Smith), Tom Tyler (Stony Brooke) and Rufe Davis (Lullaby Joslin). In keeping with a trend then prevalent in "B" westerns, the Read More

The Saint in Palm Springs

Actors: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Paul Guilfoyle, Jonathan Hale, Linda Hayes

Synopsis: George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint," in The Saint in Palm Springs. The gimmick in this one is a set of rare stamps, smuggled from England. Wendy Barrie is the true heir to this treasure, and the Saint is engaged to protect her and Read More

Keep 'em Flying

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Martha Raye, Carol Bruce, Dick Foran, William Gargan

Synopsis: Having joined the army in Buck Privates and the navy in In the Navy, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello signed up with Air Force in Keep 'Em Flying. Abbott and Costello play Blackie and Heathcliff, carnival workers who are fired from their jobs along with their pal, reckless stunt pilot Jinx Roberts (Dick Foran Read More

We Who Are Young

Actors: Lana Turner, John Shelton, Gene Lockhart, Grant Mitchell, Henry Armetta

Synopsis: This upbeat domestic drama chronicles the struggles of a newlywed couple as they try to keep their marital status secret from their boss (company police forbids marriages between co-workers), cope with money issues and the wife's pregnancy. Real woes begins when the boss finds out about their Read More

Susan and God

Actors: Joan Crawford, Fredric March, Ruth Hussey, John Carroll, Rita Hayworth

Synopsis: Rachel Crothers' thoughtful stage play Susan and God was tastefully adapted for the screen by Anita Loos. Joan Crawford stars as Susan, whose unquestioning devotion to various religious organizations causes a great deal of strain between herself and her family. When Susan embraces a "New Thought" Read More