Robert Arthur Filmography

Young and Wild

Actors: Gene Evans, Scott Marlowe, Carolyn Kearney, Robert Arthur

Synopsis: Three juvenile-delinquents launch a reign of terror upon those who witnessed a deadly auto accident in this exploitation drama. The kids got into trouble while joy-riding down a California road in a stolen car. For malicious fun, they deliberately sideswipe a car and then accidentally hit another Read More

Hellcats of the Navy

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Nancy Davis, Arthur Franz, Robert Arthur, William Leslie

Synopsis: Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend. During a delicate mission in which his sub is Read More

Three Violent People

Actors: Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Tom Tryon, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: Set in the American West after the Civil War, this drama is the pull-no-punches story of a lethal family feud. Colt Saunders (Charlton Heston) fought for the Confederacy in the war, and he returns to his family's Texas cattle ranch after impulsively marrying Lorna Hunter (Anne Baxter) following a Read More

The Desperados Are in Town

Actors: Robert Arthur, Kathleen Nolan, Rhys Williams, Dave "Tex" O'Brien

Synopsis: In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He is advised by one of the desperadoes to return home. The boy does, and with hard work, makes the Read More

Telephone Time: The Golden Junkman

Top of the World

Actors: Dale Robertson, Evelyn Keyes, Frank Lovejoy, Nancy Gates, Paul Fix

Synopsis: The title refers not to James Cagney's curtain line in White Heat but to Northern Alaska, where this film is set. Dale Robertson plays an Air Force jet pilot who resents the fact that he's been transferred from Hawaii to the frozen north. He changes his mind when he meets his ex-wife (Evelyn Read More

Return from the Sea

Actors: Jan Sterling, Neville Brand, John Doucette, Paul Langton, John M. Pickard

Synopsis: Neville Brand plays one of his earliest good-guy roles in Return from the Sea. Brand plays a sailor named Maclish, who is a boisterous, love 'em and leave 'em type--until he meets a lonely waitress named Frieda (Jan Sterling). Through her example, Maclish realizes that he too has been lonesome all Read More

Young Bess

Actors: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh

Synopsis: This costume drama was based on the historical fiction of Margaret Irwin, which embellishes the facts of the early years of England's eventual Queen Elizabeth I. It's told in flashback style, starting with the horrible day when King Henry VIII (Charles Laughton) sends away the future queen, young Read More

Take the High Ground

Actors: Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Elaine Stewart, Russ Tamblyn, Carleton Carpenter

Synopsis: "You guys will never be soldiers!" With these words Richard Widmark opens and closes Take the High Ground. Widmark plays a tough drill sergeant, whipping his recruits through basic training in preparation for shipment to Korea. Carleton Carpenter is the standard-issue private who just can't seem Read More

The System

Actors: Frank Lovejoy, Joan Weldon, Paul Picerni, Don Beddoe, Frank Richards

Synopsis: The System was one of several "exposé" films inspired by the Kefauver crime committee. The title refers to the manner in which a major gambling syndicate can so insinuate itself in "respectable" business circles that it becomes virtually impossible for justice to prevail. Big-city syndicate head Read More

The Ring

Actors: Gerald Mohr, Rita Moreno, Lalo Rios, Robert Arthur, Robert Osterloh

Synopsis: The Ring was directed by Kurt Neumann in a style best described as Hollywood neorealist. Based on a novel by Irving Shulman, the film focuses on a Mexican-American youth named Tommy (Lalo Rios). Unable to make any headway in a prejudicial, white-dominated society, Tommy turns to boxing, where he Read More

Just for You

Actors: Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Ethel Barrymore, Robert Arthur, Natalie Wood

Synopsis: Just for You is based very loosely on Stephen Vincent Benet's Famous. Widowed Broadway producer Jordan Blake (Bing Crosby) is too busy with work to pay much attention to his teenaged kids Jerry (Robert Arthur) and Barbara (Natalie Wood). One thing he hasn't noticed is that Jerry isn't Read More

Belles on Their Toes

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Edward Arnold

Synopsis: Myrna Loy returns as Mrs. Gilbreth -- efficiency expert, industrial engineer, and mother of twelve -- in this sequel to Cheaper By The Dozen. After the death of her husband, Gilbreth is forced to take over as the family's primary breadwinner, but she soon discovers that not every company who hired Read More

Ace in the Hole

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady

Synopsis: Billy Winder directed and co-wrote this bitterly satiric comedy-drama which turns a jaundiced eye towards both the news media and its consumers. Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) is a talented but short-tempered reporter whose fondness for booze and unwillingness to bow to authority has cost him jobs at Read More

Air Cadet

Actors: Stephen McNally, Gail Russell, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake

Synopsis: Universal's Air Cadet stars Stephen McNally as the obligatory tough topkick, here assigned to whip a bunch of green pilots into shape. McNally's hard-nosed attitude is rooted in his past: he still feels guilty over having lost so many buddies in World War 2. A climactic crash-and-rescue sequence Read More

On the Loose

Actors: Joan Evans, Melvyn Douglas, Lynn Bari, Robert Arthur, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: On the Loose was produced by the Filmakers Organization, consisting of producer Collier Young and director Ida Lupino (Mrs. Young at the time). Joan Evans stars as Jill Bradley, a teenager with an undeserved reputation as a "bad girl." No one -- not even her parents Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari Read More

September Affair

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten, Françoise Rosay, Jessica Tandy, Robert Arthur

Synopsis: With location scenes lensed in Italy, September Affair is consistently good to look at, even when the pacing flags and the dialogue becomes too verbose. Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten star as married couple Manina and David. Trouble is, they're not married to each other. Through a series of Read More

Cheaper by the Dozen

Actors: Clifton Webb, Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Even allowing for the fact that it owed its existence to the popularity of Life with Father (1947), Cheaper by the Dozen is one of the freshest, funniest and most enduring "family" films ever to emerge from Hollywood. Based on the autobiographical novel by Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Read More

Twelve O'Clock High

Actors: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, Dean Jagger, Robert Arthur

Synopsis: How much can a man give? When the U.S. 8th Army Air Force 918th Bombardment group is ordered on their fourth harrowing mission in four hard days, Brigadier General Frank Savage (Gregory Peck) demands "maximum effort." The bombers are forced to fly lower, to fly farther, and to test themselves Read More

Mother Is a Freshman

Actors: Loretta Young, Van Johnson, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence, Robert Arthur, Betty Lynn

Synopsis: The same studio that brought forth Father Was a Fullback was responsible for Mother is a Freshman. Loretta Young stars as Abbigail Abbott, the widowed mother of coed Susan Abbott (Betty Lynn). In order to legally validate Susan's scholarship fund (a legacy of her late grandmother), Abigail enrolls Read More

You're My Everything

Actors: Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Anne Revere, Shari Robinson, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: Set in the 1920s and 1930s, 20th Century-Fox's You're My Everything borrows elements from several true-life showbiz stories, include the rise to fame of Fox's own Shirley Temple. Vaudeville hoofer Timothy O'Connor (Dan Dailey) sweeps proper New England gal Hannah Adams (Anne Baxter) off her feet. Read More

Green Grass of Wyoming

Actors: Peggy Cummins, Charles Coburn, Robert Arthur, Lloyd Nolan, Burl Ives

Synopsis: In this drama, based on a novel by Mary O'Hara, the relationship between humans and animals is paralleled as they struggle to live and find love on a wild ranch in Wyoming. The human story centers around a rancher's niece who falls in love with a neighboring rancher's son. The equine story follows Read More

Yellow Sky

Actors: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell

Synopsis: William Wellman's westerns always seemed a little claustrophobic, but in Yellow Sky the director's technique works to the film's advantage. Outlaw leader Gregory Peck takes refuge in a frontier ghost town. The only inhabitants are elderly James Barton and his pretty granddaughter Anne Baxter. Read More

The Devil on Wheels

Synopsis: Darryl Hickman, older brother of Dobie Gillis star Duane, toplines this campy juvenile delinquency film directed by Crane Wilbur (The Bat). The plot concerns a group of teenagers who hold illegal drag-races, often leading to death and police involvement. Terry Moore, using the name "Jan Ford," Read More

Nora Prentiss

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett, Robert Alda, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: In this slick melodrama, a sort of film-noir for women, a nightclub singer has an affair with an unhappily married San Francisco doctor. Though the physician desperately wants to leave his wife, he lacks the courage to ask for a divorce. In retaliation, the singer accepts an offer to move East and Read More

Mother Wore Tights

Actors: Betty Grable, Robert Arthur, Dan Dailey, Veda Ann Borg, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall, Vanessa Brown, Chick Chandler, Sara Allgood

Synopsis: A woman looks back at her childhood in show business in this musical comedy. At the turn of the century, Myrtle McKinley (Betty Grable) is working her way through business school and gets a job dancing at a San Francisco vaudeville house. She meets fellow hoofer Frank Burt (Dan Dailey), and they Read More

Night and Day

Actors: John Alvin, Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Eve Arden, Herman Bing, Monty Woolley, Jane Wyman, Paul Cavanagh, Tom D'Andrea, Dorothy Malone

Synopsis: Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole Porter, one Hollywood wag came up with a potential story angle: "How does the S.O.B. make his second million dollars?" By the time the Porter biopic Night and Day was Read More

Nobody Lives Forever

Actors: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan, Faye Emerson, George Coulouris

Synopsis: In this film noir with romantic overtones, con man and cardsharp Nick Blake (John Garfield) returns home after serving in WWII to discover that a rival syndicate now controls New York's gambling rackets -- and that his girlfriend Toni (Faye Emerson) has run off with his money. Looking for a Read More

Sweetheart of Sigma Chi

Actors: Ruth Allen, Robert Arthur, William Beaudine, Jr., Phil Brito, Edward S. Brophy

Synopsis: This musical is a remake of a 1933 film. Like the first, it is set on campus and chronicles the romantic travails of the school rowing champion who has recently come back from a military stint abroad. A young coed is mighty pleased to see him, but he keeps avoiding her. A subplot concerns a group Read More

Danger Signal

Actors: Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Rosemary de Camp, Bruce Bennett

Synopsis: In this drama, an amoral, manipulative womanizer gets his comeuppance. The story begins as the handsome cad is witnessed quickly leaving a hotel room in the East. He has just stolen money, and a wedding band from a dead woman. He is next seen in L.A. living under an alias. There, he begins Read More

Mildred Pierce

Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth

Synopsis: Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M. Cain novel concerned a tawdry waitress who slept her way to financial security so as to provide a rosy future for her beloved daughter, only to be rewarded by having her Read More

Too Young to Know

Actors: Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Dolores Moran, Harry Davenport, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: In this wartime romance, two young newlyweds must reluctantly part when the young man is called to war. He spends the next three years fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific. While there, he learns that his wife has left him and has given away his son--he didn't even know she was pregnant. Read More

Roughly Speaking

Actors: Ray Collins, Kathleen Lockhart, Ann E. Todd, Andy Clyde, Rosalind Russell, Robert Hutton

Synopsis: This odd combination of roughneck comedy and serious domestic drama was adapted by Louise Randall Pierson from her own autobiographical novel. Rosalind Russell is cast as young Louise Randall, the headstrong daughter of a New England merchant. Inheriting her father's business, Louise intends to Read More