Arnold Laven

Director
Arnold Laven

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Birth Place
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Born
February 23, 1922
Died
September 13, 2009
Cause of Death
Complications Of Pneumonia

Filmography

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Sam Whiskey (1969)
Director
Rough Night in Jericho (1967)
Director
The Glory Guys (1965)
Director
Geronimo (1962)
Director
Anna Lucasta (1958)
Director
The Monster that Challenged the World (1957)
Director

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Rack, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) He Made A Strategic Withdrawal

Biography

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

Sam Whiskey (1969)
Director
Rough Night in Jericho (1967)
Director
The Glory Guys (1965)
Director
Geronimo (1962)
Director
Anna Lucasta (1958)
Director
The Monster that Challenged the World (1957)
Director
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957)
Director
The Rack (1956)
Director
Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
Director
Vice Squad (1953)
Director
Without Warning! (1952)
Director
He Ran All the Way (1951)
Dialogue Director
The Second Woman (1950)
Dialogue Director

Writer (Feature Film)

Geronimo (1962)
Story

Producer (Feature Film)

Kansas City Bomber (1972)
Executive Producer
Underground (1970)
Producer
Sam Whiskey (1969)
Producer
The Scalphunters (1968)
Producer
Clambake (1967)
Producer
The Glory Guys (1965)
Producer
Geronimo (1962)
Producer
The Monster that Challenged the World (1957)
Presented By

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Thy Neighbor's Wife (1953)
Script Supervisor
Teresa (1951)
Script Supervisor
The Big Night (1951)
Script Supervisor
D.O.A. (1950)
Script Supervisor
Border Treasure (1950)
Script Supervisor
Tulsa (1949)
Script Supervisor
The Big Wheel (1949)
Script Supervisor
The Black Book (1949)
Script Supervisor
The Daring Caballero (1949)
Script Supervisor
Man from Texas (1948)
Script Supervisor
Mickey (1948)
Script Supervisor
The Spiritualist (1948)
Script Supervisor
Adventures of Gallant Bess (1948)
Script Supervisor
Canon City (1948)
Script Supervisor
He Walked by Night (1948)
Script Supervisor
In This Corner (1948)
Script Supervisor

Production Companies (Feature Film)

The Hunting Party (1971)
Company

Director (Special)

Time Express (1979)
Director
The Indian (1959)
Director
The Sharpshooter (1958)
Director

Life Events

Videos

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Rack, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Traitor We don’t know what’s up with just-returned Korean War POW Ed (Paul Newman), except that he’s afraid of his family, and doesn’t want to leave the hospital, as he takes in the entertainment (Debbie Reynolds in MGM’s The Affairs Of Dobie Gillis), and fellow patient Lee Marvin gives us a clue, in MGM’s The Rack, 1956.
Rack, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) He Made A Strategic Withdrawal Now in a San Francisco hotel after a big fight with his career-military father, who found out he’s being court-martialed for cooperating with the enemy, just-returned Korean War POW Ed (Paul Newman), who considers himself guilty, gets a first visit from his defense attorney, Edmond O’Brien, in MGM’s The Rack, 1956.
Rack, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) I Didn't Want You To See Me Like This First direct meeting between Anne Francis as widowed sister-in-law Aggie, Walter Pidgeon as career-military dad Col. Hall Sr. and Paul Newman as Korean War POW Capt. Hall, on the day of his return to California, so traumatized he forgets his brother was Killed In Action, in The Rack, 1956, from a Rod Serling teleplay.
Rack, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Where Are Your Ribbons? Reluctant JAG prosecutor (Wendell Corey as Maj. Moulton) conducts his first conference with his defendant, Paul Newman as highly decorated returning Korean War POW Capt. Hall, charged with collaborating with the enemy, his guilt or innocence not yet revealed, shooting on location at The Presidio, in MGM’s The Rack, 1956.
Rack, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) He Was Killed Over There Opening, with Walter Pidgeon and Anne Francis, not long after they appeared as father and daughter in Forbidden Planet, also for MGM, they’re war-widow and father-in-law, not quite greeting POW Paul Newman, returning from Korea, in The Rack, 1956, from a Rod Serling teleplay.
Monster That Challenged The World, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) This Is Flutterboy Two Four Two Joining the opening narration on U.S. Navy operations on the Salton Sea, the earth quakes as seamen Johnson and Sanders (Jody McCrea, William Swan) support a routine parachute jump, in the independent Sci-Fi feature The Monster That Challenged The World, 1955.
Monster That Challenged The World, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) A Simple Marine Secretion Tim Holt is the tough new commander at the Navy station at the Salton Sea in California, here meeting civilian employee Gail (Audrey Dalton), then scientist Rogers (Hans Conreid), and later young Sandy (Mimi Gibson), after a weird attack that left sailors dead, early in The Monster That Challenged The World, 1955.
Monster That Challenged The World, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Big Girl Now First in the diner with her mom (Sarah Selby) then at the Salton Sea beach with Morty (Bob Beneveds), prefiguring Steven Spielberg's Jaws, 1975, Jody (Barbara Darrow) encounters the mollusk, in The Monster That Challenged The World, 1957.
Monster That Challenged The World, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Get Help! The equivalent of "We Need A Bigger Boat," just after our first glimpse of the title creature, as Dr. Rogers (Hans Conreid) and Cmdr.Twillinger (Tim Holt), with frog-men, search the Salton Sea for bodies and strange phenomena, and find them, in The Monster That Challenged The World, 1957.
Anna Lucasta (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Burn This Unlike every other stage or screen production of the title, this one has a mambo-dance number for sailor-turned-cabbie Danny (Sammy Davis Jr.), partying with ex-girlfriend Eartha Kitt (title character), who's had a change of heart just hours after getting married, in Anna Lucasta, 1958.
Anna Lucasta (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, That's Anna With a title tune written by composer Elmer Bernstein and Sammy Cahn, Sammy Davis Jr. vocal opening his first movie as an actor, Eartha Kitt in the title role as a San Diego streetwalker, the 1958 re-working of screenwriter Philip Yordan's Anna Lucasta.
Anna Lucasta (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Your Finer Qualities Sailor Danny (Sammy Davis Jr.) and Eartha Kitt (title character, a San Diego streetwalker), with his pal Lester (Charles Swain) are settling plans for after his discharge when her father (Rex Ingram) from Los Angeles arrives, apparently seeking reconciliation, in the 1958 remake of Philip Yordan's Anna Lucasta.

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