Arnold Laven

Arnold Laven
Total Credits at Criticker: 15 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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Rough Night in Jericho
A former deputy and a strong-willed widow determine to stop a ruthless town boss. (imdb)
The Monster That Challenged the World
Colossal mollusks menace humankind. (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide)
Vice Squad
When a police officer is shot arresting a car thief, Captain Barnaby uses his skills and contacts to track down the culprits and uncovers a bank heist plan in the process. Barnaby has no qualms about bending the law to achieve his ends, including trumped up charges to persuade his only witness to cooperate or detaining some call girls to coerce their madam to help him. In the meantime he deals with everyday police business, juggling seemingly trivial matters with more serious ones. (imdb)
Sam Whiskey
Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ship and secretly bring them back to the mint before they are missed. But how shall he manage to get several hundred pounds of gold into the mint without anyone noticing? (imdb)
The Rack
Captain Edward Hall returns to the USA after two years in a prison camp in the korean war. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell? (imdb)
Anna Lucasta
A reformed streetwalker falls in love with the man her family wants her to fleece. (TCM.com)
Geronimo
An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo back to the reservation before he is hunted down. (imdb)
+9
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
Three men gun down Solly Pitts, 'rebel' against the racket-ridden Longshoremen's Union. Before dying, Pitts tells his wife 'Cockeye' Cook was one of the killers...but won't repeat it to the police, nor will anyone else help them. It seems it's a dockyard tradition to handle private battles without help. Bill Keating, new to the D.A.'s office, is just naive enough to think he can make a case against Cook; but his efforts seem to be leading only to further violence. (imdb)
Down Three Dark Streets
An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer. (TCM.com)
The Glory Guys
The Glory Guys follows the lives and loves of a group of young cavalry men, from their initial recruitment and training, to eventually being lead towards their tragic fate by a sadistic, war mongering General. Ordered to decimate anything that stand in the way of his brutal crusade, his troops are soon drawn into a bloody, relentless battle and a breathtaking climax.
+3
Without Warning!
Carl Martin is a morose and deranged Los Angeles gardener, who,in retribution for the infidelity of his unfaithful wife, sets about to kill as many blonde's as he can. From the time the film opens, to the sound of a radio turned up full-blast over the still-warm corpse of a blonde, the audience knows the identity of the killer. (imdb)
The Secrets of Isis
An archaeologist gains an amulet that lets her turn into the superheroine goddess Isis and fight evil. (imdb)
Lady Blue
Lady Blue (1985) - TV Series
Katy Mahoney patrols the grittier streets of Chicago, dispatching the seamier elements before reporting to her boss Terry McNichol. Katy's intensity about her job interfered with her social life.
The Rifleman
The adventures of a Wild West rancher who wields a customized rapid fire Winchester rifle.
+14
Back to the Planet of the Apes
First follow-up film to the series is 2 episodes back-to-back. In Escape from Tomorrow (1974), the astronauts crashland in their own future, which they discover to be ape-ruled, and they and Galen become fugitives after being tricked into escaping by the ruthless Urko. In The Trap (1974), Urko and Burke are trapped in an underground metro station in the ruins of a city, and must cooperate in order to escape, while Urko learns some uncomfortable truths about humans and Earth's past.