Direction: Arnold Laven

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Arnold Laven. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

1957 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Richard Egan · Jan Sterling · Dan Duryea · Julie Adams

Plot 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...

6.7

30 votes

6.7

30 votes

Without Warning!

1952 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Adam Williams · Meg Randall · Edward Binns · Harlan Warde

Plot 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...

6.6

27 votes

6.6

27 votes

Vice Squad

1953 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Paulette Goddard · K.T. Stevens · Porter Hall

Plot 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...

6.5

78 votes

6.5

78 votes

The Rockford Files (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Roy Huggins · William Wiard · Lawrence Doheny

Cast James Garner · Lindsay Wagner · William Smith · Nita Talbot

Plot TV Series (1974-1980). 123 episodes. Series about an ex-con-turned-private-investigator named Jim Rockford who would rather run away than fight and would rather go fishing than work. He isn't a coward,...

6.5

57 votes

6.5

57 votes

Ironside (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Collier Young · Don Weis · Don McDougall · Russ Mayberry

Cast Raymond Burr · Don Galloway · Don Mitchell · Barbara Anderson

Plot Ironside is confined to a wheel chair (an attempted assassination left him paralyzed). With his former assistants Brown and Whitfield (later Belding) and former delinquent (and later lawyer) Mark, he...

6.3

445 votes

6.3

445 votes

Planet of the Apes (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis · Bernard McEveety · Don McDougall · Arnold Laven

Cast Roddy McDowall · Ron Harper · James Naughton · Mark Lenard

Plot Television series about a group of astronauts who travel in time and become marooned on a planet. Unbeknownst to them, they are actually on future Earth. The astronauts encounter an...

6.3

322 votes

6.3

322 votes

The Greatest American Hero (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Arnold Laven · Ivan Dixon · Rod Holcomb

Cast William Katt · Robert Culp · Connie Sellecca · Michael Paré

Plot TV Series (1981-1983). 3 Seasons. 44 Episodes. A pair of strangers, liberal high-school teacher Ralph Hinkley and right-wing FBI agent Bill Maxwell, have a close encounter in the Southern California...

6.3

6K votes

6.3

6K votes

Mannix (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Richard Levinson · William Link · Paul Krasny · Sutton Roley

Cast Mike Connors · Gail Fisher · Ward Wood · Ron Nyman

Plot Considered one of the most violent television series of its era, "Mannix" followed the adventures of L.A. private eye Joe Mannix, who first worked for a detective agency known as...

6.2

107 votes

6.2

107 votes

Down Three Dark Streets

1954 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Broderick Crawford · Ruth Roman · Martha Hyer · Marisa Pavan

Plot When FBI Agent Zack Stewart is killed, Agent John Ripley takes over the three cases he was working on, hoping one will lead to his killer. The first involves gangster...

6.2

90 votes

6.2

90 votes

The F.B.I. (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Virgil W. Vogel · Don Medford · Jesse Hibbs · William Hale

Cast Efrem Zimbalist Jr. · Philip Abbott · Marvin Miller · William Reynolds

Plot TV Series (1965-1974) 241 episodes. Cases, based on real FBI files, were handled by Inspector Lewis Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and several coworkers over the years.

6.1

23 votes

6.1

23 votes

The Rifleman (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Joseph H. Lewis · Arnold Laven · Arthur H. Nadel · Gene Nelson

Cast Chuck Connors · Johnny Crawford · Paul Fix · Bill Quinn

Plot The adventures of a Wild West rancher who wields a customized Winchester rifle.

6.1

94 votes

6.1

94 votes

The A-Team (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Frank Lupo · Michael O'Herlihy · Dennis Donnelly

Cast George Peppard · Mr. T · Dwight Schultz · Dirk Benedict

Plot TV Series (1983-1987). 5 Seasons. 98 Episodes. Four Vietnam vets, framed for a crime they didn't commit, help the innocent while on the run from the military.

6.0

29K votes

6.0

29K votes

Marcus Welby, M.D (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Victor · Marc Daniels · Leo Penn · Russ Mayberry

Cast Robert Young · James Brolin · Elena Verdugo · Pamela Hensley

Plot (TV Series). 1969-1976. 7 Seasons. 169 Episodes. The show is about doctors Marcus Welby, a general practitioner and Steven Kiley, Welby's young assistant. The two try to treat people as...

6.0

118 votes

6.0

118 votes

The Big Valley (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Louis F. Edelman · A.I. Bezzerides · Virgil W. Vogel · Bernard McEveety

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Richard Long · Lee Majors · Linda Evans

Plot TV Series (1965-1969). 4 Seasons. 112 Episodes. Victoria Barkley heads her adult brood on the Barkley Ranch in California's San Joaquin Valley, near Stockton, in the 1870s. Heath is the...

6.0

97 votes

6.0

97 votes

Rough Night in Jericho

1967 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

5.9

447 votes

5.9

447 votes

Police Woman (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Robert E. Collins · Alvin Ganzer · John Newland · Barry Shear

Cast Angie Dickinson · Earl Holliman · Charles Dierkop · Ed Bernard

Plot TV Series (1974-1978). 4 temporadas. 91 episodes. The show revolves around Sgt. Suzanne “Pepper” Anderson (Angie Dickinson), an undercover police officer working for the Los Angeles Police Department. Sgt. William...

5.8

120 votes

5.8

120 votes

The Rack

1956 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Paul Newman · Wendell Corey · Walter Pidgeon · Edmond O'Brien

Plot 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...

5.8

191 votes

5.8

191 votes

The Glory Guys

1965 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

5.8

304 votes

5.8

304 votes

Baretta (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Don Medford · Bernard L. Kowalski · Robert Douglas

Cast Robert Blake · Tom Ewell · Michel D. Roberts · Ed Grover

Plot Streetwise, undercover, unconventional cop Baretta solves crimes, often using disguises, with the help of stoolie Rooster and pet cockatoo Fred.

5.8

247 votes

5.8

247 votes

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Robert Horton · Cara Williams · Jack Mullaney · Philip Coolidge

Plot Gil Larkin is suspected of murder when Mona Cameron's allegedly abusive husband is shot dead in front of him and he gets knocked out by an unknown assailant.

5.7

62 votes

5.7

62 votes