Richard Lane Movies

A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.

A cub reporter goes after his story in a big way when he single-handedly exposes a crime ring.

A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.

Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison...

A safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle.

Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...

Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe...

Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.

In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers. His boss doesn't even seem to see him. The...

The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.

When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down

In 1865, the cadets of a Russian Naval Academy ship have shore leave in Morocco; among them is (fictionalized) future composer 'Nicky'...

Gus, a cab driver is in love with the company owner's daughter, but mistakes Dick Lane a harmless, escaped asylum inmate, for the boss and takes him...

Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.

Mary and Joe Phillips' attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.

To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in jeopardy when they accidently...

Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made...

An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday recruits former thief Boston Blackie to retrieve the stone. Along...