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Richard Dix

July 18, 2019 By Cliff Aliperti

Richard Dix Boys Cinema Postcard

‘Shop by the Stars’ Immortal Ephemera Store aisle featuring Richard Dix (1893-1949) mini-biography, along with vintage movie collectibles for sale.

Filed Under: Store Mini-Bios Tagged With: Richard Dix

Special Investigator (1936) – Richard Dix Stars in Erle Stanley Gardner Story

September 13, 2016 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Special Investigator 1936 newspaper ad

Big-city mouthpiece Richard Dix seeks to bring his brother’s killers to justice in a Nevada mining town in Special Investigator, a 1936 RKO “B” entry based on an Erle Stanley Gardner story.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1936, Erik Rhodes, Erle Stanley Gardner, Gangsters, gold, Harry Jans, J. Carroll Naish, jed prouty, jm kerrigan, Joe Sawyer, Lawyers, Louis King, Margaret Callahan, Owen Davis Jr., Ray Mayer, Richard Dix, RKO (Pathe), Russell Hicks, sheila terry

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Lightning Review: The Arizonian (1935) Starring Richard Dix

June 15, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

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Lightning review takes brief look at RKO Western The Arizonian (1935) starring Richard Dix, Margot Grahame, and Preston Foster, directed by Charles Vidor.

Filed Under: Lightning Reviews Tagged With: 1935, Charles Vidor, Edward Van Sloan, Etta McDaniel, Francis Ford, James Bush, Joe Sawyer, Louis Calhern, Margot Grahame, Preston Foster, Richard Dix, RKO (Pathe), Westerns, Willie Best

Ace of Aces (1933) Starring Richard Dix and Elizabeth Allan

June 11, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

Richard Dix in Ace of Aces

Richard Dix stars as a pacifist sculptor turned bloodthirsty World War I Ace of Aces. Morality story with good action, complicated character. With Elizabeth Allan.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: Elizabeth Allan, Frank Conroy, J. Walter Ruben, John Monk Saunders, pre-Code, Ralph Bellamy, Richard Dix, RKO (Pathe), Theodore Newton, War, Warner Archive, World War I

Men Against the Sky (1940) – Richard Dix’s Ace of Aces Goes Modern

October 15, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Men Against the Sky 1940

The public was air-minded when RKO released Men Against the Sky (1940), an exciting “B” film starring former “Ace of Aces” Richard Dix, with Kent Taylor, Wendy Barrie, and Edmund Lowe. A look at why the public was so fascinated by flying at that time, and how the four stars and other elements of the film worked so well together.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1940, aviation, Business, Edmund Lowe, Granville Bates, Kent Taylor, Leslie Goodwins, Richard Dix, RKO (Pathe), Warner Archive, Wendy Barrie

Richard Dix – His Life and Film Legacy

June 29, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 20 Comments

Richard Dix in Transatlantic Tunnel

Five thousand words about the life of Richard Dix including a look at his most important movies: The Vanishing American (1925), Cimarron (1931) and The Ghost Ship (1943) plus, author’s choice, Ace of Aces (1933).

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: ace of aces, cimarron, Richard Dix, the whistler

Secret Service (1931) – William Gillette’s Civil War Melodrama Comes to RKO

June 8, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Secret Service 1931

Digging deep into RKO’s 1931 adaptation of William Gillette’s Secret Service starring Richard Dix and Shirley Grey. Comparing the movie to the 1896 play. What was added and what was kept and how classic scenes were interpreted on film.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1931, Civil War, Clarence Muse, Gavin Gordon, J. Walter Ruben, play, Richard Dix, Shirley Grey, spies, theater, William Gillette, William Post Jr

Richard Dix Reckons Himself The Public Defender (RKO, 1931)

May 13, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

The Public Defender 1931

Richard Dix is a harmless playboy until trouble calls and with the assistance of Boris Karloff and Paul Hurst he becomes The Reckoner in RKO’s The Public Defender (1931).

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1931, Alan Roscoe, Boris Karloff, Carl Gerard, Crime, Edmund Breese, Emmett King, farnesbarnes, Frank Sheridan, J. Walter Ruben, Nella Walker, Paul Hurst, Purnell Pratt, Richard Dix, RKO (Pathe), Robert Emmett O'Connor, Rochelle Hudson, Ruth Weston, Shirley Grey, Warner Archive

His Greatest Gamble (1934) Starring Richard Dix

April 21, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Richard Dix and Edith Fellows

RKO’s His Greatest Gamble (1934) successfully offers Richard Dix one of his most dramatic roles as the carefree father of a girl whose mother keeps her under the strictest control. Also starring Dorothy Wilson, Erin O’Brien-Moore, Bruce Cabot and Edith Fellows.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1934, Bruce Cabot, Dorothy Wilson, Dramas, Edith Fellows, Eily Malyon, Erin O'Brien-Moore, John S Robertson, Leonard Carey, Richard Dix, RKO (Pathe), Shirley Grey, Warner Archive

The Lost Squadron (1932) Starring Richard Dix, With Erich von Stroheim

June 17, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

Joel McCrea, Robert Armstrong and Richard Dix

RKO’s The Lost Squadron (1932) is a war movie that isn’t a war movie. Veterans return home to find work as Hollywood stunt fliers under Erich von Stoheim’s command. Starring Richard Dix, Robert Armstrong, Joel McCrea, Hugh Herbert, Mary Astor and Dorothy Jordan. Directed by George Archainbaud.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, David O Selznick, dick grace, Dorothy Jordan, Erich Von Stroheim, forgotten men, george archainbaud, Hugh Herbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Richard Dix, Robert Armstrong, the lost squadron, wallace smith, World War I

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