 "Bar Sinister" with Roger Moore was announced but not made.Richards was one of Eleanor Parker's brothers in "Many Rivers to Cross" (1955) and was finally given a star part in the Western "The Marauders" (1955) playing a hero opposite Dan Duryea.He played the lead in the box-office flop "It's a Dog's Life" (1955) and had one of the male leads in the musical "The Opposite Sex" (1956).