John Archer
12 titles
Filmography
12 results

Bowery at Midnight
(1942)A seemingly kindly criminology professor secretly runs gang operations out of a soup kitchen. Anyone who gets in his way winds up dead—and zombified.

High Lonesome
(1950)In Big Bend Country in Texas, a recent spate of unsolved murders get pinned on a mysterious young drifter in town who gets caught up with bad actors.

Rock Around the Clock
(1956)Two musicians whose dance band is going nowhere happen across a roadhouse in the sticks, where a pack of fun-loving youngsters are dancing to a new and different beat -- the kids call it rock 'n' roll! The band, Bill Haley and his Comets, leaves the two musicians mighty impressed, and they agree to manage Haley and his crew. They soon meet disc jockey Alan Freed, who immediately secures Haley and the boys a nightclub stand in the Big Apple, where the Comets become the hottest ticket in town. Haley and Co. perform most of their best-known tunes here, including "See You Later, Alligator", "Razzle Dazzle", "Rudy's Rock" and (of course) the title tune.

Gangs Inc.
(1941)After taking the rap and serving time for her boyfriend's hit-and-run, a young woman rises to the top of a crime syndicate run by city officials.

Santa Fe
(1951)After the Civil War, two brothers, once the best of friends, try to reconcile their differences that led them to fight on opposite sides in this stirring, emotional Western.

My Favorite Spy
(1951)A burlesque comic is recruited to impersonate an international spy in Africa and steal an important piece of microfilm, but the spy's girlfriend is also after the microfilm.

The Big Trees
(1952)The scheming plans of a lumber baron to harvest sequoia trees in Northern California turns the Quaker colony in his midst against his greedy mission.

King of the Zombies
(1941)Stranded on a creepy island, a group of travelers discover a mad doctor and a scheme to harness the walking dead for the Axis powers.

Sherlock Holmes in Washington
(1943)Sherlock Holmes mystery. The British sleuth travels to America's capital to trap spies during World War II. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce star. (1943) (67 mins)

Blue Hawaii
(1961)His mother (Angela Lansbury) expects him to climb the corporate ladder. But Elvis would rather wear an aloha shirt than a white collar, so he goes to work as a tour guide. Lucky Elvis: his first customers are a car full of cuties.

Overland Stage Raiders
(1938)The Three Mesquiteers buy an airplane to safely transport the Oro Grande Mining Company's gold, which has been under constant attack when travelling by motor coach, but a gang of thieves try to hijack the plane.
Best of the Badmen
(1951)In the American West, in the days after the United States' Civil War, soldiers from the defeated Confederacy fight to defend their neighbors' farms from corrupt Northern corporations. Of these men, the most famous--or infamous--are the Younger brothers and the James brothers... the Best of the Badmen. In the closing days of the Civil War, a band of Confederate soldiers, Quantrill's Raiders, wage a devastating guerilla war against the Union. When their side surrenders, the men who rode with Quantrill return home--but find farmers losing everything they own to Northern banks protected by the gunmen of the Pinkerton Company. Now, these men, Jeff Clanton (Robert Ryan), Jesse and Frank James (Lawrence Tierney and Tom Tyler) and Bob and Cole Younger (Jack Buetel and Bruce Cabot) and their brothers and cousins, use the lethal skills they learned in the War to defend their neighbors.