Cast: John Archer
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring John Archer. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 51
White Heat
1949 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast James Cagney · Virginia Mayo · Edmond O'Brien · Margaret Wycherly
Synopsis Cody Jarrett is the sadistic leader of a ruthless gang of thieves. Afflicted by terrible headaches and fiercely devoted to his 'Ma', Cody is a volatile, violent, and eccentric leader. Cody's top henchman wants to lead the gang and attempts...
8.1
11K votes
8.1
11K votes
Colorado Territory
1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Joel McCrea · Virginia Mayo · Dorothy Malone · Henry Hull
Synopsis Outlaw Wes McQueen is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job. He doesn't like his new partners - except dance-hall girl Colorado - and anyway fancies Julie Ann newly arrived from the east to set up home...
7.6
2K votes
7.6
2K votes
The Twilight Zone: Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? (TV)
1961 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Montgomery Pittman
Cast John Hoyt · Jean Willes · Jack Elam · Barney Phillips
Synopsis Following a frantic phone call about a crashed spaceship, two policeman try and determine who among the passengers of a bus at a snowed-in roadside diner is from another world.
7.1
105 votes
7.1
105 votes
The Lost Moment
1947 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Martin Gabel
Cast Robert Cummings · Susan Hayward · Agnes Moorehead · Joan Lorring
Synopsis In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis Venable rents a room from Juliana Bordereau, once Jeffrey Ashton's...
6.6
175 votes
6.6
175 votes
City of Fear
1959 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Irving Lerner
Cast Vince Edwards · Lyle Talbot · John Archer · Steven Ritch
Synopsis An escaped convict headed to Los Angeles has gotten hold of a substance known as "Cobalt-60", a radioactive powder that is explosive enough to blow the city off the map. What he doesn't know is that exposure to the element...
6.5
75 votes
6.5
75 votes
Decision at Sundown
1957 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Budd Boetticher
Cast Randolph Scott · John Carroll · Karen Steele · John Archer
Synopsis A Texan who fought in the Civil War arrives at Sundown accompanied by a friend. His intention is to get revenge on a man who happens to be the richest landowner in the region and is about to marry.
6.4
513 votes
6.4
513 votes
Columbo: Requiem for a Falling Star (TV)
1973 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Richard Quine
Cast Peter Falk · Anne Baxter · Kevin McCarthy · Frank Converse
Synopsis A faded movie actress commits murder. Lt. Columbo, one of her biggest fans, is on the case.
6.4
315 votes
6.4
315 votes
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Roy William Neill
Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Marjorie Lord · Henry Daniell
Synopsis In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
6.1
358 votes
6.1
358 votes
Guadalcanal Diary
1943 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Seiler
Cast Preston Foster · Lloyd Nolan · William Bendix · Richard Conte
Synopsis Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
6.0
295 votes
6.0
295 votes
Destination Moon
1950 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Irving Pichel
Cast John Archer · Warner Anderson · Tom Powers · Dick Wesson
Synopsis A private businessman arranges for an expedition to the moon before the Russians get there first. The American astronauts fly there, establish a base, but are not certain they have enough fuel to return to Earth.
5.7
390 votes
5.7
390 votes
Best of the Badmen
1951 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction William D. Russell
Cast Robert Ryan · Claire Trevor · Jack Buetel · Robert Preston
Synopsis At the conclusion of the Civil War, Jeff Clanton, an Army major from Missouri, persuades the last of the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders to give themselves up and pledge their allegiance to the Union. Many of the Raiders are infamous wanted...
5.6
125 votes
5.6
125 votes
The Big Trees
1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Felix E. Feist
Cast Kirk Douglas · Eve Miller · Patrice Wymore · Edgar Buchanan
Synopsis In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony, who try to persuade...
5.5
459 votes
5.5
459 votes
Paper Bullets
1941 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Phil Rosen
Cast Joan Woodbury · Jack La Rue · Linda Ware · John Archer
Synopsis Afterseeking revenge for her boyfriend, Joan Woodbury finds herself in jail on a hit-and-run charge. Ladd plays an undercover reporter doubling for a notorious gangster.
5.3
25 votes
5.3
25 votes
Santa Fe
1951 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Irving Pichel
Cast Randolph Scott · Janis Carter · Jerome Courtland · Peter M. Thompson
Synopsis After the Civil War four brothers who fought for the South head west. Yanks are building the Santa Fe Railroad and one of the brothers joins them. The other three still hold their hatred of the North and join up...
5.3
109 votes
5.3
109 votes
She Devil
1957 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Kurt Neumann
Cast Mari Blanchard · Albert Dekker · John Archer · Paul Cavanagh
5.2
46 votes
5.2
46 votes
Apache Rifles
1964 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction William Witney
Cast Audie Murphy · Michael Dante · Linda Lawson · L.Q. Jones
Synopsis A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.
5.1
81 votes
5.1
81 votes
Bowery at Midnight
1942 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Wallace Fox
Cast Bela Lugosi · John Archer · Wanda McKay · Tom Neal
Synopsis Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Bela Lugosi uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. When things get out of hand, Lugosi kills his henchmen,...
5.0
39 votes
5.0
39 votes
My Favorite Spy
1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Bob Hope · Hedy Lamarr · Francis L. Sullivan · Arnold Moss
Synopsis Peanuts White, a burlesque comic, is recruited by U.S. agents to impersonate international spy Eric Augustine (whom White resembles) in a mission to purchase a million-dollar microfilm in mysterious, exotic Tangier. There, he encounters the irresistable Lily Dalbray, an "old...
4.9
35 votes
4.9
35 votes
King of the Zombies
1941 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Jean Yarbrough
Cast Dick Purcell · Joan Woodbury · Mantan Moreland · Henry Victor
Synopsis In World War II, during a storm, a small plane crashes in an island between Cuba and Porto Rico, but the pilot James 'Mac' McCarthy (Dick Purcell) and his two passengers, Bill Summers (John Archer) and his black servant Jeff...
4.6
70 votes
4.6
70 votes
Blue Hawaii
1961 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Elvis Presley · Joan Blackman · Angela Lansbury · Roland Winters
Synopsis Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend. His father wants him to go to work at the Great Southern Hawaiian Fruit...
4.4
744 votes
4.4
744 votes