Cast: John Archer

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring John Archer. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


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

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

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

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