The best Johnny Johnston’s movies

Johnny Johnston

Johnny Johnston

Today we present the best Johnny Johnston’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Johnny Johnston’s movies.
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Unchained

Unchained
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/08/1955
  • Character: Eddie Garrity
This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino, California. The place takes a humanistic approach to reform and there are no armed guards, no lockups and no uniforms. The underlying philosophy is that if these things are not there, the prisoners will not want to escape, and will instead accept their punishment. A new inmate arrives and soon accustoms himself to the new idea. The story includes the Oscar nominated song Unchained Melody.

Star Spangled Rhythm

Star Spangled Rhythm
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 05/03/1942
  • Character: Johnny Johnson
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.

Man from Texas

Man from Texas
5.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 06/03/1948
  • Character: Billy Taylor
James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe. He repeatedly tells Zoe, "just one more time," but he is unable to stop which angers her greatly. However, he does have brief moments of heroics such as when he helps the Widow Weeks save her farm.

Priorities on Parade

Priorities on Parade
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/07/1942
  • Character: Johnny Draper (as Johnnie Johnston)
Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant. However, personnel manager E. V. Hartley can only offer them regular jobs, and when Johnny inspires the Dixie Pixies to work in the plant, lead singer and dancer Donna D'Arcy leaves the band for a singing job at the Club Martel in downtown Los Angeles.

Rock Around the Clock

Rock Around the Clock
6.1/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 21/03/1956
  • Character: Steve Hollis
A frustrated big-band promoter runs in to rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets at a small-town dance. He quickly becomes their manager and, with the help of Alan Freed, hopes to bring the new sound to the entire country. But will a conniving booking agent, with a personal ax to grind with the manager, conspire to keep the band from making the big time?

Sweater Girl

Sweater Girl
6.9/10
College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.

This Time for Keeps

This Time for Keeps
5.8/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 17/10/1947
  • Character: Dick Johnson (as Johnnie Johnston)
An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty.

Bombalera

Bombalera
9.2/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 09/02/1945
  • Character: Dick Richards
1945 film nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel

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