The best Peter M. Thompson’s movies

Peter M. Thompson

Peter M. Thompson

We present our ranking of the best Peter M. Thompson’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Peter M. Thompson.
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Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride
7.1/10
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.

A Double Life

A Double Life
7/10
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.

Santa Fe

Santa Fe
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/04/1951
  • Character: Tom Canfield
After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.

The Flying Missile

The Flying Missile
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/12/1950
  • Character: Lieutenant Commander
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.

Mystery Street

Mystery Street
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/06/1950
  • Character: Law Student (uncredited)
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.

Buck Privates Come Home

Buck Privates Come Home
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1947
  • Character: GI Buddy (uncredited)
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
6.7/10
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.

Smuggler's Gold

Smuggler's Gold
5.8/10
A deep-sea diver becomes romantically involved with the daughter of a gold smuggler.

Monster a Go-Go

Monster a Go-Go
1.8/10
American astronaut Frank Douglas mysteriously disappears from his spacecraft as it parachutes to Earth. He is apparently replaced by or turned into a large, radioactive, humanoid monster. A team of scientists and military men attempt to capture the monster.

The Harlem Globetrotters

The Harlem Globetrotters
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/05/1951
  • Character: Martin
All-American basketball player, Billy signs up with the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional team. Billy struggles with important life decisions and their consequences.

A Yank in Ermine

A Yank in Ermine
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1955
  • Character: Joe Turner
An American airman inherits an Earldom in England along with the small matter of $3 million on the proviso that he gives up his US citizenship. Unsure if he is prepared to make the sacrifice he takes a trip with his two best friends to try our his new title, but will he be able to cope with the British aristocracy?

Ridin' the Outlaw Trail

Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
6.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/02/1951
  • Character: Sheriff Tom Chapman (as Peter Thompson)
Charles Starrett plays lawman Steve Forsythe in Ridin' the Outlaw Trail. Somewhere along the line, of course, Steve is obliged to don the mask of The Durango Kid, mysterious righter of wrongs. The "wrongs" in this instance include the theft of $20,000 in gold, and the "kidnapping" of a blacksmith's forge! Jim Bannon, who only a few months earlier had played the heroic Red Ryder, provides the villainy in this fast-paced "Durango Kid" entry

Fort Savage Raiders

Fort Savage Raiders
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/03/1951
  • Character: Lt. James Sutter (as Peter Thompson)
Fort Savage Raiders is another entry in Charles Starrett's "Durango Kid" western series. Starrett once again does double duty as a peacekeeper named Steve (this time his last name is Drake) and as masked avenger Durango. The heavy of the piece is escaped military prisoner Craydon (John Dehner) who, with several other fugitives from justice, forms an army of terrorists.

Fury in Paradise

Fury in Paradise
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 19/09/1955
  • Character: (as Peter Thompson)
In this western, the hero takes a Mexican vacation, gets caught up in a revolutionary plot with the powerful owner of a hacienda, and falls in love with the rancher's daughter all at the same time.

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