The best Tor Johnson’s movies

Tor Johnson

Tor Johnson

19/10/1903- 12/05/1971
We present our ranking of the best Tor Johnson’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 Tor Johnson.
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Angels in the Outfield

Angels in the Outfield
7.1/10
Paul Douglas, stars with Janet Leigh, as the hot-tempered Pittsburgh Pirates manager whose hard-luck team goes on a wining streak thanks to some heavenly intervention.

State of the Union

State of the Union
7.2/10
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.

Head

Head
6.4/10
In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.

Plan 9 from Outer Space

Plan 9 from Outer Space
3.9/10
In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife and on the next day he also dies. However, the space soldier Eros and her mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both and the strong Inspector Clay that was murdered by the couple. Their intention is not to conquest Earth but to stop mankind from developing the powerful bomb “Solobonite” that would threaten the universe. When the population of Hollywood and Washington DC sees flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife and a policeman try to stop the aliens.

Shadow of the Thin Man

Shadow of the Thin Man
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeMystery
  • Release: 21/11/1941
  • Character: "The Irish Thrush", a wrestler (uncredited)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.

Gentleman Jim

Gentleman Jim
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/11/1942
  • Character: The Mauler (uncredited)
As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.

Bride of the Monster

Bride of the Monster
4.1/10
Dr. Eric Vornoff, with the help of his mute assistant Lobo, captures twelve men for a grisly experiment; His goal to turn them into supermen using atomic energy. Reporter Janet Lawton, fiancée of the local lieutenant, vows to investigate Vornoff's supposedly haunted house.

Night of the Ghouls

Night of the Ghouls
3.6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/01/1959
  • Character: Lobo
Reports of strange activities out by the Old Willow's place signal new adventures for Kelton the Cop & Co. An apparent mystic, Dr. Acula is engaging in rituals designed to raise the dead. But he may get more than he bargained for...

The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep
6/10
In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...

Lost in a Harem

Lost in a Harem
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/12/1944
  • Character: Majordomo (uncredited)
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.

The Meanest Man in the World

The Meanest Man in the World
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/02/1943
  • Character: Vladimir Pulasky (uncredited)
Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and tries to convince the world he's a ruthless heel. Suddenly he's the most popular lawyer in town -- but he could lose his fiancée.

The Lemon Drop Kid

The Lemon Drop Kid
7/10
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.

Behind Locked Doors

Behind Locked Doors
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 13/09/1948
  • Character: 'The Champ', a patient (uncredited)
Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake (Herbert Heyes), free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To get the goods on Drake, private detective Ross Stewart has himself committed to the asylum as a patient. Meanwhile, reporter Kathy Lawrence (Lucille Bremer), posing as Stewart's wife, acts as his liaison to the outside world.

The Beast of Yucca Flats

The Beast of Yucca Flats
1.9/10
A refugee Soviet scientist arrives at a desert airport carrying secret documents, but is attacked by a pair of KGB assassins and escapes into the desert, where he comes in range of an American nuclear test and is transformed into a mindless killing beast ... There is no dialogue track on this film, only ongoing narration.

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/08/1950
  • Character: Abou Ben
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid. Bits include Lou's mirage sightings, one a New York newsboy ("they gave me a bad corner").

The Unearthly

The Unearthly
3.3/10
Mad doctor uses patients at his isolated psychiatric institute as subjects in his attempts to create longevity by surgically installing an artificial gland in their skulls, with disastrous results.

Lady In The Iron Mask

Lady In The Iron Mask
5.8/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 04/07/1952
  • Character: Renac (uncredited)
A female version of the man in the iron mask. In this version the mask is put on a princess (patricia medina) rather than a prince as in the original book by Alexander Dumas.

Man on the Flying Trapeze

Man on the Flying Trapeze
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/08/1935
  • Character: Tosoff - Wrestler (uncredited)
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

Dear Brat

Dear Brat
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/05/1951
  • Character: The new gardener (uncredited)
Mirian Wilkins, teen-age daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rahabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of the Senator, elects him to the position of honorary president. When a new gardener, Bacter, of the family turns out to be an notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins is about to fire him until his daughter point out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on her society. Further complications arise involving a fuss-budget banker, Albert, a former suitor of Miriam's older, married sister, plus some domestic misunderstandings between Baxter and his wide, and the older sister and her husband.

Swing Out the Blues

Swing Out the Blues
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/12/1943
  • Character: Weightlifter
The film is partly a parody of The Goodwill Court, a popular radio problem hosted by advice-dispenser "Mr. Anthony". The host of a "What's your problem?" radio hour tries to smooth the romantic path of singer Rich Cleveland (Haymes) and his socialite wife Penelope (Lynn Merrick). The fly in the ointment is Dena Marshall (Janis Carter), who has set her sights on the handsome Rich.

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