Peter M. Thompson

Movies17

• Movie7.0

  ComedyRomance

  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.

  Father of the Bride

  1950 · 244 votes

• Movie6.4

  ComedyRomance

  In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.

  Who Was That Lady?

  1960 · 31 votes

• Movie6.4

  ComedyRomance

  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.

  Buck Privates Come Home

  1947 · 32 votes

• Movie6.2

  ComedyWestern

  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.

  The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

  1947 · 20 votes

• Movie6.8

  CrimeThriller

  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.

  Mystery Street

  1950 · 69 votes

• Movie6.0

  Comedy

  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?

  A Yank in Ermine

  1955 · 3 votes

• Movie6.3

  DramaThriller

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

  A Double Life

  1947 · 84 votes

• Movie6.8

  Western

  After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.

  Santa Fe

  1951 · 26 votes

• Movie5.3

  Drama

  A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.

  The Flying Missile

  1950 · 9 votes

• Movie2.3

  HorrorScience Fiction

  A space capsule crash-lands on Earth, and the astronaut aboard disappears. Is there a connection between the missing man and the monster roaming the area?

  Monster a Go-Go!

  1965 · 49 votes

• Movie7.5

  ComedyRomance

  Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.

  The Happy Years

  1950 · 4 votes

• Movie10.0

  Western

  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

  Ridin' the Outlaw Trail

  1951 · 1 votes

• Movie6.1

  CrimeDrama

  When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.

  The Family Secret

  1951 · 14 votes

• Movie7.0

  AdventureCrime

  A deep-sea diver becomes romantically involved with the daughter of a gold smuggler.

  Smuggler's Gold

  1951 · 2 votes

• Movie5.5

  Drama

  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.

  The Harlem Globetrotters

  1951 · 6 votes

• Movie9.0

  Western

  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.

  Fort Savage Raiders

  1951 · 1 votes

• Movie6.7

  Western

  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.

  Fury in Paradise

  1955 · 3 votes