List of the best Peter Whitney movies: Man From Del Rio(1956), Nine Lives Are Not Enough(1941), Violence(1947), The Great Sioux Uprising(1953), Buchanan Rides Alone(1958), Gorilla at Large(1954), The Big Heat(1953), The Ballad of Cable Hogue(1970), Whistling in Dixie(1942), Savage Wilderness(1955), Rio Rita(1942), Action in the North Atlantic(1943) ... ...
Western
USA
1956
82 Minutes
Ed Bannister
Anthony Quinn Katy Jurado Peter Whitney Douglas Fowley John Larch Whit Bissell Douglas Spencer Barry Atwater
gunslinger outlaw nurse doctor mexican sheriff suspenseful confident town doctor's office saloon dueling racism law and order respect fear handicap adventure love transformation
A fast Mexican-American gunman kills a few notorious gunfighters and is hired to replace Mesa's dead sheriff but a crooked saloon-keeper wants him on his payroll or out-of-the-way.
Crime, Drama
USA
1941
63 Minutes
Roy
Ronald Reagan Joan Perry James Gleason Peter Whitney Faye Emerson Howard da Silva Edward Brophy Charles Drake Vera Lewis Ben Welden Howard C. Hickman
mistress daughter chauffeur tycoon newspaper reporter editor thrilling witty melodramatic suspenseful newsroom boardinghouse household bedroom murder investigation journalism organized crime media circus schemes embezzlement
An investigative crime reporter helps the cops solve the case of a missing tycoon who's later found dead in a cheap boarding house.
Mystery & Thriller
1947
72 Minutes
Joker Robinson
Nancy Coleman Michael O'Shea Sheldon Leonard Peter Whitney Emory Parnell Pierre Watkin
An undercover journalist suffers amnesia while trying to expose members of a pressure group who advocate violence.
Western
USA
1953
80 Minutes
Ahab Jones
Jeff Chandler Faith Domergue Lyle Bettger Stacy Harris Peter Whitney Walter Sande Stephen Chase John War Eagle Glenn Strange Charles Arnt Julia Montoya
horse trader surgeon native american love interest sergeant thief striking powerful patriotic engaging gutsy melodramatic wyoming american civil war native americans american history racial issues confederate army sioux rivalry
During the Civil War, Southern agitators and a crooked horse dealer endanger the peace between the Union and the Wyoming Sioux.
Western
USA
1958
78 Minutes
Amos Agry
Randolph Scott Manuel Rojas Craig Stevens Barry Kelley Tol Avery Peter Whitney L.Q. Jones Bob Anderson
mercenary patriarch bar owner judge sheriff prisoner thrilling wild intense california border town hotel saloon courtroom mansion family feud corruption power struggle execution double-cross
Texan Tom Buchanan is heading back home with enough money to start his own ranch, but when he stops in the crooked town of Agry, he's robbed and framed for murder.
Horror
1954
84 Minutes
Kovacs
Cameron Mitchell Anne Bancroft Lee J. Cobb Raymond Burr Charlotte Austin Peter Whitney Lee Marvin Warren Stevens John Kellogg Charles Tannen
trapeze artist detective animal trainer gorilla performer outlandish suspenseful amusement park murder love triangle blackmail animal attack mystery discovery 1950s
A law student (Cameron Mitchell), a trapeze artist (Anne Bancroft), a gorilla or anyone else could be a fun-park killer.
Crime, Drama
USA
1953
90 Minutes
Tierney
Glenn Ford Gloria Grahame Jocelyn Brando Alexander Scourby Lee Marvin Jeanette Nolan Peter Whitney Willis Bouchey Robert Burton Adam Williams Howard Wendell
gangster kingpin police detective wife husband mistress dark gritty suspenseful melodramatic city nightclub household police station penthouse police corruption murder plot investigation conspiracy organized crime
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
Comedy, Western
USA
1970
121 Minutes
Cushing
Jason Robards Stella Stevens David Warner Strother Martin Slim Pickens L.Q. Jones Peter Whitney R. G. Armstrong Gene Evans William Mims Kathleen Freeman
business owner reverend prostitute partner cowboy fascinating profound amusing gutsy arizona desert modernization old west changing times unusual romance betrayal water supply transformation underdog 19th century
A hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert.
Comedy
USA
1942
74 Minutes
Frank V. Bailie
Red Skelton Ann Rutherford Rags Ragland George Bancroft Guy Kibbee Diana Lewis Peter Whitney Celia Travers Lucien Littlefield Louis Mason Mark Daniels
detective fiancée friend villain twin playful lighthearted georgia fort murder investigation treasure deception romance mystery adventure 1940s
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.
Western
1955
98 Minutes
Sergeant Major Decker
Victor Mature Guy Madison Robert Preston James Whitmore Anne Bancroft Russell Collins Peter Whitney Pat Hogan
trapper scout colonel captain native american warrior wife brash rousing brutal fort oregon wilderness rivalry infidelity civil war native americans military life adventure forbidden love 1860s
Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain (Guy Madison) who loses his fort to a hated colonel (Robert Preston).
Musical, Comedy
1942
91 Minutes
Jake
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Kathryn Grayson John Carroll Patricia Dane Tom Conway Peter Whitney Arthur Space Joan Valerie Dick Rich Barry Nelson
Two ranch hands (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello) and a radio singer foil Nazi spies in a Texas border town.
War
USA
1943
127 Minutes
Whitey Lara
Humphrey Bogart Raymond Massey Alan Hale Jacqueline Wells Ruth Gordon Sam Levene Dane Clark Peter Whitney
sailor nazi friend patriotic engaging spirited ship atlantic ocean showdown military dangerous assignment seafaring revenge quest pursuit 1940s
An American tanker's sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment; bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.
Drama
USA
1968
100 Minutes
Matt
Richard Egan Christopher Jones Susan Strasberg Ann Sothern Simon Oakland Audrey Totter Preston Foster Peter Whitney Ed Binns Joe De Santis Norman Alden
Twenty-year-old Chubasco chooses a difficult path of hard labor at sea aboard a fishing boat and learns about how to become a man in the process.
Drama
USA
1945
98 Minutes
Heinrichs
Helmut Dantine Andrea King Raymond Massey Faye Emerson Peter Lorre Alan Hale George Coulouris Henry Daniell Peter Whitney Helene Thimig Steven Geray
rebel actress general civilian informant hostess emotional gripping hotel berlin world war ii espionage emigration politics nazis escape underdog 1940s
In 1945, a strange mix of Germans, military personnel and civilians, pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi, celebrities and escaped prisoners, converges at a lavish hotel in heavily-bombed Berlin.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
92 Minutes
Timothy Delaney
Sydney Greenstreet Geraldine Fitzgerald Peter Lorre Joan Lorring Robert Shayne Marjorie Riordan Arthur Shields Rosalind Ivan John Alvin Peter Whitney Alan Napier
wife embezzler drunk widow girlfriend stranger eerie fascinating uneasy london apartment courtroom bar superstition luck embezzlement spiritual visions gambling greed quest
Three strangers, each with a serious problem in their lives, share a sweepstakes ticket which they wished upon together before a Chinese idol.
Western
USA
1954
65 Minutes
Grimes
Gary Merrill Wanda Hendrix John Bromfield Noah Beery Jr. Fay Roope Howard Wendell Robert F. Simon James Griffith Richard Webb Peter Whitney John War Eagle
During the American Civil War, Confederate spies aim to steal Union gold intended for the peace treaty with the Sioux and thus pit the Indians against the Union Forces.
Drama
USA
1944
145 Minutes
Bette Davis Claude Rains Walter Abel Richard Waring George Coulouris Marjorie Riordan Robert Shayne John Alexander Jerome Cowan Dorothy Peterson Peter Whitney
beautiful woman stockbroker army recruit suitor husband wife emotional moving sad dinner party bedroom household vanity world war i marriage concentration camp blindness secret sacrifice love
Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge.
Mystery & Thriller, War
USA
1955
117 Minutes
John Wayne Lana Turner David Farrar Lyle Bettger Tab Hunter James Arness Wilton Graff Richard Davalos John Qualen Paul Fix Luis Van Rooten
sea captain german spy nazi british officer commander suspenseful rousing australia ship south pacific port dangerous assignment world war ii espionage military nazism moral dilemma pursuit escape
As World War II begins, German freighter Captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gauntlet of Allied warships.
Drama, History
USA
1954
110 Minutes
Lee J. Cobb Robert Wilson Joanne Dru Ralph Freud Tyler McVey Michael Connors Toni Gerry James Griffith Everett Glass Lowell Gilmore Anthony Warde
judas iscariot mary magdalene leader pontius pilate apostle zealot powerful rousing garden of gethsemane judea nazareth jesus christ politics religion crucifixion faith controversy transformation sacrifice fall
An inspiring and ground breaking film on the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.
Comedy, Western
USA
1969
97 Minutes
Zero Mostel Kim Novak Clint Walker Claude Akins Akim Tamiroff Larry Storch John Anderson Sam Jaffe Mako Elisha Cook Jr. Ruth Warrick
Three separate plans to rob a top-security bank in the western town of Friendly, Texas, circa 1880.
Crime, Drama
USA
1967
109 Minutes
Sidney Poitier Rod Steiger Warren Oates Quentin Dean James Patterson William Schallert Lee Grant Scott Wilson Matt Clark Anthony James Larry Gates
detective police officer wealthy man widow virgil tibbs cool tense sparta, miss. small town police station diner murder racism abortion mystery transformation 1960s
A black police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.
War
USA
1942
104 Minutes
Joan Crawford John Wayne Philip Dorn Reginald Owen Albert Basserman John Carradine Ann Ayars J. Edward Bromberg Moroni Olsen Henry Daniell Arthur Space
socialite fiancé munitions maker pilot resistance fighter tense patriotic melodramatic paris family home factory countryside nazi collaboration nazi occupation love triangle deception world war ii undercover operations discovery escape
In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.