Jon HallFilmography

Perry Mason: The Case of the Feather Cloak

Synopsis: Perry (Raymond Burr) and Paul (William Hopper) arrive in beautiful Hawaii to investigate the viability of a land deal between Jarvis Logan (John Van Dreelen) and the Pan-Pacific Hotel chain. Logan wants to purchase Kameamea Point, which cuts into his property straight down the middle, but the deal Read More

Ramar and the Savage Challengers

Synopsis: In this episode from the Ramar of the Jungle TV adventure series, Dr. Ramar's camp is attacked by a tribe of angry natives. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ramar and the Unknown Terror

Synopsis: In this episode from the Ramar of the Jungle TV adventure series, the good doctor must find out what is causing the natives to become frightened, and restless. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ramar and the Jungle Secrets

Synopsis: In this episode from the Ramar of the Jungle TV adventure series, doctor Ramar, investigates the mysteries of the African jungle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ramar and the Deadly Females

Synopsis: In this episode from the Ramar of the Jungle TV adventure series, a doctor saves an African chief who is battling it out with a hostile tribe. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ramar and the Burning Barrier

Synopsis: In this adventure, comprised of clips from the Ramar of the Jungle TV show, a doctor-hunter must solve the mystery of an African tribe's burning barrier. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ramar's Mission to India

Synopsis: In this episode from the Ramar of the Jungle TV adventure series, Dr. Ramar leaves Africa and heads for an adventure in India. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Festive Felon

Synopsis: Althhough she is on her deathbed, wealthy Be Be Brent (Anne Barton) is sufficiently hale and hearty to enrage her relatives by leaving the bulk of her estate--one million dollars--to her nurse Hetty Randall (Anne Seymour). The family members hire Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) to contest the will, but Read More

Forbidden Island

Actors: Jon Hall, Nan Adams, John Farrow, Jonathan Haze, Greigh Phillips

Synopsis: More noted in its day for its underwater photography than for any distinction in its script or characters, this simple crime drama evolves around the retrieval of a priceless emerald from a sunken ship. Stuart Godfrey (John Farrow) is the black-hearted leader of a diving expedition to get the gem. Read More

Hell Ship Mutiny

Synopsis: In this South Seas adventure, a sea captain teams up with lovely island princess help her vanquish the brutal smugglers who are forcing her people to dive for pearls. There are French colonialists on the island and a judge is there to ensure justice. Unfortunately, he is crooked, and after the Read More

Phantom of the Jungle

Synopsis: In this adventure, set in the dark African jungles, visiting American scientists inadvertently enrage the local natives when they steal a sacred golden tablet. Fortunately a jungle dwelling doctor helps the insensitive brutes return the tablet before they are killed by the natives. ~ Sandra Read More

Thunder over Sangoland

Synopsis: In this adventure, a renowned American physician journeys to darkest Africa to help a pair of sibling missionaries stop prospectors from inciting a tribal war. The miners do this to scare the white colonists away from their newly discovered mine. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ramar of the Jungle and the White Avengers

The White Goddess

Synopsis: In this African adventure, a fearless physician goes into the jungle to search for rare medicinal herbs. While there, he runs into a tribe ruled by white women claiming to be goddesses. Some viewers may find the racial stereotypes presented in this story offensive. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Eyes of the Jungle

Synopsis: Evil traders and superstitious natives in India complicate the research efforts of an American doctor. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Eyes of the Jungle

Brave Warrior

Actors: Jon Hall, Christine Larson, Jay Silverheels, Michael Ansara, Harry Cording

Synopsis: Veteran serial director Spencer Gordon Bennett keeps things moving at a hectic pace in Brave Warrior. The title character is legendary Shawnee chief Tecumseh, well-played by Jay Silverheels (better known as Tonto on TV's The Lone Ranger). Though he has every reason to distrust the White Man Read More

Last Train from Bombay

Actors: Jon Hall, Christine Larson, Lisa Ferraday, Douglas Kennedy, Michael Fox

Synopsis: In this lively adventure, an American ambassador arrives in India as it prepares to fight a civil war. He soon learns that it is his old friend who has been insighting the conflict. Unfortunately, the troublemaker is killed, but before he expires, he tells the diplomat that a trainload of Read More

Ramar of the Jungle, Vol. 2

Synopsis: Here are two more episodes from the popular '50s TV adventure series starring Ray Montgomery and Jon Hall. Shown here are "Lady of the Leopards" and "Zombie Terror." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Ramar of the Jungle, Vol. 3

Synopsis: Here are two more episodes from the popular '50s TV adventure series starring Ray Montgomery and Jon Hall. Shown here are "Dark Venture" and "Hidden Treasure." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hurricane Island

Actors: Jon Hall, Marie Windsor, Marc Lawrence, Romo Vincent, Edgar Barrier

Synopsis: Jon Hall is right in his element in the Columbia low-budgeter Hurricane Island. Hall plays Captain Carlos Montalvo, second-in-command to Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon (Edgar Barrier). Engaged in a search for the Fountain of Youth, Montalvo gets mixed up with lady buccaneer Jane Bolton (Marie Windsor Read More

When the Redskins Rode

Actors: Jon Hall, Mary Castle, James Seay, John Ridgely, Sherry Moreland

Synopsis: When the Redskins Rode is set during the French and Indian Wars of the mid-18th century. Jon Hall stars as Prince Lennoc, the son of Delaware-chief Shingiss (Pedro de Cordoba). The English are on the verge of signing an alliance with Shingiss, but their efforts are stymied by alluring French spy Read More

China Corsair

Actors: Jon Hall, Lisa Ferraday, Ron Randell, Douglas Kennedy, Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: In this exciting actioner a daring Eurasian woman gets involved with a shipwrecked engineer whom she rescues from a remote island. Together, they have many romantic and exciting adventures as they try to keep a crook from selling her uncle's priceless collection of antique jade. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

On the Isle of Samoa

Actors: Jon Hall, Susan Cabot, Raymond Greenleaf, Henry Marco, Al Kikume

Synopsis: In On the Isle of Samoa, beefcake star Jon Hall plays Kenneth Crandall, an unsavory gambler who absconds with his partner's money in a stolen plane. He crashes on an unchartered island, where he comes across a tribe of English-speaking natives, benevolently overseen by selfless missionary Peter Read More

Zamba

Actors: June Vincent, Jane Nigh, Jon Hall, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: Eight-year-old Beau Bridges essayed his first leading role in Zamba. Bridges plays a young boy who, with his mother (June Vincent), is stranded in the middle of the African jungle. Through circumstances beyond their control, mother and son are separated. She manages to reach civilization and Read More

The Mutineers

Actors: Adele Jergens, George Reeves, Noel Cravat, Don C. Harvey

Synopsis: Quickie producer Sam Katzman gathered together a few leftover costumes, sets and props from past Columbia "A" pictures, and the result was The Mutineers. First Mate Nick Shaw (Jon Hall) stumbles across the murdered body of his captain (Lyle Talbot). The evidence indicates that the culprits are Read More

Deputy Marshal

Actors: Jon Hall, Frances Langford, Dick Foran, Julie Bishop, Joe Sawyer

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Charles Huckelmann, Deputy Marshal was a "special" by the standards of cost-conscious Screen Guild productions. The film stars Jon Hall and Frances Langford, who were Mr. and Mrs. at the time. Hall plays the title character, aka Ed Garry, while Langford essays the role of Janet Read More

The Prince of Thieves

Actors: Jon Hall, Patricia Morison, Adele Jergens, Alan Mowbray, Michael Duane

Synopsis: The daring Robin Hood and his loyal Merry Men attempt to save Maid Marian and her brother from the evil clutches of the Sheriff of Nottingham in this adventure aimed at younger audiences. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Michigan Kid

Actors: Jon Hall, Victor McLaglen, Rita Johnson, Andy Devine, Byron Foulger

Synopsis: Jon Hall, Universal's beefcake kid, usually comported himself in South Seas or Arabian nights outfits. In Michigan Kid (based on a novel by Rex Beach), he's decked out in ten-gallon hat, levis and six-guns. Hall and his cohort Andy Devine are among the many characters searching for a treasure Read More

The Vigilantes Return

Actors: Jon Hall, Margaret Lindsay, Paula Drew, Andy Devine, Robert Wilcox

Synopsis: In this western, a marshal goes undercover to stop a brutal gang of crooks from continuing to terrorize local ranchers. After infiltrating the gang, he discovers that the perpetrator is the owner of the town saloon where his ex-girlfriend works. Unfortunately, the marshal gets discovered and Read More

The Last of the Redmen

Actors: Jon Hall, Michael O'Shea, Evelyn Ankers, Julie Bishop, Larry "Buster" Crabbe

Synopsis: Columbia's Last of the Redmen is actually the first color film version of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. Jon Hall stars as 18th century frontier scout Hawkeye, assigned to escort the offspring of British general Munro (Guy Hedlund) through treacherous Indian country in upstate Read More

Death Valley

Synopsis: The titular valley is the locale for an inordinate amount of double-crosses and betrayals. Young prospector Carroll Nye thinks he's doing a good deed when he rescues heroine Rada Rae, whom he finds wandering aimlessly in the desert. Little does Nye realize that Rae is in cahoots with Read More

Men in Her Diary

Actors: Peggy Ryan, Louise Allbritton, Ernest Truex, Virginia Grey

Synopsis: In 1912, John Bunny and Flora Finch starred in the one-reel farce The New Secretary, wherein Bunny's wife hires a homely stenographer to keep her hubby from straying. 33 years later, this old chestnut was reheated for The Men in Her Diary. The cute-as-a-button Peggy Ryan "dresses down" to portray Read More

Sudan

Actors: Maria Montez, Turhan Bey, Jon Hall, Andy Devine, George Zucco

Synopsis: In another of her series of romantic desert adventures, popular actress Maria Montez is this time Naila, the newly crowned queen of an ancient Egyptian land. Her father the king has just been assassinated and she intends to make those responsible pay for their crime. She sets out into the desert Read More

San Diego, I Love You

Actors: Jon Hall, Louise Allbritton, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore

Synopsis: Louise Allbritton, a talented but neglected film star of the 1940s, plays the oldest sister in a large motherless family. Papa (Edward Everett Horton) is an erstwhile inventor working on a collapsible life raft, which Allbritton tries to promote to a handsome financier (Jon Hall) who mistrusts Read More

Cobra Woman

Actors: Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Edgar Barrier, Lon Chaney, Jr., Mary Nash

Synopsis: On the eve of her wedding to Ramu (Jon Hall), the beautiful Tollea (Maria Montez) is spirited away from her tranquil South Sea island to the mysterious, forbidden place of her birth, Cobra Island. Ramu follows and, with help from his young-but-not-too-bright friend Kado (Sabu) and their chimp Read More

The Invisible Man's Revenge

Actors: Jon Hall, Alan Curtis, Evelyn Ankers, Leon Errol, John Carradine

Synopsis: The fifth in the Invisible Man series stars Jon Hall as Robert Griffin, a convict who takes the invisibility serum and then goes on a crime spree. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lady in the Dark

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Jon Hall, Warner Baxter, Barry Sullivan

Synopsis: Freely adapted from a successful Broadway musical by Moss Hart, this story stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of a popular fashion magazine. Despite her beauty, wealth, and success in business, Liza is unhappy and out of sorts. And while three men are vying for her affections Read More

Gypsy Wildcat

Actors: Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Gale Sondergaard, Leo Carrillo, Peter Coe, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: In this swashbuckler, a princess is raised by gypsies and becomes their queen. The trouble really begins when a count is murdered and the evil, ambitious baron who really did it blames the crime on the gypsies. The baron's messenger knows the truth and tries to prove it. When he notices that the Read More

White Savage

Actors: Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu, Don Terry, Turhan Bey

Synopsis: This frothy fantasy adventure centers upon the exotic romance between a shark fisherman (the sharks he captured are used for the manufacture of vitamin A) and the beautiful princess of Temple Island. They meet when the fisherman asks a young boy with royal connections to introduce him to the Read More

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Actors: Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Turhan Bey, Andy Devine, Kurt Katch

Synopsis: The general perception of the Technicolor costume adventure movies that Maria Montez and Jon Hall made for Universal in the early 1940's is that they were pure escapist entertainment, intended to make people forget for an hour or so about the Second World War and the general world situation. And Read More

Eagle Squadron

Actors: Robert Stack, Diana Barrymore, John Loder, Eddie Albert, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: With America's Air Force not completely mobilized in mid-1942, Universal paid tribute to those foresighted Yankee flyboys who joined England's Royal Air Force before America's entry into WW2 in Eagle Squadron. Robert Stack stars as Chuck Brewer, one of several US flyers participating in RAF Read More

The Tuttles of Tahiti

Actors: Charles Laughton, Jon Hall, Peggy Drake, Victor Francen, Adeline Reynolds

Synopsis: When two young island-dwelling people fall for each other, their rival parents do not embrace the romance with welcomed arms as one family is content with a simple and lazy life and the other is just the opposite. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Invisible Agent

Actors: Ilona Massey, Jon Hall, Peter Lorre, Cedric Hardwicke, J. Edward Bromberg

Synopsis: Universal's "Invisible Man" series does its bit for the war effort in this slyly tongue-in-cheek action melodrama. Jon Hall stars as Frank Raymond, grandson of the man who invented the invisibility formula several pictures back. When Nazi agents try to coerce the secret formula out of Raymond, he Read More

The Arabian Nights

Actors: Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Leif Erickson, Sabu, Billy Gilbert

Synopsis: In a harem in a Middle Eastern palace, the guardian leads the women he protects in telling the tale of Halroun-Al-Raschid (Jon Hall), the Caliph of Bagdad, who found himself an enemy close to home in the form of his half-brother Kamar (Leif Erickson), who was ineligible for the throne because of Read More

Aloma of the South Seas

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Lynne Overman, Phillip Reed, Katherine de Mille

Synopsis: The South Seas romance is set on the scenic island of Tahiti where the island chief betroths his son to a woman and then ships him to the US to attend Harvard. During the return voyage the lad is befriended by the ship's captain who also protects the beautiful girl the boy meets, but doesn't know Read More

South of Pago Pago

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer, Olympe Bradna, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: Beefcake star Jon Hall shows off his sleek physique in the exotic melodrama South of Pago Pago. The son of an island chieftan, young Kehane (Hall) defiantly opposes the efforts by crooked pearl hunter Bucko Larson (Victor McLaglen) to invade his domain. Larson and his minions hope to dissuade our Read More

Kit Carson

Actors: Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews, Harold Huber, Ward Bond

Synopsis: This typically economical Edward Small historical drama stars Jon Hall as legendary frontiersman Kit Carson. Wasting no time, the film gets off to an exciting start as Carson and his two saddle pals (Ward Bond and Harold Huber) are attacked by Indians. They manage to escape unscatched and make Read More

Sailor's Lady

Actors: Nancy Kelly, Jon Hall, Joan Davis, Dana Andrews, Mary Nash

Synopsis: The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy (Claire Trevor). Danny's impending marriage to Sally is put on the back burner when she is put in charge of an orphaned baby (Bruce Hampton, playing a girl!) During naval Read More

The Hurricane

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis: Framed in a flashback related by doctor Thomas Mitchell, The Hurricane is in essence the story of a struggle between individual freedom and colonial oppression. Jon Hall plays Terangi, a tempestuous native of the French-controlled island of Manakoora. After marrying childhood sweetheart Marama (Dorothy Lamour Read More

Mind Your Own Business

Actors: Charlie Ruggles, Alice Brady, Lyle Talbot, Ben Baker, Jack LaRue

Synopsis: In this drama, a Boy Scout leader hosts a local gossip show. Trouble ensues when he predicts a politician's murder just before it occurs. He is arrested by the DA, but before getting to jail, he is abducted by irate gangsters--the real killers. Fortunately, his loyal Scout troop rallies to his Read More

The Girl from Scotland Yard

Actors: Karen Morley, Katherine Alexander, Eduardo Ciannelli, Milli Monti

Synopsis: The Girl from Scotland Yard has a dynamite opening sequence, as villain Franz Borg (Eduardo Cianelli) demonstrates his futuristic "death ray" on a helpless London. Threatening to destroy all of Europe if his demands aren't met, Borg hasn't reckoned with the resourcefulness of gorgeous secret Read More

The Mysterious Avenger

Actors: Jon Hall, Charles Starrett, Joan Perry, Wheeler Oakman, Edward J. Le Saint, Lafe [Lafayette] McKee

Synopsis: In his second of an unprecedented 131 Westerns for Columbia Pictures, handsome Charles Starrett donned his trademark white Stetson to portray Ranny Maitland, a Texas Ranger whose father (Lafe Mckee) is feuding with his neighbor, Lockhart (Edward Le Saint. Pretending to be on Lockhart's side in the Read More

The Clutching Hand [Serial]

Synopsis: The second of three serials produced by the Weiss Bros. for low-budget Stage and Screen Productions, The Clutching Hand brought back that eminent detective Craig Kennedy, who had first appeared in Pearl White's The Exploits of Elaine back in 1915. Now played by the veteran Jack Mulhall, another Read More

Winds of the Wasteland

Actors: John Wayne, Phyllis Fraser, Yakima Canutt, Douglas Cosgrove, Lane Chandler

Synopsis: Former pony express riders John Blair (John Wayne) and Larry Adams (Lane Chandler) don't buy the Brooklyn Bridge in this Republic Western, but the two greenhorns instead purchase a dilapidated stage line to a ghost town. While the unscrupulous seller, "Honest Cal" Drake (Douglas Cosgrove), count Read More

The Lion Man

Synopsis: Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Lad and the Lion, which had been filmed previously in 1917, this ersatz-Tarzan melodrama shifts the scene from Darkest Africa to the Arabian Desert. The treacherous Sheik Youssef Ab-Dur (Ted Adams) kills an entire expedition and among the slain is Sir Ronald Read More

Charlie Chan in Shanghai

Actors: Warner Oland, Irene Hervey, Charles Locher, Jon Hall, Russell Hicks, Keye Luke

Synopsis: After wrapping up his last case in Egypt, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) heads to Shanghai for a well-deserved rest. It isn't long, however, before Chan has been summoned by the local constabulary to help smash an international dope ring. He is aided by erudite American intelligence agent James Read More