The Forgotten Village (1941) DVD [Remastered Edition]
This mystery movie has John archer in the lead role as a young Assistant District Attorney whose job is at stake, unless he finds the criminals responsible for murder and running a prostitution racket. John Archer was the father of the 1990s actress Anne ArcherTHE PLOT: When young girls from the city begin disappearing mysteriously, Captain McVeigh and Assistant DA James Horton know that something has to be done quickly. All indications point to King Peterson who runs an institute for training young actresses, but Peterson is a smart cookie who stops at nothing to elude arrest, using bribery, threats, murder and blackmail to good effect. He even frames Horton in a murder. Nora Thompson, a reporter with a local daily has a crush on Horton, and puts her life in jeopardy by posing as an aspiring actress to get proof of Peterson’s involvement in the murder.