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Meet Maxwell Archer is a film directed by John Paddy Carstairs with John Loder
Meet Maxwell Archer (1940)
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Meet Maxwell Archer is a 1940 British mystery film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring John Loder, Leueen MacGrath and Athole Stewart. Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.
Actors
John Loder
(Maxwell Archer)
Leueen MacGrath
(Sarah)
Athole Stewart
(Supt. Gordon)
George Merritt
(Insp. Cornell)
Marta Labarr
(Nina)
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