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John Archer

John Archer

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John Archer (May 8, 1915 – December 5, 1999) was an American movie and television actor.

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Amelia Earhart (1976)

Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in 1937. ...

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Thursday's Game (1974)

Harry Evers and Marvin Ellison have been playing poker Thursday nights with their friends for years. When a disagreement breaks up the game, they decide to continue meeting and doing different things together, instead of staying home with their wives. When ...

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How to Frame a Figg (1971)

Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans, they promote Figg to look after things, knowing he'll never catch on. Their plan backfires when Figg become ...

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I Saw What You Did (1965)

Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a brutal double murder committed by one of their targets. ...

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Apache Rifles (1964)

A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside. ...

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Blue Hawaii (1961)

Chad Gates has just been discharged from the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies and his girlfriend. ...

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City of Fear (1959)

An escaped convict gets a hold of some radioactive material after his escape. Authorities desperately try to find the man that unknowingly is threating the lives of everyone in the city. ...

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Decision at Sundown (1957)

A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death. ...

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Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)

In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off. ...

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She Devil (1957)

Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects. ...

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Affair in Reno (1957)

The story of a PR man hired by a millionaire to go to Reno to prevent his daughter from marrying an opportunistic gambler. ...

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Emergency Hospital (1956)

About the lives and loves of the staff of an emergency hospital as reflected in a single frenetic night of business-as-usual. ...

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Rock Around the Clock (1956)

A frustrated big-band promoter runs in to rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets at a small-town dance. He quickly becomes their manager and, with the help of Alan Freed, hopes to bring the new sound to the entire country. But will a conniving booking ...

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No Man's Woman (1955)

A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no shortage of suspects who wanted to see her dead--among them a rich husband she wouldn't divorce unless he paid her a huge settlement, a lover she caused to be fi ...

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Dragon's Gold (1954)

Murder and intrigue follow an insurance investigator Mack Rossiter (John Archer) after he is dispatched to China to investigate the disappearance of 7M worth of gold. ...

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The Stars Are Singing (1953)

After she enters the United States illegally, 15-year-old Polish singer Katri Walenska (Anna Maria Alberghetti) finds herself under the wing of aspiring singer Terry Brennan (Rosemary Clooney). Soon Terry has Katri booked on a TV talent show -- but her imm ...

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Sea Tiger (1952)

Murder ensues when owners and hired help contrive against each other to obtain diamonds and gold ingots secretly hidden on a derelict and abandoned Japanese freighter left lying in anchor in a New Guinea cove at the end of WW II. ...

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Sound Off (1952)

An obnoxious nightclub comedian at Ciro's is drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War. At his arrival at his basic training he meets a WAC Lieutenant and romantically pursues her. His activities irritate his drill sergeant and the entire army when ...

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Rodeo (1952)

Nancy Cartwright is determined to collect an $1,800 feed bill owed to her father Harry Cartwright by a rodeo association. Instead, she is talked into assuming management of the rodeo by Slim Martin and the other performers when they learn the promoter has ...

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The Big Trees (1952)

In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony, who try to persuade him to spare the giant sequoias...bu ...

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My Favorite Spy (1951)

A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy. ...

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Best of the Badmen (1951)

After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status. But standing in Clanton's way are the corrupt law ...

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Santa Fe (1951)

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

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High Lonesome (1950)

When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in the Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a young drifter who just moved to the area. ...

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The Great Jewel Robber (1950)

Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis S ...

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Destination Moon (1950)

A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that ...

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White Heat (1949)

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn. ...

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Colorado Territory (1949)

After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist. ...

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The Lost Moment (1947)

In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis Venable rents a room from Juliana Bordereau, once Jeffrey Ashton's ...

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Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)

Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for ...

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The Eve of St. Mark (1944)

Quizz West is conscripted into the United States Army in late 1940. Prior to being shipped out first to San Francisco, then the Philippines, Quizz and his hometown girlfriend Janet discuss their future plans. ...

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No Exceptions (1943)

Short subject intended to promote unified action and sacrifice by Americans on the home front during the war. ...

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Guadalcanal Diary (1943)

Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII. ...

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Crash Dive (1943)

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own P ...

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Shantytown (1943)

Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks" ...

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Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)

In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress. ...

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Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)

In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it. ...

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The Purple V (1943)

German expatriate Fritz Kortner plays the largest role, as an anti-Nazi schoolmaster who helps a downed American flyer (John Archer) reached Allied lines with vital war information. As usual, the Nazis are incredibly stupid and lead-footed, enabling the fl ...

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Bowery at Midnight (1942)

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments ...

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Scattergood Survives a Murder (1942)

Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery. ...

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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)

In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before. ...

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Police Bullets (1942)

A gangster running a protection racket gets information that he's about to be prosecuted on income-tax-evasion charges. He hires a man with a photographic memory to memorize his books, then destroys them all so the police won't have any evidence to link hi ...

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Hi, Neighbor (1942)

A financially strapped college is transformed into a summer holiday resort with the help of music and radio stars. ...

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Always Tomorrow: The Portrait of an American Business (1941)

Feature length promotional film presented by The Coca-Cola Company during World War II, focuses on a small town bottler as he looks back on his company's past and plans for an optimistic future. ...

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Sucker List (1941)

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of what little they have. ...

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Mountain Moonlight (1941)

A cyclone destroys the Weaver family farm leaving only the old stone chimney. When the chimney is torn down for building supplies, found secreted inside is an old metal box containing a promissory note, dated 15 Dec 1777, stating that one of their ancesto ...

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Gangs Inc. (1941)

Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization. ...

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King of the Zombies (1941)

During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by ...

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City of Missing Girls (1941)

A female reporter goes undercover to investigate the series of mysterious disappearances of young women, who were all linked to a local drama school. ...

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Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old a ...

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Scattergood Baines (1941)

Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store. Twenty years later he has become a prosperous and respected member of the community, a member of ...

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Barnyard Follies (1940)

A country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut down by greedy politicians. ...

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Curtain Call (1940)

Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find. ...

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Career (1939)

Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart when they woo the same woman. ...

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Spring Madness (1938)

Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson. ...

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Overland Stage Raiders (1938)

After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line brings in Eastern gangsters to thwart them. ...

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Flaming Frontiers (1938)

Tom Grant has found a rich gold vein and Bart Eaton is after it. Tom's sister Mary heads for the gold fields and Eaton and his men follow. Eaton teams up with Ace Daggett who plans to doublecross him and get the gold for himself. They frame Tom for murder ...

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