Movies by John Archer

Tim Vine Travels Through Time Christmas Special

Tim Vine Travels Through Time Christmas Special

To recover a silver lion ornament for singer Emma Bunton Tim travels back to the court of Henry Vlll where Anne Boleyn (Emma again) asks jester Tim to send invitations to the guests for her Christmas party. However Cardinal Wolsey aims to steal them so that they will come to his own party and Tim must thwart him.

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

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.

No Man's Woman

No Man's Woman

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 fired from his job and an assistant whose fiancé she tried to seduce.

My Favorite Spy

My Favorite Spy

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

Sucker List

Sucker List

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.

City of Missing Girls

City of Missing Girls

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

Overland Stage Raiders

Overland Stage Raiders

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.

Lassie, the Voyager

Lassie, the Voyager

Shantytown

Shantytown

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

Career

Career

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.

Dragon's Gold

Dragon's Gold

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.

Best of the Badmen

Best of the Badmen

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 lawmen Joad and Fowler, who would rather keep the men outlaws to collect the reward on their heads. After Joad and Fowler frame Clanton for murder, he manages to escape, becoming an outlaw himself.

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

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.

Emergency Hospital

Emergency Hospital

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

Curtain Call

Curtain Call

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

Scattergood Baines

Scattergood Baines

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 the local school board and the owner of a railroad that transports timber to the local sawmill. Problems begin to arise, however, when a young schoolteacher he has hired turns out to be not quite what he expected, and the mill owners pressure Scattergood to sell them his railroad, with the ...

No Exceptions

No Exceptions

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

Rodeo

Rodeo

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 run off with the cash receipts.