Meet Maxwell Archer

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{{Infobox film

| name = Meet Maxwell Archer

| image = "Meet_Maxwell_Archer"_(1940).jpg

| caption = Original British trade ad

| director = John Paddy Carstairs

| producer = William Sistrom

| writer = Katherine Strueby

| based_on = the novel Archer Plus Twenty by Hugh Clevely

| starring = John Loder

| music = W.L. Trytel (uncredited)

| cinematography = Claude Friese-Greene

| editing = Alan Jaggs

| studio = RKO Radio British Productions

| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures (UK)

| released = {{Film date|1940|02|17|UK|df=yes}}

| runtime = 73 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget = £18,226{{cite magazine|title=‘The highest salary ever paid to a human being’: Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England |last=Chapman|first= Llewella|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|magazine=Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10|volume=19|number=4|page=470-494 at 482}}

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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.{{Cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/42234 |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | MEET MAXWELL ARCHER (1939) |access-date=28 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019031248/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/42234 |archive-date=19 October 2012 |url-status=dead }} The screenplay concerns a private detective who attempts to clear a man wrongly accused of murder. The film was based on the 1938 novel by Hugh Clevely.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&q=archer+plus+20+by+hugh+clevely&pg=PA86|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|first=Alan|last=Goble|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783110951943|via=Google Books}} It was released in the U.S. in 1942 as Maxwell Archer, Detective.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/maxwell-archer-detective-v101922|title=Maxwell Archer, Detective (1939) - John Paddy Carstairs - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie|publisher=}}