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The Shadow Strikes * 1937 This is Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow. It stars Rod La Rocque and Agnes Anderson. Margo Lane is absent; and the Shadow character lacks the supernatural ability that make...
Who cut off an old man's hand, and then murdered him? Inquiring minds want to know, and so does Scotland Yard. A low budget, independent British production with a large cast. The last fifteen secon...
Title: Mystery at the Burlesque Summary: A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve ...
Title: Doomed to Die Summary: Mr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate's murder. Directed by: William Nigh Actors: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers Production Comp...
Title: The Benson Murder Case Summary: A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who ki...
When a wealthy man is murdered at a costume party, each of the guests must be considered a suspect. Naturally, one of the guests is a mystery writer, and all of the other guests have what the polic...
When the private eye is away, his secretary will play by taking on cases of her own which lead to trouble. A lightweight mystery with more comedy relief than it needs. Directed by Lambert Hillyer. ...
Title: My Gun Is Quick Summary: A private detective helps a prostitute being assaulted, and notices that she is wearing a very unique ring. She is later found murdered and there is no trace of the ...
Significantly better print of Roy Huggin's I Love Trouble based on his book Double Take (he also wrote the screenplay). I Love Trouble is the first appearance of his private detective Stuart G. Bai...
Title: Three Stops to Murder Summary: Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered. Directed by: Terence Fisher Actors: T...
Murder on the Orient Express , directed by Sidney Lumet , is a classic mystery film based on Agatha Christie 's novel of the same name. Released in 1974 , it features an ensemble cast and is known ...
Title: Murder Is My Beat Summary: A police detective helps a singer heading to prison for the murder of a man she claims is still alive. Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer Actors: Production Company: Mast...
Public Access TV show "Weirdness Really Bad Movie" hosts public domain movies and ads clean comedy sketches enjoyable for the whole family. Today's film is the 1938 Boris Karloff film "Mr. Wong Det...
* Released: 1936-02-18 * Mystery/Suspense/Comedy (Eng USA) * Cert. #1899 * Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corp. * If you have read "The Last Trap" (by Sinclair Gluck), you will find the screenplay to...
Charlie Chan is a fictional Honolulu police detective created by author Earl Derr Biggers for a series of mystery novels. Biggers loosely based Chan on Hawaiian detective Chang Apana . T...
Title: Quiet Please: Murder Summary: Book thief/forger sells a fake book to a Nazi through a female agent. A detective tries to uncover who the forger is and gets in the middle of a three way strug...
A beautiful female private detective (Adele Mara) is hired by a wealthy businessman to check up on his stepson (Mark Roberts), the heir to the family fortune, who has reportedly been withdrawing la...
C-Man is a 1949 American semidocumentary crime film noir directed by Joseph Lerner featuring Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Lottie Elwen and Rene Paul. Gail Kubik based his Pulitzer Prize winning Sym...
Title: The King Murder Summary: A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest vic...
Chapter 5 of a twelve chapter serial that deals with the attempts of a master criminal to gain possession of jewels and gain control over the world with the use of television and radio waves.
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I Wake Up Screaming (originally titled Hot Spot) is a 1941 American mystery/film-noir. Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature and Carole Landis, (One of Grable's ...
In this satire of film noir , Lou Peckinpaugh ( Peter Falk ) is a San Francisco detective in the boozy, wise-cracking tradition of Humphrey Bogart in " The Maltese Falcon ." A suspect in the murder...
Title: Mystery Broadcast Summary: A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective. They manage to talk to the people involved in t...
Returning to Baskerville Hall, brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner) envisions a relaxing holiday with his dear friend Sir Henry Baskerville (Lawrence Grossmith). Soon, however, Holm...
The first film to feature the Philo Vance character. The Canary Murder Case is a 1929 American pre-Code crime-mystery film based on the 1927 novel of the same name by S.S. Van Dine (the pseudonym f...