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crime film, mystery film
Barrister Sir Alan Dearden is tipped to be Britain's next and youngest ever Attorney General. Shortly before he leaves for holiday on the Continent, his wife Helen is approached by a man claiming to have love letters written by her husband…
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drama film, mystery film
Dr. Gillespie asks a young surgeon, Dr. Tommy Coalt, to go to the small town of Bayhurst to replace a local doctor while he is on assignment to the Occupation effort in post-World War II Europe.
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crime film, drama film, mystery film
Taxi driver Joe Lourik gets into an argument with a finance company over payments owed on his new cab. Believing that he has been cheated, Joe reclaims his payments but is arrested for robbery. Escaping with a pair of handcuffs still attac…
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crime film, mystery film
In this suspenseful film, a sinister figure is targeting the individuals who played a role in condemning a murderer to death. In the midst of this drama, after six members of the pivotal jury have met gruesome fates, investigative journali…
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mystery film
The Falcon, detective for hire, is in for more than he bargained for when he accepts $500 to guard a key given to him by a desperate man.
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comedy film, mystery film
Two murders are committed and a $50,000 Chinese Mandarin stamp is stolen, tossed around and eventually recovered as an aggregation of costly-stamp counterfeiters are uncovered through the mastermind investigation by Ellery Queen.
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adventure film, mystery film, silent film
Beverly West appeals to Harry Harper, the inventor of a submarine device for salvaging sunken vessels, to help her rescue her father from the South Sea natives who are holding him as a ransom for the skull shaped pearl that Beverly possess…
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mystery film
Psychiatrist John Page seeks a quieter life in Los Angeles, and he applies for a teaching position at the Manning School for Girls. Dr. Manning, the founder of the school, has a drinking problem, and the school is managed by his associate,…
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mystery film
Captain Holling (Beery) is relieved of command of his ship after he suffers a nervous breakdown. His replacement, Captain Downey (Howard), takes over the liner just as it is about to be used for an experiment in remote control. Professor G…
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drama film, mystery film
A man shoots dead a business leader and confesses to the killing, but refuses to say anything more than providing the name Joe Monday, which is obviously an alias. His attorney joins forces with a woman claiming that she is his sister and …
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mystery film
Actor Sidney Parsons is murdered while taking part in a radio play broadcast by the BBC. When Detective-Inspector Gregory of Scotland Yard investigates, he finds that Parsons had many enemies in the cast. He decides to reconstruct the crim…
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crime film, mystery film
New York Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt (Adolphe Menjou) decides to take a vacation after six years of fighting crime, accompanied by his attractive secretary, Miss Kelly (Ruthelma Stevens). On the train to their destination, they spot …
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mystery film
In Vienna, smarmy matinee idol Brandt moves into an upscale apartment building whose principal tenants are the elite Pointer family: John, Carola and daughter Mariette, who's just turned 18. One day, Brandt encounters Carola on the stairwe…
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mystery film
Penny Justin, a model, helps a Scotland Yard detective to hunt down a gang of criminals smuggling Nazi war criminals out of Europe. Cartoonist Jonathan Blair hides secret messages in his comic strips.
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mystery film
Private detective Christopher Adams chases a precious antique jade lion through the Mexican cafes, auto courts, and the seamy side of Los Angeles. Adams has a meeting scheduled with a mystery man named Gomez, who is killed. Alice Ashley, a…
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musical film, mystery film
Lila Laughton is a Rockette figure skater at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. She's dating orchestra conductor Don Jordan. Her ex-flame, producer Carl Lang, gets out of jail and visits her.
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mystery film
Captain Hugh Drummond comes out of retirement to do battle against a gang of international renegades. Carl Peterson, the head of the gang, kidnaps Drummond's wife Phyllis, and Drummond himself is captured while trying to free her. Drummond…
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Adventure, mystery film
On the eve of his wedding, Captain Hugh Drummond has more pressing concerns when he needs to set off from London for Morocco, after his fiancée (Phillis Clavering) has seen Colonel Nielsen from Scotland Yard being kidnapped by an internati…
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crime film
A bank official, whom a doctor had earlier hypnotized to obtain money from the bank's vault, is found murdered.
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mystery film
Christina "Steenie" MacCorkle, a radio advertising executive, is suspected of murdering her client as Caesar Kluck, a soda magnate. Loathed by all who met him, or forced to work, with his underhanded business machinations, the victims, and…
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LGBTQ-related film, crime film, horror film, mystery film
The film begins with a bearded man waking up in his house and going through his morning routine. He touches his cross necklace, grabs a stack of chewing gum, looks into the mirror and announces merrily "It's showtime!". Den (although his n…
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Adventure, mystery film
The intended wedding of Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond to Phyllis Clavering at her villa in Switzerland is once again stopped short when someone murders the Swiss policeman who is guarding their wedding presents. The killer makes off with…
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crime film, mystery film
Successful attorney Mark Latham neglects his wife, Erica, so she leaves him. Mark tries to win her back, but finds that she is now dating Tony Clair, an artist. Julie Arden, jealous and upset that boyfriend Tony is stepping out on her, int…
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film, mystery film
After plundering and desecrating a temple in India in 1913, drunken archeologist John Prendergast is cursed by the priest, who re-animates a gorilla Prendergast killed and orders it to wreak its revenge on the thief. Twenty years later, a …
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