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mystery film
While barely conscious, Jean Wilson, a patient in a London hospital, overhears Jimmy Del Palma berating hospital staff for their treatment of his wife, who dies shortly afterward. To recuperate following a miscarriage, Jean coincidentally rents the former country home of Del Palma, a famous pianist, and his wife. She falls in love with Del Palma and dreams of taking his dead wife's identity.
crime thriller film
When Rachel, a radio personality, discovers a Purple Heart at a garage sale she decides to find out its history. She finds that the medal belonged to a man named Harlan Erickson, a long-lost brother of the town's leading citizen.
crime film, drama film, mystery film
The police led by Captain McVeigh and the Assistant District Attorney James J. Horton are baffled by the disappearances of several young girls with some being found dead. Intrepid female newspaper reporter Nora Page's investigations reveal a link between the girls and the Crescent School of Fine Arts owned by gangster King Peterson, who is using the school as a front for a recruiting center for his nightclub "entertainers".
John, his wife Emily, and their small son Edward leave the city for what they believe will be a brief foray to the countryside to claim John's inheritance – a small shack. They find themselves in a strange back-woods rural setting...nothing is what it seems, and John's behaviour becomes increasingly bizarre as he crosses paths with the unusual inhabitants of the area, some of whom he knows from a distant past. left|thumb|(Nick Remy Matthews ACS) and Ed (William Traeger) As his connections to the area are gradually revealed, we are shown a puzzle and a tapestry of our hero and his life before he moved away.
mystery film
Drama, Mysterie, drama film
One night in New York City, Michael Lanyard, aka the "Lone Wolf", and his valet Jamison spot a cat wearing a pearl necklace. They pursue the cat to a bank, which triggers bars that trap them. Inspector Crane, responding to the report of a jewelry store robbery nearby, is delighted to catch his nemesis at last.
crime film, mystery film, silent film
Burglars Molly Brian and Joe Hagney break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island and loot the safe but are caught in the act by another crook, Jerry Winters, who takes the money from them. The three are confronted by Pious Joe McDowell and his wife Mamie, also crooks, but who assert themselves as friends of the Vickers family. Molly, Joe, and Jerry introduce themselves in turn as Vickers' household servants.
mystery film
The Crime Doctor faces his greatest challenge yet. The psychiatrist/sleuth helps a parolee framed for arson, now up for murder.
American football film, mystery film
Buck Buchanan plays football for State, but his criminal brother Slip Buchanan has placed a whopping $350,000 wager on University defeating State in the upcoming big game. Slip attempts to coerce his brother into drugging a star teammate, Wally Clark, so he is unable to play. Buck refuses to do so, but is distracted on the field of play by his suspicions that Slip will find another way to do Wally harm.
mystery film
Western film, mystery film, race film, silent film
drama film, mystery film
The Overland Transport Company, owned by Pop Wallace, is plagued by a series of attacks in which its trucks are forced off the road and their drivers killed. Unable to find experienced replacements, Pop hires Frankie O’Malley and his friend Jefferson “Jeff” Smith after they answer an advertisement for drivers. Pop’s daughter Patsy encourages the hiring, partly to make her boyfriend, company mechanic Chick Daly, jealous.
mystery film
At a hunting lodge retreat, banker Hubert Kingery announces to five fellow officers that one of them has forged documents and embezzled $500,000. Before the evening is over, Kingery is shot dead and the police officially rule it a suicide. Kingery's daughter Gwen does not agree and asks for help from her aunt's nurse, Sarah Keate who suggests her detective boyfriend, Lance O'Leary, for the case.
mystery film
Geoffrey West and Marion Ferguson, two American tourists in London, meet each other at a London hotel while eating breakfast. Both are reading the personal columns of The Times. The next day West inserts an ad, under the alias of Lord Strawberries, which requests her friendship.
adventure film, mystery film
Steve Daggett (Cameron Mitchell) fights to protect Fidel Castro from dangerous pro-Batista counterrevolutionaries. Steve comes to Cuba to find his friend Hank Miller (Logan Field) who has been missing for a while. It turns out that he has been captured by Fernando (Eduardo Noriega), the leader of the pro-Batista forces, who needs Hank to convert their airplanes into bombers.
comedy film, mystery film
The body of what appears to be lawyer and aspiring politician Clark C. McNaughton is brought to the Chandler Undertaking Parlor which is on 52nd Street, his face mangled from a car accident, but it is really the body of a man called Jack Lee who died in a car accident. It will be novice nineteen year old undertaker Tommy Freeman's (Harold Waldridge) first solo job.
crime film, drama film, mystery film, silent film
A recently married heiress named Laura Fairlie keeps seeing visions of a woman in white around her estate. Laura is unaware that her husband Sir Percival Glyde is plotting to steal her inheritance. Her sister Marion learns of the plot, but falls ill before she can warn Laura.
drama film, mystery film
Wandering around in the darkness, an amnesiac has the feeling that he's murdered someone. He reads that a theatrical producer has been killed and he thinks that he's guilty. However, unemployed actress Marie Smith, whom he meets while wandering around the park, isn't convinced, so she helps him reconstruct the clues and find the killer.
thriller film
A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to fear for her life.
comedy film
Sach has lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he was not paid. Slip accompanies Sach to the detective's office to demand payment but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective.
mystery film
A quiet country village community has invested in a failing mineral spring water business. After a local man dies in a car accident, the coroner's jury concocts a scheme to return a verdict of murder, hoping the ensuing scandal will bring much-needed publicity to the town and its spring. However, the plan takes an unexpected twist when John Merriman, a government agent investigating a ring of explosive smugglers, arrives on the scene.
Mysterie
Holmes and Watson are called in to investigate a strange murder in South London which appears to have its roots in events in India some years before.
mystery film
Diana Stoving, after experiencing a premonition, becomes convinced that her mother withheld the truth about her family history. Diana travels to Massachusetts to investigate. She coincidentally meets a woman studying past-life regression; one of her subjects is Day Whittaker, a young man who seems to be possessed by the spirit of Diana's deceased grandfather.
Drama, Mysterie, thriller film
Rachel Stewart (Emily Woof) is devastated to learn her newborn has died shortly after birth, but a short while later, she begins to suspect the baby has been abducted. Certain that there's only one way to find out the truth, Rachel returns to the hospital. Here she encounters the menacing Dennis Betts (Clive Russell), and in an attempt to flee from him, she ís forced to hide in a car belonging to Daniel Stone (Douglas Henshall), a hospital porter.