Mystery

Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.

The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.

A remake of the 1927 horror film “The Wizard”. Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives ...

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

A French diplomat who’s recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember.

The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a ...

Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week’s pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the ...

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.

Radio crime show host ‘The Fox’ along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help ...

Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it’s Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home ...

A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return ...

A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad traits, including his extreme dishonesty and lust ...

Elinor Bentley Fairchild’s previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to ...

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.

George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. “The Saint,” in The Saint in Palm Springs. ...

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he “discovered” as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin ...

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which ...

Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. ...

A detective’s wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.

When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four ...

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor’s ...

In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving ...

Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had ...

In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He ...

Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.

The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his “evidence” has sentenced the wrong man to death.

This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the ...

Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.

The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. “The ...

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died ...

In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water ...

When Charlie’s old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was ...

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and ...

A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman’s son and accused of a murder she didn’t commit.

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases ...

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones ...

When a teenager’s father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of ...

A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.

A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A ...

Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner ‘Wentworth Castle’ (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit ...

On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder ...

Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy ...