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The French Key

French Key is a Republic Pictures murder mystery with all of the studio's genre trademarks: Good...

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The Ghost Talks

The Ghost Talks was based on Badges, a theatrical comedy-melodrama by Max Marcin and Edward Hammond....

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Hellzapoppin' (1941)

Hellzapoppin' is the film version of the "anything goes" Broadway hit starring Ole Olsen and Chic...

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High Tide

In this mystery, set within the newspaper industry, a detective is hired to protect the editor who...

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Honeymoon Deferred

An inordinate number of Hollywood detective films--including virtually the entire Bulldog Drummond...

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I Love a Mystery (1945)

Detectives Jack Packard (Jim Bannon) and Doc solve the case of a married man (George Macready)...

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It's a Wonderful World (1939)

A framed private eye (James Stewart) uses disguises and kidnaps a poet (Claudette Colbert) while...

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The Keyhole

A private eye (George Brent) follows a millionaire's wife (Kay Francis) to Havana, where they fall...

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Man Killer

A down-and-out private eye (William Powell) falls for a woman (Margaret Lindsay) he has been hired...

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Manhandled

A private eye (Dan Duryea) frames his girlfriend (Dorothy Lamour) for a murder and jewel theft...

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Meet Mr. Callaghan

Slim Callaghan, a fictional British private detective in the American "hard boiled" mode, was the...

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Midnight Shadow

This long-lost black-cast whodunit was discovered in a vault in Tyler, TX, and preserved by the...

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Murder at Covent Garden

In this crime drama, a private eye is engaged to infiltrate the smugglers that murdered a nightclub...

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No Hands on the Clock

Detective Chester Morris and his nosy wife Jean Parker set up housekeeping in a small Reno hotel...

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One More River

A woman may be forced back into a dangerous relationship in order to save her good name in this...

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People vs. Nancy Preston

This standard underworld meller was dressed up with good performances and an entertaining approach....

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Philo Vance's Secret Mission

S.S. Van Dine's gentleman detective is reduced to an ordinary "hard boiled" gumshoe in this...

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Rome Express

Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood's Grand Hotel formula. The film...

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Ticket to Paradise

A man hires a detective when an amnesiac takes off with his daughter.

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The Main Event

Choreographer Danny Dare was the directorial guiding hand behind the Columbia B The Main Event....

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The Fatal Warning

Boris Karloff played a red herring in this the final silent serial from chapter play specialist...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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Do Detectives Think?

Until the rediscovery of Duck Soup in the 1970s, this comic short was thought to be the first time...

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Who Done It?

The Three Stooges play inept detectives in this Columbia comedy. Wealthy Mr. Goodrich (Emil Sitka)...

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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120 Rue de la Gare

Amidst a sea of French wartime melodramas, the nonsensical plot convolutions of 120 Rue de la Gare...

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À Toi De Jouer Callaghan

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Prelude to Murder

Prelude to Murder is the last of the many Sherlock Holmes adaptations that starred Basil Rathbone as...

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Fathom

A bikinied sky diver (Raquel Welch) joins the search for what turns out to be something from the...

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The Right Temptation

Hired by a jealous housewife to spy on her husband (Kiefer Sutherland), a female private eye...