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Sherlock Holmes – Prelude to Murder (aka Dressed to Kill) (1946) starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce Holmes: Somehow, the tune… is the key to the mystery. It must be the tune. Otherwise, why use three musical boxes to convey the message? Why not collar boxes, or shoe boxes?
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December 30, 2022 user
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One Body Too Many (1944) starring Jack Haley, Jean Parker, Bela Lugosi One Body Too Many – insurance salesman Jack Haley stumbles onto an eccentric millionaire’s will, and the murder mystery among his relatives.
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December 9, 2022 user
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In Another Thin Man, Nick and Nora (and their dog Asta) visit the estate of Colonel MacFay. He’s being threatened by a mysterious man wanting revenge for a past wrong. When MacFay is murdered, that man is the obvious suspect. Too obvious …
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October 28, 2022 user
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Sherlock Holmes: The Woman In Green (1945) starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Henry Daniell The Woman in Green is a very enjoyable Sherlock Holmes murder mystery. There are serial murderrs, with the corpse having been mutiliated. Who’s behind it? Why?
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July 19, 2022 user
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Clue (1986) starring Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd … Clue is a comedy/murder mystery based on the famous board game. A so-so comedy, wasting a lot of good comedic talent.
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July 15, 2022 user
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Murder on the Orient Express (1974) starring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Michael York, directed by Sidney Lumet Synopsis of Murder on the Orient Express Famous detective Hercule Poirot is on the Orient Express, but the train is caught in the snow. When one of the passengers is discovered...
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June 28, 2022 user
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Psycho (1960) starring Vera Miles, Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock’s landmark masterpiece of the macabre. It stars Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, a quiet young man who runs a roadside motel … with his mother. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), is on the run after stealing...
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December 26, 2021 user
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Witness for the Prosecution (1957) starring Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich In Witness for the Prosecution, a wealthy widow is found murdered. Her married suitor, Leonard Vole, is accused of the crime. Vole’s only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife … But...
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September 24, 2021 user
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The Kennel Murder Case (1933) starring William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, directed by Michael Curtiz In The Kennel Murder Case, Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates a locked-room murder. The murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important...
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August 30, 2020 user
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Gaslight (1944) starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Angela Lansbury In Gaslight, after her aunt is mysteriously killed, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) is sent to Italy to receive opera training. Being charmed by Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer) she falls in love and they move in together in London. Soon Paula...
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August 2, 2020 user
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