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What are your favorite mystery movies?
Permlink Replies: 11 - Pages: 1 - Original Post: Jul 11, 2011 2:12 AM Original Post By: amr001

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Re: What are your favorite mystery movies?
Posted: May 9, 2012 5:17 PM   in response to: amr001 in response to: amr001
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I love most of the great mystery series - The Falcon The Saint, The Lone Wolf, Joel and Garda Sloane, The Thin Man, Chalrie Chan, Mr. Moto, Mr, Wong, Crime Doctor, Sherlock Holmes, Bulldog Drummond, etc.

And there are a lot of individual mystery films I can watch over and over - Suspicion, Footsteps in the Dark, Shadow of a Doubt, The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes and so many others - good, bad and so bad it's good.

There were two characters in The Lady Vanishes - Chalders and Caldicott - who proved so popular the actors made a number of films as the same characters and made other films and a radio series with similar roles, but under different names. Later a BBC series called Chalders and Caldicott was made. Never have seen that but would love to.


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Re: What are your favorite mystery movies?
Posted: Oct 23, 2011 6:51 AM   in response to: amr001 in response to: amr001
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How 'bout some of the great mystery series that TCM USED TO show? Falcon, Saint, Crime Dr, Lone Wolf, etc. What happened to these great series'???

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Re: What are your favorite mystery movies?
Posted: Oct 11, 2011 1:34 PM   in response to: amr001 in response to: amr001
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One I really loved was Footsteps in the Fog. Watched it with my mom when I was a child. Hope TCM will show it soon.

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Re: What are your favorite mystery movies?
Posted: Aug 7, 2011 6:59 PM   in response to: amr001 in response to: amr001
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I'm glad you offered that suggestion to TCM, for Nancy Drew! Plus seeing more of the Crime Doctor films are always welcome for me! Philo Vance is great also! And I might venture to say that THE KENNEL MURDER CASE is one of the best of the best, it's really great, with a fine performance by William Powell in the title role!

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Re: What are your favorite mystery movies?
Posted: Aug 7, 2011 6:01 PM   in response to: markbeckuaf in response to: markbeckuaf
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@ Markbeckuaf:

Yes, the Nancy Drew mysteries are fun to watch! I put in a request for those movies last night. I also requested Crime Doctor and the Philo Vance movies that you had suggested. One of the other TCM viewers informed me that The Kennel Murder Case will be airing on September 10th! I'm really looking forward to seeing it!

The Perry Mason TV show is great. Gotta love that theme song! I'm also a huge Murder, She Wrote fan.

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Posted: Aug 7, 2011 2:46 PM   in response to: amr001 in response to: amr001
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The Nancy Drew films are a lot of fun! I also really enjoy mysteries! They are my favorite type of older classic film actually, with gangsters and noir a close second, and sometimes these overlap a little bit, particularly in terms of tone and mood.

I've been watching a lot of the Perry Mason TV show lately on Me-TV and I really am enjoying them! Most of them are very good mysteries told in the tradition of the older series films.

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Posted: Aug 7, 2011 12:23 AM   in response to: amr001 in response to: amr001
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Thank you for your film suggestions, Kingrat and Randyishere! It's always great to meet mystery movie fans. I'll put in a request for those films in the "suggest-a-movie" section. I think I'll put in a request for the Nancy Drew movies too. I haven't seen those in a long time.

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Re: What are your favorite mystery movies?
Posted: Aug 5, 2011 7:44 PM   in response to: randyishere in response to: randyishere
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If you've never seen the English film Green for Danger with Alastair Sim, keep an eye out for it. Based on an excellent novel by Christianna Brand. If you like traditional mysteries, look for her books. Green for Danger is set in a small hospital during the Blitz.

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Re: What are your favorite mystery movies?
Posted: Aug 5, 2011 6:03 AM   in response to: amr001 in response to: amr001
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I also enjoy black and white mystery movies. I always try to guess who the killer is and what is their motive. I also enjoy Laura, Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, and Bonita Granville and Frankie Thomas in the Nancy Drew series are the best. Nancy Drew and Ted crack me up. I love B-movie mysteries as well, like Behind Green Lights (1946), Mr. District Attorney (1947), and The Limping Man (1953).

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Posted: Aug 4, 2011 1:50 AM   in response to: markbeckuaf in response to: markbeckuaf
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Sorry for the late response. Thank you for your suggestions! Too bad I missed The Scene of the Crime. It sounds like a great movie. I've never seen any of the "Crime Doctor" or "Philo Vance" films and I've only seen the Perry Mason TV show. I hope that I'll get to see some of these movies soon.

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Re: What are your favorite mystery movies?
Posted: Jul 11, 2011 8:54 PM   in response to: amr001 in response to: amr001
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Those are some great ones! I especially love the Chan and Holmes films!

There are so many great mysteries! I love many of the older 30's mystery films, including a lot of obscure ones! I love the public domain ones that are one shots from some of the public domain sets out there! I also love the "Crime Doctor" series! The "Philo Vance" films are great! So are the Perry Mason films! And "The Thin Man" series. And the "Hildegaard Withers" series!

THE BIG SLEEP is a good one I just thought of!

And there was a good one on this past weekend, SCENE OF THE CRIME!

Lots of them!

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What are your favorite mystery movies?
Posted: Jul 11, 2011 2:12 AM
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I'm a big fan of classic "whodunit" movies and I'm always on the lookout for a good one. I especially like movie plots that have a lot of twists, making it harder to figure out "whodunit". What are some of your favorites? Here are some of mine:

  • Witness for the Prosecution
  • Lured
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • The Lady Vanishes
  • Laura
  • The Sherlock Holmes series (w/ Basil Rathbone)
  • The Hildegarde Withers series (w/ Edna May Oliver)
  • The Miss Marple series (w/ Margaret Rutherford)
  • The Nancy Drew series (w/ Bonita Granville)
  • The Charlie Chan series (w/ Warner Oland and Keye Luke)