Mademoiselle Blanche Durand, in her sixties who lives on the mezzanine level of her property, is found dead, stabbed, inside her home. To enter, the judge had to ask for help from an operator to remove the grate from the small window that faces the street. The door of the flat has two locks and a chain placed inside. Whoever committed the crime could not get out of there or out of the window, since it was embedded in the wall.
The intrepid reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille becomes involved in the investigation of a hideous crime committed in a room painted yellow, whose door was locked from the inside…
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.
Il "muto" dei fratelli Marx in un test muto, ma a colori! Di che colore si tratta? Secondo Jeff Joseph - che ha ritrovato quest'autentica rarità - "potrebbe trattarsi di Multicolor, un precursore del Cinecolor. L'elemento nitrato rinvenuto lo scorso anno era una copia Cinecolor del 1940. Richard Dayton, dei laboratori YCM che hanno restaurato il frammento, dice che il negativo originale non avrebbe potuto essere un Technicolor, perché nel 1940 sarebbe stato difficile duplicare il Technicolor con il sistema Cinecolor. Poiché la copia ritrovata è un Cinecolor, la mia ipotesi è che si sia trattato di Multicolor. Ma è solo un'ipotesi". Comunque sia, l'aspetto più interessante del frammento è che Harpo sta provando una scena senza la sua celebre parrucca bionda, e indossa un accappatoio al posto dell'impermeabile.
Charlie Chan indaga sull'omicidio di un regista cinematografico. Subito emerge che ad assassinarlo è stata un'attricetta rifiutata dallo stesso per un ruolo in suo film.
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
The story gets under way at a weekend house party where a scientist is murdered and his secret papers stolen. Putting his "little grey cells" in action, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot methodically pieces together the clues, revealing the culprit to be -- you guessed it -- the Least Likely Suspect.
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
Raffaello Matarazzo, Italia, 1936
Nick e Nora con la loro inseparabile cagnetta Asta sono due detective dilettanti e si ritrovano invischiati in un nuovo caso di persona scomparsa: la cugina di Nora. Successivamente si scopre il morto che risulta essere il marito della cugina e la moglie è la principale indiziata...
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.
Una misteriosa cliente (Astor) si rivolge a Sam Spade (Bogart) per ritrovare una preziosissima statuetta antica, raffigurante un falcone, a cui è interessato anche il gangster Joel Cairo (Lorre): dopo complicate vicende, Spade scoprirà che la statuetta è un falso e che la donna l’ha raggirato per ottenere un ingente somma di denaro.
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.
In un teatro vengono misteriosamente assassinate due attrici. La polizia vorrebbe far sospendere la rappresentazione, ma una delle artiste si espone personalmente, facendo da esca, e riesce a far catturare l'assassino.
A murder has occurred at Gruesome Gables, and the dog detective trying to find the killer has to deal with some suspicious suspects and a haunted house.
A woman is found strangled in her shop. Shortly after, another murder is committed. Perhaps the most terrifying is that the both girls' name is Sonja. The police is convinced it's the same killer and at each scene is heard a woman singing the same song. A song which is soon dubbed the 'murder melody'.