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The 1945 British wartime thriller film The Echo Murders stars David Farrar in his second and last outing as the famous fictional British detective Sexton Blake. Writer/ director John Harlow’s likeable 1945 British wartime mystery […]
John Gilling’s 1954 crime film Double Exposure stars John Bentley as a private detective investigating the case of a missing photographer (Rona Anderson) whose chance pictures could reveal a murderer’s identity. John Gilling’s 1954 crime […]
Chad Allen stars as a gay detective who always gets his man, in the excellent 2005 mystery film Third Man Out, the first of four films featuring Richard Stevenson’s private eye Donald Strachey. A gay […]
Ralph Thomas’s 1949 British romantic comedy variety revue film Helter Skelter is a wild and wacky farce, in which a radio detective (David Tomlinson) is on the case of a silly socialite (Carol Marsh) with […]
Director John Baxter’s 1933 film Doss House is a surprising British Thirties social-conscience crime thriller melodrama movie, starring Frank Cellier, Arnold Bell and Herbert Franklyn. It gains marks for its realistic doss-house background and for […]
Phil Silvers plays annoying news photographer Roy Higgins, who gets in the way of private detective Michael Shayne, in Lloyd Nolan’s penultimate film appearance in the series. Director Herbert I Leeds’s 1942 black and white […]
Private investigator Michael Shayne and his singer fiancée Joanne La Marr hear a woman screaming from a room in their hotel, where the maid has discovered two dead theatrical folk, one wearing a dog costume […]