Arthur Conan Doyle (1927)
Sherlock Holmes' creator talks to the camera in 1927 about his famous detective and his belief in spiritualism.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
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Sherlock Holmes' creator talks to the camera in 1927 about his famous detective and his belief in spiritualism.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Sherlock Holmes gets the marionette treatment in a 1930 parody that wants to know who spat in Grandfather's porridge.
NASA's Fermi telescope maps the night sky and finds nearly 600 mystery sources. Could they be dark matter?
Harry Houdini dives for treasure and escapes island captors to rescue a kidnapped father. This print is missing part of the middle.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
A crooked stockbroker is murdered, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be on the estate. William Powell sleuths, 1930.
A WWI pilot hero returns to his old job as a railroad detective and hunts a missing payroll and $25,000. An early Black-cast mystery.
Mutt and Jeff play Sherlock Holmes-style detectives hunting a phantom, hand-colored in the 1930s.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
The Frankie and Johnny story in a seedy Havana dive, with Helen Twelvetrees and Marjorie Rambeau. 1930.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
A masked killer called the Bat prowls a creaky old mansion in this 1926 silent mystery, here with a musical soundtrack added.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Alfred Hitchcock's early talkie: a juror, played by Herbert Marshall, doubts a young actress's guilt and turns detective.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Douglas Fairbanks plays Coke Ennyday, a scientific detective with a notoriously drug-soaked method. A bonkers 1916 comedy short.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Gaston Leroux's locked-room puzzle, filmed in France in 1930 by Marcel L'Herbier.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
A meek clerk turned amateur detective investigates strange goings-on at a remote sanitarium. Lon Chaney stars, 1925.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
A hitchhiking pianist's luck goes from bad to fatal. Edgar G. Ulmer's dirt-cheap noir is one of the genre's great nightmares.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Helen Holmes in a 1926 silent railroad adventure. A signal mix-up and someone to catch.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Harry Houdini plays a man frozen in ice who wakes and finds the world changed. A 1922 thriller and stunt showcase.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
A murder inside a movie studio sets off a whodunit starring Neil Hamilton, Doris Hill and Warner Oland. Hollywood, 1929.
A mix-up over switched coats turns into blackmail and murder, with Watson under suspicion. From the 1954 Sherlock Holmes TV series.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Richard E. Norman's 1926 Black-cast mystery. A WWI pilot turned railroad detective solves a missing payroll caper.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
A mouse and his boss pose as dogcatchers to supply a sausage factory. Alice and Julius track them in this 1926 Disney mash-up.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
An innocent young man escapes prison, and a detective hunts him until he realizes the truth. Robert Ames, 1929, with Willard Mack directing.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Relatives gather at a creepy mansion for a will reading, and something stalks the halls. Paul Leni's 1927 silent.
Ronald Howard plays a young, quick-witted Holmes in this 1950s TV series filmed in France, with Howard Marion-Crawford as Watson.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Buster Keaton plays a movie projectionist who steps into the film and becomes a detective. One of his sharpest, 1924.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.
A 1921 German silent adventure set in India, with Conrad Veidt and a Fritz Lang script. Part 1 of a series.
Mysteries and detective B-pictures.