The best Ben Welden’s mystery movies

Ben Welden

Ben Welden

12/06/1901- 17/10/1997
Today we present the best Ben Welden’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Ben Welden’s movies.

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep
7.9/10
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

Impact

Impact
7/10
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
6.5/10
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard (Warren William) to steal defense secrets in Washington.

Midnight Manhunt

Midnight Manhunt
5.3/10
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

Mystery House

Mystery House
5.5/10
When Hubert Kingery, a banker, is found shot dead with a gun in his hand, his daughter refuses to believe it is a suicide. With the help of a detective, she hopes to get to the bottom of the case.

Love Is on the Air

Love Is on the Air
5.4/10
A newscaster (Ronald Reagan) gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.

Maisie Gets Her Man

Maisie Gets Her Man
6.2/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 01/06/1942
  • Character: Percy Podd
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?

Back in Circulation

Back in Circulation
6.3/10
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.

Lady at Midnight

Lady at Midnight
6.2/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 15/08/1948
  • Character: Willie Gold
A couple's (Richard Denning, Frances Rafferty) adopted daughter (Lora Lee Michel) has an inheritance someone else wants.

The Missing Corpse

The Missing Corpse
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 01/06/1945
  • Character: "Slippery Joe" Clary
A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackmailing McDonald ends up murdered and his corpse planted in the trunk of Kruger's car. Good guy Kruger attempts to hide McDonald's body, with the help of chauffeur Hogan (Jenks), to keep from being charged with murder. However, zany scenarios occur as the body just won't stay hidden, and keeps on popping up in multiple places where Kruger is located, leading to him hiding the body again and again while Kruger tries to find the real killer.

A Close Call for Ellery Queen

A Close Call for Ellery Queen
5.6/10
Two mysterious seamen come from Alan Rogers' past to blackmail him as he seeks to locate his missing daughters. Ellery Queen is called in by Stewart Cole, Rogers' secretary. Queen goes to the estate and finds one daughter already there and the second one expected. When she arrives, it is Ellery's secretary Nikki Porter posing as the daughter as Ellery had her intercept the real heiress after learning of a plot to swindle Rogers. The blackmailing seamen are killed at a waterfront café after getting the blackmail money, Rogers is suspected and Inspector Queen arrives to arrest him, but he is also found dead.

Nine Lives Are Not Enough

Nine Lives Are Not Enough
6/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 20/09/1941
  • Character: Moxie Karper
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

Search for Danger

Search for Danger
6.5/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 15/04/1949
  • Character: Gregory
The Falcon returns... this time investigating the murder of a rival P.I.

Appointment with Murder

Appointment with Murder
5.4/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 24/11/1948
  • Character: Martin Minecci
The second Falcon film to feature actor/magician John Calvert. This one has the Falcon dealing with art thieves.

The Black Abbot

The Black Abbot
4.7/10
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.

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