The best Billy Wayne’s mystery movies

Billy Wayne

Billy Wayne

12/02/1897- 12/06/1970
We present our ranking of the best Billy Wayne’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Billy Wayne.

Deadline at Dawn

Deadline at Dawn
6.8/10
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.

Who Done It?

Who Done It?
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 30/10/1942
  • Character: Telephoner to Alaska (uncredited)
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

The Jury's Secret

The Jury's Secret
6.4/10
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.

The Case of the Black Cat

The Case of the Black Cat
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 31/10/1936
  • Character: Poker Player (uncredited)
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm

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.

Hot Steel

Hot Steel
5/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 24/05/1940
  • Character: Dave Martin (as William Wayne)
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
6.2/10
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved. Written by Tony Fontana

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