The best C. Henry Gordon’s mystery movies

C. Henry Gordon

C. Henry Gordon

17/06/1884- 03/12/1940
Today we present the best C. Henry Gordon’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 C. Henry Gordon’s movies.

Thirteen Women

Thirteen Women
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 16/09/1932
  • Character: Swami Yogadachi
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive are not good for any of them.

Death on the Diamond

Death on the Diamond
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 14/09/1934
  • Character: Joe Karnes
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
7.1/10
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge. The museum also houses a statue of Charlie. Frustrated number-two son kicks statue in rear; oops, number-two son wrong in his assumption

Miss Pinkerton

Miss Pinkerton
6/10
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerson, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.

The Crooked Circle

The Crooked Circle
5.3/10
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.

Charlie Chan at the Olympics

Charlie Chan at the Olympics
7/10
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!

City in Darkness

City in Darkness
6.5/10
Chan goes to Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I. There he investigates the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy. At the end Charlie preaches to us about the dangers of peace conferences.

Penthouse

Penthouse
6.8/10
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.

The Great Hotel Murder

The Great Hotel Murder
5.8/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 27/02/1935
  • Character: Dr. John M. Temple
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.

Love Letters of a Star

Love Letters of a Star
7.7/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 08/11/1936
  • Character: Lt. Valcour
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.

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