The best DeWitt Jennings’s mystery movies

DeWitt Jennings

DeWitt Jennings

21/06/1871- 01/03/1937
Today we present the best DeWitt Jennings’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 DeWitt Jennings’s movies.

Mystery of the Wax Museum

Mystery of the Wax Museum
6.8/10
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

Murder on a Honeymoon

Murder on a Honeymoon
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 22/02/1935
  • Character: Captain Beegle
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.

Secret of the Chateau

Secret of the Chateau
5.9/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 03/12/1934
  • Character: Louis Bardou
Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.

The Bat Whispers

The Bat Whispers
6.3/10
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the criminal as well. Meanwhile, Cornelia Van Gorder has various people arrive at her old mansion, including her niece, Dale, a bank employee, and police detective Anderson. When guests start turning up dead, Cornelia begins to suspect that The Bat may be lurking around the estate.

Death on the Diamond

Death on the Diamond
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 14/09/1934
  • Character: Patterson
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?

By Whose Hand?

By Whose Hand?
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 06/07/1932
  • Character: City Editor (uncredited)
A man tries to hide aboard a moving train after murdering a jewelry magnate.

A Dangerous Affair

A Dangerous Affair
6.9/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 29/09/1931
  • Character: City Editor
Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of details, they hunker down to business, that of solving the murder of a lawyer who was in the midst of reading a will to a motley collection of heirs.

The President Vanishes

The President Vanishes
6.1/10
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.

Charlie Chan's Courage

Charlie Chan's Courage
7.1/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 06/07/1934
  • Character: Constable Brackett (as DeWitt C. Jennings)
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Seven Keys to Baldpate
6.1/10
A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of their own.

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