The best Dorothy Adams’s mystery movies

Dorothy Adams

Dorothy Adams

08/01/1900- 16/03/1988
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Dorothy Adams’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Dorothy Adams.

Laura

Laura
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 11/10/1944
  • Character: Laura's Maid Bessie Clary (uncredited)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Fallen Angel

Fallen Angel
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeMysteryRomance
  • Release: 15/11/1945
  • Character: Stella's downstairs neighbor (uncredited)
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.

Peeper

Peeper
5.6/10
A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath her his fortune.

Nocturne

Nocturne
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMystery
  • Release: 29/10/1946
  • Character: Angry Apartment House Tenant
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.

The Inner Circle

The Inner Circle
5.9/10
Johnny Strange (Warren Douglas) a fresh-faced young detective, gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde (Adele Mara).

The Falcon in San Francisco

The Falcon in San Francisco
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 20/07/1945
  • Character: Chambermaid (uncredited)
While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl who's nurse has been recently murdered.

Whistling in the Dark

Whistling in the Dark
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 08/08/1941
  • Character: Mrs. Farrell (uncredited)
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.

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