The best Edmund MacDonald’s mystery movies

Edmund MacDonald

Edmund MacDonald

07/05/1908- 02/09/1951
Today we present the best Edmund MacDonald’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 Edmund MacDonald’s movies.

The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns
6.5/10
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Who Done It?

Who Done It?
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 30/10/1942
  • Character: 'Murder at Midnight' Announcer (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.

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

Sherlock Holmes in Washington
6.7/10
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
5.3/10
  • Genre: HorrorMystery
  • Release: 27/03/1942
  • Character: Det. Capt. Bill Hurd
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.

The Mysterious Mr. M

The Mysterious Mr. M
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionMystery
  • Release: 23/07/1946
  • Character: Anthony Waldron
An evil scientist known as "Mr. M." uses a drug he has developed called "hypnotreme" to help steal submarine equipment. Federal agent Grant Farrell is dispatched to find the mysterious villain and stop his nefarious plans.

Castle in the Desert

Castle in the Desert
7/10
Paul Manderley, eccentric historian, and his wife, descendant of the Borgias, live in an isolated castle-like mansion in the Mojave Desert. When a guest suddenly collapses, Charlie Chan is invited to stay. As the standard mystery-mansion props come into play, and all means of outside communication are sabotaged, it becomes evident that one of the inhabitants has access to poisons and is prepared to use them...

Whispering Ghosts

Whispering Ghosts
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 17/05/1942
  • Character: Jerry Gilpin
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the decade-old murder of a sea captain.

The Lady Confesses

The Lady Confesses
5.9/10
An estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 years of disappearance -- thought to be dead, to prevent her husband from marrying his new love until someone kills her.

Timber!

Timber!
4.5/10
Two FBI agents are sent to investigate sabotage at a lumber camp.

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