The best Edward Brophy’s mystery movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Edward Brophy’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 Edward Brophy.
The Thin Man
7.9/10
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
The Thin Man Goes Home
7.3/10
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Sleepers West
6.6/10
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
Death on the Diamond
6.1/10
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?
The Gay Falcon
6.5/10
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.
Great Guy
6.3/10
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
Danger Zone
5.3/10
A San Francisco man (Hugh Beaumont) is paid to bid on a saxophone and escort a woman to a yacht party.
Evelyn Prentice
6.9/10
A criminal lawyer's wife faces blackmail when she has an affair.
A Dangerous Affair
6.9/10
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 Falcon in San Francisco
6.4/10
While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl who's nurse has been recently murdered.
The Amazing Mr. Williams
6.6/10
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
The Falcon's Adventure
6.3/10
A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.
A Night of Adventure
6.2/10
A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.
A Scream in the Dark
5.8/10
A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.
The Great Gambini
6.3/10
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancé and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
Remember Last Night?
6.7/10
After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.
Calling Philo Vance
5.8/10
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
6/10
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
