The best Fred Kelsey’s thriller movies

Fred Kelsey

Fred Kelsey

20/08/1884- 02/09/1961
We present our ranking of the best Fred Kelsey’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Fred Kelsey.

Pacific Blackout

Pacific Blackout
7.2/10
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper (Robert Preston) escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.

Dragnet

Dragnet
6.6/10
Two homicide detectives try to find just the facts behind a mobster's brutal murder.

Invisible Ghost

Invisible Ghost
5.2/10
The town's leading citizen is a man victim of homicidal impulses beyond his control. He is being controlled by his wife who had left him for another man. She was involved in a car accident that has left her brain damaged and is kept in the basement, in secret, by Kessler's gardener.

Three Strangers

Three Strangers
7/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 28/01/1946
  • Character: Man on the Street / Man in Pub
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.

Charlie Chan in Reno

Charlie Chan in Reno
7/10
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.

The Last Warning

The Last Warning
6.8/10
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.

The Lone Wolf Strikes

The Lone Wolf Strikes
6.4/10
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
7.2/10
  • Genre: MysteryThriller
  • Release: 31/08/1939
  • Character: Detective - in Cab and at Theatre
Charlie's investigation of a phony psychic during the 1939 World Exposition on San Francisco's Treasure Island leads him to expose a suicide as murder.

The Gorilla

The Gorilla
6.9/10
An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.

One Frightened Night

One Frightened Night
6/10
Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide his money and give each guest a million dollars before the stroke of midnight. When his long-lost granddaughter suddenly arrives, Whyte changes his mind and proclaims that she will receive his entire fortune. A second lady appears at the estate, claiming that she is actually Whyte's granddaughter, Doris Waverly, and the first woman is found murdered in her room! With each guest possessing a motive, the mystery of the killer's identity briskly unfolds through a stirring series of surprises.

Detour to Danger

Detour to Danger
3.3/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 01/01/1946
  • Character: Det. Kelsey
Two young men set out on a fishing trip. They run into a gang of criminals who are menacing two young women.

The Fire Flingers

The Fire Flingers

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