The best Frederick Leister’s crime movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Frederick Leister’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 Frederick Leister.
Rx Murder
7.3/10
An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.
Dinner at the Ritz
5.9/10
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
6.2/10
The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the program to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a link between them and enlist the aid of the panel in trapping the guilty party.
For Them That Trespass
6.6/10
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
On the Night of the Fire
6.5/10
A barber (Ralph Richardson) gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
