The best Herbert Lom’s mystery movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Herbert Lom’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 Herbert Lom.
Night and the City
7.9/10
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan. His latest ploy, promoting an aging Greek wrestler, goes awry when the wrestler dies and everyone points the finger at Harry. Hiding out in a riverfront barge, Harry sees his grand ambitions spiral into a nightmare of fear and desperation as the underworld closes in.
The Return of the Pink Panther
7/10
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.
A Shot in the Dark
7.4/10
Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon's driver at a country estate. A Shot in the Dark is the second and more successful film from the Pink Panther film series where both animated and real life sequences are mixed. A cult classic from Blake Edwards based on the play L’Idiot by Marcel Achard and Harry Kurnitz.
Asylum
6.5/10
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
And Then There Were None
5.7/10
Ten people are invited to a hotel for a weekend getaway by a Mr. U. N. Owen, who mysteriously isn't in attendance. When the group gets together for their first dinner, a record is played in which Mr. Owen accuses each guest of committing various unpunished crimes, which sets off a series of murders in the hotel.
The Lady Vanishes
6/10
Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 classic. On the eve of the Second World War, a train carrying an assortment of passengers, pulls out of a small town in Bavaria. When one of the passengers, a kindly old lady, mysteriously disappears the other passengers are led into confrontation with the Nazis and a desperate race for freedom.
Hell Drivers
7.2/10
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Ten Little Indians
4.7/10
An unknown judge invites a guilty governess and others to a 1930s safari, for justice one by one.
The Phantom of the Opera
6.4/10
The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy steals the life's work of the poor musical Professor Petry. In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petry breaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a fire, leaving him severely disfigured. Years later, Petry returns to terrorize a London opera house that is about to perform one of his stolen operas.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
5.2/10
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
Our Man in Marrakesh
5.7/10
One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes. But which one?
The Ringer
6.4/10
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
Snowbound
5.9/10
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
Action of the Tiger
5.1/10
A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson (Van Johnson) to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there.
Chase a Crooked Shadow
7/10
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.
