The best Irving Bacon’s mystery movies

Irving Bacon

Irving Bacon

06/09/1893- 05/02/1965
We present our ranking of the best Irving Bacon’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 Irving Bacon.

Spellbound

Spellbound
7.5/10
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.

The Mad Miss Manton

The Mad Miss Manton
6.7/10
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

The Thin Man Goes Home

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.

Woman in Hiding

Woman in Hiding
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 22/11/1950
  • Character: Pops Link
Deborah Chandler's rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies a suspicion death. But charming Clark manages to win her over and marry her. On the honeymoon, Clark's former girl Patricia intervenes and opens Deborah's eyes, alas too late. Now Clark tries to kill Deborah. Believed dead by all but Clark, she flees. But drifter Keith Ramsey recognizes and follows her. Can she trust him? Can he believe her?

Cause for Alarm!

Cause for Alarm!
6.4/10
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Nancy Drew... Reporter
6.5/10
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
6.5/10
  • Genre: AdventureMystery
  • Release: 27/01/1939
  • Character: Patrol Sergeant at Italian Restaurant
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard (Warren William) to steal defense secrets in Washington.

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

The Gracie Allen Murder Case
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 02/06/1939
  • Character: Hotel Clerk
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Michael Shayne: Private Detective
6.6/10
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.

File 113

File 113
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 05/01/1933
Based on a novel by Émile Gaboriau.

Murder on a Honeymoon

Murder on a Honeymoon
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 22/02/1935
  • Character: Man with Pelican (uncredited)
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.

Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!

Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
6.3/10
In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love with another woman--but he can't stop the man trying to kill him because he doesn't know who he is.

Murder with Pictures

Murder with Pictures
5.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 24/09/1936
  • Character: Det. Keogh
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...

The President Vanishes

The President Vanishes
6.1/10
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
6.3/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 06/03/1941
  • Character: Projectionist
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.

Big Town Czar

Big Town Czar
5.1/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 03/05/1939
  • Character: Real Estate Man
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.

The Mind Reader

The Mind Reader
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 01/04/1933
  • Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Chandler, a con-man, and his helper Frank decide to create a clairvoyant act for the carny circuit, as a little research reveals Ameicans spent $125 million on mind-readers and astrology. The carny, renamed Chandra, falls for one of his marks, Sylvia, but their love is tested when he brings tragedy to other peoples' lives and she asks him to go straight.

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