The best Jean Kent’s mystery movies

Jean Kent

Jean Kent

29/06/1921- 30/11/2013
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jean Kent’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 Jean Kent.

Grip of the Strangler

Grip of the Strangler
6.2/10
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.

The Woman in Question

The Woman in Question
6.8/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 03/10/1950
  • Character: Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)
Director Anthony Asquith, working in the style of a Hitchcock whodunit, deftly moves between multiple points of view in this gritty look at life in a seaport town. Jean Kent stars as Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, who is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.

Madonna of the Seven Moons

Madonna of the Seven Moons
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 22/01/1945
  • Character: Vittoria
In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.

The Big Frame

The Big Frame
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 01/09/1952
  • Character: Louise Parker
An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered.

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
6.1/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 02/04/1960
  • Character: Julienne
A murderer enriches his finances by marrying and then killing off a series of wealthy women.

Shadow of Fear

Shadow of Fear
6.4/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 01/01/1954
  • Character: Florence Haddon
A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim

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