The best Jeff Donnell’s mystery movies

Jeff Donnell

Jeff Donnell

10/07/1921- 11/04/1988
We present our ranking of the best Jeff Donnell’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 Jeff Donnell.
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In a Lonely Place

In a Lonely Place
7.9/10
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.

Nine Girls

Nine Girls
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 17/02/1944
  • Character: "Butch" Hendricks
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.

Murder by Natural Causes

Murder by Natural Causes
7.6/10
Allison, the unfaithful wife of a famous mentalist with a heart problem, together with her lover tries to kill him by scaring him to death, but the whole thing goes downhill when it turns out that he knew about it all along.

The Unknown

The Unknown
6.1/10
"The Unknown" was the final entry in Columbia’s I Love A Mystery series. A woman hires two detectives to keep her alive long enough to claim her inheritance.

The Power of the Whistler

The Power of the Whistler
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 19/04/1945
  • Character: Frances 'Francie' Lane
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.

A Night to Remember

A Night to Remember
6.6/10
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.

The Phantom Thief

The Phantom Thief
6.4/10
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.

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